Hot Docs

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  The "Socalled" Movie

  Garry Beitel

  PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2010

  What happens when a gay French-Canadian Jewish pianist/accordionist (Josh Dolgin) combines klezmer (traditional Jewish folk music) with fun...

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  We Don't Care About Music Anyway...

  Cedric Dupire and Gaspard Kuentz

  PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2010

  The Tokyo avant-garde music scene has always been remarkably ahead of the times, from the deconstructionist punk of the Boredoms to the fre...

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  Life with Murder

  Jon Kastner

  PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2010

  About 12 years ago in Chatham, ON, an 18-year-old girl named Jennifer Jenkins was found dead in her home with five gunshot wounds to the he...

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  Big River Man

  John Maringouin

  PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2009

  The man who holds the world record for long-distance swimming is a 53-year-old, overweight drunk driver and gambling addict from Slovenia,...

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  Over the Hills and Far Away

  Michel Orion Scott

  PUBLISHED May 28, 2009

  When we meet seven-year-old Rowan, he can't talk, use a toilet or interact very well. He requires a witch's brew of supplements and prescri...

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  The Red Chapel

  Mads Brugger

  PUBLISHED May 13, 2009

  The worst nightmare of a satirical filmmaker is to find out that the joke is on them. And it's debatable whether Danish director Mads Brugg...

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  Vashti Bunyan: From Here to Before

  Kieran Evans

  PUBLISHED May 8, 2009

  Those looking for a comprehensive overview of "freak folk" pioneer Vashti Bunyan's career may leave From Here to Before disappointed, but t...

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  Mugabe and the White African

  Andrew Thompson, Lucy Bailey

  PUBLISHED May 8, 2009

  Under the revised "land reform" laws implemented by Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe in 2005, all farmland in the country owned by whites i...