Peter Knegt is the associate editor of the invaluable news source Indiewire. Here are his TIFF doc picks:

STOLEN (pictured): When I first heard about this film after it premiered in Sydney, I hoped it would quickly end up at a festival near me.  The fact that the filmmakers initially set out to film a human interest doc on refugee camps and stumbled into a controversial story about modern slavery in North Africa speaks loudly and clearly to the power and possibility of documentary filmmaking.

THE SUNSHINE BOY: I'm a big fan of Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's work - always deeply personal and strongly visual - and I'm really excited to see what he's does with his first documentary in over 25 years.  From what I've read about "The Sunshine Boy," it seems to continue themes from Fridriksson's narrative work - difficulties of interpersonal communication - through a personal account of a mother's struggle with her son's autism (and the stills suggest his stunning, trademark imagery). Like any Fridikssson film, I'm expecting to be greatly moved.

WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY: As a child of the late 1980s and early 1990s, I grew up on the renaissance of Disney animation that was "The Little Mermaid" through "The Lion King."  As a film journalist of today, the idea of revisiting some of my childhood's greatest cinematic pleasures  through what reads like both a juicy, gossipy account of what went down at the Mouse House in negotiating this return to form stirs up, well, childlike anticipation for former Disney producer Don Hahn's doc  "Waking Sleeping Beauty."