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2013 Official Selections

Film
12 O’Clock Boys
15 Reasons to Live
31st Haul
Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys
After Tiller
Alcan Highway
Alias
Alphée of the Stars
American Commune
Anita
Another Night on Earth
As Time Goes By in Shanghai
The Auctioneer
Ballerina
The Barrel
Bà nội
Before the Revolution
Bending Steel
Big Men
Blackfish
Blood Brother
Blood Relative
Brave New River
Brothers Hypnotic
The Burger and the King
Buying Sex
Captive Radio
Caucus
Chi
Chimeras
Choir Boys
The Circle
Citizens Against Basswood
Cloudy Mountains
Coffee Time
Continental
Convento
The Conversation
The Convict Patient
The Crash Reel
Cutie and the Boxer
Da Vinci
Dead or Alive
Dear Valued Guests
Declaration of War
The Defector: Escape from North Korea
Derby & Groma
The Devil’s Lair
Downloaded
Dragon Girls
A Dream in the Making
Eastern Avenue
Elena
Emperor’s Toys
Entangled
Estela
Eufrosina’s Revolution
Everybody Street
The Exhibition
Exit Point
Expedition to the End of the World
Fall and Winter
Fatal Assistance
Felix Austria!
Fight Like Soldiers Die Like Children
Finding the Funk
Flo
Forest of the Dancing Spirits
Free the Butterfly
Free The Mind
Fuck for Forest
Furever
Future My Love
Galumphing
Gambling, Gods and LSD
Gangster of Love
The Garden of Eden
Gaza Calling
The Ghosts in Our Machine
Gideon’s Army
God Loves Uganda
Good Ol’ Freda
The Great Hip Hop Hoax
The Great North Korean Picture Show
Happy Birthday Emily
Here One Day
High Five: A Suburban Adoption Saga
Hill of Pleasures
Home
The Human Scale
If I Wasn’t Born
The Impermanence of the Ordinary
Interior. Leather Bar.
International Documentary Challenge
In God We Trust
In Saint-Sauveur Neighborhood
In the Shadow of the Sun
I Am Breathing
I Think This Is The Closest To How The Footage Looked
I Will Be Murdered
JUNIOR
Just As I Remember
Just the Right Amount of Violence
Kickstart Sessions
The Kill Team
The Last Black Sea Pirates
The Last Station
Last Woman Standing
Leonardo
Les Blank Program 1: Maestros
Les Blank Program 2: Well Spent Lives
Les Blank Program 3: Pleasures
Let the Fire Burn
The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne
Like a Breath
Lisa, Go Home!
Live Cinema: Image/Sound Mixing Performance by Peter Mettler and Biosphere
The Lost Village: The Dark Side
Love Still
Lucky
The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
Maidentrip
The Manor
Man at War
The Man Who Made Angels Fly
The Man Who Saved the World
Mary & Myself
Menstrual Man
Mercy Mercy: A Portrait of a True Adoption
Mistaken for Strangers
Muscle Shoals
My Black Box
Naked Opera
Narco Cultura
NCR: Not Criminally Responsible
New Life of a Family Album
Nine To Ninety
Northern Light
Notes on Blindness: Rainfall
Occupy: The Movie
Oil Sands Karaoke
The Only Son
The Other Shore
Our Nixon
Packing Up the Wagon: The Last Days of Wagon Wheel Lunch
The Path
Petropolis
Picture of Light
Pink or Blue?
Pouters
The Punk Singer
Pussy Riot—A Punk Prayer
Quality Balls—The David Steinberg Story
Ramp
Remote Area Medical
Rent a Family Inc.
River
Rogalik
Rougarouing
Salma
Scotiabank Big Ideas: Anita
Scotiabank Big Ideas: Fight Like Soldiers Die Like Children
Scotiabank Big Ideas: The Unbelievers
Searching for Bill
Second Class
Seventeen
The Shebabs of Yarmouk
Shooting Bigfoot
Sickfuckpeople
Sick Birds Die Easy
Softening
Special Ed
Spring & Arnaud
Stremț 89
Tales from the Organ Trade
Teenage
Terms And Conditions May Apply
These Birds Walk
This Ain’t No Mouse Music!
Tiny: A Story About Living Small
Tough Bond
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard
Trucker and the Fox
The Unbelievers
Unclaimed
Unplugged
Valentine Road
Vegas
Vladimir Putin in Deep Concentration
The War at Home
The War Room
We Always Lie to Strangers
We Cause Scenes
When I Walk
Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
A Whole Lott More
Who is Dayani Cristal?
Wildwood, NJ
William and the Windmill
Winter, Go Away!
The Women and the Passenger
Wooden People
Wrong Time Wrong Place
Yellow Sticky Notes \| Canadian Anijam

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Festival Highlights - Day 10

Featuring photos from THE AUCTIONEER, FALL AND WINTER and ROUGAROUING.
Festival Highlights - Day 9

Featuring photos from the Hot Docs Awards Presentation, BLOOD RELATIVE, GIDEON’S ARMY, Doc Summit and more!
Festival Highlights - Day 8

Featuring photos from Docs at Dusk screening of BROTHERS HYPNOTIC, THE WAR ROOM, FREE THE MIND and more!
Festival Highlights - Day 7

Featuring photos from ALCAN HIGHWAY, FOREST OF THE DANCING SPIRITS, RIVER, the Canadian Party, the Hot Docs Forum, Kickstart sessions and more!
Festival Highlights - Day 6

Featuring photos from MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS, THE KILL TEAM, UNCLAIMED, Distribution Rendezvous, ASTOUND Business Model Canvas workshop and more!

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Hot Docs Industry News

Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund Applications Now Open

Applications are now open for the Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund 2013 round of disbursements. The deadline to apply is August 16, 2013. Apply now >>

Hot Docs 2013 Festival Awards Announced

On Friday, May 3, 11 awards and $89,000 in cash and prizes were presented to Canadian and international filmmakers. Learn more >>

Hot Docs Forum And Deal Maker Wrap Successful 2013 Edition

After two days of pitching, networking and deal-making, over $21,000 in cash prizes were awarded to projects at this year’s Hot Docs Forum and Hot Docs Deal Maker. Learn more >>