Hot Docs

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  Carmen Meets Borat

  Mercedes Stalenhoef

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Ionela is a Rom (the preferred nomenclature for "Gypsy") living in a Romanian village called Glod. It's a place where women wash their clot...

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  City of Borders

  Yun Suh

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  In a place where Chassidic sects with their little Payot (side locks) and stylin' rekelekh (frock-style coats) claim that homosexuals shoul...

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  Diary Of A Times Square Thief

  Klaas Bense

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Before its Disney-fied makeover in the '90s, Times Square was once the seediest section of New York City. And anyone who visits Times Squar...

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  Forgetting Dad

  Rich Minnich and Matt Sweetwood

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  By the very nature of the relationship, children tend to hold their fathers high up on pedestals as untouchable figures of honesty, integri...

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  Ghost Bird

  Scott Crocker

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Ghost Bird is a beautifully photographed investigation into a sighting a few years ago of an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in the swamps of rural...

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  Ghost Bird

  Scott Crocker

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  In 2005, the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology announced that the long-extinct Ivory-Billed Woodpec...

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  Graphic Sexual Horror

  Anna Lorentzon and Barbara Bell

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Already arousing attention among filmgoers, this unapologetic history of the infamous Insex torture porn site greets viewers like a slap in...

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  Hair India

  Raffaele Brunetti & Marco Leopardi

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  In West Bengal, a young girl named Gita prepares to donate her hair to the temple. Her parents hope that the gods reward Gita with an educa...