In the Name of All Canadians (Canada, 75 min.) Dir. Vivian Belik, Karen Chapman, Aisha Jamal, Khoa LΓͺ, Annick Marion, Ariel Nasr, Patrick Reed, AndrΓ©a Schmidt, JΓ©rΓ©mie Wookey Earlier this year,
Keep ReadingIMansfield 66/67 (USA/UK, 84 min.) Dir. P. David Ebersole, Todd Hughes Jayne Mansfield endures as one of Hollywoodβs legends. The blonde bombshell with the iconic bust and signature walk died at
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Keep ReadingIn its second year, Hot Docs 2017βsΒ DocX program celebrated βdocumentary work that lives outside of the traditional format.β This yearβs program consisted of three special one-off live events,Β The Maribor Uprisings,Β Africville in Black
Keep ReadingWhile it may not have been the best-attended presentation atΒ Hot Docs 2017,Β The Maribor UprisingsΒ was surely one of its most interesting. The one-night-only screening at Innis Town Hall was guided by co-director and
Keep ReadingSmall Talk (Taiwan, 88 min.) Dir. Hui-Chen Huang βItβs not good to talk about this,β mutters Anu after her daughter, the filmβs director Hui-chen Huang, wonders why her mother has never
Keep ReadingMy Wonderful West Berlin (Mein wunderbares West-Berlin) (Germany, 97 min.) Dir. Jochen Hick Paragraph 175 in the German Criminal Code made intimate acts between people of the same gender illegal and
Keep ReadingThis yearβs Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival opened with Bee Nation, a crowd-pleasing feel-good story about First Nations kids and their families as they fought like hell to win Canadaβs Spelling
Keep ReadingThe Tesla World Light (Canada, 8 min.) Dir. Matthew Rankin Peter Mettlerβs Picture of Light proves that a filmmaker can capture the fleeting radiance of the Northern Lights to create an
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