La Forteresse to screen at Vienna
Fernand Melgar’s La Forteresse [+see also:
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The Austrian festival will present another Swiss documentary: The Mother by Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov. This cinematic portrait of a Russian woman bringing up her nine children won awards at the Visions du Réel International Documentary Film Festival (Switzerland) and the Leipzig Film Festival.
The Viennale line-up also includes Kazakh director Sergei Dvortsevoy’s Tulpan [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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