All stories in: Hot Docs 2021
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Hot Docs review: The Gig Is Up
THE GIG IS UP (Shannon Walsh, Canada/France). 88 minutes. Rating: NNNN The Gig Is Up makes both an emotional and practical plea for viewers to... -
Hot Docs 2021: Zo Reken, One Of Ours claim top prizes
Directors Emanuel Licha, Yasmine Mathurin and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers have won the top Canadian film awards at the 2021 Hot Docs film festival. At a livestreamed... -
Hot Docs 2021: Jennifer Holness expertly links beauty and power in Subjects Of Desire
SUBJECTS OF DESIRE (Jennifer Holness). 103 minutes. Live Q&A on Thursday (May 6) at 7 pm. hotdocs.ca Rating: NNNN On April 22, American activist and... -
Hot Docs review: Dirty Tricks
DIRTY TRICKS (Daniel Sivan, Israel). 100 minutes. Rating: NN Is the high-stakes world of competitive bridge just a cesspool of malfeasance, with teams cheating left... -
Hot Docs review: Homeroom
HOMEROOM (Peter Nicks, U.S.). 90 minutes. Rating: NNNNN Oakland documentarian Nicks took us into an ER in The Waiting Room and shadowed the police department... -
Hot Docs review: Writing With Fire
WRITING WITH FIRE (Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh, India). 93 minutes. Rating: NNNN A spiritual companion piece to Collective, Thomas and Ghosh’s ride-along follows the women... -
Hot Docs review: Someone Like Me
SOMEONE LIKE ME (Sean Horlor, Steve J. Adams, Canada). 80 minutes. Rating: NNNN A look at Canadian refugee sponsorship that opens up into something larger,... -
Hot Docs review: One Of Ours
ONE OF OURS (Yasmine Mathurin, Canada). 88 minutes. Rating: NNNNN One Of Ours leaves you with a lot to unpack. The powerfully intimate and moving story is... -
Questlove to give keynote talk at Hot Docs 2021
Musician-turned-filmmaker Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson will close out this year's Hot Docs Film Festival with a keynote conversation with NOW Magazine culture editor Radheyan Simonpillai. The... -
Hot Docs 2021: 12 must-see films according to NOW critics
The annual documentary film festival Hot Docs goes all-virtual for a second straight year, meaning you can rent most movies on-demand – across Canada –... -
Hot Docs review: Gallant Indies
GALLANT INDIES (Philippe Béziat, France). 108 minutes. Rating: NNNN Talk about storming the Bastille. In the fall of 2019, artist and film director Clément Cogitore... -
Hot Docs review: Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning Of Empathy
KÍMMAPIIYIPITSSINI: THE MEANING OF EMPATHY (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Canada). 125 minutes. Rating: NNNN The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’s documentary is... -
Hot Docs review: In The Same Breath
IN THE SAME BREATH (Nanfu Wang). 95 minutes. Rating: NNNN Nanfu Wang’s impressive 2019 film One Child Nation showed the personal and far-reaching impacts of... -
Hot Docs review: Summer Of Soul (… Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson). 117 Minutes. Rating: NNNNN As a musician, podcaster and author, the... -
Hot Docs 2021 reviews: directory
NOW’s film department has been busy watching selections from Hot Docs 2021's virtual festival. Most films begin streaming on the festival's opening day, Thursday (April...
