A Shakespearian drama plays out behind the scenes of one of the circus dynasties in Europe.
Category: hot docs
Posts, podcasts, and ponderings from North America’s largest documentary film festival. While many of these films rank amongst the best I see in their given year, they are not rated in the writing that follows.
Can you ever go back to Cairo after you’ve climbed out of a nuked fridge?
A genre-bending story of beauty, isolation, and poverty that dances to its own rhythm.
A beautifully restrained portrait of a truly unbreakable bond,
Blessed are the Buddhists, for they will make for splendid nonfiction viewing.
A portrait of one woman; Who she once was, who she thinks she is, and what she might never be again.
Dim the lights and turn the stereo up.
Any chance Sinead O’Connor and Ashlee Simpson were available for comment?
Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld…So I can sigh eternally
For lovers of youth, lovers of film, and lovers of the truth.
Like a robin hopping across the grass, the Hot Docs announcement is a surefire sign that spring has sprung.
He will humble you…now that he’s done being humbled himself.