FORTUNA

By Germinal ROAUX

NEED PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2018


Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - EFM 2018
Selection Generation
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND, BELGIUM
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, AMHARIC
    • Duration
    • 106 mn
    • 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.