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Hot Docs 2023


31 articles available in total starting from 07/09/2022. Last article published on 09/05/2023.

Erik Gandini  • Director of After Work

Interview: Erik Gandini • Director of After Work

“The challenge was how to capture the future through the present”

The Italian-Swedish director discusses remodelling documentary conventions, imagining the future through the present and envisaging a world without work  

04/04/2023 | CPH:DOX 2023

Review: Blix Not Bombs

Review: Blix Not Bombs

Greta Stocklassa’s sophomore effort explores the complexities of post-9/11 diplomacy, but ends up asking the wrong questions  

24/03/2023 | CPH:DOX 2023

Review: Total Trust

Review: Total Trust

Zhang Jialing's urgent new documentary tackles state surveillance in China to gripping, frightening and heartbreaking effect  

23/03/2023 | CPH:DOX 2023

Review: After Work

Review: After Work

Erik Gandini's new documentary is breezy and attractive, but feels like a late arrival that is distanced in addressing its timely topic  

22/03/2023 | CPH:DOX 2023

Review: Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait

Review: Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait

BERLINALE 2023: Drawing inspiration from an unrealised project and her personal archive, Luke Fowler crafts a tribute to pioneering filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait  

02/03/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Forum

Lin Alluna • Director of Twice Colonized

Interview: Lin Alluna • Director of Twice Colonized

“We wanted to shake and hit and hug the audience with this film”

The Danish director discusses how she made her complex documentary in close collaboration with the protagonist, Aaju Peter  

25/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Review: Twice Colonized

Review: Twice Colonized

Lin Alluna's first feature-length documentary about Greenlandic Inuit lawyer and human rights activist Aaju Peter is powerful and emotional, if not always well balanced  

24/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Review: The Visitors

Review: The Visitors

Veronika Lišková heads to the end of the Earth, only to realise that problems – and people – are always the same  

02/11/2022 | Jihlava 2022

Review: Tax Me If You Can

Review: Tax Me If You Can

Yannick Kergoat delivers an engaged and clear documentary, at once very educational, funny and terribly edifying on large-scale tax evasion  

22/09/2022 | San Sebastián 2022 | Out of Competition

Guy Davidi • Director of Innocence

Interview: Guy Davidi • Director of Innocence

“Being a child growing up in Israel is a journey”

VENICE 2022: The director talks to us about his poetic and powerful documentary, about young Israelis who died during compulsory military service  

14/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

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