Everybody’s favourite documentary fest keeps it real for a few more days. And as LL Cool J might’ve put it, this rhyme ain’t done: the last part of Hot Docs includes many more premieres. Besides the fresh foursome reviewed below, we’re equally intrigued by the science doc BLAST! (April 26, 4:30pm, Royal, 608 College), the Slamdance/SXSW fave Dear Zachary (April 25, 6:30pm, Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor W.; April 27, 11am, Isabel Bader, 93 Charles W.) and, of course, Planet B-Boy (April 24, 9:30pm, Innis, 2 Sussex; April 26, 11:59pm, Bloor), a look at the globalization of breakdancing. Word to all of your mothers.

ELEVEN MINUTES **** Desperate to extend his reality-TV fame in a more meaningful fashion than Johnny Fairplay has, Project Runway winner Jay McCarroll frantically preps for his debut show at New York’s Fashion Week. Evincing a likeable mix of nervous vulnerability and youthful arrogance, the designer proves to be a compelling guide for this frank, funny tour of the fashion world. (April 24, 9:15pm; April 25, 11:45pm, Bloor.)

WAITING FOR HOCKNEY *** Billy Pappas spent eight years working on a single drawing of Marilyn Monroe that’s as astoundingly detailed as it is irredeemably kitschy. Charting Pappas’ equally determined efforts to show the piece to David Hockney, Julie Checkoway’s doc is an entertaining tale of art, obsession and misguided expectations. (April 25, 9:15pm, Bloor; April 26, 9:30pm, Royal.)

DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH **** An irascible hothead who’s also one of America’s greatest writers, Harlan Ellison clearly inspires admiration and not a little frustration in Neil Gaiman, Robin Williams and other pals interviewed for this enormously engaging portrait of the science-fiction heavyweight. As combative as ever at the age of 73, Ellison remains very good company. (April 24, 9:30pm, Isabel Bader; April 26, 9:30pm, Bloor.)

STALAGS: HOLOCAUST AND PORNOGRAPHY IN ISRAEL *** This Israeli doc’s hour-long running time is far too brief to do justice to the provocative issues it raises about sex, literature and the Holocaust. Not only does director Ari Libsker examine the seedy “stalag” novels about busty Nazi she-wolves so eagerly consumed by Israelis in the early ‘60s, he also questions the veracity of more reputable writings on the concentration camps that mixed sex and sadism to similar effect. (April 24, 9pm, Al Green, 750 Spadina Av.,; April 27, 7pm, Isabel Bader.)

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