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Reviews: Hot Docs Round Up

May 22, 2025

Here is a mini round of Hot Docs reviews from Paulo Bautista including Spreadsheet Champions from Kristina Kraskov and River of Grass from Sarah Wortzel.

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306: 2025 Hot Docs

May 13, 2025

The 2025 edition of ⁠Hot Docs⁠ just finished, and we recap 6 of the films we watched including ⁠Ultras⁠, ⁠The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortés⁠ and more.

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Reviews: Endless Cookie from Hot Docs 2025

May 12, 2025

Endless Cookie is a doc where two brothers animate 7 different stories that are funny, beautiful, spiritual, political, complex, simple, and true.

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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: 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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