HOTDOCS
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Making money by punishing innocent «criminals»
POLICING: In New York, people are being terrorised in their own streets, homes, and workplaces by the people paid to protect them. These realities should be impossible, but in these neighbourhoods in the US they are everyday occurrences.
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The lost prize of freedom
SYRIA: A filmmaker begins documenting a celebration of freedom in Aleppo but ends up documenting the devastating consequences of that dream.
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The conspiracy between the lawful and the unlawful
IMMIGRATION: Mexican government complicity to the lethal violence of organised crime and America's brutal bureaucracy towards asylum seekers are both condemned in Marcela Arteaga's poetic and piercing The Guardian of Memory.
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A timely tale of the age-old practice of arranged marriages
TRADITION: The moving story of a Turkish child bride trafficked to Europe –Red Moon is as much family therapy as a heart-rending road movie.
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Getting closer to the heart of the truth
HOT DOCS: Documentary filmmakers are the last people standing, waving the flag for the truth and facts.» – Shane Smith, Programme Director at Hot Docs.
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Kinshasa’s «theatre without end»
COLONIALISM: Four filmmakers search for a new way to tell the story of Kinshasa, looking to the city's performance artists and their subversion of colonialism's legacy.
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Unity that comes from a common purpose
ACTIVISM: Movement is a lyrical, beautifully lensed view of Agitprop – Moroccan style.
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When luck is down but bills are up
CHINA: The separate stories of two men struggling to pay for unexpected medical operations together form a prism through which to view modern China.
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