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I’m Wanita Review: Hot Mess Hits a High Note

by Pat Mullen
May 6, 2021August 9, 2021
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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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Any Given Day Review: Masterfully Empathetic Filmmaking

by Pat Mullen
May 2, 2021May 31, 2022
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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 Brings Empathy to an Opioid Crisis

by Kelly Boutsalis
May 1, 2021March 3, 2022
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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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Connecting the Dots Review: Healthy Dialogue

by Pat Mullen
November 19, 2020August 28, 2021
Reviews

Connecting the Dots (Canada, 54 min.) Dir. Noemí Weis Spending an hour listening to stories about pain, despair, loneliness, and depression might not be atop everyone’s list during this pandemic. Everyone is

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Les Heures Heureuses Review: Attracted to Ghosts

by Jason Gorber
October 21, 2020August 28, 2021
Reviews

Les heures heureuses (Our Lucky Hours) (France/Belgium/Switzerland, 77 min.) Dir. Martine Deyres Les heures heureuses is a time capsule that uses recently uncovered home videos to provide a stark if repetitive look over

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Ecstasy Review: A Fragmented Tango of Ideas and Desires

by Pat Mullen
October 14, 2020August 28, 2021
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Ecstasy (Êxtase) (Brazil/USA, 72 min.) Dir. Moara Passoni Director Moara Passoni conjures a tango between pleasure and pain in Ecstasy. As the film’s title suggests, one emotion overrides the other among the sensations

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Winter’s Yearning Review: The Waiting is the Hardest Part

by Trevor Hogg
October 13, 2020August 28, 2021
Reviews

Winter’s Yearning (Norway/Denmark/Greenland, 77 min.) Dir. Sidse Torstholm Larsen, Sturla Pilskog In 2007, when American aluminium giant ALCOA announced it was exploring plans to build a plant in Maniitsoq, Greenland, the venture was seen

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The Marriage Project Review: Is Love the Best Medicine?

by Courtney Small
October 13, 2020August 28, 2021
Reviews

The 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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Radical Health: A Threat to a Nation

by Dina Lobo
June 5, 2020August 21, 2021
Features/Festivals/Hot Docs

“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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Judy! Judy! Judy!

by Matthew Hays
May 30, 2020October 9, 2021
Features/Hot Docs

Two Canadian institutions collide in Mike Hoolboom’s heartfelt Judy Rebick doc Judy Versus Capitalism

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