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HOT DOCS 2014: Review Set 4

HOT DOCS 2014: Review Set 4

May 5, 2014 | By

Hot Docs 2014 Reviews, Set 4, include: The Agreement / Forhandleren (2013), The Beijing Ants (2013), Everything Will Be (2014), The Sower / Le Semeur (2013) and What is Left? (2014). Also: what’s coming soon!

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Film: Agreement, The / Forhandleren (2013)

Film: Agreement, The / Forhandleren (2013)

May 5, 2014 | By

In an era when one terrible war is replaced with another and rarely revisited by the media after its most explosive phase has passed, Karen Stokkendal Poulsen’s hour-long film reminds us of the slow and petty details that need to be sorted by former warring parties prior to the necessary…

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Film: Beijing Ants, The (2013)

Film: Beijing Ants, The (2013)

May 5, 2014 | By

When Ryuii Otsuka’s family of three are given notice by the daughter of their supposed landlords to either accept a steep rent increase or vacate their apartment by the end of the month, things swerve to some horrible extremes in this fascinating documentation using hidden…

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Film: Everything Will Be (2014)

Film: Everything Will Be (2014)

May 5, 2014 | By

There’s a striking stoicism among the shop owners, newspaper vendors, an artist, and a cultural gallery / developer in Julia Kwan’s vivid portrait of the fading breadth of Vancouver’s Chinatown…

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Film: Sower, The / Le Semeur (2013)

Film: Sower, The / Le Semeur (2013)

May 5, 2014 | By

Patrice Fortier isn’t exactly on a mission to save the world’s rarest plants by harvesting seeds from so-called heirloom varieties of vegetables and flowers, but he does acknowledge his work – originally an art project that soon became a consuming business…

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