Academy Award winner discusses her documentary Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator about hot yoga guru Bikram Choudhury, whose downfall preceded the #MeToo movement and is a tale of a bad guy who got
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Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator (USA, 82 min.) Dir. Eva Orner Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere) Eva Orner delivers a pre-#MeToo tale for the #MeToo movement with Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator. The film is an incisive,
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Watching powerful films and talking about sexual violence as a longstanding institutional problem, we can hope to reach a more forthright way to understand, and bring about change.
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Maya Gallus's The Heat asks why women so rarely enjoy prominent roles as chefs when they are traditionally masters of kitchens in the domestic sphere.
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In Faith Hope Love, a new documentary that just premiered at the 25th edition of Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, director Katja Fedulova examines the role of women in modern-day Russia.
Keep ReadingNetizens (USA, 97 min.) Dir. Cynthia Lowen Programme: Silence Breakers (International Premiere) Hot Docs spotlights the Silence Breakers this year with a special line-up of films that capture the passion, energy,
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Keep ReadingSeeing Allred (USA, 96 min.) Dir. Sophie Sartain, Roberta Grossman “I don’t think Gloria is in a popularity contest because if she is, she lost that one,” says lawyer and commentator
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