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Adventures in France: Bill Buford on the Joys of French CuisineLive Wednesday June 16, 7:30 PM (EST)
Bestselling food writer Bill Buford offers the inside dish on the art of French cooking and cuisine, and the valuable lessons he learned in writing Dirt, his anticipated follow-up to the bestselling classic, Heat.
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Contemporary Color
Channeling the lightning in a bottle quality of Stop Making Sense, former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne returned to the big screen for a one-of-a-kind concert-film experience inspired by the art of “colour guard”—perfectly synchronized students in pep-rally choreography—and featuring performances by Nelly Furtado, Ira Glass, St. Vincent and more.
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Join Werner Herzog, one of documentary’s most iconoclastic auteurs, on a hypnotic journey inside France’s Chauvet Cave, home to the world’s oldest surviving subterranean art.
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Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Lift the veil on the enormous impact of Indigenous musicians including Robbie Robertson, Link Wray, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Jimi Hendrix and more in this audience favourite full of good tunes.
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12 O'Clock Boys
The most thrilling trip into Baltimore since The Wire, this festival darling follows 13 year-old Pug as he pursues his dream of joining the 12 O’Clock Boys, a notorious gang of renegade dirt bikers.
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Do Donkeys Act?
Willem Dafoe narrates this strange and surprisingly beautiful Hot Docs favourite about a group of donkeys in a sanctuary. What can this often misunderstood animal teach us about how we see and listen to the world?
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Billy the Kid
Jennifer Venditti's groundbreaking coming-of-age film tells the story of Billy, a precocious but isolated fifteen-year-old boy trying to figure out life and death, love, and rock and roll in his small-town of Maine.
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No Tickets at the DoorStreaming until July 6
Part documentary, part love letter to concert venues everywhere, this world-premiere doc examines the effects of the pandemic on Toronto’s renowned indie music scene, spotlighting the talented musicians and promoters fighting to keep it alive amid the overwhelming forces of gentrification.
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Music for Mandela
Explore the role music played in the extraordinary life and political journey of one of the world's most important icons. Featuring stirring performances by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the Soweto Gospel Choir, Mandela's grandson Bambatha Mandela and more.
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Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Meet Pussy Riot, the feminist punk collective that’s openly challenging the reign of Russian President Vladimir Putin through the rebellious power of art.
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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
This spirited and thought-provoking documentary illuminates the many layers of towering German-Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt, whose brilliantly disruptive and perceptive ideas about totalitarianism and oppression are more relevant than ever.
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The Creeping Garden
Take a psychedelic plunge into the world of plasmodial slime moulds—a rare, super-intelligent organism that moves right beneath our feet—and meet the fascinating people who study and collaborate with them.
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His Name is Ray
World premiere! In his anticipated follow-up to Hot Docs 2019 Audience Award winner Transformer, Michael Del Monte gives a human face to our growing homelessness and opioid crises through the intimate story of Ray, an ex-sailor lost to the streets of Toronto who dreams of sailing away from it all.
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Shut up and Play the Hits
Pay tribute to iconic New York indie-rock group LCD Sound System as they perform their final blowout show at Madison Square Garden. The preshow anticipation, massive concert and humbling moments afterwards are infused with a candid interview with pop culture writer Chuck Klosterman.
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Stations of the Elevated
A street poem, a city symphony, “the first ever filmed document of graffiti”—Manfred Kircheimer’s cult classic takes you across 1970s New York at the height of the decade’s street art movement to a boppin’ jazz soundtrack by Charles Mingus and Aretha Franklin.
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Dave Not Coming Back
On a record-breaking dive to the depths of the Boesmansgat cave in South Africa—the biggest in the world—Dave finds a body that had been forgotten for decades. Along with a crew, he embarks on a historic mission to retrieve it. Little did they know, Dave would not be coming back.
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Salvador Allende
30 years after the US-sponsored military coup of September 11, 1973, documentary legend Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile, Nostalgia For The Light) returns to his native Chile to chronicle the life and legacy of the country's revolutionary Socialist leader Salvador Allende.
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16 Sunrises
Live the high life with French astronaut Thomas Pesquet whose philosophical reflections aboard the space station unfold in a poetic dialogue with the children’s classic The Little Prince.
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All Inclusive (Short Film)
Mass entertainment aboard a palatial cruise ship acts as a surreal and satirical commentary on luxury, loneliness and excess in this award-winning short doc.
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6ix RisingStreaming until July 6
In the wake of the blockbuster ascents of the 6ix's own Drake and the Weeknd, step inside the Toronto’s vibrant and hyper-competitive rap scene and meet the up-and-coming musical talents vying for attention on the world stage.
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Look What the Light Did NowStreaming until July 6
Going beyond the Apple-induced fame of “1234”, this whimsical rock-doc illuminates the creativity and collaborations behind the music of Canadian indie music queen Feist, focusing on the making of her career-defining album, The Reminder.
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Walter Isaacson on The Future of GeneticsLive Event Rebroadcast
The bestselling biographer behind Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs joins Anna Maria Tremonti to discuss his latest book, The Code Breaker, a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna launched a revolution with the invention of CRISPR, the groundbreaking gene editing tool.
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André Picard, Katie Engelhart and Paul Wells on Aging with DignityLive Event Rebroadcast
It took the pandemic to open our eyes to society’s systemic neglect of our elders. Is it time to reimagine the systems that support them? In conversation with Maclean's’ Paul Wells, The Globe and Mail’s André Picard and veteran journalist Katie Engelhart will help us reassess how we approach life’s final chapters, drawing from their important new books, Neglected No More and The Inevitable.
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Anna Sale and Aminatou Sow on Talking About Hard ThingsLive Event Rebroadcast
Loved by millions of listeners worldwide for her award-winning and life-affirming WNYC podcast Death, Sex, & Money, Anna Sale discusses her new book—and the difficult subjects most of us are too scared to bring up—with Aminatou Sow, the host of Call Your Girlfriend and writer of the NYT bestseller Big Friendship.
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A Living Legacy: MSNBC’s Eddie Glaude on James BaldwinLive Event Rebroadcast
Join Princeton historian and MSNBC commentator Eddie Glaude for a timely look at the legacy of the late great public thinker James Baldwin—and how his life and work can serve as a powerful guide for our moment of social change.
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What's Next for America? The New Yorker's Evan Osnos on Joe BidenLive Event Rebroadcast
As President Biden enters his first term in office, join The New Yorker's Evan Osnos for a timely look at the man and his moment in history, as outlined in his anticipated new biography, Joe Biden.
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IrisBest of Hot Docs Cinema Collection
In one his of his final films, legendary documentarian Albert Maysles profiles Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven whose soaring free spirit reminds us that dressing, and indeed life, is nothing but an experiment.
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Blue Note Records: Behind the NotesBest of Hot Docs Cinema Collection
Go behind the scenes of Blue Note Records, the pioneering label that gave voice to some of the most ground-breaking jazz artists of the 20th and 21st centuries
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MountainBest of Hot Docs Cinema Collection
Travel the globe and visit some of the most breathtaking peaks in the world in this awe-inspiring exploration of our human fascination with mountains, scored by the renowned Australian Chamber Orchestra and narrated by Willem Dafoe.
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GoldaBest of Hot Docs Cinema Collection
Through rare archives and an intimate television interview, peel away the complexities of the historic, yet turbulent, premiership of Golda Meir, the first and only woman to ever rule Israel.
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Herman's HouseBest of Hot Docs Cinema Collection
What kind of house does a man who has been kept in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of? This award-winning doc captures the remarkable creative journey and friendship of wrongly imprisoned former Black Panther Herman Wallace and artist Jackie Sumell while examining the injustice of prolonged solitary confinement.
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League of Exotique DancersBest of Hot Docs Cinema Collection
A dazzling cast of vintage burlesque dancers share candid and sometimes outrageous stories about their lives on stage and off in the heyday of the art, as they prepare for a rare performance for the Legends of Burlesque Hall of Fame weekend.
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Invisible Essence: The Litttle PrinceBest of Hot Docs Cinema Collection
Acclaimed Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer explores the legacy of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. By weaving together the author's extraordinary life story with fascinating discussions on the book, Officer gets at the heart of what has made this best-selling classic so special.
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Advanced StyleBest of Hot Docs Cinema Collection
This affirming doc examines the lives of seven unique New Yorkers whose eclectic personal style and vital spirit have guided their approach to aging.
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ChavelaBest of Hot Docs Cinema Collection
Legendary chanteuse and out lesbian Chavela Vargas revolutionized music in Mexico and challenged the stereotypical macho and hetero cultural norms of the times. Chavela beautifully captures her fearless life, powerful music and passionate love affairs, including her romance with Frida Kahlo.
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