Hot Docs 2009 Festival Guide
Welcome to the Hot Docs screening schedule, where you can browse all of the films in this year’s festival.
Use the tabs below to browse films by title, program, or by date and time. And, you can use the MY HOT DOCS tab to build your own personal schedule.
You can purchase passes to the festival; and you can buy tickets to individual screenings here.
Program Categories
Below are films from this program: Made In....
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Broken kneecaps and knocked-out teeth are routine at the Seoul Action School - perhaps explaining its 75% attrition rate. This funny, energetic doc offers a quirky peek inside the Korean action film world through its would-be stunt performers.
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Paid half as much as full time labourers, yet expected to perform the same duties, contract workers in Korea are second-class citizens in the workplace. They lash out at an unjust system the only way they know how - the one-man protest.
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Set at the largest sacred ground for Hindus - the crematory on the holy river Bagmati in Nepal - the film sensitively renders the lives of impoverished children who make their living from the dead.
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Influxes of imported food and unsympathetic governments threaten Korea's farms. Cameras capture the guerilla tactics and near-tangible pride of one farmers' association as it battles Korean-US trade negotiations, elections and an uncertain future.
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A filmmaker's investigation into his troubled family's history yields dramatic stories of personal suffering and political intrigue. Called "the documentary of the year" by the Korean film journal Cine 21.
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