Hot Docs

Of Fathers and Sons

Directed by Talal Derki

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2018

When filmmaker Talal Derki journeys back to his homeland of northern Syria with a camera in tow, he finds an unrecognizable land ravaged by...

The Reckoning: Hollywood's Worst Kept Secret

Directed by Barry Avrich

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2018

Canadian documentarian Barry Avrich has history with Harvey Weinstein. In 2011, he made Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project, a profi...

Gurrumul

Directed by Paul Damien Williams

PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2018

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was a man of few words. Blind from birth and raised in an Indigenous tribe in Australia, English was maybe his...

Playing Hard

Directed by Jean-Simon Chartier

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2018

In 2017, the videogame industry reached the 100-billion-dollar mark in sales, double the annual box office, but the documentary Playing Har...

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Directed by Morgan Neville

PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2018

The world could really use a Mister Rogers right about now. In an age characterized by vitriol and hate, someone who exudes peace, warmth a...

Hot Docs Finally Achieves Gender Parity with 2018 Lineup

PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2018

Today, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival have announced the lineup for their 25th edition and it's truly a doozy. Th...

Becoming Bond

Directed by Josh Greenbaum

PUBLISHED May 4, 2017

For nearly 50 years, George Lazenby has been considered a bit of a joke. His name has been used in one-liners on late-night TV to describe...

The Departure

Directed by Lana Wilson

PUBLISHED May 3, 2017

Suicide often takes a toll on the lives of the loved ones left behind, but what about the people who hear the touch-and-go threats of the s...