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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...
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...
