Wanita Bahtiyar is one hot mess. The Australian honky tonk singer aims to hit the restart button on a stillborn musical career. Her comeback fuels the offbeat, entertaining, and consistently surprising documentary
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Perhaps one of the most challenging films at Hot Docs this year, but also among the most essential, Margaret Byrne’s Any Given Day masterfully interrogates the ways in which we treat mental
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Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy weaves together a broad portrait of the impact of settler colonialism on Blackfoot people, through firsthand experiences of people with substance use disorder, and the
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Keep ReadingThe Marriage Project (Iran/France/Qatar, 80 min.) Dir. Atieh Attarzadeh and Hesam Eslami Several years ago, Iranian filmmaker Atieh Attarzadeh set out to make a film about love. Her goal was to document
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“I hope the film will reframe the idea of criminals in the U.S and also help people understand the criminalization of drugs and political prisoners,” says Mia Donovan. on her experience with
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Two Canadian institutions collide in Mike Hoolboom’s heartfelt Judy Rebick doc Judy Versus Capitalism
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