Hot Docs

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  Rise Up

  Luciano Blotta

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Music is made by those who need it the most. Every day the voices of young, hungry Jamaicans rise out of the shantytowns. If the musician i...

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  Rise Up

  Luciano Blotta

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Early on in Rise Up we're told that no smaller, poorer, more insignificant country in the world has had a greater impact on music around th...

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  Sergio

  Greg Barker

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Chances are you never head of Sergio Vieira de Mello but after seeing this moving film you'll want to learn more. Sergio was a Brazilian di...

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  Shadow Billionaire

  Alexis Manya Spraic

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  The most impressive part of the life of Larry Hillbrom is that even with an expertly made documentary exploring his mystery, he remains unr...

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  Soulwax: Part of the Weekend Never Dies

  Saam Farahmand

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Any band can be the subject of a documentary, especially when they're the ones shooting it. But after last year's A Cross the Universe, a t...

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  Strongman

  Zachary Levy

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Stanless Steel is like many men approaching middle age: he worries about his competitors at work and struggles to maintain a long-term rela...

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  Sweety: The Friends, Betrayal and Murder of Maja Bradaric

  Laura Meijer

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Dutch filmmaker Laura Meijer's artistic true-crime documentary is a haunting film that attempts to understand how a 16-year-old high school...

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  Tyson

  James Toback

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  After claiming not to have raped Desiree Washington, but stating that he did "take it too far" with other women, Mike Tyson shares a little...