#FIRSTLOOK: FESTIVE FAVOURITES AT HOT DOCS CINEMA 2025

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 ... Read more

#HOTDOCS: HOT DOCS CINEMA ANNOUNCE RETURN OF FESTIVAL FAVOURITES AND CLASSICS

Hot Docs Cinema is excited to announce the return of two festival films alongside several new release and classic documentaries, all joining the growing lineup of exciting films, series and events coming soon to the historic cinema in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood. The strong lineup of documentaries on offer showcases Hot Docs’ ongoing commitment to providing an immersive, theatrical experience for the world’s finest documentaries of both yesterday and today. New release docs ... Read more

#HOTDOCS: HOT DOCS ANNOUNCE SALE OF 506 BLOOR STREET WEST

Today, Hot Docs announces that the sale of the Hot Docs Cinema building at 506 Bloor Street West closed on August 6. The terms of the sale include a multi-year lease that allows Hot Docs to continue to operate and program the Cinema year-round. In addition to the stellar slate of must-see documentaries and retro flicks already announced, this fall will see the return of the long-running Doc Soup series, screening monthly from October to April, and the introduction of the Curious Minds ... Read more

#SPOTTED: MARLEE MATLIN IN TORONTO FOR HOT DOCS ’25 – TORONTO RELEASE PATTERN

Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin needs little introduction. Her stellar body of work in Film and Television spans some 40 years and after acclaim at Sundance, her Shoshannah Stern directed Documentary MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE premiered tonight at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. The revelatory Film takes an intimate look at some of her success, challenges, and activism. Following the premiere, Matlin and Stern participated in a Q&A with Johanna Schneller. So thrilled to have ... Read more

#HOTDOCS: “SHAMED” REVIEW

By Amanda Gilmore Canadians may remember the catfishing website and YouTube channel from Windsor, Ont.'s Jason Nassr titled Creeper Hunter. Nassr published his program from 2015 to 2020, and it detailed his efforts in catching those he deemed "creepers" (a title he gave to adults he believed were pedophiles due to their communications with minors). Now, fellow Windsorian Matt Gallagher, the well-known documentarian of Prey, examines the show, its creator, and those targeted by him in ... Read more

#HOTDOCS: “CLIMATE IN THERAPY” REVIEW

By Amanda Gilmore There are more than 65,000 climate scientists in the world plotting and graphing in painstaking detail how humans are heading in a catastrophic direction. Despite these experts returning increasingly grim results year after year, many have never been asked how they feel about climate change. Director Nathan Grossman invites seven climatologists to a weekend therapy session to hash out their emotions. We’ve been hearing about the climate crisis statistics for ... Read more

#HOTDOCS: 2025 HOT DOCS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PREVIEW

By Amanda Gilmore Documentaries are about to be front and center once again! This year’s Hot Docs International Film Festival will screen 113 feature-length Documentaries. The Festival, which runs from April 24 to May 4, 2025 will also feature 169 live screenings on five screens at two venues in Toronto. The two venues this year is their Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema and TIFF Lightbox. The opening night film is one to keep your eyes on. It’s a Canadian made Doc about the complex ... Read more

#HOTDOCS: “ALWAYS” TRAILER

Deming Chen's ALWAYS will premiere at Hot Docs '25 and today we get a glimpse of its Trailer. Gong Youbin was born into a poor Chinese family. He has not seen his mother since he was three months old. Because of a poetry class in school, he embarks on an emotional journey by learning to write poems through his imagination and exploration. By observing his upbringing in the countryside of Hunan, surrounded by dreams and the harsh realities of his family’s struggles, ALWAYS is an ... Read more

#FIRSTLOOK: “AI WEIWEI’S TURANDOT” TO PREMIERE AT HOT DOCS 2025

Italy/US co-production producing partners, Marta Zaccaron, Incipit Film and Christine La Monte, La Monte Productions, in association with Andy Cohen, AC Films Inc. are pleased to announce that Maxim Derevianko feature film directorial debut’s documentary, AI WEIWEI'S TURANDOT will have its Canadian premiere at Hot Docs 2025 as part of their Big Idea. ( https://hotdocs.ca/festivals/hot-docs-festival/big-ideas) AI WEIWEI'S TURANDOT is an Italy/US co-production directed by Maxim Derevianko ... Read more

#HOTDOCS: “#SKODEN” TO PREMIERE AT HOT DOCS 2025

TELUS originals is pleased to announce that Damien Eagle Bear’s restorative biopic feature documentary, #skoden, will have its world premiere at Hot Docs 2025 on April 29 at 8:30 PM at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema with a second screening on May 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM at TIFF Lightbox 1. skoden is written, directed and produced by Damien Eagle Bear (Napi, Big Momma, The Bannocking). It was filmed on location in Lethbridge and the Blood Reserve on traditional Blackfoot Territory. Every meme ... Read more