What's On

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!

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.

This month we pay homage to the master of the American suspense novel, Patricia Highsmith, with an illuminating new doc and three gripping film adaptations of her work. 

Lovable underdogs are the stars of a specially curated Watch List we’ve put together to celebrate the theatrical premiere of Blind Ambition.

This specially curated Watch List series celebrates Star Trek, one of the most beloved and influential sci-fi franchises of all time.

Showcased here are three counterexamples presented in Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, Nina Menkes' powerful piece of cinema anaylsis and film history, that challenge fundamentally sexist mode of filmmaking that has dominated popular filmmaking for decades. The films in our Brainwashed Corrective Watchlist: It Will All Come Out in the Wash defy the male gaze and show us an alternative path forward; one that can help to level the playing field and abolish the mistreatment of women in film.

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

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

 

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

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. 

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.