Hot Docs

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  Where Is Rocky II?

  Directed by Pierre Bismuth

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2016

  Though Pierre Bismuth co-wrote the story for Michel Gondry's masterpiece Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Gondry and Charlie Kauf...

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  Thank You Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon

  Directed by Todd G. Bieber

  PUBLISHED May 2, 2016

  In the opening moments of Thank You Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon, the titular founding father of improvisation compares the art...

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  Gleason

  Directed by Clay Tweel

  PUBLISHED May 2, 2016

  Following Hurricane Katrina and concerns that the New Orleans Saints might never be able to play another football game inside the Superdome...

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  Life, Animated

  Directed by Roger Ross Williams

  PUBLISHED May 2, 2016

  When Owen Suskind was three, his development took an unexpected turn for the worse. Eventually diagnosed with autism, his parents and older...

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  Hip-Hop Evolution

  Directed by Darby Wheeler

  PUBLISHED May 2, 2016

  In the summer of 2015, Swedish music streaming service Spotify created a live musical map of the world that analyzed listening trends for o...

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  Operation Avalanche

  Directed by Matt Johnson

  PUBLISHED May 2, 2016

  Matt Johnson is Canada's DIY punk Steven Spielberg. His ever-busy frames contain magic tricks within magic tricks, daring you to spot the s...

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  Aim for the Roses

  Directed by John Bolton

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2016

  In 1976, Canadian daredevil Ken Carter decided to do the impossible: drive a rocket-powered car off a concrete ramp and sail across the St....

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  Ovarian Psycos

  Directed by Kate Trumbull-LaValle and Johanna Sokolowski

  PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2016

  Ovarian Psycos is a punk rock doc in the vein of The Decline of Western Civilization: it may not be the most polished thing in the world, b...