This is the world’s only documentary festival that can be viewed simultaneously on TV, the Internet, and in theaters. This year, the Korea Foundation is provideing support for the launch of architecture and fashion documentary categories, which will offer a variety of cultural content from countries around the world.

                    

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2014 Film Guide

Opening Film

Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory
Dir_ Michael ROSSATO-BENNETT USA l 2014 l 74min

A social worker, Dan, tries to awaken the deep inner self of the elderly suffering from dementia. With music, patients open their eyes, put their depression aside, burst into tears and laugh out loud. Music is a savior to the collapsing elderly which brings them back to a certain moment of their life. Music is a magic spell that fascinates our soul, an awe inspiring body between memory and music. Audience Award winner at 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

Special Screening

Virunga
Dir_ Orlando VON EINSIEDEL UK l 2014 l 96min

A former Syrian national football team goalkeeper Abdul Basset Al-Sarout leads anti-government protests calling for democracy in Syria. A media activist advocating for peace, Osama Al Sadden follows the footsteps of revolution with his camera. The demonstration for democracy turns into a civil war, with the sound of gunfire and brutal massacre. This movie, portraying the first two years of a Syrian Civil War from August 2011 is a Grand Prix winner in 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

Return to Homs
Dir_ Talal DERKI Syria, Germany l 2013 l 90min

A former Syrian national football team goalkeeper Abdul Basset Al-Sarout leads anti-government protests calling for democracy in Syria. A media activist advocating for peace, Osama Al Sadden follows the footsteps of revolution with his camera. The demonstration for democracy turns into a civil war, with the sound of gunfire and brutal massacre. This movie, portraying the first two years of a Syrian Civil War from August 2011 is a Grand Prix winner in 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

Ariel
Dir_ Laura BARI Canada l 2013 l 95min

A former baker Ariel living in Mendoza, Argentina lost his legs by a dough mixer. He tries to make his own prosthetic legs but his legs are free only in water. Director Laura Bari realistically tells the story by observing Ariel’s struggle and transformation for ten years. A beautiful and moving story tinted with magical realism.

WInd on the Moon
Dir_ YI Seung-Jun Korea l 2014 l 98min

From the first day of her life, Yeji’s world had been dark and silent. Due to her sight and hearing disabilities, Yeji has never heard or seen anything for the past 19 years. Yeji’s mother tries everything to communicate with her, but has not been successful. The world she has been living in is almost impossible for any of us to comprehend. Would we be able to experience her world where infinite nothingness overwhelms one’s own existence?

Marmato
Dir_ Mark GRIECO USA l 2014 l 87min

Marmato, Colombia is a mining town with over 500 years of history. A Canadian corporation decides to purchase this $2 billion worth of Gold town, putting the residents at risk of being thrown out. With six years of filming, the TV 08/25 23:10 IS 08/26 17:00 TG movie conveys the struggle for life in Marmato.

112 Weddings
Dir_ Doug BLOCK USA l 2014 l 95min

Director Doug Block has been filming many weddings in the past 20 years. Through frank interviews of 9 couples, he awakens the importance and endurance of a relationship. What comes after the wedding?

Tomorrow We Disappear
Dir_ Adam WEBER, Jimmy GOLDBLUM USA, INDIA l 2014 l 83min

Since the 1970’s New Delhi’s magicians, puppeteers, and circus performers have called the tinsel slum, the Kathputli Colony, their home. Last year the government ordered an eviction of the residents; the slum is to be bulldozed, cleared for luxurious stores and skyscrapers. As the film records the poor artists of Kathputli’s fight for their homes, viewers will experience the last remnants of a culture born out of folk art and molded by poverty.

The Internet’s Own Boy
Dir_ Brian KNAPPENBERGER USA l 2014 l 105min

Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old genius hacker, who established the Creative Commons License and Reddit, and RSS (Rich Site Summary) was found dead at his house in November 2013. Aaron’s life was all about rising up against the United States government’s information technology policy and advocating the Internet user’s rights. What led him to commit suicide? This is the opening film of 2014 Hot Docs.

Glittering Hands
Dir_ LEE KIL-Bora Korea l 2014 l 80min

Sang-guk and Kyung-hee cannot hear a thing, yet they are a happy couple. Bo-ra (their daughter) gazes at the world of her parents through the viewfinder. What we witness is not only a world of silence, but also the world of beauty where body gesture and facial comes to life. This movie shows us that the humanity is with the imperfection of the body.

Do you believe in Love?
Dir_ Dan WASSERMAN Israel l 2013 l 50min

Tova is an amazing matchmaker who suffers from leg paralysis. Those who seek for their other half flock to her apartment, but Tova herself do not believe in love. While finding love for others, could she discover true meaning of love for herself?

Focus on Victor KOSSAKOVSKY

?Vivan las Antipodas!
Dir_Victor KOSSAKOVSKY Germany, Netherlands, Argentina, Chile l 2011 l 104min

Which is the shortest route to connect between Entre Rios, Argentina and Shanghai, China? If there is a straight line connecting these two locations, the antipodes penetrates the core of the Earth. The director of the movie spots the image of the antipodes on Earth, overturning our view toward the world. The movie with the kaleidoscopic observation of the Earth stimulates our five senses with the fluent and camera works.

Tishe!
Dir_ Victor KOSSAKOVSKY Russia l 2002 l 80min

Director Victor Kossakovsky describes this film as “a comedy.” It was inspired by the first picture in the history of photography, View from the Window at Le Gras (1826-1827) by Nicéphore Niépce. From his apartment window, he filmed a St. Petersburg street over the course of a year, during endless roadwork in preparation for the city’s 300th anniversary celebration in 2003. The director asks the audience whether we simply overlook what is happening right in front of us.

Svyato
Dir_ Victor KOSSAKOVSKY Russia l 2005 l 33min

“Svyato” the Russian word for “happy” is also the short form of Svyatoslav and the nickname of the director Victor Kossakovsky’s 2-year-old son. The film quietly records Svyato seeing his own reflection for the first time in his life. Through the child’s authentic reaction overlapped with the mirrored images of a landscape in a lake and the shadows on the curtains, the film leaves various questions on “self-cognition and loneliness.”

The Belovs
Dir_ Victor KOSSAKOVSKY Russia l 1993 l 58min

In a small bucolic village in Russia, Anna, a widow, lives with her brother Mikhail. Anna is a diligent worker, while Mikhail drinks day and night. The director of the movie, Victor Kossakovsky, spots a series of moments through a lengthy observation. Both harshly and tenderly, the movie captures the typical Russian life. Which includes theirjoy and sorrow of life as well as their unexplained life, off the camera.

Israeli Documentary Collection

Super Women
Dir_ Yael Kipper ZARETZKY, Ronen ZARETZKY Israel l 2013 l 78min

Many cashiers in Tel Aviv are women who have emigrated from Russia. Yet even in their new homes, their lives aren’t easy at all. Thus they help each other raise children and learn new technologies with a hope to build better lives for themselves. But unfortunately, their employer tells them that the company is going to reduce their working hours and wage.......

Life in Stills
Dir_ Tamar TAL Israel, Germany l 2014 l 58min

Rudi is a photographer who captured various significant moments in the history of Israel. After his death, his wife Miriam and his grandson Ben runs a photo studio. However, because of the new renovation project for Tel Aviv, they soon will be evicted from the street. Can Miriam and Ben protect the legacy of Rudi?

Hitler’s Children
Dir_ Chanoch ZEEVI Israel l 2011 l 58min

Heinrich Himmler, Hans Frank, Hermann Göring, and Rudolf Höss, are the linchpins of Nazi Germany, known for their most notorious crimes in history under Adolf Hitler’s command. How are their descendants doing? Guilt descended from their ancestors has suppressed them for sixty years. Life goes on under the specter of Holocaust. They have endeavored to overcome the abomination toward their family and to reconstruct their life. This film is a German-Israeli documentary, directed in 2011.

Korean Docs Panorama

Scenery
Dir_ ZHANG Lu Korea l 2013 l 96min

The film asks fourteen foreigners who had left their hometown and came to Korea. “Which dream remains in your memory the most in Korea?” They visit their hometown, dance with the loved ones, and meet their lost families in their dreams. How would the scenery of Korea reflected in their dreams?

Discipline
Dir_ KIM Lee Chang Korea l 2013 l 90min

Lee-chang, who lives in a tiny room, disciplines himself at an abandoned martial arts center. He is worn out by poverty, loneliness and his uncertain future. What keeps him going is the reminiscence of his mother. He accepts his reality and weakness by bracing himself up. Finally, he faces his innermost sorrow through discipline.

Kim Alex’s Place: Ansan-Tashkent
Dir_ KIM Jeong Korea l 2014 l 62min

100 years have passed since hundreds of thousands of Koreans were deported to Central Asia by Stalin. A few made back to their long yearned motherland, South Korea, for better opportunities, but life isn’t much easier here either. Through the life of Alex Kim, a 3rd generation Korean running a restaurant in Ddet gol village, Ansan, the director brings the issues of Korean diaspora to our attention.

Amazing Day
Dir_ JEONG Seong Wook Korea l 2014 l 67min

Many stories of “Youth” have been told but they have not been honest and sincere. To tell about the realities of youth themselves, a group of Korean college students picked up cameras and collected stories of their friends. From their struggles to pay tuition, difficulties in finding a decent room to live and competition to friendship, all the fun and pain of youths have been put together.

HIALEAH: People on the Prairie
Dir_ OH Min Wook Korea l 2014 l 27min

During the Korean War in 1950s, American force built a military base in Beomjeon-dong, Busan. The base was closed in 2006, and the area was chosen to build a new public park. As the people of Beomjeon-dong and the military base await eviction, the film documents the stories of people and place vanishing from the history.

Nobady Knows
Dir_ WON Hae Soo Korea l 2014 l 20min

Full of bullying, violence, cheating and railing, school isn’t a safe place for children anymore. Classrooms became a jungle where all students has to fight against each other to survive. This is the story that everyone knows, but no one knows. Now, let’s bring our ears together to listen to their real stories.

World Showcase

Point and Shoot
Dir_ Marshall CURRY USA l 2014 l 83min

An adventurous Baltimore guy Matthew Van Dyke makes many new friends during his motorcycle trip through the Middle East. One day, Matthew found out that the civil war broke out in Libya and joins the rebel army. He records everything with his small camera while fighting on the frontline.

Web Junkie
Dir_ Shosh SHLAM, Hilla MEDALIA Israel, USA l 2014 l 52min(shorter ver.)

For the first time in the world, the Chinese government established a center to cure teenagers with the Internet addiction. The movie portrays how teenagers are treated in the center under constant surveillance and daily training. Would they be able to free themselves from thisaddiction? A weird portrait of the Orwellian country. This film is an official selection at Sundance Film 2014.

Love & Engineering
Dir_ Tonislav HRISTOV Finland, Germany, Bulgaria l 2014 l 84min

Love is difficult even for engineering students who can easily solve complicated mathematical equations. Five students decide to approach love by setting algorithms and formulas. Would they be able to find true love from the human grid?

Powerless
Dir_ Deepti KAKKAR, Fahad MUSTAFA India l 2013 l 82min

A story about a Robin Hood in India. A 28-year-old Loha clambers up the telephone poles and steals electricity to provide free power to his poor neighborhood. However, the newly appointed CEO of a local electric company declares a hard-line action towards the illegals. As the tension between them escalates, the anger of the powerless.

#chicagoGirl ? The Social Network Takes on a Dictator
Dir_ Joe PISCATELLA Syria, USA l 2013 l 54min

Can the Social Network Service (SNS) be a powerful weapon? A 19-year-old Ala’a Basatneh who is living Chicago in USA participates in the Syrian revolution: armed with Facebook and Twitter, she spreads the news from Syria out to her social network. Would this campaign be able to overthrow dictatorship in Syria?

See No Evil
Dir_ Jos DE PUTTER Netherlands l 2014 l 71min

Three most famous chimpanzees on Earth: Cheetah from Tarzan, Kenji, the cleverest and Knuckles, thespacemonkey. Their lives are portrayed on the film, along with historical archives. We can discover a lump of cruelty and selfishness of human beings by exposing their use of chimpanzees in entertainment business, apes research and space experiments.

The Unknown Known
Dir_ Errol MORRIS USA l 2013 l 103min

Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former Secretary of Defense in George W. Bush Administration, is known for his sophistic remark “Unknown known” which justified the invasion in Iraq. Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest Secretary of Defense in the American history. Brought back to the history of modern America, from 9.11 to the Iraq War, we will face his honest and humane character through his millions of notes and straightforward interviews.

Kismet: How Turkish Soap Operas Change the World
Dir_ Nina Maria PASCHALIDOU Greece l 2013 l 58min

Actively engaging in free dating, choosing to divorce, and even freely discussing experiences of sexual violence, the limited worlds of many women in Arab culture has been shaken by the female characters in Turkish Soap Operas.

McCullin
Dir_ Jacqui MORRIS, David MORRIS UK l 2012 l 90min

Don McCullin, the greatest photographer narrates about his thirty years in the frontline. He covers stories of the civil war in Cyprus, Vietnam and Congo. This film is a vivid record on the history of photojournalism through the lens of McCullin.

Docs on Family & Education

Twin Sisters
Dir_ Mona Friis BERTHEUSSEN Norway l 2013 l 58min

A Norwegian girl Alexandra and California girl Mia has been exchanging letters, waiting for their reunion. At the age of 8, Mia finally visits her twin sister in a beautiful Norwegian village. A compelling story about twin sister who were adopted to two different families when they were babies.

Cesar’s Grill
Dir_ Dario AGUIRRE Germany, Switzerland, Ecuador l 2013 l 88min

Dario Aguirre, a film director, living in Germany got a call from his father in Ecuador. His father’s restaurant was facing a bankruptcy and his father suggests him to take it over. The father-son relationship was already estranged. However, Dario travels back to Ecuador to save the restaurant. A humorous family drama of passionate carnivore Cesar and vegetarian Dario.

A Rolling Stone
Dir_ SHEN Ko-Shang Taiwan l 2013 l 54min

Chen Li-fu is a 30-year-old with autism. His father Mr. Chen is his one and only friend who try to communicate with his son through art and outdoor activities. However, Li-fu is locked in his own cell and indifferent to Mr. Chen’s effort. Is Li-fu the eternal rolling stone of the Sisyphus to Mr. Chen?

Docs on City & Architecture

Microtopia
Dir_ Jesper WACHTMEISTER Sweden l 2013 l 52min

From a container box house in the wilderness, one can watch shining stars every night. Portable houses on the cars or foldable vinyl house can widen the range where people can live. The architects suggest a radical and simple life style. Is this an alternative way of life or imaginative architectural experiment?

The New Rijksmuseum
Dir_ Oeke HOOGENDIJK Netherlands l 2014 l 90min

Rijksmuseum which owns masterpieces of Rembrandt is in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It has begun their tenyear-long renovation in 2003 and finally reopened in April 2013. What happened in Rijksmuseumzzzx for the past ten years?

The Great Museum
Dir_ Johannes HOLZHAUSEN Austria l 2014 l 94min

The great renovation begins. With curators, exhibition planners, restorers the film follows the rebuilding process of the Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna. From the interior repairs, the battle of nerves over budgets, to the secret site of auction! Let’s take a vivid glimpse into the museum being transformed into a modern style.

TELOS: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui
Dir_ LEE Kyung USA l 2014 l 58min

Genius, revolutionist or lunatic.... A documentary gives an eye to the unique life and revolutionary works of a Californian architect Eugene Tssui. He avoids box-like architecture and shows the new architectural design in which human and nature coexist. Whether is it a philosophy or architecture? There are various views on his odd architectural world.

Docs on Technology & Civilization

Indie Game: The Movie
Dir_ Lisanne PAJOT, James SWIRSKY Canada l 2012 l 103min

Young people here are working on developing indie games. Edmund and Tommy have seven months to launch a game Super Meat Boy and FEZ, produced by Phil is due to be released in five months. Behind the brilliant graphics, TV 08/26 01:30, 08/29 13:10 the developers’ hardship continues... Will the games be completed in time?

How I came to Hate Math?
Dir_ Olivier PEYON France l 2013 l 103min

Why do we hate math so much? We encounter ‘new math’ in this film. We can find out why the Fields medal laureate, Cedric Villani and many other mathematicians love math.

An Arctic Space Odyssey
Dir_ Lars Einar SKAGEBERG Norway l 2014 l 49min

In 1967, twenty-five technicians, including Roald as their representative, were sent to an aerospace station in Svalbard, Norway. This place drew attention in terms of technological and political purposes, helping satellite discovery during the Cold War period. The film graphically shows the life of the scientists during that period through various video footages and Roald’s recollections.

CERN
Dir_ Nikolaus GEYRHALTER Austria l 2014 l 75min

At the border of France and Switzerland, there lies a ring shaped 27km long tunnel underground. In the tunnel, there is CERN (European Council for Nuclear Research). Celebrating its 60 years anniversary, thousands of scientists at CERN continues to pursue answers to the mysteries of the world. It is the newest work of Nikolaus Geyrhalter, the director of Out Daily Bread, Danube Hospital, and Abendland.

Fashion Docs

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Dir_ Lisa Immordino VREELAND, Bent-Jorgen PERLMUTT, Frederic TCHENG USA l 2011 l 86min

Although she was never beautiful herself there is a woman who created dazzling beauty. Without a college education, she opened up a new horizon while working as a fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. This film is about the first true fashion editor who created her own original and amazing fashion world, Diana Vreeland.

Advanced Style
Dir_ Lina PLIOPLYTE USA l 2014 l 72min

The fashion rebellion of grannies begins in the fashion Mecca, New York. Their bold fashion style which transcends their age catches our eyes. Their own philosophy on fashion gained from their rich life experience unfolds on the screen.

Karl Lagerfeld Sketches His Life
Dir_ Loic PRIGENT France l 2012 l 50min

Karl Lagerfeld who revitalized ‘Chanel’ successfully is called as the emperor of global fashion world. His private life has been encrypted for a long time. In this documentary, he himself sketches his own life; his childhood, parents, Paris where he initiated his career. Rare chance to peep into the origin of his talented creativity.

Music Docs

Twenty Feet from Stardom
Dir_ Morgan NEVILLE USA l 2013 l 91min

There are always these people behind star singers like Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Elton John. They never get a spotlight, but the voice of backup singers is no less than that of star singers. This is the story of hidden singers who sing twenty feet away from stars. Best Documentary in 2014 Oscar Awards.

Jalanan
Dir_ Daniel ZIV Indonesia l 2013 l 107min

There are three young musicians who build their lives by busking in Jakarta, Indonesia: Boni lives in a sewage tunnel, Ho saves a petty penny for dating and Titi prepares for a school qualification exam, hoping for a better job. Their rough but honest music attracts Jakarta citizens. This is the story of three delightful buskers who changed Jakarta’s policy on the poor.

Where is My Seed?
Dir_ LEE Ju-ho Korea l 2014 l 53min

A blues musician Kim Dae Joong gave himself a name ‘Seedless Watermelon’. He is a late bloomer musician performing at Hong-Dae, Seoul. His name is identical to that of the former president of Korea, so he is sometimes teased but still tries to enjoy himself. Even after his first album he is uncomfortable with the audience and feels awkward on stage. This film beautifully captures the witty performance of Kim Dae Joong.

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