#hot docs

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Má Sài Gòn (Mother Saigon, dir. Khoa Lê) x DOXA 2023.

This is an intimate look into Vietnam’s quietly thriving queer and trans communities. Through a series of portraits, Lê explores different individuals from various marginalized groups across Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) who are all trying to live their lives authentically. It’s a revealing documentary spotlighting the strength and diversity of non-conforming Vietnamese people coping under a restrictive culture and conservative climate of communist rule.

LGBTQ+ highlights at Hot Docs 2021

North America’s largest documentary festival, Hot Docs, will present its 28th annual edition online at hotdocs.ca from April 29th to May 9th 2021, available for audiences across Canada to stream. With over 200 films from 66 countries in 12 programs, 50 per cent of the directors in the festival lineup are women. “Documentaries are vitally important to helping us understand the world we live in,…

Hot Docs kicks off its latest edition in Toronto on Thursday by shining a light on inequity and systemic racism in the Canadian legal system and efforts of Colten Boushie's family to push for change.

Tasha Hubbard's nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up is opening North America's largest documentary film festival, the first time an Indigenous director has landed the high-profile slot.

Making its world premiere, nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up paints a stark portrait of the landscape surrounding the 2016 death of Boushie, a young Saskatchewan man from Red Pheasant First Nation, and the acquittal of Gerald Stanley, the white farmer who fatally shot him. The case sparked a massive outcry and captured international attention.

In the doc, which Hubbard also narrates, the filmmaker weaves her own personal history into a larger examination of colonialism and racism in the Prairie provinces along with how Boushie's family continues to pursue landmark changes in our justice system. nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up is slated for theatrical release later this year.

Members of Boushie's family, their legal advisers and other supporters will join Hubbard in Toronto Thursday night to help unveil the film.

"We hope that nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up shines a light on the significant barriers the Canadian legal system presents to Indigenous peoples and families seeking justice for their loved ones. What Indigenous peoples experience within this system is unacceptable," the family said Thursday morning in a statement.

Over the next 10 days, Hot Docs will showcase more than 230 films from 56 countries, plus virtual reality and interactive experiences. According to organizers, 54 per cent of this year's films are directed by women.

Prey, about a Canadian sexual abuse survivor's legal battle against the Catholic Church, the devastating Your Last Walk in the Mosque, which gives voice to survivors of the Quebec City mosque shooting, cosmetics industry exposé Toxic Beauty and climate change doc The Hottest August are just a few examples of the wide-ranging, topical films screening at this year's edition.

As Rand Paul says Julian Assange “should be given immunity from prosecution in exchange for coming to the United States and testifying,” I think it's a good time to dust off one of our favorites.

— Active Measures‏ @ActMeasuresDoc -  Aug 16, 2018

McCain: Rand Paul "is now working For Vladimir Putin"

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