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Whatever It Takes – Hot Docs 2024

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An e-commerce blogger is targeted by an aggressive cyber-stalker in Whatever It Takes. For over 25 years Natick, Massachusetts resident Ina Steiner and her husband David operated the blog EcommerceBytes, advising sellers using e-commerce platforms such as eBay. However, beginning in the summer of 2019, Ina and David would begin receiving treats on Twitter from […]

Whatever It Takes – Hot Docs 2024

Invisible People – Hot Docs 2024

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The Japanese dance form of Butoh is explored in Invisible People. Butoh is a contemporary Japanese dance that flows between revolt, eroticism, trance, prayer, ancestral experience, and physical anonymity. Yoshito Ohno is the son of Butoh founder Kazuo Ohno, who runs a dance studio known as “the Church of Butoh.” Many of Yoshito’s students describe

Invisible People – Hot Docs 2024

Grand Theft Hamlet – Hot Docs 2024

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British actors try to stage a full production of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the world of Grand Theft Auto Online in Grand Theft Hamlet. Unable to find acting roles during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sam and Mark spend their time playing Grand Theft Auto Online. While running from the in-game police, Sam stumbles upon and Vinewood

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Wilfred Buck – Hot Docs 2024

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A Cree survivor of colonial trauma finds solace in his passion for the stars in Wilfred Buck. Wilfred Buck had a traumatic upbringing, with his siblings being victims of the Sixties Scoop and his mother dying on the streets of Winnipeg. Today, Wilfred Buck is an astronomer and educator passionate about the stars. Wilfred Buck

Wilfred Buck – Hot Docs 2024

Red Fever – Hot Docs

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Cree photographer and filmmaker Neil Diamond traces the Indigenous influence on Western culture and identity in Red Fever. Neil Diamond is a Cree photographer and filmmaker, but he doesn’t meet people’s stereotypical expectations about Native people. Diamond explores the history of Indigenous culture has been appropriated into Western society, in areas such as fashion, sports,

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A Mother Apart – Hot Docs 2024

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LGBTQ poet Staceyann Chin has spent decades trying to reconcile the abandonment by her mother in A Mother Apart. When Staceyann Chin was a 9-year-old in Jamaica, her mother Hazel for a new life in Montreal. Now a lesbian beat poet, Staceyann is still trying to cope with this abandonment while trying to be a

A Mother Apart – Hot Docs 2024

Singing Back the Buffalo – Hot Docs 2024

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The First Nations of North America band together to repatriate buffalo to their territories in Singing Back the Buffalo. In 2014, Blackfoot Elder Leroy Little Bear introduced a treaty with First Nations to reintroduce buffalo to their lands, restoring the interdependency between humans, buffalo, and the land. Over the next decade, herds of buffalo are

Singing Back the Buffalo – Hot Docs 2024

The Ride Ahead – Hot Docs 2024

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A young man with a GNAO1 Neurodevelopmental Disorder documents his own experiences living as someone with a disability in The Ride Ahead. Samuel Habib grew up with symptoms of cerebral palsy and epilepsy as a result of having a GNAO1 Neurodevelopmental Disorder. Despite his challenges, Samuel yearns to someday be able to live without the

The Ride Ahead – Hot Docs 2024

My Dad’s Tapes – Hot Docs 2024

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A young man tries to reconcile his father’s death with the help of old home movie recordings in My Dad’s Tapes. On August 9, 2006, Leonard Watson dropped off his 8-year-old son Kurtis at summer camp and promptly disappeared, only to be found dead a month later of an apparent suicide. 14 years after his

My Dad’s Tapes – Hot Docs 2024

This Is Going to Be Big – Hot Docs 2024

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Four neurodiverse teens in Victoria, Australia prepare to participate in the school musical in This is Going to Be Big. At Macedon Ranges Specialist School in Victoria, Australia, music teacher Darcy Nolan and drama teacher Lori Nichols are preparing to put on their bi-annual school music, with this year’s script being The Time Travelling Trio,

This Is Going to Be Big – Hot Docs 2024