Sharing more of my personal picks and recommendations of films screening at this year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival.
Listing more features documentaries that address various themes, personalities and topics from across the world. I hope you are able to see some of these films.
Feature Documentaries
A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS
Dir. Simon Lereng Wilmont | Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Ukraine | 87min
THE KILLING OF A JOURNALIST
Dir. Matt Sarnecki | Denmark, Czech Republic, USA | 100min
THE ART OF SILENCE
Dir. Maurizius Staerkle Drux | Switzerland, Germany | 81min
DON’T COME SEARCHING
Dir. Andrew Moir | Canada | 72min
MAKE PEOPLE BETTER
Dir. Cody Sheehy | USA | 83min
ATTICA
Dir. Stanley Nelson, Traci A. Curry | USA | 116min
MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION
Dir. Srdan Keča | Serbia, Croatia Czech Republic | 91min
DELIKADO
Dir. Karl Malakunas | USA, Australia, Philippines, UK, Hong Kong | 94min
RETURNING HOME
Dir. Sean Stiller | Canada | 72min
BILL REID REMEMBERS
Dir. Alanis Obomsawin | Canada | 24min
Screening as part of the Shorts Program: Artistic Journeys
NO SIMPLE WAY HOME
Dir. Akuol de Mabior | South Sudan, Kenya, South Africa | 84min
NELLY & NADINE
Dir. Magnus Gertten | Sweden, Belgium, Norway | 93min
BEAUTIFUL SCARS
Dir. Shane Belcourt | Canada | 91min
IMAGES OF A NORDIC DRAMA
Dir. Nils Gaup | Norway | 71min
Additional Recommendations
HOW SABA KEPT SINGING
Dir. Sara Taksler | USA | 78min
HANDLE WITH CARE: THE LEGEND OF THE NOTIC STREETBALL CREW
Dir. Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux, Kirk Thomas | Canada | 86min
Shorts Program: Tales From The Wild
Screening the shorts: American Scar, Haulout, Living on the Threshold, and Ulisses
Shorts Program: Hidden Stories
Screening the shorts: The Body is a House of Familiar Rooms, Crotch Stories, Fathomless, Life Without Dreams, This is Endometriosis
ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (WHAT THEY’VE BEEN TAUGHT
Dir. Brit Hensel | USA | 9min
Screening with the feature documentary Historjà – Stitches for Sápmi
The Changing Face of Europe Program
Screening films from Ireland, Iceland, Croatia, Polan, Lithuania among many other European Countries
For full details on the Hot Docs Festival, please go to hotdocs.ca.
