2026 Hot Docs winners include Saigon Story: Two Shootings in the Forest Kingdom and House of Hope for Best Canadian Documentary and Best International Documentary, respectively.
Searching for Drug Peace observes how the Coca Leaf Café and Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary in East Vancouver offers a provocative alternative amid the opioid crisis.
An interview with Ghost in the Machine director Valerie Veatch on diving into the world of artificial intelligence in her documentary and exploring collective responses to big tech.
Photo by Robin Holland. Courtesy Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York.
The career of Mierle Laderman Ukeles, longtime (and only) artist in residence at New York's Department of Sanitation, receives a fun appraisal in Maintenance Artist.
Members of the Nuxalk Nation work to restore the ooligan population and find parallels between the fish's disappearance and the region's colonial history in Ceremony.
Afghan refugee Soraya Akhalaghi captures her story on her iPhone in A Fox Under a Pink Moon as she tries to flee Iran and finds an outlet in the creative process.