Hot Docs

Tower

Directed by Keith Maitland

PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2016

Keith Maitland's Tower is remarkable in its approach to history, depicting the 1966 University of Texas mass shooting through rotoscoped an...

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World

Directed by Werner Herzog

PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2016

The idea of Werner Herzog, one of cinema's greatest lunatics, making a documentary about the internet is a joke that pretty much writes its...

Sonita

Directed by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami

PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2016

Born out of socio-economic struggle and the dismantling of neighbourhoods for corporate profit, hip-hop culture has played an invaluable ro...

Hot Docs Announces 15 Films for Special Presentations Program

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2016

This spring, from April 28 to May 8, the Hot Docs festival will once again return with, well, the hottest docs out there. Before the full l...

Holy Hell

Will Allen

PUBLISHED Jan 27, 2016

There are plenty of cult-themed documentaries out there, but none quite like Holy Hell. For over 20 years, director Will Allen was the offi...

How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change

Josh Fox

PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2016

It's baffling, sure, but climate change is still one of the rigidly divisive topics of our time. Intentionally ignoring scientific studies,...

The Bad Kids

Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe

PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2016

Rising before the sun each day, Vonda Viland vigorously works out at 3:30 a.m. before heading to Black Rock High School where she works as...

What Happened, Miss Simone?

Liz Garbus

PUBLISHED May 4, 2015

Near the beginning of What Happened, Miss Simone? (screening June 26 on Netflix), Nina Simone responds to a reporter's question of what fre...