Canadian filmmaker Rama Rau’s latest documentary, Coven, looks at a trio of women continuing their ongoing exploration and education of witchcraft and Wicca, in the hopes of not only answering …
Hot Docs 2023
Love to Love You, Donna Summer chronicles the life and career of an iconic artist who rode the cutting edge between soul, disco, rock, and electronica with effortless ease.
The documentary Satan Wants You looks back on the now surprisingly unremembered ground zero for the “Satanic Panic” moral craze of the 1980s: a highly contentious memoir based around dubious …
A look at the impact of depression and grief across generations – thought not always as grim as that description makes it sound – director Christian Einshøj’s personal essay film …
What starts out as a cheeky, purposefully cringe reliving of one’s adolescent nightmares and neuroses slowly turns into a deeper, meaningful examination of the human condition in documentarian Cecilia Aldarondo’s …
Heartbreaking and inspiring in equal measure, director Matthew Hashiguchi’s documentary The Only Doctor exposes not only a myriad of failings in the American healthcare system, but also how something meant …
Directors Karen O’Connor, Miri Mavasky, and Maeve O’Boyle spend time getting to know a folk music legend with their documentary Joan Baez I Am A Noise, a biographical film that …
Filmmaker Lin Alluna’s Twice Colonized, which opens the 30th edition of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival this week, profiles a tireless advocate for indigenous rights as they approach …
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