This year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival takes place April 26 – May 6, 2012 at 1o theatres across downtown Toronto. This much-anticipated annual festival includes an impressive 189 docs from 51 countries. Highlights from this year include an opening night film about one of China’s most controversial artists, Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry by Alison Klayman and RA filmmaker Yung Chan’s newest doc China Heavyweight which will be seen at 35 Cineplex theatres across the country as part of the Doc Live! program. Yung Chang also directed Up the Yangtze, which Reel Asian screened in 2010. Here are our Asian picks from this year’s festival:
- Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry (Director Alison Klayman, USA/China)
- China Heavyweight (Director Yung Chang, Canada/China)
- Legend of a Warrior (Director Corey Lee, Canada)
- Made in China (Director Jian Du, China)
- Planet of Snail (Director Seung-Jun Yi, South Korea/Japan/Finland) – Reel Asian is co-presenting Planet of Snail on April 30 @ 9PM, May 2 @ 1:30PM, May 6 @ 2:00PM
- Price of Gold (Director Sven Zellner, Chingunjav Borkhuu, Germany)
- Wildness (Director Wu Tsang, USA)
- The World’s Most Fashionable Prison (Director CK Mak, Singapore)
- Aida: A Natural-Born Artist (Director Shogo Watanabe, Japan)
- A.K. (Director Chris Marker, France/Japan)
For full 2012 Hot Docs programming, click here.
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