Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim’s documentary Deaf President Now! only unfolds over the course of a single, intense week in the spring of 1988, but the reverberations of the events …
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance (the opening film of this year’s Hot Docs Festival) is a dutiful and personal look back at the historical struggles and mobilizations of …
Director Shoshannah Stern takes the celebrity biographical documentary to new and refreshing levels with Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, a look at the career, struggles, and successes of the most …
Paul, the latest and perhaps most widely accessible work from Canadian filmmaker Denis Côté to date, follows the uniquely inspirational and heartfelt journey of a 34-year old man overcoming depression, …
Jueyon Yang’s moving, personal, and introspective documentary My Missing Aunt starts off by looking at familial secrets within her own family, but blossoms into a more sorrowful and sensitive examination …
Ai Weiwei’s Turandot is a majorly disappointing and thin look behind the scenes of the dissident artist’s first attempt at directing an opera, a modern retelling of Puccini’s controversial, unfinished …
Austrian filmmaker Natalie Halla’s The Last Ambassador dutifully documents one woman’s fight to stand up against a totalitarian regime in a country she loves deeply, but is unable to return …