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A helicopter lowers a rescue worker towards a gondola that is hanging precariously from a wire. The sun is setting and the gondola is positioned very high above the ground. There are mountains in the background.

Hot Docs Returns with Another Helping of Doc Soup

by Pat Mullen
October 5, 2026
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Hot Docs' Doc Soup series returns on October 7 with Hanging By a Wire, Mohammed Ali Naqvi's docu-thriller about a 2023 gondola rescue mission.

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Prime Minster Brian Mulroney appears in a fantastical image. He is pictured from the waist up wearing a flamboyant Liberace-style coat. There is a dazzling background behind him with campaign signs. He looks pale and a bit like a vampire.

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It's soup season, baby! 🥣 Doc Soup returns to @ho It's soup season, baby! 🥣 Doc Soup returns to @hotdocs_ this week with HANGING BY A WIRE. @gaborpertic gave us the rundown on what keeps this serious so popular. 🔗 story in bio 📽 Hanging By a Wire screens Ict. 7 & 8; series continues with Nuisance Bear in November 🐻‍❄ #toronto #movies #docsoup #Documentary #soupseason 📷 Photo 1 by Murphy Owusu
Women, life, labour. Beatrice Gibson tells @nirel Women, life, labour. Beatrice Gibson tells @nireliofidelio about creating an intersectional portrait of night owls and women talking. 🦉 🔗interview link in bio 📽 At Night is now playing at select festivals. #movies #film #Paris #night #beatricegibson
What's at stake if @markjcarney doesn't uphold the What's at stake if @markjcarney doesn't uphold the original terms of the Online Streaming Act? 🍁 @docnational's @j.v.carrington assess the situation in the latest Policy Matters column. 📖 Issue 126, on stands now 🔗 link in bio for the expanded online version Send a copy to your MP! #Canada #Documentary #Streaming #culture #cancon 📷: EDB3_16 / iStock
From makers of the Oscar winning #NoOtherLand, #NA From makers of the Oscar winning #NoOtherLand, #NAZA offers harrowing accounts of a history of violence. 📽 Now at @tiff_net; @hotdocs_ Oct. 28 🔗 review link in bio #moviereview #documentary #movies
It's a date! 💘 Ahead of its premiere at @viffest, It's a date! 💘 Ahead of its premiere at @viffest, get you first look at Joella Cabalu's @onf_nfb doc #FirstComesLove. 📽 VIFF 🔗 Link in bio #movies #viff2026 #romcom #trailers
A must-see music doc gets an upgrade. 🎵 Larry Wei A must-see music doc gets an upgrade. 🎵 Larry Weinstein walks us through the magic of #SeptemberSongs as it gets a restoration 30 years later. 📽 @hotdocs_ Sept 25 🔗 link in bio #music #kurtweill #movies #film
How does #Rush carry on without Neil Peart? 🥁 Sam How does #Rush carry on without Neil Peart? 🥁 Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyn tell us about honouring the late drummer in NEIL PEART: NO ONE'S DISCOPLE as the band looks for someone to keep the beat. 📖 Issue 126 - on stands now! 🔗 link in bio 📽 No One's Disciple is now streaming on Gem #rush #neilpeart #music #film
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A helicopter lowers a rescue worker towards a gondola that is hanging precariously from a wire. The sun is setting and the gondola is positioned very high above the ground. There are mountains in the background.

Hot Docs Returns with Another Helping of Doc Soup

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Nannika, representing the alhukwala (medicine person), stands during the sputc ceremony in Bella Coola Valley. The ceremony marks a return to ancestral practice after the collapse of the ooligan run.

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Prime Minster Brian Mulroney appears in a fantastical image. He is pictured from the waist up wearing a flamboyant Liberace-style coat. There is a dazzling background behind him with campaign signs. He looks pale and a bit like a vampire.

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Issue 126: Fall/Winter 2026

Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney is Matthew Rankin's irreverent docufantasia about Canada's 18th PM.

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