Hot Docs
Meet the Fokkens
Gabrielle Provaas
PUBLISHED May 7, 2012
Although disorganized to the point of incoherence, Gabrielle Provaas's standard issue, subject-facing documentary about the Fokken twins, L...
The Boxing Girls of Kabul
Ariel J. Nasr
PUBLISHED May 7, 2012
Even if the template of boxing as a metaphor for a larger political or personal fight is rote, Ariel J. Nasr's The Boxing Girls of Kabul ri...
Outing
Sebastian Meise & Thomas Reider
PUBLISHED May 7, 2012
Shy, timid and insecure, Sven discovered something different about himself in his early teen years while reading a story in the local newsp...
Dylan
Ania Winiarska
PUBLISHED May 7, 2012
It feels strange to get a child's perspective growing up in hostile, poverty-stricken Belfast, Ireland and call it a documentary, but this...
Breath
Kullar Viimne
PUBLISHED May 7, 2012
In modern Western culture, far removed from the times of Mary Poppins, it's odd to think of chimney sweeping as a viable vocation for a you...
The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song
Christy Garland
PUBLISHED May 7, 2012
In short, the heavily metaphoric and symbolically driven doc, The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song, is about Muscle (a Guyanese cockfighter)...
Scarlet Road
Catherine Scott
PUBLISHED May 7, 2012
"The sessions I have with Rachel are important to me because they bring out my sexuality. She touches me all over and plays with my balls,"...
Cutting Loose
Finlay Pretsell & Adrian McDowall
PUBLISHED May 7, 2012
Taking a less traditional approach to rehabilitation, the Scottish prison system is giving prisoners sharp scissors, a presumed weapon, to...