The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival has revealed the first slate of films that will screen in the Special Presentations program of its 30th edition, which will take place in Toronto from April 27 to May 7.

The initial selection for the 2023 section includes several high-profile feature documentaries that have already made their marks on the festival circuit. In the ever-expanding bio-doc genre, the festival will present such titles as Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (pictured), featuring the Canadian-born star reflecting on his screen career and offscreen struggle with Parkinson’s disease, directed by U.S. filmmaker Davis Guggenheim.

Other bio-docs include Peter Nicks’ Stephen Curry: Underrated, on the NBA superstar; Love to Love You, Donna Summer, an archive-led overview of the disco diva’s life and career directed by Roger Ross Williams and Brooklyn Sudano; and Invisible Beauty, on pioneering Black model Bethann Hardison, directed by Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng.

Challenges to conventional notions of beauty are also explored in the recent SXSW premiere Black Barbie, directed by Lagueria Davis, about the history and creation of the first African American Barbie doll, and the cultural politics of gender are scrutinized in Lina Lyte Plioplyte’s Periodical, about the pervasive demonization of the menstrual cycle.

Political documentaries are also spotlighted in the program, which includes Greta Stocklassa’s Blix Not Bombs, about the UN diplomat whose report about weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was ignored in the rush to war in 2003; Tonje Hessen Schei and Michael Rowley’s Praying for Armageddon, on the influence that the American Evangelical movement has exerted on U.S. politics; and Theatre of Violence, directed by Lukasz Konopa and Emil Langballe, about the first Ugandan child soldier to face trial for war crimes in the International Criminal Court.

The second slate of titles screening in the program will be released on March 21, according to a news release.

This story originally appeared in Realscreen