Filmmaker Lily Zepeda follows along with exploits and advocacy of World Toilet Organization founder and mouthpiece Jack Sim in Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man, an intelligently crafted and balanced …
Hot Docs 2019
The prodigious scientific leaps made in the fight against genetic disorders and the ethical issues surrounding them are examined in editor turned first time feature director Adam Bolt’s fascinating documentary, …
Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy gives viewers a candid, frank, and comprehensive whirlwind tour through the life and work of one of the world’s most celebrated (and uncompromising) chefs and cookbook …
Existing in the space between philosophy and art, Portuguese filmmaker Tiago Hespanha’s heady and striking documentary Campo is a rigorous look at ritualism, the indifference and boredom it breeds, and …
Few films at this year’s festival are as equally inspiring and incendiary as Claudia Sparrow’s profile of Peruvian subsistence farmer Máxima Acuña.
The numerous historical and political details present in On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship, director Karen Stokkendal Poulsen’s look at Myanmar’s tenuous and crumbling democracy, are a lot to …
Director Matt Gallagher takes a poignant, pointed, and impassioned look at one Canadian man’s fight to hold the Catholic Church accountable for sexual abuse with Prey, an unprecedented look at …
Veteran Canadian director Laurie Lynd (Breakfast with Scot) takes an in-depth look at the panic and misinformation spread within the gay community at the start of the AIDS crisis with …
Not quite a documentary and not quite a thriller, Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra’s entertaining hybrid experiment The Infiltrators follows a group of young immigrant activists and their ambitious bid …
Deceptively simple in its construction, but unforgettable in terms of its impact, Ubaydah Abu-Usayd and Abderrahmane Hedjoudje powerful and heartbreaking documentary Your Last Walk in the Mosque gives the victims …