Hot Docs

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  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,"...

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  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...

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  Legend of a Warrior

  Corey Lee

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  In this candid and emotional depiction of a half-Chinese man trying to connect with that side of his cultural roots by entering into his fa...

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  The Ambassador

  Mads Brügger

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  Danish director Mads Brügger goes undercover in another expose doc, this time in the Central African Republic. He tries to buy himself a di...

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  Herman's House

  Angad Singh Bhalla

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  On April 17, 1972, Black Panther activist Herman Wallace and fellow Panther inmate Albert Woodfox were thrown into solitary confinement in...

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  Petra's Poem

  Shira Avni

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  Petra's Poem is a non-traditional documentary featuring a woman with Down Syndrome reading her soliloquy about how it feels to live in toda...

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  Francophrenia (Or Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is)

  James Franco & Ian Olds

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  Unsurprisingly, the documentary detailing James Franco's experience on General Hospital playing a crazed artist kidnapper is ostensibly an...

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  Finding North

  Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  An estimated 49 million Americans suffer from food insecurity, unsure where their next meal will come from, a point drilled into viewers of...