Hot Docs 2025 proved a confident return for the documentary festival with full screenings, engaged audiences, and some strong titles, especially Canadian ones.
Keep Reading
Come See Me in the Good Light wins Hot Docs Audience Award, while Endless Cookie wins Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary.
Keep Reading
Experience life under the big top by going on the road with 11-year-old Santino for one year with Circus Arena in Circusboy.
Keep Reading
Come See Me in the Good Light rounds out a week atop the Hot Docs Audience Award leaderboard as Cutting Through Rocks debuts at number five.
Keep Reading
A daughter goes searching for her father, who vanished 30 years prior amid Colombia's history of forced disappearances in I Dreamed His Name.
Keep Reading
The 2025 Hot Doc Industry Conference was an intimate affair where Trump's threats to freedom of speech and the 'reality' of reality TV resonated.
Keep Reading
They're Here introduces audiences to everyday people who recall their alien encounters and abductions.
Keep Reading
Award winners at the 2025 Hot Docs documentary festival include Agatha's Almanac; I, Poppy; Paul; River of Grass; #skoden; and Writing Hawa.
Keep Reading
I, Poppy examines a field of historic injustice and corruption in India through one family's struggle.
Keep Reading
The lingering effects of nuclear fallout across generations from Kazakhstan's Semipalatinsk Test Site is considered in the well-meaning documentary We Live Here.
Keep Reading