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Screenings & Events

During our limited reopening, we’re please to host these third-party events and select partner screenings.

Hot Docs programming will resume at the Cinema starting in December with the Doc Soup screening series. 

December cinema programming is announced, including buzzy premieres, The Hottest Docs of 2024, holiday classics and more.

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Thursday, December 5, 7:00 PM

a woman looking at the camera with text overlayed

CFC Conversations: Black Excellence with Karen Chapman Third Party Event

CFC Conversations: Black Excellence presents award-winning artist Karen Chapman in conversation with maxine bailey, Executive Director of the Canadian Film Centre.

Friday, December 6, 7:00 PM

Your Tomorrow still

Your Tomorrow

With Toronto’s iconic modernist waterfront park, Ontario Place, set to close for redevelopment, an eccentric yet lovable group of park regulars and staff members live out its last year open to the public while confronting its controversial transformation into a private spa and waterpark. 

  • D: Ali Weinstein
  • Canada
  • 2024
  • 96 min
More details

Saturday, December 7, 2:30 PM

a woman's face close up

The Hottest Docs: Separated

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris incisively probes the darkest chapter in recent American history: family separations.

  • D: Errol Morris
  • USA, Mexico
  • 2024
  • 93 min
More details

Saturday, December 7, 5:00 PM

Your Tomorrow still

Your Tomorrow

With Toronto’s iconic modernist waterfront park, Ontario Place, set to close for redevelopment, an eccentric yet lovable group of park regulars and staff members live out its last year open to the public while confronting its controversial transformation into a private spa and waterpark. 

  • D: Ali Weinstein
  • Canada
  • 2024
  • 96 min
More details

Saturday, December 7, 8:00 PM

Jay Douglas

Doc Soup: Play it Loud! – How Toronto Got Soul

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

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Graeme Mathieson.

  • D: Graeme Mathieson
  • Canada
  • 2024
More details

Sunday, December 8, 12:00 PM

Your Tomorrow still

Your Tomorrow

With Toronto’s iconic modernist waterfront park, Ontario Place, set to close for redevelopment, an eccentric yet lovable group of park regulars and staff members live out its last year open to the public while confronting its controversial transformation into a private spa and waterpark. 

  • D: Ali Weinstein
  • Canada
  • 2024
  • 96 min
More details

Sunday, December 8, 3:15 PM

dancing young people

Rent Sing-Along

In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.

  • D: Chris Columbus
  • USA
  • 2005
  • 135 min
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Sunday, December 8, 7:00 PM

a woman's face close up

The Hottest Docs: Separated

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris incisively probes the darkest chapter in recent American history: family separations.

  • D: Errol Morris
  • USA, Mexico
  • 2024
  • 93 min
More details

Thursday, December 12, 4:30 PM

a man with a beard in a leather jacket looking to the right

Toronto Premiere of Gabor Maté doc Physician, Heal Thyself Third Party Event

Toronto Premiere of a new documentary about Dr. Gabor Maté. 

  • D: Asher Penn
  • Canada
  • 2024
More details

Thursday, December 12, 7:00 PM

a man with a beard in a leather jacket looking to the right

Toronto Premiere of Gabor Maté doc Physician, Heal Thyself Third Party Event

Toronto Premiere of a new documentary about Dr. Gabor Maté. 

Join Gabor Maté and director Asher Penn for a Zoom Q&A (2nd screening only). Moderated by Ethan Vestby of Bleeding Edge.

  • D: Asher Penn
  • Canada
  • 2024
More details

Friday, December 13, 7:00 PM

Person looking at images on a light table

For Viola // Free Screening: Seeking Mavis Beacon

The most recognizable woman in technology lives in our collective imagination. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the software’s Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY detectives search for the model while posing questions about identity and artificial intelligence.

  • D: Jazmin Jones
  • USA
  • 2023
  • 102 min
More details

Saturday, December 14, 12:00 PM

Daughters still

The Hottest Docs: Daughters

Daughters follows the lives of four young girls who prepare for the first ever father/daughter dance in a jail in Washington, DC. What unfolds is an intimate portrayal of childhood that is both heartbreaking and inspiring.

  • D: Angela Patton, Natalie Rae
  • USA
  • 2024
  • 108 min
More details

Saturday, December 14, 3:15 PM

four people dressed in red and white standing together

Festive Favourites: White Christmas

A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
  • D: Michael Curtiz
  • USA
  • 1954
  • 120 min
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Saturday, December 14, 6:30 PM

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The Hottest Docs: Zurawski v Texas

A group of women denied abortions, even at the brink of death, band together with a fearless attorney to sue the state of Texas in an extraordinary effort to regain their rights and reproductive futures—not only for themselves but millions of others.

  • D: Maisie Crow, Abbie Perrault
  • USA
  • 2024
  • 98 min
More details

Sunday, December 15, 12:00 PM

a man sitting with rats, pigs and frogs

Festive Favourites: The Muppet Christmas Carol

The Muppets' rendition of Charles Dickens' classic tale puts a unique twist on that fateful Christmas Eve, when Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
  • D: Brian Henson
  • USA
  • 1992
  • 85 min
  • G
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Sunday, December 15, 3:00 PM

Will & Harper still

The Hottest Docs: Will & Harper

When Will Ferrell's good friend Harper comes out as a trans woman, they take a road trip to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self.

  • D: Josh Greenbaum
  • USA
  • 2024
  • 114 min
More details

Sunday, December 15, 6:00 PM

Zurawski v Texas still

The Hottest Docs: Zurawski v Texas

A group of women denied abortions, even at the brink of death, band together with a fearless attorney to sue the state of Texas in an extraordinary effort to regain their rights and reproductive futures—not only for themselves but millions of others.

  • D: Maisie Crow, Abbie Perrault
  • USA
  • 2024
  • 98 min
More details

Friday, December 20, 6:30 PM

the boy is standing in front of the train

Festive Favourites // The Polar Express: Pajama Party

When a doubting young boy takes a train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.
  • D: Robert Zemeckis
  • USA
  • 2004
  • 99 min
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Friday, December 20, 9:15 PM

Hollywoodgate still

The Hottest Docs: Hollywoodgate

Immediately after the US withdraws from Afghanistan, the Taliban occupied the "Hollywood Gate" complex, claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul. The Taliban finds countless aircrafts, weapons and pieces of military equipment. Over one year, HOLLYWOODGATE shows the transformation of an extremist militia into a military regime.

  • D: Ibrahim Nash’at
  • Germany, USA
  • 2024
  • 91 min
More details

Saturday, December 21, 2:30 PM

Cannes Lions poster

Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2024

Ads are art, and these ones will knock your socks off. Check out the best of the best of the 2024 Cannes Lions festival. Prepare to be persuaded!

Saturday, December 21, 5:30 PM

Black Box Diaries still

The Hottest Docs: Black Box Diaries

Journalist Shiori Ito takes on one of the most powerful institutions in Japan to prosecute her high-profile sexual assailant in a landmark legal case. Using personal footage and hidden cameras, Ito puts it all on the line for justice.

  • D: Shiori Ito
  • Japan, UK, USA
  • 2024
  • 104 min
More details

Saturday, December 21, 9:00 PM

John McLane crawling through vent

Festive Favourities: Die Hard

Die Hard is an iconic 1980s action movie starring Bruce Willis as a rogue cop who must save a building full of hostages shortly before Christmas.
  • D: John Mctiernan
  • USA
  • 1988
  • 131 min
  • 18A
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Sunday, December 22, 12:00 PM

Cannes Lions poster

Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2024

Ads are art, and these ones will knock your socks off. Check out the best of the best of the 2024 Cannes Lions festival. Prepare to be persuaded!

Sunday, December 22, 3:00 PM

Hollywoodgate still

The Hottest Docs: Hollywoodgate

Immediately after the US withdraws from Afghanistan, the Taliban occupied the "Hollywood Gate" complex, claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul. The Taliban finds countless aircrafts, weapons and pieces of military equipment. Over one year, HOLLYWOODGATE shows the transformation of an extremist militia into a military regime.

  • D: Ibrahim Nash’at
  • Germany, USA
  • 2024
  • 91 min
More details

Sunday, December 22, 6:00 PM

Black Box Diaries still

The Hottest Docs: Black Box Diaries

Journalist Shiori Ito takes on one of the most powerful institutions in Japan to prosecute her high-profile sexual assailant in a landmark legal case. Using personal footage and hidden cameras, Ito puts it all on the line for justice.

  • D: Shiori Ito
  • Japan, UK, USA
  • 2024
  • 104 min
More details

Friday, December 27, 5:30 PM

Porcelain War still

The Hottest Docs: Porcelain War

Why would anyone craft fragile ceramics in an active war zone? Three Ukrainians, fighting as both soldiers and artists, offer up an unexpected dispatch from the front lines. Creativity combats destruction in this gorgeous Sundance Best US Documentary award-winner.

  • D: Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev
  • Ukraine, USA, Australia
  • 2024
  • 87 min
More details

Friday, December 27, 9:00 PM

RM still

RM: Right People, Wrong Place Special Screening

A candid documentary that delves into the life of BTS' leader RM as he navigates global stardom while working on his second solo album, offering an intimate glimpse into his creative journey across multiple cities.

  • D: Seok-jun Lee
  • South Korea
  • 2024
  • 80 min
More details

Saturday, December 28, 2:30 PM

Cannes Lions poster

Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2024

Ads are art, and these ones will knock your socks off. Check out the best of the best of the 2024 Cannes Lions festival. Prepare to be persuaded!

Saturday, December 28, 5:30 PM

a man in an oversized suit holding a microphone

Stop Making Sense - A24 Residency

This is a party! This is a disco! There will be fooling around! Immerse yourself at our monthly residency of Jonathan Demme’s seminal 1984 Talking Heads concert film.

Saturday, December 28, 9:00 PM

Man with a guitar

Back to the Bloor: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

In a magically realistic version of Toronto, a young man must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes one by one in order to win her heart.
  • D: Edgar Wright
  • USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan
  • 2010
  • 112 min
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Sunday, December 29, 12:00 PM

Man with a guitar

Back to the Bloor: School of Rock

After being kicked out of his rock band, Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of an uptight elementary private school, only to try and turn his class into a rock band.
  • D: Richard Linklater
  • USA
  • 2003
  • 108 min
More details

Sunday, December 29, 3:00 PM

Porcelain War still

The Hottest Docs: Porcelain War

Why would anyone craft fragile ceramics in an active war zone? Three Ukrainians, fighting as both soldiers and artists, offer up an unexpected dispatch from the front lines. Creativity combats destruction in this gorgeous Sundance Best US Documentary award-winner.

  • D: Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev
  • Ukraine, USA, Australia
  • 2024
  • 87 min
More details

Sunday, December 29, 5:30 PM

Cannes Lions poster

Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2024

Ads are art, and these ones will knock your socks off. Check out the best of the best of the 2024 Cannes Lions festival. Prepare to be persuaded!

Tuesday, December 31, 8:00 PM

Jeff Bridges in white looking at the camera with wide eyes

The Big Lebowski: The Dude's New Year

Join us for one of our most hallowed and wildest cinema traditions: the eight annual Dude's New Year's event featuring The Big Lebowski!
  • D: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  • USA & United Kingdom
  • 1998
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Friday, January 3, 6:00 PM

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found still

The Hottest Docs: Ernest Cole

Ernest Cole was the first black freelance photographer in South Africa, whose early pictures laid bare the injustices of apartheid for a world audience. Cole was exiled to the US, where his experiences were far from his expectations of the American Dream.

  • D: Raoul Peck
  • France, USA
  • 2024
  • 105 min
More details

Friday, January 3, 9:00 PM

Renee Zewellger smoking a cigarette

Back to the Bloor: Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.
  • D: Sharon Maguire
  • United Kingdom
  • 2001
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Saturday, January 4, 3:00 PM

an artist with elaborate makeup and a red PVC outfit

The Hottest Docs: Queendom

In defiance of Russia’s anti-LGBTQ laws, a queer, 21-year-old artist risks her life performing in surreal costumes throughout Moscow. Jenna Marvin’s radical public performances blend artistry and activism in this SXSW documentary.
  • D: Agniia Galdanova
  • USA & France
  • 2024
More details

Saturday, January 4, 5:30 PM

Cannes Lions poster

Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2024

Ads are art, and these ones will knock your socks off. Check out the best of the best of the 2024 Cannes Lions festival. Prepare to be persuaded!

Saturday, January 4, 9:00 PM

Godzilla

Back to the Bloor: Godzilla

Underwater hydrogen bomb testing awakens a fire-breathing monster from its centuries-long sleep, and it soon starts to terrorise Japan.
  • D: Ishiro Honda
  • Japan
  • 1954
  • 98 min
More details

Sunday, January 5, 1:00 PM

Cannes Lions poster

Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2024

Ads are art, and these ones will knock your socks off. Check out the best of the best of the 2024 Cannes Lions festival. Prepare to be persuaded!

Sunday, January 5, 3:30 PM

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found still

The Hottest Docs: Ernest Cole

Ernest Cole was the first black freelance photographer in South Africa, whose early pictures laid bare the injustices of apartheid for a world audience. Cole was exiled to the US, where his experiences were far from his expectations of the American Dream.

  • D: Raoul Peck
  • France, USA
  • 2024
  • 105 min
More details

Sunday, January 5, 6:30 PM

an artist with elaborate makeup and wearing a red PVC outfit

The Hottest Docs: Queendom

In defiance of Russia’s anti-LGBTQ laws, a queer, 21-year-old artist risks her life performing in surreal costumes throughout Moscow. Jenna Marvin’s radical public performances blend artistry and activism in this SXSW documentary.
  • D: Agniia Galdanova
  • USA & France
  • 2024
More details

Wednesday, January 8, 6:30 PM

cowboy, horse and the Queen

Doc Soup: The Cowboy and the Queen

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
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Friday, January 10, 6:00 PM

Child sits on a pile of logs, reaching to the sky

The Hottest Docs: A New Kind of Wilderness

On a small farm in the Norwegian forest, a family seeks a wild free existence. However, after a tragic event changes everything, they are forced from their idyllic farm and into the expectations of modern society.

  • D: Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
  • Norway
  • 2024
  • 84 min
More details

Saturday, January 11, 5:00 PM

Child sits on a pile of logs, reaching to the sky

The Hottest Docs: A New Kind of Wilderness

On a small farm in the Norwegian forest, a family seeks a wild free existence. However, after a tragic event changes everything, they are forced from their idyllic farm and into the expectations of modern society.

  • D: Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
  • Norway
  • 2024
  • 84 min
More details

Saturday, January 11, 8:00 PM

Union still

The Hottest Docs: Union

The Amazon Labor Union (ALU)—a group of current and former Amazon workers on New York City’s Staten Island—takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.

  • D: Brett Story, Stephen Maing
  • USA
  • 2024
  • 104 min
More details

Sunday, January 12, 12:00 PM

Union still

The Hottest Docs: Union

The Amazon Labor Union (ALU)—a group of current and former Amazon workers on New York City’s Staten Island—takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.

  • D: Brett Story, Stephen Maing
  • USA
  • 2024
  • 104 min
More details

Wednesday, February 5, 6:30 PM

a woman speaking into a microphone in front of a group of people

Doc Soup: 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
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