#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 coming soon include Hot Docs 2025 Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature winner Endless Cookie (D: Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver | Canada | 97 minutes | 2025), an animated collage of humorous and heartfelt tales exploring the bond between two half-brothers, and 2025 Festival official selection Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (D: Shoshannah Stern | USA | 98 minutes | 2025), in which Hollywood trailblazer, Oscar winner and activist Marlee Matlin tells her story in full. Joining these festival titles are several new release and classic documentaries, including a special free theatrical exclusive screening of HBO’s Billy Joel: And So It Goes (D: Susan Lacy, Jessica Levin | USA | 294 minutes | 2025), an expansive portrait of the legendary musician that explores the love, loss, and personal struggles behind the songs that have endured generations. A complete list of documentaries added recently to the cinema calendar appear below.

In addition, dates and titles have been added for a number of recurring cinema series. Following this month’s special Mouth Congress live event with Scott Thompson and Paul Bellini on Friday, August 22, the series Truth and Dare will return in September with Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape (D: Kati Kelli | USA | 79 minutes | 2023), a compilation of the surrealist, cutting-edge videos of Kati Kelli, a Los Angeles-based video artist whose work combines satire of online influencer culture with a grotesque aesthetic reminiscent of Tim and Eric. In October, it’s a Truth and Dare Halloween with the Toronto Premiere of Tinsman Road (D: Robbie Banfitch | USA | 119 minutes | 2025) by Robbie Banfitch (the director of 2022’s breakout indie horror hit The Outwaters), which follows a young man visiting his mother in the backwoods of New Jersey while discreetly documenting the circumstances of his sister’s disappearance years before. New series Pillow Fright! will offer the third installment in its sleepover-themed, creep-tastic series for fellow friendly freaks with a screening of 1999’s remake of The Haunting (D: Jan de Bont | USA | 125 minutes | 1999) featuring late ’90s karaoke, Ouija board sessions, and trick or treating. Fangirl Picture Show is back to show all three Twilight Saga films, one each month from October to December, starting with the original Twilight (D: Catherine Hardwicke | USA | 122 minutes | 2008). Expect costumes, fandom and a theatre full of Twihards.

To view the Hot Docs Cinema calendar, please visit www.hotdocs.ca

All newly announced screenings and events appear below with dates and times. For ticket prices and information, visit http://go.pardot.com/e/463832/whats-on-watch-cinema/lk21c/829409182/h/Cre8nWf03z4j_v5XPmGIF-IjmW3cwD_4XdOQEqUv4Vw

MUST-SEE DOCS

E.1027: EILEEN GRAY: HOUSE BY THE SEA
D: Beatrice Minger | Switzerland | 89 minutes | 2024
A story about the brilliant designer, her masterpiece, the power of female expression—and men’s desire to control it.

Friday, September 26 / 6:30 PM

ENDLESS COOKIE
D: Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver | Canada | 97 minutes | 2025
The winner of the Hot Docs 2025 Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature returns to Hot Docs Cinema. Conversations between Canadian brothers living half a country apart shape the foundation of a psychedelic collage of animated vignettes.

Saturday, September 6 / 1:15 PM
Sunday, September 14 / 6:30 PM

EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: JOHN SINGER SARGENT – FASHION & SWAGGER
D: David Bickerstaff | UK | 90 minutes | 2024
The glittering world of fashion, scandal and shameless self-promotion made John Singer Sargent the painter who defined an era.

Saturday, September 13 / 1:30 PM
Friday, September 26 / 3:45 PM

FOLKTALES
D: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady | USA | 106 minutes | 2025
From the directors of Jesus Camp comes a story of transformation set against a snowy Scandinavian backdrop.

Sunday, September 28 / 1:00 PM
Saturday, October 4 / 2:30 PM
FOUR WINGS AND A PRAYER
D: Nick de Pencier | Canada | 80 minutes | 2007
A doc about one of the world’s most beautiful and mysterious creatures: the Monarch butterfly.

Sunday, August 31 / 12:30 PM

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: THE BRIGHTNESS OF LIGHT
D: Paul Wagner | USA | 118 minutes | 2024
A spellbinding, in-depth, and cinematic portrait of the artist known as the “Mother of Modernism.”

Sunday, September 14 / 3:30 PM
Saturday, September 20 / 12:30 PM

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: THE BRIGHTNESS OF LIGHT
D: Paul Wagner | USA | 118 minutes | 2024
A spellbinding, in-depth, and cinematic portrait of the artist known as the “Mother of Modernism.”

Sunday, September 14 / 3:30 PM
Saturday, September 20 / 12:30 PM

HOMEWORK
D: Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | 86 minutes | 1989
A masterful work of the medium from an icon of Iranian filmmaking, Homework is essential doc viewing.

Friday, September 5 / 6:00 PM

THE LAST CLASS WITH ROBERT REICH
D: Elliot Kirschner | USA | 71 minutes | 2025
Former secretary of labor Robert Reich grapples with his own aging and his students inheriting a world out of balance.

Sunday, September 14 / 1:00 PM
Friday, October 3 / 6:00 PM

MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE
D: Shoshannah Stern | USA | 98 minutes | 2025
Hollywood trailblazer, Oscar winner and activist Marlee Matlin tells her story in full in this Hot Docs Festival 2025 hit. Showing with open captions and audio description.

Sunday, September 21 / 7:30 PM
Saturday, September 27 / 12:30 PM

NAME OF THE GAME
D: William Forbes, Douglas Skinner | USA | 113 minutes | 2023
Go behind-the-scenes of Southern California’s once thriving male exotic industry, uncensored and uncut.

Sunday, September 28 / 7:00 PM

RIEFENSTAHL
D: Andres Veiel | Germany | 115 minutes | 2024
This mesmerizing documentary examines one of the most controversial women of the 20th century.

Sunday, September 7 / 3:15 PM
Saturday, September 13 / 7:00 PM

SPECIAL EVENTS

BILLY JOEL: SO IT GOES
D: Susan Lacy, Jessica Levin | USA | 294 minutes | 2025
Hot Docs invites you to experience Billy Joel: And So It Goes on the big screen in this free theatrical exclusive.

Sunday, September 21 / 12:30 PM

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW: HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA
D: Jim Sharman | UK, USA | 100 minutes | 1975
“Let’s do the Time Warp Again!” Cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show is back for three Halloween season events! Toronto’s own shadow cast, Excited Mental State, will be performing their own satirical, comedic version of the film for audiences. Dress up and “don’t dream it, be it.”

Friday, October 24 / 9:30 PM
Friday, October 31 / 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM

CURATED SERIES

Truth and Dare
GIRL INTERNET SHOW: A KATI KELI MIXTAPE
D: Kati Kelli | USA | 79 minutes | 2023
September’s Truth and Dare brings the surrealist, cutting-edge, cultural satire of Kati Kelli.

Friday, September 26 / 9:00 PM

Truth and Dare
TINSMAN ROAD
D: Robbie Banfitch | USA | 119 minutes | 2025
It’s a Truth and Dare Halloween with the Toronto Premiere of Tinsman Road, one of the year’s best horror offerings!

Sunday, October 26 / 7:00 PM

Pillow Fright!
THE HAUNTING
D: Jan de Bont | USA | 125 minutes | 1999
You’re invited to a sleepover-themed screening of The Haunting (1999) hosted by Pillow Fright!

Saturday, October 25 / 8:00 PM

Fan Girl Picture Show
TWILIGHT
D: Catherine Hardwicke | USA | 122 minutes | 2008
The Twilight Fangirl Picture Show is back and more chaotic than ever! Relive the vampire romance that sparked a generation of fangirls and queer awakenings, screaming in a theatre full of fellow Twihards.

Friday, October 17 / 8:45 PM

Fan Girl Picture Show
NEW MOON
D: Chris Weitz | USA | 130 minutes | 2009
Get ready to howl through the second Twilight installment, New Moon. When Edward and the Cullens peace out of Forks, Bella finds comfort in her newly ripped bestie, Jacob Black.

Friday, November 21 / 8:45 PM

Fan Girl Picture Show
ECLIPSE
D: David Slade | USA | 124 minutes | 2010
Experience the unhinged third Twilight installment, Eclipse, hosted by Fan Girl Picture Show.

Friday, December 12 / 8:45 PM

BACK TO THE BLOOR

AMERICAN GRAFFITI
D: George Lucas | USA | 110 minutes | 1973
Before Star Wars, George Lucas directed this decade-defining coming-of-age classic with an all-star cast.

Sunday, September 28 / 4:00 PM

FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
D: Amy Heckerling | USA | 92 minutes | 1982
Before Clueless, director Amy Heckerling nailed the 80s with this classic comedy and teen movie staple.

Sunday, September 7 / 6:30 PM

FAMILY SCREENING

COCO
D: Lee Unkrich | USA | 107 minutes | 2017
Celebrate Dia de Los Muertos with this tale of family, fun and adventure.

Saturday, November 1 / 1:00 PM

FINDING NEMO
D: Andrew Stanton | USA | 100 minutes | 2003
PD Day at Hot Docs! Follow Marlin and Dory on their epic adventure to bring Nemo home.

Friday, November 14 / 1:00 PM

HOCUS POCUS
D: Kenny Ortega | USA | 96 minutes | 1993
It’s just a bunch of Hocus Pocus! Catch the Halloween classic on the big screen this spooky season.

Sunday, October 12 / 1:00 PM

WALL-E
D: Andrew Stanton | USA | 98 minutes | 2008
PD Day at Hot Docs! Join us for this cosmic comedy adventure about a determined robot named WALL-E.

Friday, September 26 / 1:00 PM

ADDITIONAL SCREENINGS AND EVENTS

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
D: David Frankel | USA | 109 minutes | 2006
Unlike florals for spring, The Devil Wears Prada really is groundbreaking for fashion on film. Pair this film with Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Fields.

Saturday, September 6 / 7:00 PM