Hot Spot
LOGLINE
Outstanding teenagers from all over the world, including well-known enemies, Palestinians, and Israelis, meet in an unusual international boarding school for change, peace & sustainability in Israel. Will they succeed?
Synopsis:
A group of unique and brilliant teens, including Palestinians and Israelis, left their homes at 16 and came to Israel to study and live together in EMIS (Eastern Mediterranean International School), aiming to change the world. Friendships, stormy hormones, desperate love, quarrels, self-harm, laughter, sex, drugs, wars, and a worldwide pandemic are an integral part of the gang’s daily life, and despite their exceptional intellectual abilities; they are adolescents searching for their identity and struggle to find their place in the world. Hot Spot is a multilayered, characters driven – coming of age documentary, filmed across multiple countries, about friendship, youth, and the future.
Director: Karin Kainer
Country: Israel
Expected running: 104′
Cinematography: Einav Giat Goodman
Production: Kainer Films
Producer: Karin Kainer
Estimated budget: 880.000,00 €
Financing in place: 233.264,00 €
Gap financing: TV co – financing and co –production
Looking for: co-production, pre-sales
Shooting: November 2022
End of shooting: 2024
Director’s statement:
I have closely followed the class of 2021 growing up over these past three stormy years, going through everything. My photographer and I accompanied the kids on a daily/weekly basis using the Cinema Verité approach. In addition, I equipped the students with personal cameras so they could document small private moments that are typical of adolescence and capture the state of isolation that has permeated the past two years. It’s a first and rare glimpse of a newer, novel representation of Palestinians. They challenge our point of view in a way we’re not used to dealing with.
BIOGRAPHY
Award-winning documentary film director and producer, Karin Kainer, creates personal and riveting documentary projects that have garnered worldwide critical acclaim. Screened internationally in theaters and on television (BBC, Amazon Prime, AL Jazeera, ARTE), her range of titles include ‘Kosher Beach’ (Israeli Oscar for short documentary 2020, winner Krakow film festival 2020 and BEIJIN FF International, World premiere DOC-NYC 2019, official selection Docaviv film festival 2019, IDFA 2019). These days Kainer is working on 3 projects – 1 fiction thriller dramedy series – In development; 2 documentaries projects in production.
PRODUCTION Kainer Films | PRODUCER Karin Kainer | CONTACTS karinkainer@gmail.com