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Reviews: My Boyfriend the Fascist from Hot Docs 2025

May 9, 2025

In My Boyfriend The Fascist, director Matthias Lintner watches as his partner starts aligning with far right political groups and challenges their relationship.

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Reviews: Mama from Hot Docs 2025

May 8, 2025

Final Rating: 3/5 How do you move on with your life when you get a cancer diagnosis at 37 years old? In Mama, the…

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Reviews: The Secret Lives of My Three Men from Hot Docs 2025

May 7, 2025

The film tells the story of three men in the directors life and their connection to the history of Brazil. There is her grandfather, father and godfather.

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Reviews: Khartoum from Hot Docs 2025

May 6, 2025

A collective of directors started to shoot a film in Khartoum, the capital city of Sudan interviewing five subjects to tell their stories after a civil war.

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Reviews: Tokyo Pop – Restoration

May 5, 2025

In Tokyo Pop, Wendy leaves America and her boyfriend for Japan and where she meets Hiro and joins his rock band and starts a new relationship.

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Reviews: Shamed from Hot Docs 2025

May 2, 2025

YouTuber Jason Nassr was convicted on charges of harassment and more. As a “Creeper Hunter,” he would pose as a teen on dating sites to entrap men.

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Reviews: I Dreamed His Name from Hot Docs 2025

May 1, 2025

I Dreamed His Name is a personal exploration of rural life in Colombia by discussing the forced disappearance of the director’s father, thirty years prior.

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Reviews: Yalla Parkour from Hot Docs 2025

April 30, 2025

Yalla Parkour is more than a sports documentary. Amidst the sand and ruins, these men backflip and jump from roofs in Palestine.

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Reviews: A Samurai In Time

April 29, 2025

In A Samurai in Time a samurai is struck by lightning and transported hundreds of years into the future–to Japan, circa 2007.

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Reviews: On Swift Horses

April 28, 2025

On Swift Horses sets up a love triangle: Muriel is happy to live a country life but the man she reluctantly agrees to marry, Lee, is has big California dreams.

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