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Introduction
- Changing the Conversation about Film Festivals – Marc Glassman
-POV editor Marc Glassman sets up this year’s festival coverage.
Features and Interviews
- Capturing Capturing Reality – Pepita Ferrari
-Hot Docs honours the late filmmaker by screening Capturing Reality in the Redux programme. Revisit her diary about making the film.
- Working the Dream – Nancy Lanthier
-What was it like to live and work in Fort McMurray during the oil boom? Julia Ivanova, this year’s Focus On honouree at Hot Docs, tells the tale of millennials caught up in a dream that went horribly wrong in Limit is the Sky.
- Intense Memories – Jason Gorber
-An Interview with director Alexandre Philippe on Memory – The Origins of Alien.
- Justice for Colten – Pat Mullen
-Tasha Hubbard’s nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, Hot Docs’ opening night film, explores the tragic death of young Cree man Colten Boushie and the ongoing fight for Indigenous rights.
- Up on the Roof – Chelsea Phillips-Carr
-Pedro Ruiz’s Havana, from on High looks at Cuba’s housing crisis from a unique vantage point.
- For Sama and for Syria – PM
-An interview with For Sama directors Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts.
- Pipe Up! – JG
-An interview with Pipe Dreams director Stacey Tenenbaum.
- Defying Categorization – PM
-Ingrid Veninger discusses her non-fiction directorial debut The World or Nothing (El mundo o nada).
- Investigating Lehman Brothers – JG
-An interview with Inside Lehman Brothers director Jennifer Deschamps.
- Unraveling a Mystery – JG
-An interview with Chris Flanagan, director of Shella Record – A Reggae Mystery.
- When Gentle Can Kill – Judy Wolfe
-Wolfe looks at White Pine Pictures’ Toxic Beauty, which confronts the harms of the cosmetics industry. “
- Essay Films in the Age of Trump – MG
-John Walker’s Assholes: A Theory, Larry Weinstein’s Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies, and Fred Peabody’s The Corporate Coup d‘État get political.
- A Song from the Streets – PM
-Director Jimmy Hendrickx discusses A Punk Daydream.
- Asking Dr. Ruth – PM
-A conversation with the iconic sex therapist and her director Ryan White.
- “Willie Then and Now” – Jason Anderson
-The inspiring new doc Willie tells the story of Willie O’Ree, the hockey player who broke the NHL’s colour barrier and continues to fight for inclusion and diversity in sports. (Pick up a copy of POV #110 or subscribe to read!)
- “The Feeling that You Left” – PM
-Joan Tosoni and Martha Kehoe profile folk icon Gordon Lightfoot in If You Could Read My Mind. (Pick up a copy of POV #110 or subscribe to read!)
- “Giving a Shit” – PM
-Lily Zepeda’s Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man tells the story of humorous humanitarian Jack Sim and his mission to provide clean sanitation in impoverished regions. (Pick up a copy of POV #110 or subscribe to read!)
- “Oblique Strategies” – Daniel Glassman
-Brett Story’s Hot Docs selection The Hottest August is one of several recent films documenting absence. (Pick up a copy of POV #110 or subscribe to read!)
In Review
- Advocate – Liam Lacey
- Always in Season – PM
- American Factory – PM
- Anbessa – CPC
- Animus Animalis (a story about People, Animals and Things) – CPC
- Beauty and Decay – PM
- Because We Are Girls – CPC
- Behind the Shutters – CPC
- Beloved – Tara Hakim
- The Book of the Sea – PM
- Born in Evin – Maurie Alioff
- Buddy – LL
- Campo – CPC
- Cavebirds – LL
- Confucian Dream – CPC
- Conviction – LL
- The Corporate Coup d’État – MA
- The Daughter Tree – JG
- The Disappearance of My Mother – JG
- Drag Kids – MA
- The Edge of Democracy – JG
- The El Duce Tapes – MA
- #FemalePleasure – Susan G. Cole
- Five Feminist Minutes – SC
- Flamenco at 5:15 – PM
- Framing John DeLorean – PM
- Gaza – MA
- Haydee and the Flying Fish – MA
- Hi, AI – PM
- Honeyland – PM
- Hope Frozen – PM
- The Hypnotist – CPC
- If You Love this Planet – JA
- I Told My Mum I Was Going on an R.E. Trip – SC
- Illusions of Control – SC
- The Infiltrators – MA
- A Kandahar Away – CPC
- Kifaru – PM
- Killing Patient Zero – PM
- Knock Down the House – PM
- The Magic Life of V – CPC
- Marek Edelman…And There Was Love in the Ghetto… – PM
- Maxima – MA
- Merata: How Mum Decolonized the Screen – PM
- Midnight Traveler – JG
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool – JG
- My Dads, My Moms, and Me – TH
- New Shoes – Olena Decock
- On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship – PM
- On the President’s Orders – JG
- One Child Nation – PM
- Our Dance of Revolution – SC
- The Pickup Game – CPC
- A Place of Tide and Time – PM
- Prey – LL
- Prophecy – PM
- Red Moon – TH
- The Rest – PM
- River Silence – PM
- Shella Record – A Reggae Mystery – MA
- Shooting the Mafia – JG
- The Sound of Masks – PM
- Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played with Fire – MA
- Symphony of the Ursus Factory – PM
- Take Me to Prom – TH
- There are No Fakes – LL
- Toxic Beauty – PM
- Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts – PM
- The Wandering Chef – TH
- The Valley – PM
- Well Groomed – JG
- When We Walked – MA
- Who Let the Dogs Out – JG
- A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem – SC
News
- Maxima Wins Hot Docs Audience Award
- nîpawistamâsowin and Hope Frozen Lead Hot Docs Winners
- Supreme Law: The Court is now in session
- Midwives, Colour of the Wind, Twice Colonized Lead Forum Winners
- Hot Docs Partners Supports Influence and We Are Here
- Peter Raymont to Receive Don Haig Award
- May 5 Audience Award Rankings
- May 4 Audience Award Rankings
- May 3 Audience Award Rankings
- May 2 Audience Award Rankings
- May 1 Audience Award Rankings
- April 30 Audience Award Rankings
- April 29 Audience Award Rankings
- April 28 Audience Award Rankings
- April 27 Audience Award Rankings
- Boushie Family Releases Statement Prior to Opening Night
- Hot Docs Welcomes Guests and 208 Filmmakers
Hot Docs runs April 25 to May 5. Please visit hotdocs.ca for more info.
