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Featuring in-cinema screenings, plus online access, to some of the year's best docs followed by special guest Q&As. Plus, each subscription includes 12 tickets to the 2023 Hot Docs Festival. 

Subscription: $209 ($199 Hot Docs member)

Check out these upcoming special events and screenings at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema!

Check out our upcoming FREE member programming!

Ring in the season with our annual gift of special events and free holiday classics! 
 

As awards season heats up, catch the most acclaimed and awarded documentaries of the year. Select screenings include a live or pre-recorded director Q&A.

Open to everyone, these screening offers a sensory friendly environment for those in the neuro-diverse community or for anyone who may benefit from a more informal viewing atmosphere.

• Throughout the screening, house lights will remain on a low level and the volume will be slightly turned down.
• No trailers will be shown.
• Audience members will be free to move around, leave the theatre, or take a break in a designated “quiet”

The works of masters featured in art exhibitions from galleries around the world.

Hot Docs' screening series centering Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC)-led stories and filmmakers, named in honour of Canadian civil rights icon Viola Desmond. This series seeks to affirm Hot Docs as a space of inclusion for BIPOC creators and audience members alike. To minimize barriers to audience participation, all screenings in this series are free of charge.

New and classic concert and rock films meant to be watched with the volume way up.

 

Nostalgic for the days of trucker hats and skinny jeans? Still got your Strokes CDs and a janky polaroid camera? Hot Docs Cinema has you covered at its new Indie Sleaze night – a monthly evening of movies, music and capital v “VIBEZ, tuned to all things aughts. 

Bring the whole family down for our exciting new series. $7.50 tickets for 12 and under!

In an age of chronic distraction, work burnout, and stress, we all need a moment to refresh and decompress. Enter Quiet Time, a new series designed to nurture mindfulness at the movies. 

Inspiring ideas and in-depth conversations with the world's leading writers and thinkers.

Our High Minded screening series features the biggest-thinking, most visually profound and psychedelic documentary cinema.