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Expected Summer 2017
Fortuna Germinal Roaux
Switzerland / Belgium Fiction, 100 min. Original languages: French / Amharic Cast: Kidist Siyum Beza / Bruno Ganz / Patrick D'Assumçao / Yoann Blanc / Assefa Zerihun Gudeta / Ina Tosca / Pierre Banderet / Simon André / Philippe Grand'Henry Production: VEGA Production, Lausanne Need Productions, Brussels RTS Radio Télévision Suisse Proximus, Evere World Rights: VEGA Production, Lausanne T +41 21 312 07 43 info@vegaproduction.ch
Fortuna, a young African teenager of 14, has had no news of her parents since arriving in Lampedusa, Italy. Together with other refugees, she is given shelter for the winter in a Swiss hospice at an altitude of over 2,000 meters. A community of Catholic brothers houses them while they wait for their fate to be decided by the Swiss authorities. It is there that Fortuna meets Kabir, a 26-year-old African refugee, with whom she falls desperately in love. Their relationship develops in secret, until the day Kabir disappears.
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* 1975 in Lausanne. Germinal Roaux is a self-taught photographer and filmmaker. He works exclusively with black & white. His debut feature film LEFT FOOT RIGHT FOOT (2013) won a Special Mention at Palm Springs, the Bayard d’or in Namur and a Swiss Film Award for Best Cinematography, Best Performance in a Supporting Role and the Special Award of the Academy.