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Hot Docs 2021 lineup includes films from Yung Chang, Jennifer Holness and Theo Anthony
Going virtual for a second year, the festival of Canadian and international documentary cinema rolls out 15 titles screening as Special Presentations By Norman Wilner
Yung Chang s Wuhan Wuhan will world premiere at Hot Docs 2021.
It’s about to get real again: Hot Docs has announced the first titles of its 2021 festival.
The festival of Canadian and international documentary cinema, which opens April 29, will be sticking to streaming for a second year, using the Hot Docs At Home platform launched last spring when the fest reconfigured itself as an online event due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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. But he does seem to have fun unwrapping the scandal that made so many people very, very angry.
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They’re angry mostly because, well, they were duped and others got to see it as well – most of his interviewees still seem genuinely embarrassed by their naivete. Defonseca, a Belgian immigrant who made it all the way to Massachusetts, claimed that she was separated from her Jewish parents during the war and then tried to find them on her own, hiding from the Nazis in the wilderness, with no one but a pack of wolves for company. So far, so
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are among 72 features selected for 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which runs online and in select US arthouse venues from January 28-February 3.
The line-up, announced on Tuesday (December 15), includes
One For The Road, Thai filmmaker Baz Poonpiriya’s follow-up to
Bad Genius; Edgar Wright’s music documentary
The Sparks Brothers
Land; Ben Wheatley’s virus horror
In The Earth; The Roots drummer Questlove’s documentary
Summer Of Soul; and Kevin Macdonald’s Special Screenings selection
Life In A Day 2020.
A features roster representing 29 countries and 38 first-time feature filmmakers includes three films from Cannes Label 2020:
Pascual Sisto’s