The Goethe-Institut supports German initiatives at North America´s biggest documentary film festival.
As every year, the Goethe-Institut Toronto is happy to partner with Hot Docs in presenting the innovative German documentary scene, represented this year through 14 German films, from features to DocX presentations.
Highlights include Ai Weiwei’s THE REST –the artist will be present–, Annekatrin Hendel’s BEAUTY AND DECAY fresh from the Berlinale and DOK Leipzig winner LORD OF THE TOYS by Pablo Ben Yakov.
Berlin actor-director Maryam Zaree, director of the Berlinale premiere BORN IN EVIN and winner of the Compass Perspektive Award 2019 for Best Film, will attend this year´s Hot Docs film festival as a guest of the Goethe-Institut.
BORN IN EVIN follows Zaree on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world. In the 1980's Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini had tens of thousands of political opponents arrested and murdered. Among them the filmmaker's parents who, after years in prison, managed to seek asylum in Germany. The family never talked about their persecution and imprisonment. Maryam Zaree faces the decades-long silence and explores her own questions about the place and the circumstances of her birth.
“In BORN IN EVIN, Maryam Zaree takes us along on a search for her own past, in a gruesome chapter of Iranian history. Resolute and sincere, brave and moving, the filmmaker relentlessly hunts for answers to unasked questions, in the process drawing us ever-deeper into her story and to a collective blind spot. She takes a stand, undaunted, and assumes responsibility for breaking the silence for an entire generation.” –
Jury statement, Berlinale 2019
Hot Docs is also co-presenting the Goethe-Institut’s media arts show
Touching from a Distance II: Transmediations in the Digital Age as an official part of their DocX program.
Hot Docs Film Festival is the largest North American documentary film festival with more than 200,000 visitors and 200 films from around the world.
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