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Doc Soup

Toronto’s best-loved film series returns this December!

Doc Soup 2024-25 will showcase five premieres of the hottest documentaries fresh off the international Festival circuit, including lively post-screening Q&As with directors and other special guests, from December to April.*

Doc Soup 2024-25 screening dates:

* Please note: Due to the closure of Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema for the past five month, this year’s Doc Soup season has been reduced to five screenings for its unusual seven. Subscription prices have been adjusted to reflect this.
 

Subscribe Now and Save!

A Doc Soup subscription is the best way to experience the series and get ready for the 2025 Festival! Buy early and save—members save even more!

Each subscription:

  • Guarantees a ticket to each of the five Doc Soup screenings, December to April.
  • Provides access to a four-day streaming window after every Doc Soup screening should you be unable to attend in person.
  • Comes with a 12-ticket package for the 2025 Hot Docs Festival, which affords an early-booking window that allow you to pick your films first!.

Please note: We are pleased to continue to offer a streaming option for Doc Soup films for subscribers, however, we are not able to offer streaming for 2025 Festival films.

BUY SUBSCRIPTION

     EARLY-BIRD PRICE   
(to November 25)
 
REGULAR PRICE 
Doc Soup Subscription          $214
   ($204 Members)   
   $232
   ($222 Members)   


New! Doc Soup Streaming Pass


New this year, Hot Docs is pleased to offer a Doc Soup Series Streaming Pass for audience members unable to attend live screenings. Each pass provides access to a four-day streaming window following each of the five Doc Soup Series screenings.

Please note: Limited quantities available.

BUY STREAMING PASS

  REGULAR PRICE 
Doc Soup Streaming Pass          $75 ($65 Members)   



Media Sponsor
POV Magazine
Series runs December—April

Doc Soup Season 2024-25 Films

Jay Douglas

December // Play it Loud! – How Toronto Got Soul

World Premiere
The little known story of how Jamaican music became a critical and unlikely part of Canadian culture.

Followed by post-screening Q&As with director Graeme Mathieson, beloved Jamaican Canadian musician Jay Douglas and producer Andrew Munger. 
  • D: Graeme Mathieson
  • Canada
  • 2024
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cowboy, horse and the Queen

January // The Cowboy and the Queen

Toronto Premiere
An iconic British monarch with a lifelong love of horses and a renegade California cowboy forge the most unlikely friendship—and fulfill shared goals of finding a better way to be with animals, and a kinder way to be in the world—in the eloquent, enlightening documentary from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Andrea Nevins.
  • D: Andrea Nevins
  • USA
  • 2023
More details
a woman speaking into a microphone in front of a group of people

February // Igualada

In one of Latin America’s most unequal countries, Francia Márquez — a Black Colombian rural activist — challenges the status quo with a presidential campaign that inspires a nation to dream.
  • D: Juan Mejía Botero
  • Colombia, USA & Mexico
  • 2024
More details

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