05/10/2006

Currently showing at the Mill Valley (California) and Rio de Janeiro Film Festivals, The Short Life of José Antonio Gutiérrez (PS Film) will also screen at Israel’s Haifa International Film Festival, whose 22nd edition takes place October 7-14.

Discovered last January at Sundance, the documentary by Swiss director Heidi Specogna will also be shown at Leipzig in November, then at Gothenburg and Saarbrücken in January.

The film – which will be released in Greece at the end of the month and in Switzerland early 2007 – follows the tragic destiny of a child on the Guatemalan streets who joins the US army to get American citizenship and is killed during the first days of the Iraq war.

The Haifa Festival also plays host to the Swiss Oscar nomination and European Film Awards entry, Vitus [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Christian Davi
interview: Fredi M. Murer
film profile] by Fredi M. Murer (see Focus), as well as two minority Swiss co-productions: The Missing Star [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Italy’s Gianni Amelio (Carac Film) and To Get to Heaven, You Have to Die [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Tadjik director Djamshed Usmonov (SAGA Production).

(Translated from French)