Hot Docs, the leading documentary in North America, will open with the first world presentation of “Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance”, directed by Canadian director Noam GONICK. The documentary explores the central moments that sparked the 2LGBTQ Movement in Canada.
The thirty -second edition of the festival, which lasts from April 24 to May 4 in Toronto, unveiled a variety of 35 shows for global shows, 14 international shows, and 26 shows for the first time in North America. The squad includes 113 films from 47 countries, extracted from 2662 requests.
The international spectrum competition includes the first world show, “Heritage”, which is a family snapshot where two brothers alternate the sponsorship of their elderly parents; “I dreamed of his name,” which follows the director and her sister on a discovery journey throughout Colombia’s painful history, 30 years after his disappearance of his forced Colombian father,; “I, the poppy”, who follows the Battle of the Son against the corrupt officials while his mother tends to the poppy farm in India; “King died the first”, who takes us on a trip to the inner world of young Polish sisters while they were struggling with the imminent phase of puberty; And “non -wet”, which studies contradictory views on the migrant crisis in Chile after its most violent protest to combat immigrants in late 2021, which was ignited by an unprecedented flow of immigrants from Venezuela.
The special presentations program, which displays prominent films, heavy strikes at the Festival Festival, and famous topics, includes the first world presentation of “The Nest”, which is a personal exploration of memory, identity and storytelling between generations by co -managers and Julietta Singh. Films that receive the first international show are “Come See Me in the Good Light”, which follows Word Word and the Colorado Andrea Gibson Prize Prize after diagnosing non -curable cancer; “The deaf president now!” “Life after”, where director Red Davborte has investigated the disturbing effects of the laws of suicide backed by the disabled people; And “Selena Y Los Dinos”, a look at the life and heritage of “The Mosk Tijano queen” Selena Quintanilla.
Big ideas, a series of conversations with prominent guests, including Maxim Derevianko, “AI Weiwei’s Turangot” director; Director James Jones and journalist Christo Gruziv from the “Treat”; Director Shoshanna Stern and actor Marley Mattelin of “Marley Mattelin: He is no longer alone”; The director Violet du Feng of “The Dating Game”.
More to follow.