Hot Docs
'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...
'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...
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...
'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...
'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...
'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...
Hot Docs Review: 'Bile' Is a Dismal but Essential Watch on the Subject of Death
Directed by Ira A. Goryainova
PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2020
What does an illness look like? Ira A. Goryainova's Bile takes viewers to the uncomfortable cross section between disease and war for a clo...
Hot Docs Review: 'iHuman' Will Make You Terrified of the Inevitable AI Apocalypse
Directed by Tonje Hessen Schei
PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2020
The year 2020 has unleashed countless hardships across the world. In the first few months of this year alone, we've confronted the possibil...