Hot Docs

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  Invisible City

  Hubert Davis

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Part of Invisible City examines social dysphoria and the cyclic pattern of environmental influence and assimilation in a culture that encou...

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  Invisible City

  Hubert Davis

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  In today's documentaries, photography is usually the first factor to be sacrificed in favour of drama and immediacy. Last year's shakier-th...

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  The Jazz Baroness

  Hannah Rothschild

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  He was a brilliant jazz pianist, poor and black, who escaped the American South. She was a Jewish aristocrat from Europe who drove a Bentle...

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  Laughology

  Albert Nerenberg

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  How often do you consciously think about the act of laughing? Laughter is so prevalent and yet so little studied that perhaps it's taken fo...

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  Love In India

  Q

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  In the land that gave the world the first sex manual (Kama Sutra), Indian couples cannot kiss in film or neck in the parks. With insight an...

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  My Greatest Escape

  Fabienne Godet

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  In the press notes, My Greatest Escape is described as uplifting, as a liberation of the mind and soul, which is probably the appropriate,...

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  Prom Night in Mississippi

  Paul Saltzman

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  In Charleston, Mississippi, racial integration was never quite accomplished. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered school integration but...

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  Rachel

  Simone Bitton

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Rachel Corrie was an American peace activist who died beneath a bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in March 2003. Neither a Palestinian nor Jew, b...