The entrance of Dee’s Tots, the 24-hour daycare captured in Through the Night, is plastered from floor to ceiling with photos of all the children that have walked through its doors. The
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Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy weaves together a broad portrait of the impact of settler colonialism on Blackfoot people, through firsthand experiences of people with substance use disorder, and the
Keep ReadingSet! is the most intense movie at Hot Docs this year. The film chronicles the high-stakes world of competitive table setting. Yes, dear reader, you caught that correctly. Scott Gawlik’s feature debut
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Jennifer Holness's Subjects of Desire celebrates Blackness while exploring how the beauty industry shapes images of Black women.
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As young teenage girls catch the waves off the beach at Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, the scene is almost harrowing. The surf dwarfs the girls, the waters swirl and when they’re tossed
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For director Jesse McCracken, the road home is bittersweet. His feature Grey Roads, premiering at Hot Docs, offers a frank and poignant reflection of his hometown of Markdale, Ontario. Perhaps best known
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In zo reken, Emanuel Licha’s second feature-length documentary, the powerful symbolism of white Toyota Land Cruisers, commonly used by international NGOs and the police, is turned on its head. “This vehicle means
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An elderly woman stitches tangles of red yarn into tight little knots. While her muscle memory whirs away, her memory falters. The nurse beside her does not correct her, as is the
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With a world premiere at Hot Docs, award-winning investigative journalist Tanya Talaga has co-directed Spirit to Soar, a film debut, which follows up on the tragic stories in her award-winning non-fiction book
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It was the late, great Freddie Mercury who famously asked, “Who wants to live forever?” Ann Shin’s A.rtificial I.mmortality provocatively tries to answer this quandary and asks questions of her own.
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