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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reviews: Paul from Hot Docs 2025

April 28, 2025

Paul, tells the story of a young man, who after stuck in a bad depression bout vows to take back his life and lose weight by cleaning homes of dominatrix’s.

Reviews: The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortés from Hot Docs 2025

April 27, 2025

The Flamenco Guitar of Yeraí Cortés tells the story of an upcoming flamenco guitar player and his connection to the genre and his community.