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Completed - FRENCH, AMHARIC - Drama - 106 minutes

Year of production : 2018

Director(s) : Germinal ROAUX
Producer(s) : Ruth WALDBURGER (VEGA Films), Jean-marie GINDRAUX (VEGA Films), Géraldine SPRIMONT (NEED PRODUCTIONS)

Synopsis

Fortuna (14), a young Ethiopian teenage girl, 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 catholic hospice at an altitude of over 2000 meters. While they wait for their fate to be decided by the Swiss authorities, Fortuna meets Kabir, a 26-year-old African refugee, and falls desperately in love. Their relationship develops in secret, till the day Kabir disappears.

Production

Country(ies) : SWITZERLAND, BELGIUM

FRANCE Sep 19, 2018 NOUR FILMS
SPAIN Aug 30, 2019 ELAMEDIA ESTUDI

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Festivals and Awards

Berlinale - EFM 2018 (Selection Generation)


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