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Welcome to Hot Docs Festival Online
Welcome to Hot Docs Festival Online! To help you prepare for the Festival and test your streaming setup, we have recorded this FREE short three-minute welcome message from Hot Docs executive director Brett Hendrie.
| | Runtime: | 3 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | | Program Category: | Special Presentations |
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#BLESSED
Available until June 14
Peer inside C3, Canada’s fastest-growing millennial church, and witness a revelation. With locations multiplying across Toronto, young Pastor Sam deploys Instagram, Christian pop music and on-point fashion to preach the Word to hip souls seeking salvation.
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Religion & Spirituality | | | Director(s): | Ali Weinstein | | Producer(s): | Cornelia Principe | | Executive Producer(s): | Nisha Pahuja | | Editor(s): | Robert Swartz | | Writer(s): | Ali Weinstein | | Cinematography: | Jesse McCracken |
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499
Available until June 6
Almost five centuries after Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire, a fictionalized conquistador retraces the Spanish army’s route to Mexico City. Through the haunting true stories he encounters, the ghosts of Mexico’s brutal colonial past reverberate.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Mexico | | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | | Director(s): | Rodrigo Reyes | | Producer(s): | Andrew Houchens | | Inti Cordera | | Executive Producer(s): | Steve Holmgren | | Carter Logan | | Co-Producer(s): | David Felix Sutcliffe | | Associate Producer(s): | Sam Schild | | Consulting Producer(s): | Gunter Hanfgarn | | Su Kim | | David Felix Sutcliffe | | Editor(s): | Andrea Chignoli | | Daniel Chávez Ontiveros | | Writer(s): | Rodrigo Reyes | | Lorena Padilla | | Alicia Valencia | | Cinematography: | Alejandro Mejía | | Composer: | Pablo Mondragón | | Sound: | Ricardo Arteaga |
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The 8th
Available until June 6
The 8th tells the story of Irish women and their fight to overturn one of the most restrictive laws on abortion in the world. After a 35-year struggle the pro-choice side have to radically shift tactics to try and bring this historically conservative electorate over the line.
| | Runtime: | 94 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | Persister | | | Director(s): | Aideen Kane | | Maeve O'Boyle | | Lucy Kennedy | | Producer(s): | Aideen Kane | | Maeve O'Boyle | | Lucy Kennedy | | Alan Maher | | Executive Producer(s): | Lesley McKimm | | Gini Reticker | | Amy Nauiokas | | Abigail Disney | | Jess Kwan | | Editor(s): | Jordan Montminy | | Maeve O'Boyle | | Composer: | Sarah Lynch |
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9/11 Kids
Available until June 24
Sixteen schoolchildren were in the room with President Bush when he was informed about the September 11th terrorist attacks. Now in their mid-20s, learn how their lives have unfolded in this fascinating look at race, politics and the post-9/11 American Dream.
| | Runtime: | 88 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Canada | | Premiere Status: | Canadian Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Race & Multiculturalism | | | Director(s): | Elizabeth St. Philip | | Producer(s): | Steve Gamester | | Executive Producer(s): | Steve Gamester | | Betty Orr | | Michael Kot | | Editor(s): | Greg West | | Cinematography: | Chris Romeike | | Sound: | Michael Filippov | | Ryan Cox | | Nick Davey |
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All That I Am
Available until June 24
After surviving sexual abuse and years in foster care, 18-year-old Emilie returns home to her mom and stepsiblings. With sensitivity and patience, a family conversation unfolds about the years of silence and the real reason for their father's imprisonment.
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Norway | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Norwegian | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Mental Health & Addiction | | Children & Youth | | Northern Europe | | | Director(s): | Tone Grøttjord-Glenne | | Producer(s): | Anita Rehoff-Larsen | | Editor(s): | Cathrine Ambus | | Writer(s): | Tone Grøttjord-Glenne | | Cinematography: | Egil Håskjold Larsen | | Composer: | Ola Fløttum | | Sound: | Håkon Lammetun | | Andreas Lindberg Svensson |
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Always Amber
Available until June 24
Teenage besties Amber and Sebastian are inseparable, exploring gender, queerness and rainbow hair colours together until a love triangle upends everything. Now transitioning solo, Amber comes of age with an inspiring confidence unique to a new generation.
| | Runtime: | 75 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Sweden | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Swedish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | The Changing Face of Europe | | Film Subjects: | Children & Youth | | Gender & Sexuality | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Love & Relationships | | Northern Europe | | | Director(s): | Hannah Reinikainen | | Lia Hietala | | Producer(s): | Göran Hugo Olsson | | Melissa Lindgren | | Executive Producer(s): | Tobias Janson | | Editor(s): | Hannah Reinikainen | | Lia Hietala | | Anton Hemgren | | Charlotte Landelius | | Cinematography: | Lia Hietala | | Amber Mastracci | | Composer: | ShitKid | | Sound: | Fredrik Stålne |
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The Art of Fallism
Available until June 24
Revisit South Africa’s #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall protest movements through the eyes of central activists who shed light on what reporters missed—the crucial work shouldered by women and trans people to ensure the movement championed all.
| | Runtime: | 74 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Norway | | South Africa | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Revisionaries | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | Africa | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Education | | LGBTQ Cultures & Issues | | Race & Multiculturalism | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Aslaug Aarsæther | | Gunnbjørg Gunnarsdóttir | | Producer(s): | Ingvild Aagedal Skage | | Wisaal Abrahams | | Editor(s): | Morten Øvreås | | Selim Mutic | | Writer(s): | Aslaug Aarsæther | | Ingvild Aagedal Skage | | Cinematography: | Pascale Neuschäfer | | Jodi Windvogel | | Andrew Amorim | | Gerald Machona | | Sound: | Yngve Leidulv Sætre |
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Bare
Available until June 24
Eleven naked men audition, rehearse and perform for the premiere of master Belgian choreographer Thierry Smits’s new contemporary dance piece in this exploration of artistic conflict, gender, taboos and the conceit that the body is the last bastion of personal freedom.
| | Runtime: | 94 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Belgium | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | French | | Dutch | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Gender & Sexuality | | Performance & Performers | | Website: | http://baremovie.com/ | | | Director(s): | Aleksandr M. Vinogradov | | Producer(s): | Aleksandr M. Vinogradov | | Thierry Smits | | Fabien Defendini | | Executive Producer(s): | Aleksandr M. Vinogradov | | Editor(s): | Aleksandr M. Vinogradov | | Cinematography: | Aleksandr M. Vinogradov | | Thomas Szacka-Marier | | Jean Counet | | Benjamin Wolf | | Alyx Ayn Arumpac | | Composer: | Francisco Lo´pez | | Aleksandr Vasilenko | | Sound: | Freek Vrijhof |
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Bile
Available until June 24
Intertwining a range of both historical and family footage, the director, seeking answers for her own ailments, reflects on how people have looked at their bodies and illnesses throughout the centuries in this experimental essay on disease and health.
| | Runtime: | 64 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Belgium | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Russian | | Dutch | | French | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Markers | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Health & Medicine | | Western Europe | | | Director(s): | Ira A. Goryainova | | Producer(s): | Peter Krüger | | Editor(s): | Ira A. Goryainova | | Writer(s): | Ira A. Goryainova | | Cinematography: | Patrick Stevens | | Composer: | hypnoskull |
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Breaking the Silence
Available until June 24
An Indigenous woman leaves her Emberá Chamí community for Bogotá as she grapples with her experience of female genital mutilation. Joining forces with a new friend, they return to engage with other Indigenous women about the tradition and enact change.
| | Runtime: | 83 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Colombia | | Bolivia | | Premiere Status: | North American Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Embera | | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | Persister | | Film Subjects: | Gender & Sexuality | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Latin America | | Women & Women's Stories | | | Director(s): | Priscila Padilla | | Producer(s): | Laura Coronado Delgado | | Executive Producer(s): | Gustavo Pazmin | | Priscila Padilla | | Editor(s): | Ximena Franco | | Priscila Padilla | | Writer(s): | Priscila Padilla | | Cinematography: | Viviana Gomez | | Yvette Paz | | Composer: | Sol Okarina | | Sound: | Vladimir Diaz |
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Bulletproof
Available until June 6
From homecoming parades and basketball games to lockdown drills and active shooter workshops, the landscape inside the American education system has drastically transformed. Can everyday high school rituals still exist alongside the new normal of fear and anxiety?
| | Runtime: | 85 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | | Director(s): | Todd Chandler | | Producer(s): | Danielle Varga | | Todd Chandler | | Executive Producer(s): | Sally Jo Fifer | | Lois Vossen | | Editor(s): | Todd Chandler | | Shannon Kennedy | | Cinematography: | Emily Topper | | Composer: | Troy Herion |
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Canadian Spectrum Shorts Program
Available until June 24
A selection of Canadian short films including Hollies Dress, Nancy's Workshop, Invasion, and Jo.
| | Runtime: | 76 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Program Category: | Canadian Spectrum |
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Cane Fire
Available until June 24
The Hawaiian island of Kauai’s reputation as a leisure paradise is provocatively and at times humorously explored, calling into question the Hollywood stereotype that masked the locals’ reality of colonial displacement, worker exploitation and destructive environmental extraction.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Pidgin-English | | Hawaiian | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | To Conserve & Protect | | Film Subjects: | America | | Ecology & the Environment | | Film & Filmmaking | | Indigenous Cultures & Issues | | Personal Histories | | Popular Culture | | Website: | https://anthonysimon.net/Cane-Fire-1 | | | Director(s): | Anthony Banua-Simon | | Producer(s): | Anthony Banua-Simon | | Michael Vass | | Executive Producer(s): | Steve Holmgren | | Editor(s): | Anthony Banua-Simon | | Writer(s): | Anthony Banua-Simon | | Michael Vass | | Cinematography: | Anthony Banua-Simon | | Composer: | Mike Cooper | | Sound: | Anthony Banua-Simon |
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City So Real
Available until June 24
Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Steve James’s fascinating and complex portrait of contemporary Chicago delivers a deep, multifaceted look into the soul of a quintessentially American city, set against the backdrop of its history-making 2019 mayoral election. All four episodes will be shown.
| | Runtime: | 240 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Spanish | | Punjabi | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Deep Dive | | Film Subjects: | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Race & Multiculturalism | | Urban Cultures & Issues | | | Director(s): | Steve James | | Producer(s): | Zak Piper | | Steve James | | Executive Producer(s): | Jeff Skoll | | Diane Weyermann | | Alex Kotlowitz | | Gordon Quinn | | Betsy Steinberg | | Jolene Pinder | | Editor(s): | David E. Simpson | | Steve James | | Cinematography: | Jackson James | | Steve James | | Composer: | Will Miller and Resavoir |
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Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management: Coded Bias
Available until June 24
When facial recognition software is used in clandestine surveillance, who does it protect and who is singled out? Scientists, scholars and activists all argue there is a clear racial bias buried in the algorithms, but will the US government take heed?
| | Runtime: | 83 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Mandarin | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Special Presentations | | Film Subjects: | Black Cultures & Issues | | Politics & Political Intrigue | | Race & Multiculturalism | | Science & Technology | | Website: | https://www.codedbias.com/ | | | Director(s): | Shalini Kantayya | | Producer(s): | Shalini Kantayya | | Editor(s): | Zachary Ludescher | | Alex Gilwit | | Shalini Kantayya | | Cinematography: | Steve Acevedo | | Sound: | Peter Levin | | Barbara Parks |
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A Colombian Family
Available until June 24
Set against the backdrop of Colombia’s fraught peace treaty meant to end 50 years of violence, an estranged mother and daughter seek reconciliation—but where? Do they fight for a better country together, or leave as a family for Cuba?
| | Runtime: | 80 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | Spanish | | Accessibility: | Full Subtitles | | Program Category: | International Spectrum | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Latin America | | War & Conflict | | | Director(s): | Tanja Wol Sørensen | | Producer(s): | Rikke Tambo Andersen | | Executive Producer(s): | Vibeke Vogel | | Editor(s): | Claudio Hughes | | Cinematography: | Maggie Olkuska | | Composer: | Sophia Maj | | Sound: | Sune Kaarsberg |
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Daddy
Available until June 24
In Copenhagen, a roving anthropologist turned stay-at-home dad turns the ethnographer’s lens on himself and his young children, reconciling his own childhood abandonment and exploring fatherhood in this tragicomedy about the exquisite torture of parenting.
| | Runtime: | 50 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | Denmark | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Danish | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | World Showcase | | Film Subjects: | Families & Family Relationships | | Northern Europe | | Personal Histories | | | Director(s): | Lars Emil Leonhardt | | Brendan Cooney | | Producer(s): | Vibeke Vogel | | Lars Emil Leonhardt | | Editor(s): | Lars Emil Leonhardt | | Writer(s): | Brendan Cooney | | Cinematography: | Lars Emil Leonhardt | | Composer: | Frederik Ebert | | Sound: | Sune Kaarsberg |
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The Dakota Entrapment Tapes
Available until June 24
A seemingly straightforward drug bust turns out to be anything but when a cover-up involving police entrapment, unwilling informants and abuse of power is revealed in a sleepy college town in North Dakota.
| | Runtime: | 90 | | Copyright: | 2020 | | Country Listing: | UK | | Premiere Status: | World Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Made In Northern Ireland | | Film Subjects: | America | | Crime & Intrigue | | Families & Family Relationships | | | Director(s): | Trevor Birney | | Producer(s): | Trevor Birney | | Mairead Kelly | | Executive Producer(s): | Brendan Byrne | | Michael Fanning | | Editor(s): | Andy Tohill | | Michael Paisley | | Writer(s): | Trevor Birney | | Cinematography: | Mark Garrett | | Composer: | James Everett | | Sound: | Michael McKnight |
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Dark City Beneath the Beat
Available until June 24
Take a deep dive into the legendary Baltimore club scene with local DJs, producers, dancers, artists and activists who combat state violence with community care, using breakbeats and fast footwork to change lives.
| | Runtime: | 65 | | Copyright: | 2019 | | Country Listing: | USA | | Premiere Status: | International Premiere | | | Festival Year: | 2020 | | Language: | English | | Accessibility: | Partial Subtitles | | Program Category: | Artscapes | | Film Subjects: | Activism | | America | | Black Cultures & Issues | | Performance & Performers | | Urban Culture & Issues | | Music & Musicians | | | Director(s): | TT The Artist | | Producer(s): | Issa Rae | | Deniese Davis | | Astrid Curet | | Executive Producer(s): | TT The Artist | | Rose DiFerdinando | | Editor(s): | TT The Artist | | Cinematography: | Kirby Griffin | | Composer: | Mighty Mark | | Sound: | TT The Artist | | Marquis Gasque | | Willie Elias |
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