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Hot Docs Review: ‘The 8th’

by Susan G. Cole
May 26, 2020December 11, 2021
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The 8th (USA, 94 min.) Dir. Aideen Kane, Maeve O’Boyle & Lucy Kennedy Program: Persister (World Premiere) Documentaries have a bum rap for being kind of grim, focused as so many of

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