"Hope Changes Things"
HARTSBEGEERTES deals with every day circumstances with the focus on two families and their struggles with life and its greater purpose. Through the lives of the two main characters, Pieter (Renier Weideman) and James (Jacques Gombault), the reality of life’s circumstances are being sketched. In their darkest hour they discover hope, love and a greater purpose in life.
Renier Weideman
Pieter Richmond
Jacques Gombault
James Dickson
Angelique Gerber
Ashley Richmond
Liane Heyl
Veronica Dickson
Anrich Herbst
Docter
Carien Botha
Ghapi
Pawnshop Owner
Gerhard Ehlers
Cleaner / Angel (as Gerhard Walstrand Ehlers)
Izak Davel
Jean
HARTSBEGEERTES deals with every day circumstances with the focus on two families and their struggles with life and its greater purpose. Through the lives of the two main characters, Pieter (Renier Weideman) and James (Jacques Gombault), the reality of life’s circumstances are being sketched. In their darkest hour they discover hope, love and a greater purpose in life.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
A group of officers based in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly agenda has far reaching and dire consequences.
In revolutionary Iran, as fundamentalists tighten their grip on society, a professor secretly gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to read and discuss forbidden classics of Western literature, including Lolita and Pride and Prejudice. Based on the bestselling memoir by Azar Nafisi. A film by Eran Riklis starring Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson), Zar Amir (Holy Spider), and Mina Kavani (No Bears).