What is there to see at the revamped Hot Docs? To put it simply, a lot of major documentary films, which you can relish on your own or perhaps with a life
Keep ReadingPrayer for a Lost Mitten director Jean-François Lesage discusses his winner for Hot Docs’ Best Canadian Feature Award and the forgotten pleasures of urban life, told through the stories of items lost
Keep ReadingRes Creata – Humans and Other Animals (Italy, 80 min.) Dir. Alessandro Cattaneo Program: The Changing Face of Europe Absolutely unique, Res Creata is a scientific and philosophical marvel asking us to ponder the
Keep ReadingReunited (Denmark, 78 min.) Dir. Mira Jargil Program: The Changing Face of Europe The opening of Reunited is bleak. Just moments earlier, Rana was rescued from a lifeboat on the Mediterranean sea. In the
Keep ReadingAlways Amber (Sweden, 75 min.) Dir. Hannah Reinikainen Bergeman & Lia Hietala Program: The Changing Face of Europe Enhanced Snapchat portraits, Instagram profiles and grainy selfie-videos of the titular protagonist Amber move
Keep ReadingI Want You If You Dare (Czech Republic, 89 min.) Dir. Dagmar Smržová Program: International Spectrum This compelling film tracks the loving relationship between Jana, an adult woman severely disabled by cerebral
Keep ReadingThe School of Housewives (Iceland, 75 min.) Dir. Stefanía Thors Programme: Persister I always knew that women around the world, in previous generations, were given or expected to acquire an education in
Keep ReadingBulletproof (USA, 85 minutes) D. Todd Chandler Program: International Spectrum “Let’s end the year with a BANG,” says a Bristol board poster on the wall of Woodland Middle School. A few minutes later,
Keep ReadingLessons of Love (Poland, 74 min.) Dir. Malgorzata Goliszewska, Kasia Mateja Program: The Changing Face of Europe For 45 years, Jola did exactly what was expected of her. She married and raised
Keep ReadingBreaking the Silence (Columbia/Bolivia, 83 min.) Dir. Priscilla Padilla Program: Persister Women resisting the brutal practice of genital mutilation in an indigenous community in Bogota is the centerpiece of this moving meditation
Keep Reading