Hot Docs

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  'Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street' Is Pure Nostalgia

  Directed by Marilyn Agrelo

  PUBLISHED May 25, 2021

  Certain images in Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street are sure to ping with anyone who was raised with Big Bird and friends.. For myse...

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  Toronto Doc 'No Tickets at the Door' Is a Striking COVID-Era Snapshot of a Live Scene on Life Support

  Directed by Danny Alexander

  PUBLISHED May 12, 2021

  It's jarring to see the Horseshoe Tavern completely empty. Well, almost: majority-owner Jeff Cohen pulls up a stool onstage for his intervi...

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  'We Are the Thousand' Shows Just How Far People Will Go to Impress the Foo Fighters

  Directed by Anita Rivaroli

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2021

  Some people devote their lives to science, pioneering the sustainable energy sources that could allow humanity to alter the disastrous traj...

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  'Set!' Makes Competitive Table Setting Actually Seem Interesting

  Directed by Scott Gawlik

  PUBLISHED May 3, 2021

  You've been setting your dinner table wrong this entire time. That much is clear after Scott Gawlik's Set!, a superb dive into California's...

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  Hot Docs Review: The WeWork Documentary Is the Ultimate Tech-Douche Hate-Watch

  Directed by Jed Rothstein

  PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2021

  I have a friend who worked for a small tech startup based out of a WeWork shared office space. A few times, before Blue Jays games, I would...

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  'Fanny: The Right to Rock' Celebrates the Past but Gets Stuck in the Present

  Directed by Bobbi Jo Hart

  PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2021

  Fanny are forgotten trailblazers. As an all-female rock group in the early '70s — not to mention Filipina-Americans and members of the LGBT...

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  'The Sparks Brothers' Brings Much-Needed Humour to the Rock Doc Genre

  Directed by Edgar Wright

  PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2021

  Sparks are musicians' musicians — the kind of band who get talked about in hushed tones by their peers and devoted admirers, but are largel...

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  'Dark Blossom' Is Part Documentary, Part Goth Lookbook

  Directed by Frigge Fri

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2021

  One part documentary and one part lookbook, Dark Blossom tells the story of the next generation's enduring attachment to the goth subcultur...