HOTDOCS
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Robot relationships from our contemporary future
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:The most striking feature of this documentary is the contrast between the awkward shortcomings of the robot and the patience by which they are welcomed into their human coaches lives.
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What’s wrong with Italy?
MAFIA: Two brave Italians with courage: one as a writer, the other as a photographer.
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Exposing the misery of the Mafia
PHOTOGRAPHY: Letizia Battaglia never introduced herself as a photographer of the Mafia. She was taking pictures of Palermo, she says, where the Mafia is simply part of everyday life and routines.
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The art of displacement: mobiles on the migrant trail
MIGRANTS: The Fazili family shoots their perilous journey from Afghanistan through the Balkan migration route to an uncertain future on three mobile phones.
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Small fragments of beauty
«I was born by the sea, I will stay by the sea, and I will be buried by the sea!» 14 year old Ahmad Jamal al Aqraa utters.
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A well-wrought thriller about the death of a Swedish UN Secretary-General
In his classic Mads Brügger-film style, the Danish director seeks to find out who stood behind the plane crash that killed the UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961.
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Theo Angelopoulos, the filmmaker of migration
In Letter to Theo, French director Élodie Lélu revisits Angelopoulos’ unfinished film, reminiscing on their collaborative work on the project that was in some ways prophetic of the present-day Greece.
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A perverted portrait of an artist
The Artist & The Pervert is a somewhat atypical portrait of an artist that tells less about composer Georg Friedrich Haas’ microtonal music then it does about his BDSM-based relationship with his wife.
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Sugar: The sweetest poison?
Should sugar be regarded as a toxin equal to that of tobacco? Two documentaries focus on the sweet drug's damaging effects and on the sugar industry's attempt to trivialise them.