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What to see at Hot Docs today: Tuesday, April 28

In Cajamarca, in the Peruvian Andes, Nelida Ayay Chilon stands against the companies that want to mine her land and the lake near which she’s made her home for the gold deposits detected beneath the soil. See review and showtimes.

This exhilarating film gives new meaning to the phrase “holy shit.” Wait till you hear those words coming out of the mouth of one of five Catholic nuns bent on blending their faith with their passion for social justice. See review and showtimes.

Launched by Harvard Lampoon alums Doug Kenney and Henry Beard and publisher Matty Simmons, the original National Lampoon magazine repackaged the sexism, classism, racism and general hypocrisy of American culture so sharply, it was accused of being sexist, classist, racist and hypocritical by its own targets. See review and showtimes.

A First Nations activist and Vancouver law student, Caleb Behn is a study in contradictions, which he freely admits: rather than trying to smash the system that allows the exploitation of his ancestral land in northeast British Columbia, hes working within the establishment to raise public awareness about the damage wrought by the oil and gas industry, hoping to change the rules from within and prevent a new pipeline project designed to harvest liquid natural gas through destructive fracking. See review and showtimes.

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