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Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with... Ken Wardrop (So This Is Christmas)

Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with… Ken Wardrop (So This Is Christmas)

Director Ken Wardrop’s So This Is Christmas examines the holiday season through the lens of individuals for whom it’s not necessarily a joyful time of year. We posed our...

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Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with… Chloé Barreau (Fragments of a Life Loved)

Director Chloé Barreau revisits her past relationships — the good, the bad and everything in between — through candid interviews with her former partners in Fragments of a Life...

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Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with… Charlie Hamilton James (Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story)

In Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story, director Charlie Hamilton James documents the life-changing friendship that develops between a Scottish man and the ailing river otter he nurses...

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Hot Docs 2024 #7: Creative Artists

Hot Docs 2024 #7: Creative Artists

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...

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Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with… Pamela Hogan (The Day Iceland Stood Still)

Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with… Pamela Hogan (The Day Iceland Stood Still)

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...

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Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with… Jon Ornoy (Lost in the Shuffle)

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...

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Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with… Tamara Segura (Seguridad)

Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with… Tamara Segura (Seguridad)

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...

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Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with... Eisha Marjara (Am I the Skinniest Person You've Ever Seen?)

Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with… Eisha Marjara (Am I the Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen?)

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?...

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Hot Docs 2024 #6: Parental Leave

Hot Docs 2024 #6: Parental Leave

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...

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Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with… Shaul Schwarz & Christina Clusiau (Fly)

Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with… Shaul Schwarz & Christina Clusiau (Fly)

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...

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Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with... Jalena Keane-Lee (Standing Above the Clouds)

Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with… Jalena Keane-Lee (Standing Above the Clouds)

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...

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Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with... Todd Beiber (American Cats: The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly)

Hot Docs 2024: Qs à la mode with… Todd Beiber (American Cats: The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly)

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....

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