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- Set over the course of a tense day at an isolated boarding school, this moral drama follows a boy's desperate fight to save his sick friend in the face of a rigid bureaucracy.
- After the loss of her son, Svetlana investigates the violent culture of the Belarusian army. A group of friends soon to be enlisted, they go to rave parties and protest march following the re-election of Aleksandr Lukashenko.
- A surrealist rural noir about a German thief who flees to a small Luxembourg village only to discover that the locals have secrets of their own.
- Mara, a Romanian nurse, has married one of her patients. She is waiting for US citizenship and is being blackmailed for an alleged sham marriage. She is on her own. Her husband does not help her.
- Elena is a student in Minsk, Belarus. She has a passionate but increasingly difficult relationship with her boyfriend Victor. When her father is arrested, she has to continue his illegal business. In order to make deals for him, she repeatedly has to drive into the 'forbidden zone' of Chernobyl. She finds herself attracted by the zone's deceptive beauty - but her life seems more and more contaminated by a destructive force.
- Trix Brunner, a single mother, has moved to the village from the city years ago. She accuses the gym teacher to have her daughter molested. The whole village is outraged.
- A trip to Lisbon helps a nerdy guy who is quickly approaching 30 finally get his mojo back.
- A paramedic devoted to his patients struggles to make time for his wife who begins to believe his patients are more important to him than she is.
- A young woman must confront her physical and emotional boundaries as she enters the world of professional domination and submission.
- Employees attempt to hide the death of a leopard to save the zoo where they work.
- 'You can get it if you really want.' If this sentence applies to anyone, then it most definitely applies to Florian Burkhardt. He achieved nearly everything he wanted. Except the one thing that was most important to him: escaping himself.
- Three stories told over the course of an endless Berlin summer night weave into one another. A group of people at a turning point in their lives desperately chases happiness, unsure of what will happen if they find it.
- BAD LUCK is a lovingly made, tragic-comic film about wrong decisions, chance and the search for happiness.
- Oray speaks in a quarrel with his wife Burcu three times 'talaq', the islamic formula for repudiation. The imam informs him about the consequences: he has to divorce his wife. Now Oray is in a dilemma: Should he stay with Burcu or with the community?
- A young female journalist getting over the death of her grandmother while investigating a story strangely close to home about a female concentration camp guard.
- Alice works in a call center in the outskirts of Zurich, selling internet subscriptions and insurance deals to strangers on the other end of the line. Inspired by her job, she calls lonely grandmothers and pretends to be their granddaughter in urgent need of money.
- A comedy of tough luck. Et loses his job, Carla his fiance. They meet. Later Carla leaves him joining another man. Et starts his search for Carla, while it seems all the city is slowly getting crazy and nobody can help him.
- Pensioners, lawyers, married couples and teenagers are all customers at the Angel Love Hotel in Osaka Japan. With unprecedented access into one of the most private and anonymous spaces in Japanese society, this film follows the love hotel's struggling manager and staff as the try to keep their hotel running, as well as revealing the intimate and private lives of the customers who visit.
- Arman is 33 and ready to make a change, starting with a run in park. When he literally bumps into Amélie.
- 'Dreissig' (German for 'thirty') portrays 24 hours in the life of five Berlin friends nearing thirty, all more or less suffering from a quarterlife crisis while celebrating the birthday of one of them.
- "The wind got up in the night and took our plans away," reads the proverb in the opening titles of Museum of the Revolution. The words are a reference to the 1961 plan to build a grand museum in Belgrade as a tribute to Socialist Yugoslavia. It was supposed to "safeguard the truth" about the Yugoslav people. But the plan never got beyond the construction of the basement. The derelict building now tells a very different story from the one envisioned by the initiators 60 years ago. In the damp, pitch-dark building live the outcasts of a society reshaped by capitalism. The film focuses on a girl who earns a little cash on the street by cleaning car windows with her mother. The girl has a close friendship with an old woman who also lives in the basement. Against the background of a transforming city, the three women find refuge in each other.
- A little bit of life, love, and wisdom come together over one night in the culinary underbelly, where life is a buffet and everything is "Short Order".
- Immigrant children have to find their way in a new classroom, with a new teacher and a language they don't understand. An ode to the teacher every child deserves.
- Filmmaker Nicolas Steiner documents the exploits of three homeless people in Las Vegas, a man who lives in a military bunker in the California desert and a woman at a Utah research station that simulates life on Mars.
- Hamin is a young private doing his military service in a watchtower in the borderline of Iran and Pakistan. Impatient for a day off to attend his sister's wedding ceremony, he gets into a fight with his commander. Up in the watchtower, Hamin reviews the past years and the things happened to him and his sister since their childhood. Hamin in Balochi means the heat of summer.
- A documentary which chronicles a ninety-year-old love story, through the collective voice of seventy ladies.
- Sex is the most beautiful thing in the world. But talking about it without straying into lasciviousness or becoming inhibited remains tricky. Sprache:Sex places its trust in the power of free expression, the art of conversation, the miracle of the encounter. Sixteen people aged between 13 and 74 prove themselves to be practitioners of these disciplines. It is a matter of insecurities and desires, of preferences and turn offs, of varieties of love and life. A representative cross-section of society? Surely not! Statistically useful results? Even less so! A fanatical handing out of advice? Not a bit of it! Instead, it is a bold experimental set-up. Sober and playful. A documentary dance whose whole is more than the sum of its parts. Who should care? Actually, everybody.
- After their award winning documentary, 'Suddenly, Last Winter', Luca and Gustav are back. This time they have to decide: should they stay in Italy, or leave it, like so many of their friends have done already. Looking at some defining Italian icons, they go on a emotional trip on a old Fiat 500 through Italy, to look behind the cliches and to discover, what's left of the famous Italian way of life, confronting a glorious pas, a shaky present and an uncertain future.
- Road trip of a struggling script writer who works as an anonymous youth hostel tester.
- MAKING THE GRADE invites us into the world of the piano lesson. Every year teachers and students throughout Ireland prepare for graded musical exams. These exams can be pleasing for some but daunting for others. Each student has their own particular goal but reaching Grade Eight is considered a pinnacle. This endearing and uplifting documentary explores the bond between piano teachers and their pupils as they struggle through these grades. This is a story of the trans-formative power of music and the pride and happiness it provides both the students and teachers. It may inspire us all to keep making the grade.
- 60 stories based on 60 bits of music in a clip-style docu-fiction about musical anarchist Mikis Theodorakis (Z, Serpico, Zorba, Canto General).
- Tableau noir chronicles life at a one-room school in the Swiss mountains during an academic year, giving an endearing portrait of the twelve pupils aged six to twelve who share the same class and the devotion of the one teacher who taught there for forty-one years.
- Nardos, an Azmari singer from Addis Ababa, dreams of telling stories about the lives of ordinary people through her music. In her search for the stories behind her songs, she meets Gennet, a poet who lives on the streets with her children. Nardos puts the lives, visions and power of Ethiopian women at the center of her creation as we slowly immerse ourselves in a rapidly changing country.
- 8:30 follows the observations of a very average young sales rep who finds himself stranded in a desert-like suburb in some sort of infinite loop.
- The Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the ice of Colombia highest mountain, the Sierra Nevada Santa Marta. They draw from this unique environment a preserved and singular spirituality. For the first time a director was invited to visit the heartland of the sacred mountain. Hick tells the story of resistance which is a voyage through space and time: from the shores of the Caribbean to the stars that light up the night on the glacier and from the encounter with the first colonizing whites to the return of the warriors following FARC's laying-down of arms.
- ELECTED is a film about five young German politicians aged 25 to 32, who are elected for the first time into the German Parliament, the Bundestag. Their legislative period started in 2009 and has ended in 2013. What do they expect to happen in Berlin? What are their ideas and maybe doubts? How will their lives change now that they are part of 'important politics'? Can they live up to their own resolutions? Can they change something or will they just blend in? How do they experience democracy in their home country? What kind of success or disappointments will they experience?
- Award-winning filmmakers Luca Ragazzi and Gustav Hofer make a bold and cheeky return to Hot Docs with another timely and autobiographical look at contemporary Italian society. Following their festival and theatrical hit films Suddenly Last Winter (about the travails of a modern gay couple in Italy) and Italy: Love It, or Leave It (about the challenges of living and working under the controversial Silvio Berlusconi) their latest doc takes a decidedly, well, left turn. After the Second World War, Italy was home to the largest Communist (later socialist) party in the West. The party's efforts to enhance social and economic conditions for all Italians earned them remarkable electoral success and influence. Seeking a more equal and progressive Italy, the filmmakers set out to discover why their country has now become so persistently conservative, and what happened to its once proud and vital left-wing sensibilities.
- Facing the current societal, economic and cultural challenges, where can we look for visions for the future, hopes, or even utopias? How can we redefine our future? The directors Sue-Alice Okukubo and Eduard Zorzenoni went on the search. They did interviews with six extraordinary experts. Belarus Nobel prize winner in literature Svetlana Alexievich, German cultural scientist Joseph Vogl, Italian sociologist Elena Esposito, US-Belarus journalist on digital technologies Evgeny Morozov, German futurist Matthias Horx, Austrian exceptional athlete and runner Andrea Mayr, German Mars scientist Christiane Heinicke . And they tell the story of three protagonists, which stranded at a strange, utopian place. They are all facing the challenge to find a new path of life. Together with the experts they design provocative, critical and confident visions for the future. But will they have the courage to move on?
- Once a year Liem, leaves his ordinary life behind and retreats to the jungle. During his 'time out', he tries to maintain an ancient tradition that is threatening to disappear, as is the forest it takes place in.
- GLOBAL VIRAL. THE VIRUS METAPHOR is a film essay about viruses: biological viruses, computer viruses and linguistic viruses. It is about viral strategies, codes and metaphors. The journey takes us from a discourse on epidemics, with the Great Plague of the 14th Century as its starting point, to state hygiene programmes and medical research on pathogenic agents, on to cyber terrorism and data contamination and further to infectious ideas, thoughts and words in religion, advertising and the media. The authors examine the question as to why the metaphor virus has become so popular today, and how talk of contamination and infection, foreign bodies and sleepers leads to political and social exclusion. A virus is a complex conceptual structure, whose effects go far beyond biological pathogenic agents. A virus is seen as being an intrusive element in cells, in the individual body, the collective body and the global body; it is the hostile foreign agent per se, and at the same time a synonym for extreme flexibility and perceived creative-intelligent behaviour both a glittering and a demonic protagonist.
- The remarkable 83-year-old Helga Schubert takes loving care of her sick 95-year-old husband, once a professor of psychology and passionate painter. Amidst this rural tranquility, Helga dedicates herself to her passion, writing.
- In this film two German filmmakers document their journey to Tibet. They provide inside views of a country relentlessly ruled by the Chinese - long before the latest wave of violence erupted in Tibet.