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In The Ride Ahead, co-director and protagonist Samuel Habib expands on his award-winning short film, My Disability Roadmap, to continue his exploration of what it means to live as...
In Rouge, director Hamoody Jaafar traces the decades-long basketball dynasty at Michigan’s River Rouge High School as a new generation of players shoots for a championship win. We...
In Curl Power, director Josephine Anderson follows the 4KGIRL$, five teenaged best friends in British Columbia in pursuit of a junior curling championship title. We posed our Qs à...
In 7 Beats per Minute, director Yuqi Kang profiles free diver Jessea Yu, but finds the boundaries between filmmaker and subject begin to blur. We posed our Qs à...
Co-directors Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee craft a loving tribute to the life, career and legacy of a trailblazing performer in their film Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane...
There’s no shortage of fabulous docs to check out at the fest this year. I’ve already posted about the first eight must-sees, and here are eight more I think...
In Singing Back the Buffalo, director Tasha Hubbard explores the significance of buffalo in Indigenous culture and history, and chronicles the efforts to rematriate, repopulate and restore buffalo herds...
In The Here Now Project, co-directors Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel assemble dozens and dozens of videos shot by ordinary people, documenting the devastating effects of climate change as...
Co-directors Aeyliya Husain and Amie Williams chronicle the experiences of four Afghan women, who flee their home country to start new lives in Canada, in An Unfinished Journey. We...
This year, Hot Docs is unspooling some 168 films. Over the past few weeks, I’ve screened 51 of them. FIFTY. ONE. That’s a lot of documentaries. And I’m not...
Sure, the math is a little squishy, calling this year’s celebration the 50th Seattle International Film Festival. The first SIFF was in 1976, but founders Dan Ireland and Darryl...
Everyone knows Hot Docs offers up a feast of fantastic films every year. And while many filmgoers focus only on features, we know that some super-fab documentaries are frequently...
