Hot Docs Festival 2021
Presented by the Hot Docs Festival with the Goethe-Institut Toronto
Daniel Andreas Sager is a guest of the Goethe-Institut Toronto
Two years after exposing the Panama Papers, journalists at Germany's largest daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung are probing a new slate of equally alarming cases. For the first time in its history, cameras are allowed into its world-renowned investigative unit to share the perilous work its reporters undertake in pursuit of truth. The political assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is personal, as she was both an integral colleague in their Panama Paper exposé and a close friend. Inquiries into the car bomb that killed her directly implicate Maltese government officials, forcing some journalists to face the very real risk of their work for the first time. When they receive a secret video involving Austria's Vice-Chancellor, tense verité reveals the painstaking legalities and unflinching nerve required to break yet another history-changing story. Behind the Headlines is a grippingly personal look at the complex forces exerted on democracy's fourth estate. (Myrocia Watamaniuk)
Behind the Headlines by Daniel Andreas Sager, written and produced by Marc Bauder
90 min. | 2021 | Germany | German and English | Partial subtitles | North American Premiere
Includes filmmaker Q&A
Writer-producer Marc Bauder, who just premiered his latest eco documentary Who We Were at the Berlinale, was a guest of the Goethe-Institut in Toronto in 2015, when he talked to us about how he approaches his films and created his masterpiece Master of the Universe in our
Goethe Film Talk.
Hot Docs is North America’s largest documentary film festival. Stream documentary premieres, pre-recorded Q&As, live events and more at Hot Docs Festival, Canada-wide April 29 to May 9. All films will be available starting at 10am on April 29.
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