Hot Docs
'Summer of Soul' Is a Political Snapshot Wrapped Up in a Concert Film
Directed by Questlove
PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2021
In the summer of 1969, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in New York for a celebration of love, music and countercultural activism....
'Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street' Is Pure Nostalgia
Directed by Marilyn Agrelo
PUBLISHED May 25, 2021
Certain images in Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street are sure to ping with anyone who was raised with Big Bird and friends.. For myse...
Toronto Doc 'No Tickets at the Door' Is a Striking COVID-Era Snapshot of a Live Scene on Life Support
Directed by Danny Alexander
PUBLISHED May 12, 2021
It's jarring to see the Horseshoe Tavern completely empty. Well, almost: majority-owner Jeff Cohen pulls up a stool onstage for his intervi...
'We Are the Thousand' Shows Just How Far People Will Go to Impress the Foo Fighters
Directed by Anita Rivaroli
PUBLISHED May 4, 2021
Some people devote their lives to science, pioneering the sustainable energy sources that could allow humanity to alter the disastrous traj...
'Set!' Makes Competitive Table Setting Actually Seem Interesting
Directed by Scott Gawlik
PUBLISHED May 3, 2021
You've been setting your dinner table wrong this entire time. That much is clear after Scott Gawlik's Set!, a superb dive into California's...
Hot Docs Review: The WeWork Documentary Is the Ultimate Tech-Douche Hate-Watch
Directed by Jed Rothstein
PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2021
I have a friend who worked for a small tech startup based out of a WeWork shared office space. A few times, before Blue Jays games, I would...
'Fanny: The Right to Rock' Celebrates the Past but Gets Stuck in the Present
Directed by Bobbi Jo Hart
PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2021
Fanny are forgotten trailblazers. As an all-female rock group in the early '70s — not to mention Filipina-Americans and members of the LGBT...
'The Sparks Brothers' Brings Much-Needed Humour to the Rock Doc Genre
Directed by Edgar Wright
PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2021
Sparks are musicians' musicians — the kind of band who get talked about in hushed tones by their peers and devoted admirers, but are largel...