Remembering John Kastner, whose contribution to documentary was recently honoured with an award presented in his name at Hot Docs.
Keep ReadingSam Pollard's documentary The League chronicles the history and heyday of the Negro Baseball League and its impact for Black athletes.
Keep ReadingIn Beyond Paper, Oana Suteu Khintirian explores the ways in which memories and stories are preserved in paper, online, and among families.
Keep ReadingSean Mullin profiles the life and career of New York Yankees catch Yogi Berra in a warm easy-going documentary It Ain't Over.
Keep ReadingInuk lawyer and activist Aaju Peter receives a moving profile about her advocacy for Indigenous rights and freedoms in Twice Colonized.
Keep ReadingAllihopa: The Dalkurd Story is that rare exception, a feel-good Kurdish documentary with its portrait of a soccer team.
Keep ReadingSoviet Barbara: The Story of Ragnar Kjartansson in Moscow is a true portrait of artistic expression amid life under Putin.
Keep ReadingPure Unknown is the kind of social issue film that always attracts an audience at Hot Docs—and deservedly so in the case of this empathetic work.
Keep ReadingTrained to See—Three Women and the War offers unique insights into World War II via journalists Martha Gellhorn, Lee Miller and Margaret Bourke-White
Keep ReadingI of the Water and The Sandbox win the first look prizes at the 2023 Hot Docs Forum, which returned to form in an in-person event this year.
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