Hot Docs has presented 14 awards and $90,000 in cash prizes to the winning documentaries from this year’s official competition.

By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The top jury prize win at the festival means Chaudhary’s film, which world premiered at Hot Docs, will qualify for consideration in the best documentary ...

“A film of negotiations – with family, with community, with the systems that limit our choices and bind our fates,” noted the ...

The event will also open under a renewed sense of purpose and vision, with Toronto International Film Festival veteran Diana Sanchez recently hired as executive director. Still, Hot Docs faces a ...

With its launch in Toronto last week, the documentary film festival Hot Docs celebrated its 32nd year in earnest after coming perilously close to dissolution last year due to money woes and key ...

A still from Endless Cookie. The animated feature documentary from brothers Seth and Peter Scriver will have its Canadian premiere at the 2025 Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto. (Hot Docs ...

The annual Hot Docs Festival is back and bolder than ever! Celebrating 32 years of Canadian and international cinema, the festival will ignite screens in Toronto theatres over a thrilling 10 days.

The Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Festival will open with the world premiere of Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance from Canadian director Noam Gonick and the National Film Board of Canada on ...