Hot Docs

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  A Hard Name

  Alan Zweig

  PUBLISHED May 8, 2009

  In the third act of this documentary about particularly weathered ex-convicts who struggle to live normal lives, one of the subjects begs t...

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  The Way We Get By

  Aron Gaudet

  PUBLISHED May 8, 2009

  While the premise of three senior citizens offering airport handshakes to soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan sounds sort of lame,...

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  Bitch Academy

  Alina Rudnitskaya

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2009

  With women learning to shake their ass in flattering ways while wearing a G-string, in addition to performing fellatio on bananas and pract...

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  Antoine

  Laura Bari

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2009

  With a knowing wink, a small, sightless child opens the blinds and lets light into the room. It takes about five seconds to fall in love wi...

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  Defamation

  Yoav Shamir

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2009

  The immediately striking thing about Yoav Shamir's latest film, Defamation, is its tone. Narrated by Shamir, said tone is decidedly jovial,...

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  Professor Norman Cornett

  Alanis Obomsawin

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2009

  Acting as a secondary title and focusing statement is the question: "since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest one?," which...

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  The Real Place

  Cam Christiansen

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2009

  As far as five-minute documentaries about playwrights and librettists that I've never heard of go, The Real Place is the cat's meow, despit...

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  Paris 1919

  Paul Cowan

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2009

  For anyone who remembers grade school trips to local museums where the tour inevitably featured a film segment with stodgy, awkward re-enac...