Hot Docs

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  Bones Brigade: An Autobiography

  Stacy Peralta

  PUBLISHED May 7, 2012

  After the highly successful Dogtown and Z-Boys reintroduced the world to the history of modern skateboarding and painted an indelible pictu...

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  My Name is Faith

  Jason Banker & Tiffany Sudela-Junker & Jorge Torres-Torres

  PUBLISHED May 7, 2012

  Directed in part by the adoptive mother of the titular Faith, this troubling look at children who suffer from "Attachment Disorder," a cond...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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)...