Australian filmmaker Ben Young’s debut feature Hounds of Love has been generating a lot of buzz following wave-making appearances on the film festival circuit (most notably at Venice, SXSW, and …
Israeli filmmaker Rama Burshtein’s unique take on traditional romantic comedy tropes, The Wedding Plan, takes a slower, more refined approach than the genre usually sees. It’s a film with a …
The Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn starring comedy Snatched plays like a ninety minute trailer for a movie that never arrives. It’s the kind of film so packed with promise …
It’s easy to point to the kinds of movies, literary works, and filmmakers that inspired writer/director/editor Sarah Adina Smith to make the surrealist black comedy Buster’s Mal Heart, but those …
Belgian filmmaker Bas Devos’ chilling, but empathetic debut feature Violet looks and feels like life as observed by a hovering ghost. It’s the rare sort of film that can blend …
Filmmaker Laura Poitras’ documentary Risk – her follow-up to the Oscar winning Citizenfour, looking at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – is a confused, muddled mess of admittedly decent footage in …
Documentarian Lana Wilson excels at making films that focus on fascinating human beings capable of exhibiting great empathy for their fellow man, and her latest effort, The Departure (screening this …
The nation of Micronesia, a country made up of numerous tiny islands in the Pacific, has always had a complicated history of independence and occupation, the perils of which are …
An unlikely inspirational story, the documentary Strad Style, which screens twice more at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival this week and has been charming audiences around the world …
The votes for the Audience Awards at this year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival have been coming in, and six of the top ten vote-getters so far this year …