This week I congregated with my fellow documentary nerds at the Victory Cafe on Markham Street. It has become a post Hot Docs tradition where we compare our favourite documentaries from the festival and make a case for our top choices. There were clashes and emphatic nods of agreement over beer and tasty fries (latest diet proclamations thwarted for the sake of documentary debates). It is amazing that so often someone else’s favourite is a film that didn’t even show up on my documentary radar. So many great movies, so little time.

Because I cannot fully say good-bye to Hot Docs and I am still basking in documentary afterglow, I will do a quick recap of my top pics from this year’s Hot Docs festival. I will then resume my humdrum life that is painfully ordinary compared to what I have witnessed on the screen over the past ten days…

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