Baldr Films, the production company behind monumental features like All We Imagine As Light, makes its Hot Docs Film Festival premiere with Paikar . It’s an expansive and sobering film, an odyssey that begs its viewers to pay attention to the images flashing on screen. Immediately, Dawood Hilmandi sets the tone of the film, with the first 20-minutes heavily involving a myriad of close-up shots; everybody on screen is often captured at very close angles, and the camera is shaking from movement as it captures everybody in the surrounding area.       It’s a document of history, first and foremost, that contemplates existentialism, family dynamics, and generational trauma through the lens of rising tensions in the Middle East, and this ends up bleeding into a core narrative dynamic, which is the relationship between Hilmandi and his father. It’s an incredibly raw and emotional presentation, as Hilmandi does not hold back when it comes to discus...