A special screening bringing together two classic Canadian documentaries—both from 1959 and directed by Roman Kroitor and Wolf Koenig who were well know for their...
Top #4 Audience Favourite - Hot Docs Festival 2026 In a rural Turkish village where tradition still imposes strict boundaries between men’s and women’s roles,...
If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated bestseller, Pulitzer Prize winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods,...
We are thrilled to have Project Grizzly back at Hot Docs Cinema! This screening is being re-presented due to the epic blizzard which snowed out...
40th Anniversary Screening Winner—Grand Jury Prize, 1987 Sundance Film Festival In this classic doc from 1986, director Ross McElwee sets out to make a film...
“Metro has another sock boxoffice winner in An American in Paris. Film is one of the most imaginative musical confections turned out by Hollywood in...
"A bracing, stimulating and technically superb close-up look at the L.A. punk scene." – Variety Their message is brutally clear: Destroy the old and make...
Official Selection - Hot Docs Festival 2026 Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe winner “Plays as part fever dream, part paean to rural life, all while focussing...
#2 Top Audience Favourite, Hot Docs Festival 2026 “Gives us insight into a truly inspirational woman. A career reporter who continues to lean into the...
International Premiere The shocking news of Michael Jackson’s death is witnessed through thousands of found footage video reactions in director Marcus Batto’s collage-tornado of a...
“In the age of ICE and MAGA, and the Trump-inspired nationalist movements in the UK, it’s an amazing story of a community triumph... a morale-boosting...
Everywhere Man is a feature-length documentary inspired by musician, producer, and manager Peter Asher’s celebrated cabaret show A Musical Memoir of the ’60s and Beyond....
“Neither a documentary nor a drama but a provocative, unconventional merging of the two, a meditation on perplexities of justice, social inequity, and personal identity...
Official Selection - Hot Docs Festival 2026 “This poetic documentary from the Oscar-nominated director of Fire of Love makes the climate crisis immediate and intimate”...
Singer. Songwriter. Poet. Icon. John Prine was an artist’s artist with a list of admirers and collaborators that cut across musical genres and generations. You...
100% score on Rotten Tomatoes! Winner of multiple festival audience and jury awards! "With the sharply structured documentary Ask E. Jean, director Ivy Meeropol accomplishes...
The first edition of the Toronto Turkish Film Festival presents a program dedicated to contemporary Turkish cinema, bringing together film screenings, conversations, and special events...
Explore art, politics and consciousness through the improbable life of Michael Clegg, the former Catholic priest who introduced MDMA to the world—a drug he would...
Hitchcock's superbly insouciant crime caper from 1955 must surely be one of the last movies in which the American super-rich are indulged so extravagantly and...
Noah Render (Elias Koteas) is an insurance claims adjuster who attends to his clients’ every need—including their sexual ones. His wife, Hera (Arsinée Khanjian), is...
Screening in part of Low Sky Weekend, a city-wide film series hosted by veteran curator (TIFF) and producer (In a Violent Nature) Peter Kuplowsky to...
For the past twenty years, Peter Kuplowsky has championed genre and underground cinema as both a curator and independent producer. In 2026, he founded Low...
Inspired by New World Theatre’s King Arthur’s Night, which had its world premiere at Luminato Festival in 2017, this genre-defying documentary film is rooted in...
Winner, 2017 Hot Docs Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary “A vibrant survey of a criminally overlooked aspect of American popular music” – The...