FutuRéale Magazine

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America's largest documentary festival. Each year, the festival presents a selection of more than 100 cutting-edge documentaries from Canada and around the globe. Through its industry programmes, the Festival also provides a full range of professional development, market and networking opportunities for documentary professionals.

Emoticons
Screening: Royal Ontario Museum Friday April 18 7:15pm, Saturday April 19 12:00pm
Reviewed By: Kait Fowlie

Emoticons, directed by Heddy Honigmann, presents an objective picture of six young women's lives lived mostly through the internet. This documentary is interesting and relevant as a study not only on today's methods of social interaction, but...
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Must Read After My Death
Screening: Isabel Bader Theatre Sunday April 20 7:00pm, Tuesday April 22 11:30am
Reviewed By: Kait Fowlie

"Are all these things we think are so important, really that important?” Charley's voice asks over the crackling home tape recording. He, a restless father of four, and Allis, a non conformist housewife who struggles to find her purpose in...
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My Mother’s Garden
Screening: Al Green Theatre Monday April 21 9:15pm, Cumberland Cinema Wednesday April 23 1:30pm
Reviewed By: Deepi Harish

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure; this quote really does do justice to the documentary of Eugenia Lester, a woman suffering from a penetrating case of Compulsive Hoarding Disorder; a disorder that involves the obsessive urge to...
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Vesterbro
Screening: Royal Theatre Wednesday April 23 9:30pm, Bloor Cinema Thursday April 24 11:59pm
Reviewed By: Deepi Harish

Entering into an un-bashful, twenty something, wild, dramatic love affair between Julie and Martin is the story of Vesterbro. A fiery couple from Copenhagen so absorbed in one another that at times the two main characters mesh into one, and...
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Victoire Terminus
Screening: Royal Ontario Museum Friday April 18 9:45pm, Sunday April 20 4:30pm
Reviewed By: Julia Pronin

In Victoire Terminus, French film makers Renaud Barret and Florent De La Tullaye have joined together the multi-dimensional issues of women and athletics in Congo. This documentary is one of empowerment. Boxing is no longer a scapegoat that is...
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Wild Blue Yonder
Screening: Cumberland Cinemas Monday April 21 7:00pm, Isabel Bader Theatre Wednesday April 23 11:00am
Reviewed By: Julia Pronin

The death of a parent is always a traumatizing experience for a child. As the child grows, more and more questions come to the surface. There may not always be a source of answers, however when the opportunity is there, there is no telling how...
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