Hot Docs is celebrating the season with a selection of Festive Favourites screenings throughout December at Hot Docs Cinema, with tickets for one beloved title being offered for free and tickets to others starting as low as $7.50. Get your fill of holiday cheer all month long with screenings of Die Hard, Home Alone, Meet Me in St. Louis, and The Muppet Christmas Carol. Plus, close out your year with our annual Dude’s New Year screening of The Big Lebowski.

An addition to the lineup of new release and must-see documentaries screening at Hot Docs Cinema in December, Festive Favourites will offer audiences a cinematic holiday escape and a chance to gather with friends and family in-person for the time-honoured tradition of taking in a Christmas classic on the big screen. Tickets to Die Hard, Meet Me in St. Louis, and The Muppet Christmas Carol are just $7.50 and available for purchase now.

As part of the Festive Favourites programming, Turtles® is hosting a special complimentary screening of Home Alone at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema in Toronto. The event takes place on Friday, December 19, at 8:30 pm, and the community is invited to enjoy a shared moment of holiday joy. Trade your streaming session for a cinema seat to watch the classic film, complete with complimentary popcorn and Turtles® signature treats. Free tickets are now available to book online.

Join us for the triumphant return of one of our most hallowed and wildest cinema traditions: the annual Dude’s New Year event featuring The Big Lebowski, on Wednesday, December 31, at 7:00 pm. Gather with fellow “Little Achievers” to get your celebrations started in style: in a bathrobe, sunglasses, and with White Russians and bowling! A night of absurdity and raucous fun, it’ll give even the nihilists something to believe in.

For a full list of Festive Favourites titles and screening times, and to purchase tickets, visit hotdocs.ca/whats-on/cinema-series/festive-favourites

Hot Docs is also excited to offer a number of holiday gift ideas for the doc lovers in your life. Give the gift of Hot Docs with a gift certificate or gift card, available in any amount and good for tickets to both Hot Docs Cinema and the 2026 Hot Docs Festival, as well as memberships, concessions and merchandise.

Perfect for documentary lovers, a 2026 Festival 12- and 20-package can be used for tickets to Hot Docs Festival screenings, and packages holders get early access to select their films can share tickets with family and friends. Or give the gift that lasts all year – A Hot Docs Membership. Member benefits include free special events, discounted tickets and more year-round at the Cinema, as well as discounts and advance booking windows on premium events including Hot Docs Festival.

Consider making a donation to Hot Docs as part of your holiday giving. Your donation is critical to our mission to bring outstanding documentaries from around the world and to support the outspoken storytellers who make them.

You can also visit in person at Hot Docs Cinema to check out our selection of books and merchandise, including new “cinema” sign t-shirts and totes, featuring a screenprint of one of the iconic cinema signs that adorn the Hot Docs Cinema lobby – a nod to cinema’s history and a great gift for any cinema lover.

For all the gift ideas on offer from Hot Docs, visit hotdocs.ca/holidays

2025 Golden Lion Winner at Venice Film Festival, FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER gets an official release date, JANUARY 9, 2026.

IN MONTRÉAL, IT PLAYS AT CINÉMA DU PARC STARTING DECEMBER 24, 2025.

Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch
Starring Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, and Françoise Lebrun.
Produced by Charles Gillibert, Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan and Atilla Salih Yücer
Presented by MUBI, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and The Apartment (a Fremantle Company), in association with Jarmusch’s badjetlag and Gillibert’s CG Cinema, Cinema Inutile, Films du Losange and Weltkino.
Music by Jim Jarmusch and Anika.

SYNOPSIS
Winner of the Golden Lion Best Film prize at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Father Mother Sister Brother is the eagerly-awaited new film from Jim Jarmusch. Funny, tender and astutely observed, this is an intimate exploration of the universal intricacies of family dynamics. Starring Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat.

Told in the form of a triptych divided into chapters set in New Jersey, Dublin and Paris, each story concerns the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other. Blending remarkable performances from its ensemble cast with Jarmusch’s wry and idiosyncratic observations of everyday life, the iconic indie director’s latest serves as a timely reminder that you can choose your friends and your lovers, but you can’t choose your family.

DIRECTOR STATEMENT
Father Mother Sister Brother is a kind of anti-action film, its subtle and quiet style carefully constructed to allow small details to accumulate – almost like flowers being carefully placed in three delicate arrangements. Collaborations with the masterful cinematographers Frederick Elmes and Yorick Le Saux, the brilliant editor Affonso Gonçalves and other frequent collaborators elevate what started as words on a page into a form of pure cinema.

FX’s “The Beauty,” a new international thriller from executive producer Ryan Murphy, will premiere Wednesday, January 21, 2026 on both the FX linear channel and on Hulu on Disney+ in Canada. The series premiere includes the first three episodes beginning at 9pm ET/PT on the FX linear channel, streaming on Hulu on Disney+ at 9pm ET. A new episode of the 11-episode first season will debut each following Wednesday on FX at 9pm ET/PT and on Hulu on Disney+ at 9pm ET – and two episodes in each of the final two weeks. Newly released key art and episodic images were also revealed.

In FX’s “The Beauty,” the world of high fashion turns dark when international supermodels begin dying in gruesome and mysterious ways. FBI Agents “Cooper Madsen” (Evan Peters) and “Jordan Bennett” (Rebecca Hall) are sent to Paris to uncover the truth. As they delve deeper into the case, they uncover a sexually transmitted virus that transforms ordinary people into visions of physical perfection, but with terrifying consequences. Their path leads them directly into the crosshairs of “The Corporation” (Ashton Kutcher), a shadowy tech billionaire who has secretly engineered a miracle drug dubbed “The Beauty,” who will do anything to protect his trillion-dollar empire—including unleashing his lethal enforcer, “The Assassin” (Anthony Ramos). As the epidemic spreads, “Jeremy” (Jeremy Pope), a desperate outsider, is caught in the chaos, searching for purpose as the agents race across Paris, Venice, Rome, and New York to stop a threat that could alter the future of humanity. “The Beauty” is a global thriller that asks: what would you sacrifice for perfection?

Guest stars include Amelia Gray Hamlin, Ari Graynor, Bella Hadid, Ben Platt, Billy Eichner, Isabella Rossellini, Jaquel Spivey, Jessica Alexander, Jon Jon Briones, John Carroll Lynch, Julie Halston, Lux Pascal, Meghan Trainor, Nicola Peltz Beckham, Peter Gallagher and Vincent D’Onofrio.

Created and written by Ryan Murphy & Matthew Hodgson, FX’s “The Beauty” is executive produced by Murphy, Hodgson, Peters, Ramos, Pope, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich, Michael Uppendahl, Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Gitter, Peter Schwerin and Jeremy Haun. It is based on the comic book series written by Haun and Jason A. Hurley, who serves as a consultant. “The Beauty” is produced by 20th Television.

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MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service, and production company, is excited to reveal the new trailer for Akinola Davies Jr.’s award-winning directorial debut feature, My Father’s Shadow, released in cinemas across Canada from February 26, 2026.

Starring Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (Slow Horses, Gangs Of London) and introducing Godwin Egbo and Chibuike Marvellous Egbo, My Father’s Shadow won the Best Director Prize for Akinola Davies Jr. (Lizard) at the 2025 British Independent Film Awards and has also been chosen as U.K.’s Academy Award submission for the Best International Feature Film. Akinola Davies Jr. was awarded Best Breakthrough Director along with Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù being awarded Outstanding Lead Performance at this year’s Gotham Awards. The film received its World Premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the prestigious Un Certain Regard strand, where it earned Akinola Davies Jr. a Special Mention from the Awards Jury.

A semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in the Nigerian metropolis Lagos during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis. The story follows a father, estranged from his two young sons, as they travel through the massive city while political unrest threatens their journey home.

Written by Wale Davies and co-written by Akinola Davies Jr., who was recently selected for this year’s BAFTA Breakthrough cohort, alongside Wale Davies, and exquisitely shot by cinematographer Jermaine Edwards, My Father’s Shadow captures, through a child’s eyes, a moment of profound historical upheaval – when everything is on the verge of change.

MY FATHER’S SHADOW IS RELEASED IN CANADA ON
FEBRUARY 6, 2026.

READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME Is coming soon and a new Trailer has arrived, serving us some double trouble!

Synopsis:

Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) at her side. Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister alive, and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the world. Four rival families are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins rules it all.

DIRECTED BY:

MATT BETTINELLI-OLPIN & TYLER GILLETT

STARRING:

SAMARA WEAVING

KATHRYN NEWTON

SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR

SHAWN HATOSY

NÉSTOR CARBONELL

WITH DAVID CRONENBERG

AND

ELIJAH WOOD

WRITTEN BY:

GUY BUSICK & R. CHRISTOPHER MURPHY

PRODUCED BY:

TRIPP VINSON, JAMES VANDERBILT, WILLIAM SHERAK, BRADLEY J. FISCHER

Elevation Pictures x Mr. Will are thrilled to give Readers a chance to win Cineplex run-of-engaement passes to see MARTY SUPREME. You’ve heard all the buzz and we know you love Timothée Chalamet! We know the Holidays are busy, so you can see it any time during its theatrical run at a Cineplex theatre.

Synopsis: Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, Kevin O’Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher

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MARTY SUPREME is in theatres December 25, 2025.

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Today we get a new Trailer for IN COLD LIGHT, which stars Maika Monroe! Elevation Pictures release theatrically, coming soon.

Directed by: Maxime Giroux
Starring: Maika Monroe, Troy Kotsur, Allan Hawco and Helen Hunt

Fresh out of prison and burning to reclaim her shattered empire, Ava (Maika Monroe) sets out to take back control of her once-thriving drug operation. But her plans implode when she is framed for a killing that puts a target on her back from both the police and the city’s ruthless crime boss (Helen Hunt). Suddenly caught in a dangerous criminal underworld even she can’t navigate, Ava is forced to confront the ghosts of her past including old wounds from her father (Troy Kotsur) while dodging bullets and fleeing for her life as her fight for survival becomes a reckoning.

PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION releases globally on Netflix January 9, 2026. Today, we get a first look at the Trailer!

DIRECTOR: Brett Haley
SCREENPLAY BY: Yulin Kuang and Amos Vernon & Nunzio Randazzo
BASED ON THE BOOK BY: Emily Henry
PRODUCERS: Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Isaac Klausner
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Laura Quicksilver, Ted Gidlow, Emily Henry
KEY CAST: Emily Bader, Tom Blyth, Sarah Catherine Hook, Lucien Laviscount, Miles Heizer, Jameela Jamil, Tommy Do, Lukas Gage, Alice Lee, with Molly Shannon and Alan Ruck
LOGLINE: Free-spirited Poppy and routine-loving Alex have been unlikely best friends for a decade, living in different cities but spending every summer vacation together. The careful balance of their friendship is put to the test when they begin to question what has been obvious to everyone else — could they actually be the perfect romantic match?

Filmed right here in Toronto, we get at long last a new Teaser for FORBIDDEN FRUITS! You are gonna love this Cast!! Lili Reinhart, Victoria Pedretti, Lola Tung, and Alexandra Shipp! Coming to theatres 2026.

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Cast and filmmakers from “Avatar: Fire and Ash” descended upon the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood last night for the world premiere of the eagerly anticipated film, where they were joined by a host of celebrity guests. The third film in Oscar®-winning filmmaker James Cameron’s phenomenally successful “Avatar” franchise opens exclusively in theatres worldwide on December 19, in IMAX 3D, RealD 3D, 4DX, ScreenX, and premium screens everywhere.

In attendance were: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Oona Chaplin, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Britain Dalton, Jamie Flatters, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Jack Champion, Bailey Bass, Edie Falco, Duane Evans, Jr., Dileep Rao, James Cameron (director/co-writer/producer), Rick Jaffa (co-screenwriter), Amanda Silver (co-screenwriter), Josh Friedman (story by), Shane Salerno (story by), Richard Baneham (Lightstorm visual effects supervisor/executive producer), Rae Sanchini (executive producer), David Valdes (executive producer), Jamie Landau (co-producer), Maria Battle-Campbell (co-producer), Brigitte Yorke (co-producer), Russell Carpenter (director of photography), Ben Procter (production designer), Dylan Cole (production designer), Deborah L. Scott (costume designer), Simon Franglen (composer), Stephen Rivkin (editor), Joe Letteri (senior visual effects supervisor), Margery Simkin (casting director), and special guests Miley Cyrus, Andrew Wyatt, Billie Eilish, Finneas, Dr. Dre, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Diplo, Puka Nacua, and Michelle Rodriquez, among others.

With “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” James Cameron takes audiences back to Pandora in an immersive new adventure with Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Na’vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and the Sully family. “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” which is directed by James Cameron and features a screenplay by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, and a story by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver & Josh Friedman & Shane Salerno, is produced by James Cameron, p.g.a., and Jon Landau, p.g.a., with Richard Baneham, Rae Sanchini, and David Valdes serving as executive producers. The film also stars Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Oona Chaplin, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, David Thewlis, Jemaine Clement, Giovanni Ribisi, Britain Dalton, Jamie Flatters, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Jack Champion, Brendan Cowell, Bailey Bass, Filip Geljo, Duane Evans, Jr., and Kate Winslet.

The third Film in James Cameron’s Phenomenally Successful “Avatar” Franchise to Open Exclusively in Theatres Worldwide December 19, 2025.