“Kin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I’m always hoping to find: smart and funny and deftly profound. This is Tayari Jones’s very best...
Stories We Told takes us back to 1969 with a celebrated work from one of Canada's most beloved filmmakers. One of the most celebrated works...
The Power of the Pin: Stories of the Moose Hide Campaign Film Screening of 2 Short Documentaries & Post-Film Q&A's Details: Saturday, April 11 at...
In 1957, renowned wildlife artist Robert Bateman and spirited biologist Bristol Foster set out on a global expedition in a rugged Land Rover they call...
4 stars “excellent...a powerful insight into a life shared by two charismatic creatives” – The Guardian When artist Maggie Barrett (75) breaks her femur, her...
Winner, Best Canadian Feature Documentary, Hot Docs 2025 Canada’s Top Ten “You can have a life with joy and hope and love, but it’s not...
Winner of the Sundance 2025 Audience Award: US Documentary 95% Tomatometer – Rotten Tomatoes “A riotously funny, painfully honest film about facing death” – Leslie...
Silver Screamers is a heartwarming and spine-tingling documentary that follows a group of spirited senior citizens as they embark on an extraordinary adventure far outside...
"With luminous clarity and unsentimental grace, Kate Bowler delivers a meditation on the sacred, vivid, and heartbreaking absurdity of being alive... A deeply moving everyday...
“Absorbing… the right rap documentary for right now” – Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork In different hands, It Was All a Dream’s never-before-seen footage of The Notorious...
When an old friend takes his own life, Alan Zweig seeks out others grappling with the suicide of a loved one. As hard as it...
Celebrate the remarkable life and legacy of Nobuo Kubota, the Vancouver-born sound poet and multimedia artist who co-founded the Canadian Creative Music Collective. I Am...
From Oscar-nominated director Baz Luhrmann comes a remarkable and poignant account of Elvis Presley's life and career. Crafted from long-lost footage that Luhrmann discovered while...
Jukedocs: Curated by Niko Stratis, this monthly series features music docs—from beloved classics to cult favourites—that expand beyond the boundaries of songs and their creators....
One of the best and most important documentaries of 2016, Toronto native Brett Story’s The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is a sharp and imaginative deconstruction...
"Let's do the Time Warp Again!" Cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show is back! Toronto’s own shadow cast, Excited Mental State, will be performing...
The water-cooler banter for the next month (at least!) starts right here at Hot Docs Cinema with our annual free broadcast of the Academy Awards....
Winner: Special Jury Prize, 2025 Venice Film Festival “A sublime mix of unease and quirk, a faithful representation of modern life with which anyone anywhere...
A Hot Docs award winner (her Territory was named Best Short in 2015), Eleanor Mortimer returns with a haunting and beautiful look at a group...
Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used...
Join us for a one night only event featuring the theatrical premiere of Nash the Slash Rises Again!, an in-person Q&A with the filmmakers and...
“Anon is more than a tech memoir—it’s a love story, essential to understanding how intimacy will evolve in the AI era, where data and imagination...
The second feature documentary from Toronto-based Afghan-Canadian filmmaker Aisha Jamal (A Kandahar Away, Hot Docs 2019 Official Selection), The Theft delves into the messy relationship...
“Hugely entertaining… leaves one completely bemused and enlightened” – POV Magazine The Masters of Musical Whistling is the largest convergence of international whistlers on the...