Hot Docs

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  Detropia

  Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  This documentary opens with poignant tableaus of a city that is literally being put out to pasture. And then the facts: 10,000 homes will b...

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  Beware of Mr. Baker

  Jay Bulger

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  This is the first documentary I've ever seen that opens with the subject smashing the filmmaker's nose. The subject in question is mad, mer...

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  The World Before Her

  Nisha Pahuja

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  A beauty queen and a religious fanatic paint a conflicting portrait of today's women in India, with both breaking the shackles of this male...

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  The Final Member

  Jonah Bekhor & Zach Math

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  It's appropriate that a documentary about a penis museum take on the thematic trajectory of identity and purpose as either an externally de...

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  Jeff

  Chris James Thompson

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  Because there is such an appalling specificity to Jeffrey Dahmer's signature mutilations and grotesque brutality, it's not surprising that...

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  Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

  Fredrik Gertten

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  Back in 2009, Swedish director Fredrik Gertten's documentary, Bananas (which detailed a lawsuit against Dole for allegedly using banned pes...

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  Ethel

  Rory Kennedy

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  Noting that director Rory Kennedy is the youngest daughter of documentary subject Ethel Kennedy, whose identity in the public eye is mostly...

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  Shut Up and Play the Hits

  Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2012

  Saying, "it's time" on a successful, well loved and not least of all, moneymaking project is difficult for any artist. Consider how many ti...