All Hot Docs articles
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News‘A Fire There’: first trailer for Visions du Réel, Hot Docs title set in Georgia
EXCLUSIVE: Film will launch in Visions du Réel international competition.
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News2026 Hot Docs to open with ‘Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions’
Oscar-nominated Kim Nguyen’s (War Witch) Saigon Story: Two Shootings In The Forest Kingdom among world premieres.
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NewsMinerva Pictures boards Hot Docs title ‘A War On Women’, about Iran’s feminist movement
EXCLUSIVE: Doc uncovers how women’s struggle for equality has shaped the recent uprisings in Iran.
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NewsHot Docs entry ‘Spare My Bones, Coyote!’ lands sales agent; first trailer
EXCLUSIVE: Montreal-based h264 reunites with director Jonah Malak.
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NewsUtopia Docs boards sales on Ecuadorian Hot Docs entry ‘Mama’
EXCLUSIVE: Lisbon-based sales agent snaps up worldwide rights to breast cancer film.
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NewsHot Docs to open with ‘Parade: Queer Acts Of Love & Resistance’, unveils line-up
113 films to screen in Toronto from estival will run from April 24-May 4.
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NewsDiana Sanchez named executive director of Canada’s Hot Docs
Veteran starts on March 31, succeeding interim executive director Janice Dawe.
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NewsHot Docs takes “crucial step” to temporarily close Toronto cinema
The move will allow the financially challenged Canadian festival to “recalibrate,” it said.
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Reviews‘Farming The Revolution’: Hot Docs Review
Hot Docs winner follows Indian farmers as they unite to protest damaging government laws
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NewsHot Docs 2024 wraps, Rogers Audience Award for best Canadian doc goes to ‘Yintah’
Competition’s Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award goes to The Soldier’s Lagoon.
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NewsAutlook Filmsales closes deals on Hot Docs entry ‘Drawing A Line’ (exclusive)
Cartoonist subject Rachita Taneja receives 2024 Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award at separate Switzerland ceremony
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Reviews‘Intercepted’: Hot Docs Review
Doc combines images of destruction in Ukraine with calls home by Russian soldiers to horrifying effect
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NewsHot Docs Forum awards top prize to 'Arrest The Midwife'
Hot Docs continues in Toronto through May 5.
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Reviews‘Helen And The Bear’: Hot Docs Review
Vibrant story of the long and complicated marriage between a former congressman and his wife
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Reviews’Red Fever’: Hot Docs Review
Breezy, earnest exploration of the startling impact Indigenous culture has had on the modern world
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Reviews‘Whatever It Takes’: Hot Docs Review
Compelling real-crime doc about the harassment of a journalist following her reporting on e-commerce giant eBay
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Reviews‘The Ride Ahead’: Hot Docs Review
Samuel Habib offers an intensely first-person perspective on navigating his life as he prepares to enter college
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Reviews‘Le Mans 55: The Unauthorised Investigation’: Hot Docs Review
The 1955 Le Mans disaster is investigated by a close relative of two of the 83 people who lost their lives at the racetrack
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Reviews‘Never Look Away’: Hot Docs Review
Lucy Lawless makes her directorial debut with this unflinching look at combat photojournalist Margaret Moth
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NewsHot Docs unveils 2024 programme, including world premieres of ‘Red Fever’, ‘American Cats’
Festival selects 168 documentaries including 51 world premieres.