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Thurs, Apr 26 WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? THE BILL MURRAY STORIES: Thur, May 3 Sat, May 5 D: Morgan Neville | USA | 93 min | International LIFE LESSONS LEARNED FROM Premiere A MYTHICAL MAN NETIZENS D: Tommy Avallone | USA | 70 min | International See Sunday, April 29 for description Mr. Rogers created a neighbourhood in which he connected with children Premiere 10:00 AM through honesty, directness and love, “Bill Murray crashed my karaoke party.” while delicately introducing complex social “Bill Murray photobombed our engagement issues. His work continues to resonate pictures.” Everyone knows someone with today, but have we failed to become the a “Bill Murray” story, but this inspirational THE HEAT: A KITCHEN neighbours he hoped for? and drop-dead-funny detective doc hunts LOVE, GILDA (R)EVOLUTION down the myths and the man. Big Ideas Series See Saturday, April 28 for description D: Maya Gallus | Canada | 75 min | World Premiere Screening With: 6:30 PM 4:15 PM With hot tempers and brazen machismo, I Love Your Fucking Name “bad boy” chefs have shaped the restaurant industry’s often merciless working LOVE, GILDA 9:30 PM TINY SHOULDERS: THE GAME CHANGERS conditions, but as women take command D: Lisa D’Apolito | USA | 84 min | International RETHINKING BARBIE D: Louie Psihoyos | USA, Canada | 88 min | Canadian of the world’s top kitchens, they’re Premiere Tue, May 1 D: Andrea Blaugrund Nevins | USA | 90 min | Premiere revolutionizing food service and challenging International Premiere its longstanding culture of harassment. The vulnerable and effusive spirit of Oscar-winner Louie Psihoyos’s (The Cove) beloved comedian Gilda Radner is brought With sales at a historic low and women’s explosive doc examines elite athletes’ to life through newly discovered audio Opening Night Screening rights campaigns at fever pitch, Barbie is dramatically improved strength and recordings, home movies, interviews getting a radical makeover. Gloria Steinem, performance when they switch from 9:30 PM with friends and diary entries read by Roxane Gay, Mattel designers and others animal- to plant-based diets, and upends performers she’s inspired, including Melissa renegotiate the iconic doll’s place in a antiquated notions of masculinity and McCarthy, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph. Fri, Apr 27 world that both loves and loves to hate her. virility along the way. 9:30 PM MERCURY 13 ANOTE’S ARK 6:45 PM 12:45 PM D: David Sington, Heather Walsh | Ireland | 80 min Sun, Apr 29 D: Matthieu Rytz | Canada | 77 min | Canadian | International Premiere BELIEVER Premiere The pioneers enrolled in NASA’s first female WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? See Tuesday, May 1 for description As rising sea levels threaten to swallow the astronaut training program finally open up See Saturday, April 28 for description Pacific Island nation of Kiribati, its president about their top-secret testing, which pitted 9:30 PM races against the clock to secure the future them against the established boys’ club of 1:00 PM of a population whose entire country may American astronauts of the 1950s. disappear in less than a generation. Fri, May 4 6:30 PM Big Ideas Series TINY SHOULDERS: THE BILL MURRAY STORIES: RETHINKING BARBIE LIFE LESSONS LEARNED FROM 6:30 PM A MYTHICAL MAN See Thursday, May 3 for description See Monday, April 30 for description BELIEVER 10:00 AM D: Don Argott | USA | 101 min | Canadian Premiere 3:30 PM Imagine Dragons frontman and devout NETIZENS Mormon Dan Reynolds struggles to reconcile MR. SOUL! D: Cynthia Lowen | USA | 97 min | International his faith with his church’s hardening stance See Saturday, April 28 for description ALT-RIGHT: AGE OF RAGE Premiere on homosexuality, and finds himself on a mission to combat growing suicide rates Systematically silenced and terrorized by 6:00 PM D: Adam Bhala Lough | USA | 104 min | Canadian among Utah’s LGBTQ youth. Premiere anonymous harassers, three women— among the many millions for whom the 9:30 PM MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. Trigger warning: everything. Set internet is a battleground—attempt to seek against the horrific violence of the 2017 justice and spread awareness, taking back CRIME + PUNISHMENT See Wednesday, May 2 for description Charlottesville riots, alt-right leader their power and their lives in the process. Wed, May 2 D: Stephen Maing | USA | 111 min | Canadian Premiere Richard Spencer squares off against antifa 9:00 PM activist Daryle Lamont Jenkins in this Big Ideas Series Follow 12 NYPD cops as they risk their provocative look inside the two movements reputations, careers and safety to blow Sun, May 6 boiling over in America. 6:30 PM the whistle on unchecked corruption in the police force and the illegal summons and 9:30 PM arrest quotas that target minorities in low- TINY SHOULDERS: THE AMERICAN MEME income neighbourhoods. RETHINKING BARBIE Sat, Apr 28 D: Bert Marcus | USA | 94 min | International See Thursday, May 3 for description Premiere 12:45 PM 10:00 AM MR. SOUL! In the age of social media mega-platforms, MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. anyone can be famous, but take it from ALT-RIGHT: AGE OF RAGE D: Sam Pollard, Melissa Haizlip | USA | 102 min | D: Steve Loveridge | USA | 97 min | Canadian Paris Hilton, DJ Khaled, The Fat Jew and International Premiere Premiere See Friday, April 27 for description WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? other internet celebs: maintaining the See Saturday, April 28 for description Go backstage with the first all-Black followers, attention and sponsorships is a Two decades’ worth of personal footage 3:45 PM variety show broadcast nationally on PBS, full-time job that exacts a price. capture the complex evolution of M.I.A., and meet its openly gay host, who was the musician and social justice activist 12:45 PM instrumental in ushering radical Black 9:30 PM whose outspoken rhymes tore up the BELIEVER talent into American living rooms in the charts, stoked political fires and captivated See Tuesday, May 1 for description ROGERS AUDIENCE AWARD wake of the civil rights movement. fans and critics worldwide. Mon, Apr 30 ANNOUNCEMENT & SCREENING 6:45 PM On the closing night of the Festival, join 10:00 AM Big Ideas Series us to celebrate our Canadian filmmakers 6:30 PM and announce the winner of the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary. BARBARA RUBIN AND THE EXPLODING NY UNDERGROUND 7:00 PM D: Chuck Smith | USA | 78 min | World Premiere MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. THE CLEANERS With one radically experimental short film, a teenager upended NYC’s underground I USED TO BE NORMAL: A See Wednesday, May 2 for description THE RECKONING: HOLLYWOOD’S D: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck | Germany, Brazil film scene of the 1960s. She went on to BOYBAND FANGIRL STORY WORST KEPT SECRET | 88 min | Canadian Premiere introduce Andy Warhol to Lou Reed, Bob 9:30 PM Dylan to Kabbalah, and bewitch Allen D: Jessica Leski | Australia | 96 min | World Dive into the shadowy world of internet D: Barry Avrich | Canada | 90 min | World Premiere Ginsberg—all before her mysterious death Premiere content moderators, where fingers at age 35. Eight years after acclaimed filmmaker hovering over the delete key judge From the Beatles to the Backstreet Barry Avrich first documented the within seconds the lines between art and Boys, One Direction to Take That, three 9:45 PM passionate genius of producer Harvey pornography, journalism and propaganda, generations of zealous boyband fans reflect Weinstein, he returns to tell Hollywood’s censorship and free speech—with far- on the objects of their obsessions and worst-kept secret: the sexual predation of reaching consequences both online and off. explore how the thrills, fantasies and roller- the disgraced kingmaker and the industry coaster emotions of fandom have changed that enabled him. Big Ideas Series and challenged their lives.
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Opens Friday, May 11 The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution D: Maya Gallus | 2018 | Canada | 75 min | PG
With hot tempers and brazen machismo, “bad boy” chefs have shaped the restaurant industry’s often merciless working conditions, but as women take command of the world’s top kitchens, they’re revolutionizing food service and challenging its longstanding culture of abuse. From New York City’s Anita Lo and Amanda Cohen to the queen of French cuisine Anne-Sophie Pic, seven chefs share their struggles to overcome a system of inequality while delivering delicious dishes. An appetite for change has taken hold and there’s no turning back.
Join director Maya Gallus for a Q&A on Friday, May 11 at 9:45 PM
Opens Saturday, May 12 Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy D: Thomas Riedelsheimer | 2017 | UK, Germany | 93 min
Director Thomas Riedelsheimer and trailblazing artist Andy Goldsworthy reunite 16 years after their sleeper hit Rivers and Tides. This equally- stunning follow-up accompanies the British landscape sculptor on a globe-trotting journey to create ephemeral and permanent art out of nature, cities, and his own body. From Edinburgh and London to the South of France and New England, each environment he encounters becomes a fresh canvas. Peeling away the layers of a renowned artist’s unique process, Leaning Into the Wind will inspire new ways of looking and thinking about the nature of art. “If you love nature and art, you must see Leaning Into the Wind.” – Reeling Reviews
Opens Friday, May 18 RBG D: Julie Cohen, Betsy West | 2018 | USA | 97 min
The so-called “Notorious RBG,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has developed a trailblazing legal legacy while becoming an unexpected internet icon. From filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West, this Sundance hit chronicles Ginsburg’s extraordinary life and career—from her early legal battles for gender equality and her work with the ACLU, to her unlikely rise to the head of the Supreme Court. Featuring interviews with Gloria Steinem, Nina Totenberg, and more, RBG offers an unprecedented glimpse at what makes “Fist-pumping, crowd-pleasing Ginsburg a cultural icon, feminist crusader and history maker. documentary.” – Indiewire
Opens Friday, May 18 Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat D: Sara Driver | 2017 | USA | 78 min
Oftentimes when we remember our great heroes, we can gloss over important chapters of their story in order to create mythological narratives. In Sara Driver’s remarkable documentary, she details the pivotal years that preceded legendary American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s fame. In this dazzling record of New York City’s art world during the late 70s and 80s, discover how the magnetic Basquiat developed into a cultural icon. Featuring gorgeous archival material and “Explores the beautiful chaos of New York’s exclusive new interviews with his contemporaries and friends, including Nan Goldin, Jim Jarmusch, Fab Five Freddy and more. last great art scene.” – The Playlist 4 HOTDOCSCINEMA.CA
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Opens Friday, May 25 Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf D: Thomas Piper | 2018 | USA | 75 min
Immerse yourself in some of the world’s most beautiful gardens in this documentary on revolutionary landscape designer Piet Oudolf, best known for his work on New York’s High Line and Chicago’s Millenium Park. Five Seasons shows you Oudolf’s finest achievements, guides you through his creative process and explores his radical impact on public spaces.
“Not so much a garden designer as a plant artist.” - Washington Post
“Self-expression of a true folk artist.” “Doc fans with green thumbs - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are in for a treat.” - POV Magazine
A Man Named Pearl T he Gardener D: Scott Galloway, Brent Pierson | 2006 | USA | 78 min D: Sébastien Chabot | 2016 | Canada | 87 min | G
Meet Pearl Fryar, an unbelievably talented topiary artist whose magical work is all the more impressive The New York Times considers Francis Cabot’s Les Quatre-Vents “one of the most ambitious private because he taught himself. Follow Pearl’s unlikely journey from a small-town sharecropper’s son and factory gardens in North America, if not the world.” Get a taste of springtime as beautiful cinematography takes worker to an international gardening star as he transforms his small, impoverished town of Bishopville, you through this awe-inspiring garden and its extraordinary world of trees, hedges, flowers and bridges. South Carolina into a horticultural wonderland. TUESDAY, MAY 29 1:00 PM MONDAY, MAY 28 4:00 PM
“Sweet and occasionally tart.” “Wonder-inducing.” - Hollywood Reporter - The Independent
Garden Lovers A Year in an English Garden: Flicker + Pulse D: Virpi Suutari | 2014 | Finland | 72 min D: Brian McClave, Tom Wichelow | 2017 | UK | 60 min
With stunning imagery and a comedic touch, Garden Lovers looks at the lives of couples who share a Spring into the season and step inside a beautiful English walled garden in Sussex. A must-see for passion for gardening. Using the garden as an entryway into the lives of a range of characters—from young nature lovers and green-thumbs, BBC’s Flicker + Pulse studies the changing seasons and the people tending to elderly, gay to straight, clothed to nudist—and a symbol for the growth of love, the film is a touching the garden in a mesmerizing meditation on the passage of time and the delicate balance between the look at relationships and the trials and triumphs that give them life. environment and the gardeners.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 2:30 PM THURSDAY, MAY 31 3:00 PM HOTDOCSCINEMA.CA 5 Wine & Dine Delight your taste buds with these food and film pairings.
Grand Cru Eatable Films Presents: Soufra D: David Eng | 2017 | Canada | 80 min D: Thomas Morgan | 2017 | USA, Lebanon | 73 min
David Eng’s Grand Cru is a beautiful portrait of legendary winemaker Pascal Marchand. As a twenty- We join forces with Eatable Films for a delicious celebration of Syrian culture. Discover the inspiring story something aspiring poet from Montreal, Marchand became so enchanted by the Burgundy region of Mariam Shar, a smart and tenacious entrepreneur who has spent her entire life in the Bourj el Baranjneh that he picked up and left to work the Harvest—and never looked back. Three decades later, his passion refugee camp south of Beirut, Lebanon. Together with a group of fellow refugee women from Syria, and innovative techniques—including biodynamic winemaking—have propelled him to international Palestine and Iraq, Mariam sets out to beat the odds and launch the world’s first refugee-owned food truck. stardom. Shot over his most difficult season, the film is both a love letter to the art of wine and a A triumphant testament to the unifying power of food, Soufra shines a light on the people working cautionary tale as winemakers like Pascal must face the unpredictable forces of climate change. from within the refugee crisis to break barriers and change their fates.
The screening will be preceded by a wine tasting curated in collaboration with Pascal Marchand’s Taste what see on screen! Admission includes food by Toronto’s Newcomer Kitchen, a social enterprise Canadian partner Moray Tawse, proprietor of Marchand-Tawse in Burgundy and founder of Niagara’s employing Syrian women refugees. Tawse Winery. Enjoy a sampling of Tawse’s most interesting biodynamically-produced wines.
Stick around for a Q&A with members of Newcomer Kitchen and New York Times food Filmmaker David Eng and producer Katarina Soukup will take part in a post-screening Q&A. writer David Sax.
FRIDAY, MAY 11 6:00 PM Wine Tasting TUESDAY, MAY 29 5:00 PM Doors Open, VIP cocktail 7:30 PM Screening 6:30 PM Screening
TICKETS $26 MEMBERS TICKETS $21 FILM + DINNER BOX $44 (MEMBERS: $39) VIP EXPERIENCE $79 (MEMBERS: $73) (Syrian appetizers, “Shokran” (thank-you) cocktail, dinner box, including wine tasting including wine tasting (4 courses of Syrian specialties to take into the theatre) SAVE advanced entry into the cinema) SNEAK PREVIEW Freaks & Geeks: The Documentary D: Brent Hodge | 2018 | USA | 70 min
Of all the TV shows to unjustifiably be ripped from the air, Freaks & Geeks may be the most beloved. An authentic portrayal of high school life, the 80s set teen dramedy launched the careers of James Franco, Linda Cardellini, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, John Francis Daley, Martin Starr, and more. Nearly 20 years after it first aired, this brand-new A&E doc reunites the show’s original cast and catches up with the creative geniuses behind it—including Paul Feig and Judd Apatow—who reveal some of the untold stories and pivotal moments of making the cult classic. Whether you grew up a freak or a geek, you won’t want to miss this special trip back to McKinley High.
Featuring a post-screening Q&A with director Brent Hodge and producer Aly Kelly.
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DOORS OPEN TORONTO Presented By Great Gulf Enjoy free behind-the-scenes tours of the Cinema, short films about the Annex created by Myseum of Toronto, and a free screening. Citizen Jane: Battle for the City D: Matt Tyrnauer | 2016 | USA | 92 min
Once our neighbour here in the Annex, Jane Jacobs played an integral role in making sure Toronto looks and feels the way it does today; her successful opposition to the Spadina expressway helped ensure the city was for people first, and cars second. But before she moved to Toronto, Jacobs stood up to the rapid urbanization in New York City. Her inspiring drive to fight for what is right against the rich and powerful, and her ideas on urban issues are even more relevant today.
SATURDAY, MAY 26 10:00 AM Doors open 2:30 PM Free screening of Citizen Jane (tickets available as of May 1) 4:00 PM Last tour admittance
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Beginning with the dawn of the movies, Starstruck will take you on Fridays, May 18 - June 22, 10:00 AM to nonn Fifty years ago this spring, Pierre Trudeau became Prime Minister a panoramic journey through the global dominion of celebrity over of Canada and Trudeaumania swept the nation. This course will An imperial residence, a museum—Russia’s Hermitage is more than the past century—from the rise of the Hollywood star system, to the take you on an unforgettable journey through the life and times of the just a building. From Peter the Great to Catherine the Great, we’ll intermingling of celebrity and politics, and the role the internet plays Canadian icon. We’ll relive the political excitement of the 1960s travel back in time and discuss how this international landmark has in hard-wiring the idea of celebrity into our brains. and 70s while exploring how and why Trudeau’s image and legacy reflected St. Petersburg’s transformation from a swampy backwater continue to endure. into a dazzling imperial capital. Led by Hot Docs favourite Geoff Pevere, who has been writing, teaching and broadcasting about movies and popular culture for Led by John English, an award-winning historian and former Led by Julia Zarankin, an award-winning lecturer who has taught more than 30 years. federal MP. on Russian and European culture.
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The Royal Ballet’s Bernstein Invisible Heart Metric: Dreams So Real Centenary D: Nadine Pequeneza | 2018 | Canada | 80 min D: T. Edward Martin, Jeff Rogers | 2017 | Canada | 110 min SATURDAY, MAY 12 11:00 AM From Wall Street to life on the street, The Invisible Heart tracks With a view even better than the front row, Dreams So Real captures the birth of one of the fastest growing social innovations the epic final performance of Metric’s year-long sold-out world tour in modern history: social impact bonds. An unorthodox marriage in 2016. Recorded in Vancouver with 26 cameras and sound mixed The Royal Opera’s Macbeth between government services and private-sector investments, by Grammy-winner David Bottrill, this unforgettable experience sets this burgeoning financial model promises to solve society’s most a new standard for the concert documentary. SUNDAY, MAY 20 12:00 PM complex problems, but is it delivering? FRIDAY, MAY 25 8:00 PM DOORS OPEN 9:00 PM SCREENING The Royal Ballet’s Manon Director Nadine Pequeneza will moderate a post- screening panel with Brigitte Witkowski (Mainstay SUNDAY, MAY 27 1:45 PM Housing), Cameron Graham (Schulich School of Business), Denise Amyot (CICan) and Luisa Quarta (OPSEU).
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TUE, MAY 8 6:15 PM BYE BYE GERMANY 9:00 PM LONGING The Rocky Horror Picture WED, MAY 9 Show—Shadow Cast D: Jim Sharman | UK, USA | 1975 | 100 min | 14A 6:15 PM THE COUSIN 9:00 PM THE BODY COLLECTOR “Let’s do the time warp again!” As always, we’ll be presenting the cult classic with Toronto’s own Shadow Cast who will be THUR, MAY 10 performing their own satirical, comedic version of the film. 6:15 PM THE LIGHT OF HOPE FRIDAY, MAY 25 11:30 PM 9:00PM HUMOR ME
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FRIDAY, MAY 11 Opening—see website for screenings SUNDAY, MAY 27 Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years Opening—see website for screenings of Jean-Michel Basquiat (p. 3) 11:00 AM D oc Soup Sundays The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution (p. 3) Beatles, Hippies and Hells Angels (p. 6) RBG (p. 3) 7:30 PM Wine & Dine: 1:45 PM P erformance on Screen Grand Cru (p. 5) SUNDAY, MAY 20 The Royal Ballet’s Manon (p. 7)
SATURDAY, MAY 12 12:00 PM P erformance on Screen MONDAY, MAY 28 The Royal Opera’s Macbeth (p. 7) Opening—see website for screenings 4:00 PM D ocs in Bloom Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy THURSDAY, MAY 24 A Man Named Pearl (p. 4) (p. 3) 10:00 AM Curious Minds Morning Speaker Series TUESDAY, MAY 29 11:00 AM P erformance on Screen Trudeaumania: Pierre Trudeau and his Century The Royal Ballet’s Bernstein Centenary (p. 7) (p. 6) 1:00 PM D ocs in Bloom The Gardener (p. 4) TUESDAY, MAY 15 FRIDAY, MAY 25 6:30 PM Wine & Dine: 10:00 AM Curious Minds Morning Speaker Series Opening—see website for screenings Eatable presents: Soufra (p. 5) Starstruck: Fame and Celebrity in the Modern Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 Age (p. 6) (p. 4) 2:30 PM D ocs in Bloom THURSDAY, MAY 17 9:00 PM This Film Should Be Played Loud Garden Lovers (p. 4) Metric: Dreams So Real (p. 7) 6:30 PM Films Changing the World THURSDAY, MAY 31 The Invisible Heart (p. 7) 11:30 PM Back to the Bloor The Rocky Horror Picture Show (p.7) FRIDAY, MAY 18 3:00 PM D ocs in Bloom Flicker + Pulse (p. 4) SATURDAY, MAY 26 10:00 AM Curious Minds Morning Speaker Series File Name:6:30 SPONS-AD-Mar18-HotDocsCINEMAMONTHLY-5x2 PM S neak Preview Catherine the Great and the Hermitage 2:30 PM D oors Open Toronto—Free Screening Trim: 5.1” x 2.52” Bleed: 0" Safety: n/a Mech Res: 300dpi Creative Services Colours: CMYK Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary (p. 5) Museum (p. 6) Citizen Jane: Battle for100 the Yonge City Street, (p. 105)th Floor Toronto, ON M5C 2W1 Material Deadline: March 2018
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