NEWS: More than Half of Films at Hot Docs Film Festival Are Directed By Women1 min read
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More than half of the films playing at Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, are directed by women, the Canadian event said Tuesday. The festival’s 26th edition, which runs April 25-May 5, will screen 234 films, with 54% of the directors being women.
In the competitive International Spectrum program, notable films receiving their world premieres include Nicole Schafer’s Buddha in Africa, about a Malawian boy raised in a Chinese Buddhist orphanage, who’s torn between his heritage and upbringing; Pailin Wedel’s Hope Frozen, which profiles a grief-stricken Bangkok family and their unorthodox decision to cryopreserve their deceased daughter; Marcela Arteaga’s The Guardian of Memory, a film that reveals the desperate stories of Mexicans fleeing the violence of their country toward an unfriendly U.S. border; and Jolanta Dylewska and Andrzej Wajda’s Marek Edelman… and There Was Love in the Ghetto, an artful recreation of the Holocaust memoir of the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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