Current Releases

2025-05-21 - Eight African Doc Projects Selected as Recipients of $120,000 CAD Investment from Hot Docs-Blue Ice Docs Fund

2025-05-15 - Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema: May 23 to June 21. Stories of Chosen Family, Queer Art & Activism, Identity & Understanding Make Up Cinema's Pride Month Series Pride Projected

2025-05-05 - Hot Docs Festival Wraps 2025 Edition After 11 Days, 113 Films, 179 Screenings, and 150+ Q&As Showcasing Top Canadian and International Documentary Talent 

2025-05-02 - Hot Docs Announces 2025 Festival Award Winners and $90,000 in cash and prizes for Canadian and International filmmakers

2025-04-29 - Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema: May 18 to June 1. Hot Docs opens its cinema doors to share unbelievable true stories, stunning visuals, and iconic films spanning 60 years of film history

2025-04-28 - Acclaimed Canadian Producer Cornelia Principe Receives Prestigious 2025 Hot Docs Don Haig Award

2025-04-22 - Hot Docs 2025: Captivating Subjects, Filmmakers, and Special Guests Converge in Toronto from April 24 to May 4

2025-04-15 - Hot Docs Announces Award Nominees and Esteemed Jury Members for 2025 Festival

2025-04-14 - Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema: May 8 to June 6. Doc premieres, music films and album launches, Mother’s Day weekend with songs and crafts, and several special screenings and events make up post-festival cinema programming

2025-03-26 - Hot Docs 2025 Industry Conference and Market: Where documentary meets opportunity

2025-03-24 - Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema: April 5 to May 14. New documentaries, anniversary screenings, and sing-alongs

2025-03-20 - Hot Docs announces Diana Sanchez as its new Executive Director

2025-03-18 - Hot Docs Festival 2025 adds seven premieres of highly anticipated Canadian and International docs as part of the Special Presentations program

2025-03-12 - Hot Docs Deal Maker 2025: 52 inspiring documentary projects seeking financing and distribution to pitch to international industry experts

2025-03-11 - Hot Docs unveils first slate of Special Presentations for it's 32nd Festival

2025-03-04 - Hot Docs ted Rogers Cinema: March 15 to May 17. Music docs, new series spotlighting Toronto docs filmmakers, sing-alongs and cult classics

2025-02-25 - Hot Docs Festival 2025 Made In Exile program to showcase stories of displacement, memory and perseverance

2025-02-18 - Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema: February 23 to March 29. New releases ans series, anime classics, sing-alongs and spotlight on imagineNATIVE

2025-02-03 - Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema: February 22 to April 7 Oscar-nominated docs, free annual Academy Awards broadcast, new spotlight on imagineNATIVE series and author talks

2025-01-22 - Hot Docs-Slaight Family Fund awards CAD 170,000 to seven Canadian music documentary projects

2025-01-20 - Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema: February 8 to March 3. Premieres, anniversary screenings, new series, community events and author talks

2024-12-19 - Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema: Fresh starts and fresh docs! 

2024-12-16 - A weekend of dazzling glamour: Bob Mackie comes to Hot Docs Cinema!

2024-11-21 - Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema resumes programming on December 4 with buzzy premieres, The Hottest Docs of 2024, holiday classics and more

2024-10-29 - Hot Docs Cinema launches new season of Doc Soup series with world premiere of Play it Loud! – How Toronto Got Soul on December 4

2024-10-23 - Hot Docs announces Heather Haynes as new Director of Programming and introduces 2025 Festival programming team

2024-10-17 - Hot Docs announces 2025 festival, gradual resumption of programming at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, and path forward for the organization

2024-09-24 - Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema presents free screening of We Will Be Brave as “For Viola” series returns on October 18

2024-07-11 - Hot Docs and Netflix fund five new Canadian documentaries with CAD 150,000 in Incubator program

2024-05-23 - Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema to Premiere New Docs in June

2024-05-22 - Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema To Temporarily Close on June 12

2024-05-15 - Seven Exceptional African Doc Projects Selected as Recipients of $115,000 CAD Investment From Hot Docs-Blue Ice Docs Fund