Vitus in Argentina
Winner of the 2007 Swiss Film Prize, Fredi M. Murer’s Vitus [+see also:
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interview: Christian Davi
interview: Fredi M. Murer
film profile] (see Focus) will be flying the Swiss flag at the 22nd Mar del Plata International Film Festival (March 8-18).
The film, which opens on Argentinean screens later this year, is screening in the Point of View sidebar.
Meanwhile, the Documentary Window category will host Mehdi Sahebi’s award winning Zeit des Abschieds (Best Documentary at Locarno 2006 and the 21st Belfort Entrevues Film Festival), while Mohammed Soudani War Without Images (2002) will feature in a special programme on North African countries.
Two Swiss co-productions will be on show: Tadjik director Djamshed Usmonov’s To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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