Hot Docs

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  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...

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  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...

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  Hot Docs Review: 'Consuming Contemporary' Shows How Culture Is Safe-Guarded by the Upper Class

  Directed by Ana Aleksovska

  PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2020

  On the face of it, Macedonian short documentary Consuming Contemporary is about an older woman, Sunchica, enriching herself through coordin...

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  Hot Docs Review: 'The Chimney Swift' Shows Inhumane Labour from a Child's Perspective

  Directed by Frédéric Schuld

  PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2020

  The Chimney Swift is simultaneously two different tales. The narration is a story gleaned from the actual accounts of adult chimney sweeps...

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  Hot Docs Review: 'Hoop Dreams' Filmmaker Examines the Nuances of Chicago Life in 'City So Real'

  Directed by Steve James

  PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2020

  Laquan McDonald, a Black 17-year-old, was shot 16 times while turned away from the Chicago Police Department officer who murdered him in 20...

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  Hot Docs Review: 'The Painter and the Thief' Turns Crime into Art

  Directed by Benjamin Ree

  PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2020

  Plenty of entertaining documentaries are built from being in the right place at the right time. The Painter and the Thief — a doc filled wi...

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  Hot Docs Review: 'The Dakota Entrapment Tapes' Approaches the True Crime Genre with Empathy

  Directed by Trevor Birney

  PUBLISHED Jun 3, 2020

  The discovery of the body of college student Andrew Sadek in the Red River of sleepy North Dakotan town Wahpeton rightfully shocked the pop...

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  Hot Docs Review: 'The Earth Is Blue as an Orange' Is a Powerful Account of Art During Wartime

  Directed by Iryna Tsylik

  PUBLISHED Jun 3, 2020

  It is the height of the Russian-Ukranian conflict in 2015, and in the small town of Krasnohorivka, the Trofymchuk family are huddled in the...