In honour of Hot Docs’ 25th anniversary, the POV team picks some of the highlight films and events from the festival so far.
Keep ReadingLove, Cecil (USA, 99 min.) Dir. Lisa Immordino Vreeland Nar: Rupert Everett Feat: Cecil Beaton Roy Strong, Leslie Caron, David Hockney, David Bailey, Penelope Tree, Hamish Bowles, Isaac Mizrahi Cecil
Keep ReadingFree Lunch Society (Austria/Germany, 95 min.) Dir. Christian Tod With: Gotz Werner (billionaire), Charles Murray (Libertarian), Evelyn Forget (Canadian economist), Emmanuel Saez (French-American economist), Michael Bohmeyer (entrepreneur), Zepahania Kameeta (Namibian Minister), Marshall
Keep ReadingAida’s Secrets (Israel/Germany/Canada, 90 min.) Dir. Alon Schwarz, Shaul Schwarz “From 6,000 survivors, 1,300 babies were born.”—Alon Schwarz about the Jewish survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp who lived in a
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With music by Philip Glass and no talking heads, Jane will delight people who know about ecology and the animals but are genuinely in Ms. Goodall’s life as well.
Keep ReadingNot all of TIFF’s docs end up in TIFF Docs. In recent years, many of the festival’s most interesting documentaries have been screened in the avant-garde program, Wavelengths. This year is no different: with
Keep ReadingTIFF Docs 2017 class includes new films by Fred Wiseman, Brett Morgen, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing, Chris Smith, Sophie Fiennes, and more!
Keep ReadingThom Powers is the veteran curator of TIFF Docs. At TIFF, he has programmed premieres for such filmmakers as Morgan Spurlock, Jonathan Demme, Werner Herzog and Kevin Rafferty. He runs the annual Doc Conference
Keep ReadingWith Uninterrupted, Nettie Wild has taken up the challenge of being primarily—at least for this piece—a visual artist, without losing her doc roots.
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