Hot Docs 2013

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  The Auctioneer

  Hans Olson

  PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2013

  Auctioneer and mortician Dale Menzak is one of the few moderately affluent members of a rural Alberta farming community. Selling off machi...

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  The Great Hip Hop Hoax

  Jeanie Finlay

  PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2013

  Last year, the Academy Award for Best Documentary was presented to Searching For Sugar Man, the unbelievable account of how enigmatic music...

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  Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children

  Patrick Reed

  PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2013

  In 1993, the now-retired General, Roméo Dallaire, served as the force commander of UNAMIR, the U.N. peacekeeping force in Rwanda that tried...

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  Alcan Highway

  Aleksi Salmenperä

  PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2013

  In narrative form, Finnish director Aleksi Salmenperä often tackles traditional heteronormative roles and masculinity as an inherently cont...

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  I Will Be Murdered

  Justin Webster

  PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2013

  Rodrigo Rosenberg, a lawyer in Guatemala with reason to suspect he could be the next victim in a rash of politically motivated murders, rec...

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  Chimeras

  Mika Mattila

  PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2013

  The word chimera has a few different meanings but it would appear the one that best applies to this contemplative documentary is that of a...

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  The Defector: Escape from North Korea

  Ann Shin

  PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2013

  In northern China, freedom is a booming business. After fleeing from the inhumane conditions of North Korea himself in 2001, Dragon now mak...

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  15 Reasons to Live

  Alan Zweig

  PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2013

  As evidenced by the rather ambitious and indirectly presumptive title, Alan Zweig's documentary, 15 Reasons to Live, attempts to deconstruc...