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Hot Docs - Page 2

Complete coverage from the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, North America's largest doc fest.

A woman and her partner are lying on a blanket with their three dogs. They are are both laughing and the dogs are snuggled up against them in a sunbeam.

Come See Me in the Good Light Holds Hot Docs Lead Heading Into Final Weekend

by Pat Mullen
May 3, 2025
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Come See Me in the Good Light rounds out a week atop the Hot Docs Audience Award leaderboard as Cutting Through Rocks debuts at number five.

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I Dreamed His Name Review: A Personal, If Muddled, Elegy for the Disappeared

by Alexander Mooney
May 3, 2025
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A daughter goes searching for her father, who vanished 30 years prior amid Colombia's history of forced disappearances in I Dreamed His Name.

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Throwbacks, Money & Speed:  Dipping into 2025’s Hot Docs Industry Conference

by Barri Cohen
May 3, 2025May 6, 2025
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The 2025 Hot Doc Industry Conference was an intimate affair where Trump's threats to freedom of speech and the 'reality' of reality TV resonated.

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They’re Here Review: Connection is Out There

by Courtney Small
May 2, 2025
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They're Here introduces audiences to everyday people who recall their alien encounters and abductions.

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A watermelon sits in a red Pyrex bowl on a blue patterned table cloth. The melon is cut in half with its juicy pink flesh visible.

Agatha’s Almanac and I, Poppy Lead Hot Docs Award Winners

by Pat Mullen
May 2, 2025
Hot Docs/News

Award winners at the 2025 Hot Docs documentary festival include Agatha's Almanac; I, Poppy; Paul; River of Grass; #skoden; and Writing Hawa.

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An Indian man and his elderly mother stand in a poppy field. The flowers have not yet bloomed. He has his hand on his chest while speaking to her.

I, Poppy Review: A Mother, a Son, and a History of Corruption

by Jason Gorber
May 2, 2025
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I, Poppy examines a field of historic injustice and corruption in India through one family's struggle.

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We Live Here Review: Probing Generational Fallout

by Rachel Ho
May 2, 2025
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The lingering effects of nuclear fallout across generations from Kazakhstan's Semipalatinsk Test Site is considered in the well-meaning documentary We Live Here.

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An abandoned stroller sits amid a heap of rusted cars destroyed by Russian violence in Ukraine.

The Longer You Bleed Review: #SlavaUkraini

by Pat Mullen
May 2, 2025
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Social media allows Ukrainians to follow news from home in a traumatic cycle of doomscrolling, memes, and numbness in The Longer You Bleed.

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Widow Champion Review: Seeing Women as Community, Not Property

by Susan G. Cole
May 2, 2025
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Widow Champion follows Rodah Nafulah as she helps women in Kenya gain independence through her NGO KELIN in the face of patriarchal traditions.

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Neshoma Review: Letters from Wartime

by Marc Glassman
May 2, 2025
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Fictional letters craft stories of Jewish life during wartime as Neshoma examines Dutch lives lost during the Holocaust.

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From Fellini's The Clowns to Rob Reiner's This Is From Fellini's The Clowns to Rob Reiner's This Is Spinal Tap, #mockumentary ingeniously masters the art of deception. 

Read more about cinema's "last new genre" in this essay by @wrinkledlinen, now online from our fall issue! 

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@mullenpat & @filmfest_ca report on the #documentary side of #Sundance as the festival says goodbye to Park City.

Highlights from the festival include @nuisance_bear_film, @onceuponatimeinharlem2026, Time and Water, @americandoctorfilm, and more!

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Our team is still going strong with #Sundance! Vis Our team is still going strong with #Sundance! Visit POV for more highlights, including:

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Sundance mid-point! 🌞🕺 Our team is reporting on t Sundance mid-point! 🌞🕺

Our team is reporting on the #documentary side from Park City. Visit POV to read about these five (and others!) in our reviews and interviews so far:
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