Arkansas Times writes:

With such commercially successful films this summer as “Fahrenheit 9/11″ and “The Hunting of the President,” the documentary has taken on a new importance to the average moviegoer. That a documentary can be riveting, revealing and successful isn’t news, though, to the folks at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute.

The institute opens its 14th Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Friday, Oct. 22, blending assorted subjects — including several new documentaries with a statewide interest as well as international and Academy Award winners and nominees — for 10 days at the Malco Theater, the HSDFI’s home. The festival will attract not only movie fans, but the makers of the top documentaries from around the world. France, Poland and Belarus are among the countries with films chosen this year.