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First Stripes

Brett Pardy / June 30, 2018

Review: First Stripes depicts masculinity in training

First Stripes reveals how training designed to equalize recruits ends up reproducing a conservative set of norms.

Beatrice Behn, René Gebhardt, The Artist and the Pervert

Laura Anne Harris / June 19, 2018

Beatrice Behn on The Artist and the Pervert: ‘BDSM is a more conscious way of living’

The Artist and the Pervert directors Beatrice Behn and René Gebhardt on making a documentary that treats BDSM with good humour and respect.

Commander Arian, Alba Sotorra

Laura Anne Harris / May 18, 2018

Commander Arian interview: Meet the women of the ISIS resistance

Alba Sotorra on her documentary Commander Arian, which follows a group of Syrian women fighting against ISIS.

Inventing Tomorrow, Laura Nix

Alex Heeney / May 17, 2018

Laura Nix on Inventing Tomorrow: ‘They’re trying to literally save where they live’

Nix discusses her documentary Inventing Tomorrow, which follows a diverse group of students at a science fair who are working to benefit where they live.

Anote's Ark, Matthieu Rytz

Alex Heeney / May 10, 2018

HotDocs interview: A country is drowning in Anote’s Ark

Photographer Matthieu Rytz turned to documentary filmmaking to tell the story of an island that will soon be eradicated by rising sea levels with Anote’s Ark.

Zahed hugs Najah's sister in Ann Shin's My Enemy, My Brother

Laura Anne Harris / March 10, 2018

Director Ann Shin on making My Enemy, My Brother

Director Ann Shin and producer Hannah Donegan discuss the making of My Enemy, My Brother, Shin’s poignant documentary about two men who fought on opposite sides of the Gulf War.

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