Hot Docs

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  Love at the Twilight Motel

  Alison E. Rose

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2009

  Ironically titled, wholly engrossing and thoroughly depressing, Love at the Twilight Motel may very well be the most engaging, insightful a...

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  Episode III: Enjoy Poverty

  Renzo Martens

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2009

  What might be the most fascinating thing about Renzo Martens' documentary on the exploitation of African poverty for Western consumption is...

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  Lies

  Jonas Odell

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2009

  Divided into three sections, with distinctive animation and collage styles and agendas, Swedish short Lies brings to life three very differ...

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  Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action

  Velcrow Ripper

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2009

  There is a certain clique of unkempt, middleclass, predominantly white, Kensington Market-inhabiting, organic food preaching faux-artistes...

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  Waterlife

  Kevin McMahon

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2009

  In this documentary about the ever-deteriorating state of the Great Lakes, no one says that we are only a decade or two away from Tank Girl...

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  Ana and Arthur

  Larry Young

  PUBLISHED May 5, 2009

  It seems that the human propensity for idealism and wilful ignorance in all things romantic doesn't fade in the golden years, given that th...

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  21 Below

  Samantha Buck

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  There is a natural, almost traditionally narrative ease to 21 Below that makes it far more engrossing than the unflattering synopsis of "Je...

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  69

  Nikolaj Viborg

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  When Copenhagen's city hall reneges on a contract, closing the town Youth House without securing a replacement, the kids fight back. Since...