Members of the Wet’suwet’en nation fight for the sovereignty of their unceded territory in Yinah. The Wet’suwet’en hold 22,000 km² of unceded territory on the west coast of Turtle Island. The Wet’suwet’en have been fighting for over a decade against the efforts of the Canadian Government to build the Coastal Gaslink oil pipeline through their […]
Yintah – Hot Docs 2024
Read More »
Martin Scorsese hosts a look back at the partnership between British filmmaker Michael Powell and Hungarian screenwriter Emeric Pressburger in Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger. Martin Scorsese fostered his love of film by watching British productions that were aired on American TV. His favourites were from “Production of the Archers,” the
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Read More »
The career of filmmaker Michel Gondry is looked back upon in Michel Gondry, Do It Yourself. Beginning as the drummer for the band Oui Oui, Michel Gondry became an influential music video director for artists such as Björk, Daft Punk, the White Stripes and the Chemical Brothers. Moving into feature films in the mid-2000s, Michel
Michel Gondry, Do It Yourself
Read More »
In 2003, a group of 8 artists lived in an underutilized space in a Providence, Road Island mall in Secret Mall Apartment. The Providence Place Pall was built in the late-1990s as part of a revitalization effort for the city. A consequence of this gentrification was the demolition of Fort Thunder, an old mill building
Secret Mall Apartment – Hot Docs 2024
Read More »
The history and continued influence of disco is examined in Disco’s Revenge. Beginning in underground nightclubs following the 1969 Stonewall riots, disco grew from a niche within the LGBTQ and African American communities to a commercially exploited, and publicly derided, trend throughout the 1970s. Despite disco being declared dead at a 1979 rally put on
Disco’s Revenge – Hot Docs 2024
Read More »
Animated reenactments are used to tell the story of a train ticket forgery operation in 1990s Budapest in Pelikan Blue. Ákos (Norman Lévai), Petya (Kornél Tegyi), and Laci (Ágoston Kenéz) are three friends in 1990s Budapest, who share a common goal of wanting to travel, despite being unable to afford the expensive train tickets. The
A 25-year-old Quebecois man is willing to do anything to become the best Michael Jackson impersonator in Me, Michael and I. Freddy Duffour is a 25-year-old man from Quebec who has been obsessed with Michael Jackson since he was 16 years old. Already having had multiple plastic surgeries to look like the King of Pop,
Me, Michael and I – Hot Docs 2024
Read More »
A small Irish village has an unfortunate relationship with Christmas in So This is Christmas. It is late November in a quiet Irish town and it’ll soon be time for the most wonderful time of the year with everyone being of good cheer. However, this will not be the case for at least five of
So This Is Christmas – Hot Docs 2024
Read More »
Magician Shawn Farquhar pieces together a 500-year-old murder case hidden within a deck of playing cards in Lost in the Shuffle. Two time world champion magcian Shawn Farquhar like performing card tricks, which tell a story. One such story is how the King of Hearts, typically known as the “Suicide King,” is actually depicting the
Lost in the Shuffle – Hot Docs 2024
Read More »
A Japanese journalist investigates her own sexual assault in Black Box Diaries. In May 2017, Shiori Ito goes public about how she was raped by Yamaguchi, the Washington cheif of the Tokyo Broadcast System. Shiori’s goal is to get a criminal case reopened after an arrest was halted, presumably due to Yamaguchi’s friendship with Japanese
Black Box Diaries – Hot Docs 2024 Read More »
