It might not sound like the ultimate vacation to you, but one of these years we’re going pack up the entire staff of YuppiePunk World HQ and head to Toronto for ten days of Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary film festival. Everyone knows Canadians are awesome. They’re just like Americans, only nicer and with a better health care system. And documentaries are the unsung heroes of cinema. A good one has all the entertainment value of a fictional film with the added bonus of informing while it entertains. Take that “Dark Knight.” Okay, so Toronto may not be Montreal. Or even Vancouver for that matter, but it’s still a world class city. And they do know a thing or two about film festivals. After perusing their 2009 lineup of films, here are the ones we’re most looking forward to seeing.

ART & COPY
The film examines the best advertisements of our time — the ones that transcend the medium to become art. From director Doug Pray, who previously created “Hype,” “Scratch” and 2008’s enjoyable “Surfwise.”

ASHES OF AMERICAN FLAGS
Documentarians never seem to tire of making concert films about great bands (see the Beatles, Stones, Radiohead, etc.) Enter this concert film that follows Wilco on their 2008 U.S. tour, filmed at some of the country’s most notable venues. | Official site

BEST WORST MOVIE
The cult status of “Troll 2,” for a time, the worst rated film on IMDb, is explored in this documentary made by the film’s star Michael Stephenson, who was 11 years-old at the time he starred in it. | Official site

MY GREATEST ESCAPE
Michel Vaujour is one of the greatest prison escape artists of our time, having escaped from French prison five separate times via a variety of methods, many of which are straight out of a Hollywood film script. This doc looks as his life and his many daring escapes.

OBJECTIFIED
From Gary Hustwit, the director of “Helvetica,” comes this look at industrial design and its impact on our world. Includes interviews with some of the world’s foremost product designers, from Apple to Braun. Stylish! | Official site

REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE
British director Peter Greenaway takes a detailed look at Rembrandt’s painting “The Night Watch,” which is displayed in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Each of the painting’s 34 characters are explored as well as their penchant for killing. | Official site

SOULWAX: PART OF THE WEEKEND NEVER DIES
Culled from thousands of hours of footage, the film chronicles the pioneering Belgian electro-rock band Soulwax and their non-stop club touring. | Official website

TYSON
Director James Toback (”Two Girls and a Guy”) looks at the life and incredible boxing career of Mike Tyson, one of his generation’s most notorious sports figures. C’mon, the dude tattooed his face. Let’s see Tiger Woods do that shit.

WE LIVE IN PUBLIC
Ondi Timoner, who directed the engrossing “Dig!,” which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2004, won the award a second time — the only director to achieve this honor – for this follow-up, which profiles Josh Harris, who foresaw the way the internet would transform the way we live our lives on camera. | Official site

THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD
The culture-jamming duo known as the Yes Men, who pose as the heads of multi-national corporation, follow up their self-titled 2003 film, with this one, which finds the duo concocting elaborate schemes while posing as executives of Dow Chemical. | Official site

ZOMBIE GIRL: THE MOVIE
Emily is 12. She’s also a sci-fi junkie working on her first feature film. This is the behind the scenes look at the making of that feature. | Official website

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