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Inside Out review: Dykes In The Streets
DYKES IN THE STREETS (Almerinda Travassos, Canada). 37 minutes. Rating: NNN Lesbian invisibility has been a painful fact of life for dyke activists. Almerinda Travassos... -
Inside Out review: Good Kisser
GOOD KISSER (Wendy Jo Carlton, U.S.). 84 minutes. Rating: NN Some might argue that the premise of Good Kisser is problematic: a lesbian couple tries... -
Three emerging theatre artists receive the first annual Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Awards
Jon Kaplans memory loomed large as the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Awards were inaugurated on Monday evening. There were more than a few tears as... -
It’s time to reconsider polarizing radical feminist Andrea Dworkin
LAST DAYS AT HOT SLIT: THE RADICAL FEMINISM OF ANDREA DWORKIN (Semiotext(e)/MIT) edited by Amy Scholder and Johanna Fateman. 408 pages. As women everywhere coalesce... -
Hot Docs review: A Kandahar Away
A KANDAHAR AWAY (Aisha Jamal, Canada). 83 minutes. Rating: NNN Jamal’s family, led by their father, Abdul, an Afghani immigrant, is on a trek to... -
Hot Docs review: Seeing Red: Stories Of American Communists
SEEING RED: STORIES OF AMERICAN COMMUNISTS (Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, U.S.). 100 minutes. Rating: NNNN Long-time radicals look back on decades of political activism in... -
Hot Docs review: Beloved
BELOVED (Yaser Talebi, Iran/Persia). 54 minutes. Rating: NNNN An Iranian octogenarian woman tending her cows in the Iranian mountains seems an unlikely subject to capture... -
Hot Docs review: The Daughter Tree
THE DAUGHTER TREE (Rama Rau, Canada). 88 minutes. Rating: NNN Midwife Neelam Bala travels Punjabi villages dispensing care and advice to pregnant women and their families.... -
Hot Docs review: The Trial Of Ratko Mladic
THE TRIAL OF RATKO MLADIC (Henry Singer, Rob Miller, UK/Norway). 100 minutes. Rating: NNN This well-made documentary – superbly shot and cut – about the... -
Hot Docs review: Union Maids
UNION MAIDS (Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu, U.S.). 52 minutes. Rating: NNN The subjects of Union Maids are female organizers who often risked their... -
Hot Docs review: Khartoum Offside
KHARTOUM OFFSIDE (Marwa Zein, Sudan/Denmark/Norway/France). 75 minutes. Rating: NNN Here’s an apt entry into Hot Docs’s Persister program. Soccer-loving young women face with fierceness and... -
Hot Docs review: Haydee And The Flying Fish
HAYDEE AND THE FLYING FISH (Pachi Bustos, Chile/Brazil). 73 minutes. Rating: NNNN Any movie about state-run torture is not for the faint of heart. But...