Moscow, year 1982. Scientist Matvey Pyotrovsky creates a time machine and conducts a scientific experiment, which divides the apartment in two parts. It's first part is left in the 80-s with the professor, while the second one is transported to year 2020 to a modern family: businessman Sergey, his wife Svetlana and daughter Kristina. This kind of coliving creates a lot of trouble for everybody, since layering of two times means each of the families has lost access to the other part of the apartment. But problems don't end there: inventor's grandson Pavel, after waiting for 38 years, tries to prevent one tragic incident.

Halyna Lavrynets’s Guests from Kharkiv watches activist Nelia try to resettle city-dwellers into rural Ukrainian life. 源自：https://hotdocs.ca/whats-on/hot-docs-festival/films/2023/guests-from-kharkiv

Full of fun and nostalgia, Blast from the Past celebrates the debauchery of the college years, the sexy secrets we keep, and the lost art of porn on a handheld video camera.

On assignment from the editorial office a reporter from Yekaterinburg goes to a village lost in taiga, where he hears an ancient legend about the lord of the forest. Upon his return home all of a sudden he starts seeing and hearing the ancient spirit who begs him to save the endangered fantastic creatures. The reporter agrees and in the company of his 12-year-old daughter, who has come from Moscow to spend the vacation with him, he sets off for the lands virtually untouched by civilization. The trip filled with unexpected adventures, will bring the father and daughter closer together because it’s only together that they will be able to solve the mystery of the ancient legends from the past.

Anna, an attractive woman of 40 years, lives with her husband Johann and his small daughter. Both have managed to succeed economically and lead a helpless life. Suddenly appears a dark character, associated with the underworld, who begins to blackmail Anna, threatening to reveal his past.

A writer (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who has an artistic crisis purchases a stack of diaries written by a teenage girl (Yû Aoi) who is fatally ill. Living in different time lines both are able to communicate via writing diaries…

(World Premiere) This is the story of every artist: of a disconcerted mind on a quest to find his very existence in his own art. The film traces the journey of art which suddenly comes alive, descending down the artist's studio and the deepest corners of his mind in search of its meaning and reflections. His studio houses relics of the past- full of emotions- which stir the very conscience of both the art and artist who find the shadows of the past lurking everywhere. The film explores inseparable relationship between the artist and his art. Today, when the past is often neglected, the film reveals how both the present and the future will soon become past, but only the past will remain unchanged, Eternal. With the artist's dilemma answered, the film asks us to introspect: what happens when the past calls.

Walter Peterson, a well-known small-town actor, was found dead after the party in a remote guest house. Due to the fact that no one is willing to talk about what really happened on the night of the birthday, two investigators from different generations are assigned to the case and discover that all of the witnesses were lying.

Mark Cousins invites film actors and directors to watch major scenes in their career to date, and to talk us through them.

Ten years ago, Kate Collins (Ashley Jones) was a different person. Literally. She was living in Chicago, working as a bartender, and going by her real name ‘Stephanie Wickers.’ That all changed when she witnessed the murder of her boss by a ruthless member of an up and coming crime syndicate named Alek Ravik (Al Sapienza). Knowing that Klebanov saw her, she faked her death, changed her name, and went into hiding in Philadelphia. When a crooked cop retires and young, eager Detective Miesen (Alain Chanoine) is chosen to head a new task force to tackle crime syndicates in Chicago, the unsolved murder case is reopened. Miesen believes that Kate/Stephanie is still alive and begins to look for her. Unfortunately, so does Alek.