Hot Docs floats its 2021 line-up
Canadian docfest announced March 23 its line-up of films selected for the next edition, running online April 29-May 9. From 2,300 film submissions, the selection comprises 219 films from 66 countries within 12 programs. 50 per cent of the directors in the program are women.
Hot Docs/Changing Face of Europe: Welcome To Spain by Juan Antonio Moreno Amador
There is an old brothel in Seville close by one of the city’s busiest highways. Now, the building has been turned into a refugee centre. This is where the subjects of Juan Antonio Moreno Amador’s effervescent new documentary Welcome To Spain have come to build themselves new lives. The director explains more…
LevelK hunts down Hot Docs selection On the Other Side
Copenhagen-based sales and aggregation outfit LevelK has acquired world sales rights for the Colombian documentary feature On the Other Side, selected for Hot Docs, about two brothers’ search for the FARC guerrillas who kept their mother hostage for 2 years.
Hot Docs/Changing Face of Europe: Molecole by Andrea Segre
“The silence of my father was not a wall against me. It was somehow a mirror in which I should find a way to understand myself and to understand his message about…the fragility of life,” filmmaker Andrea Segre tells BDE of his highly personal Molecole, a cinematic ode both to his father and to Venice in lockdown.
Hot Docs Conference to “re-imagine a more representative and equitable doc ecosystem.”
“After enduring the extraordinary difficulties of this past year, the upcoming conference seeks to embrace the opportunities that lie within and inspire the community to re-imagine documentary’s role in our quickly evolving world, based on principles of social justice and equity,” say event organisers.
Hot Docs/Changing Face of Europe: Raise the Bar by Guðjón Ragnarsson
Girl power is alive and kicking in Guðjón Ragnarsson’s documentary about an Icelandic all-girl basketball team and their uncompromising coach. But is Iceland ready to embrace, or even acknowledge, the girls’ bid for emancipation, equality and agency? Filmmaker Ragnarsson talks hoop dreams with BDE.
CPH:DOX/Changing Face of Europe interview: Özkal Lorentzen talks Seyran Ateş
The Turkish/Norwegian director talks to Business Doc Europe about the force of nature that is Seyran Ateş, lawyer, author, feminist, female imam and social campaigner and now the subject of a feature doc competing in Nordic:Dox Award Competition, Seyran Ateş: Sex, Revolution & Islam.
Hot Docs: Magaluf Ghost Town by Miguel Angel Blanca
The British tourist had got his calculations wrong. His plan had been to dive into the hotel swimming pool from a high window. Instead, he landed headfirst on the concrete surrounding the pool. A hotel worker was left to clear up the blood. The director gets equally stuck in with BDE...
Hot Docs/Changing Faces of Europe interview: Sámi filmmaker Suvi West on Eatnameamet
Finnish director Suvi West didn’t just want to tell the story of the mistreatment of Sámi people in Finland - she felt the need to tell it, she explains to Business Doc Europe. “I felt like I didn’t have any other choice,” she underlines of her film selected for the Hot Docs/EFP Changing Face of Europe programme.
Hot Docs: People We Come Across by Mia Halme
It’s not the typical package holiday but when the opportunity arose for Finnish tourists to travel to Benin in West Africa as volunteers for a new vaccine study to counter diarrhoea in the region, there was no shortage of takers. Finnish director Mia Halme went with them to document the results.
