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There’s a wealth of potential documentary subjects in the creative world, and there’s never a shortage of great films about art and artists on offer at Hot Docs (see...
In The Day Iceland Stood Still, director Pamela Hogan revisits the historic women’s-rights protest in 1975 and some of the key players who helped bring it about. We posed...
Director Jon Ornoy’s Lost in the Shuffle explores both card tricks and the centuries-old murder-mystery secrets behind the images on the court cards in every deck. We posed our...
Director Tamara Segura travels to Cuba and examines the complicated relationships between her alcoholic late father and the rest of her family in Seguridad. We posed our Qs à...
Director Eisha Marjara examines her struggles with body image, an eating disorder, cultural identity, and her relationship with her family in Am I the Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen?...
Documentaries about families are always in abundance at Hot Docs (see: 2023, 2022 and 2019), but this year’s crop of family-focused selections includes four fine films that all involve...
Co-directors Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau spent seven years following BASE jumpers all across the globe for their film Fly. We posed our Qs à la mode to the...
In Standing Above the Clouds, director Jalena Keane-Lee tracks the efforts of a group of women leading the movement to protect Hawai’i’s Mauna Kea from overdevelopment. We posed our...
Director Todd Beiber examines humans’ relationships with their feline friends, and the movement to ban the practice of declawing, in American Cats: The Good, the Bad and the Cuddly....
Chances are, if there’s a Hot Docs film about women taking action — be they trailblazers, activists, performers, politicians, athletes… or anything in between, really — it’ll likely wind...
In The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine, director Alfredo Pourailly De La Plaza profiles a Chilean son determined to help make precious-metal-mining work — and life — easier for his...
Co-directors Lucas Guilkey and JoeBill Muñoz chronicle the hunger-strike efforts undertaken by California prison inmates to protest solitary-confinement practices in the state in The Strike. We posed our Qs...
