Hot Docs

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  China Heavyweight

  Yung Chang

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  While superficially tackling the nationally sponsored youth boxing programs that have sprung up in China since the ban was lifted on the sp...

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  Pushwagner

  Even Benestad & August B. Hanssen

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  Born Terje Brofoss, in 1940, the Norwegian artist self-named Hariton Pushwagner (a pretentious hippie nod to the Hari Krishnas and the bour...

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  Queen of Versailles

  Lauren Greenfield

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  In this era of reality television programming, with such hits as The Real Housewives franchise, it is no wonder Lauren Greenfield's The Que...

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  The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche

  Maya Gallus

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  Back in the late '20s, when Canadian author Mazo de la Roche broke into the literary scene with her impassioned depiction of rural aristocr...

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  The World Before Her

  Nisha Pahuja

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  Because the tenets of Western culture are imposing on the many societies keen on keeping their women subjugated and controlled by some arbi...

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  Canned Dreams

  Katja Gauriloff

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  As the title suggests, the Finnish globalization documentary, Canned Dreams, about the many ingredients that go into a standard can of ravi...

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  The Invisible War

  Kirby Dick

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  Serving as an advocacy film of unique power, detailing a series of blood-boiling accounts of rape incidents in the U.S. Military and debunk...

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  Downeast

  David Redmon & Ashley Sabin

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  In 2010, the last large sardine cannery in the United States – the Stinson Seafood plant in Gouldsboro, Maine – closed its door...