Swiss documentaries out in force at Munich
The international selection for the 23rd Dok.Fest Documentary Film Festival in Munich (May 1-7) includes seven Swiss films.
Among the 13 competition titles are Shake The Devil Off by Peter Entell (Show and Tell Film), which has just won the Best Documentary Award at the 39th Nashville Film Festival (see news); The Mother by Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov (Les Films Hors-Champ); and Memory Books [+see also:
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The latter two films recently screened at the 15th Hot Docs Festival in Toronto (see news).
Three other documentaries are included in the international line-up: Matthias von Gunten’s Max Frisch, Citoyen (“Max Frisch, Citizen”, HesseGreutert Film); Iwan Schumacher’s Markus Raetz; and We Want Roses Too [+see also:
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Finally, the Horizonte section will host another Ventura Film co-production: Salad House by Egyptian filmmaker Nadia Kamel.
(Translated from French)
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