This year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival kicks off with a headliner in the truest sense of the word. Director Michelle Mama’s Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions takes an …
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Silver Screamers is one of those documentaries that follows the production of another film from pre-production to premiere, but not in the way most movies of this sort tend to …
76 Days Adrift is a documentary that plays like a classic “man versus nature” survival story. Based on the true story and memoirs of sailor, ship builder, and designer Steve …
British filmmaker James Jones’ kinetic documentary Antidote is as close as one can get to the fire and ire of the Russian regime without getting burned. An intimate look at …
An inspirational and contemplative documentary about one person’s lengthy journey to make others recognize the space where ancestral knowledge, personal hardship. and science intersect, Wilfred Buck is the sort of …
Reviewing the creatively pieced together documentary Eno is pretty much impossible because the movie I saw will never be seen again. The film itself will keep on existing – and …
Whatever It Takes is the ideal true crime documentary.
A full list of The GATE’s reviews from this year’s 31st annual Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, happening in Toronto from April 25th to May 3rd.
With her directorial debut, Never Look Away, Lucy Lawless profiles the career and struggles of former CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth to dazzling, heart-stopping effect.
Grand Theft Hamlet stands as proof that sometimes even the worst and most impossible of concepts can still provide a wealth of creative freedom, fulfilment, and ingenuity.
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