Workhorse (Canada, 82 min.) Dir. Cliff Caines Is any animal more cinematic than the horse? The equine characters of Cliff Caines’ Workhorse seem like naturals before the camera. There is ample posing to be
Keep ReadingBelonging (Turkey/Canada/France, 72 min.) Dir. Burak Çevik A true crime story and a love story, Belonging keeps its main characters offscreen until well into the film at which point we see them played by
Keep ReadingOverseas (Belgium, France 90 minutes) Dir. Sung-A Yoon Recalling Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, Overseas opens on a four minute fixed take of a domestic servant at work. In Korean filmmaker Sung’s understated exposé doc, we watch
Keep ReadingMy English Cousin (Switzerland/Qatar) Dir. Karim Sayad Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere) Meet Fahed Mameri. He’s the cousin of director Karim Sayad. Fahed’s life fuels his cousin’s documentary and his dull, tedious routine provides
Keep ReadingThe Mill (Canada, 44 min.) Dir. David Craig For more than 50 years, white foam and murky water have filled much of a lifeless harbour on Nova Scotia’s north shore. Now, the
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Directors Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov discuss their acclaimed doc Honeyland, which poetically observes a lone beekeeper, Hatidze, in Macedonia as she strives to preserve a way of life.
Keep ReadingSymphony of the Ursus Factory (Poland, 61 min.) Dir. Jaśmina Wójcik Programme: Artscapes (North American Premiere) If there’s a prize for strangest film at Hot Docs, please bestow the golden laurels upon Symphony
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Is there any hope left for the American dream? The prospects for the land of the free look pretty dire in the outstanding American Factory. The doc offers an immersive and penetrating
Keep ReadingMachines and Cold Valley are part of a cluster of films at Hot Docs that fall into the sub genres of labour and environmental investigation. Cold Valley by the young German director
Keep ReadingNails is a doc in four movements. This gorgeously shot and edited Oscar-nominated short by Phillip Borsos tracks the life of a spike in the preindustrial and industrial periods.
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