Hot Docs

Hot Docs 2015: (T)error Review

For the first hour of it’s running time, (T)error is a slow build doc that borders on tedious despite incendiary subject matter, but the last section makes for a thrilling film that should not be missed.

Hot Docs 2015: Seth’s Dominion Review

As a portrait of an enigmatic cartoonist and comic book dream-weaver, Seth's Dominion is a wonderfully creative little doc that honors and embodies it’s subject, like few others.

Hot Docs 2015: Listen To Me Marlon Review

Listen To Me Marlon is a surreal, intimate look at the iconic Brando, with stories told through the use of interview clips, vintage footage and, most tellingly, a series of tapes that the actor made for himself as a kind of hypnotic therapy.

Hot Docs 2015: Best of Enemies Reviews

Best of Enemies delves into one of the most profound and influential moments of American political life: the debates between stalwart conservative William F. Buckley and iconoclastic progressive Gore Vidal.

Hot Docs 2015: Above and Below Review

A stylistic, visually compelling treatise on loneliness and isolation, Above and Below explores the lives of people living on the margins of society, separated from civilization by barriers, concrete and abstract alike.

Hot Docs 2015: On Her Own Interview

On Her Own documents the struggles of a woman trying to keep her land and her family together through tough economic times. We spoke with director Morgan Schmidt-Feng and subject Nancy Preblich prior to their Hot Docs screening.

The Dork Shelf Guide to Hot Docs 2015

Our hub for all things Hot Docs 2015, running from April 23rd until May 3. Here you will find reviews, interviews, and more as we update it throughout the festival with additional, informative coverage.

Hot Docs 2015: Tig Review

Tig documents a year in the life of comedian Tig Notaro after being diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer and working this uncomfortable truth into one of the most revelatory stand-up sets of all time.

Hot Docs 2015: Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Review

It’s hard not to see Brett Morgen’s documentation of Kurt Cobain’s life as anything short of definitive, using both character animation and wonderfully rendered motion graphics to present Cobain’s writings, musings and music in a visually stunning way.

Hot Docs: Raiders! Interview

Our in-depth interview with Tim Skousen, one of the co-directors of the wildly entertaining doc Raiders!, screening at this year's Hot Docs film fest.