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Hot Docs

Hot Docs is North America’s largest documentary festival and runs in late April/early May. It’s fantastic. Go.

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2025

  • Life Invisible
  • Selena Y Los Dinos
  • Crossing the Divide
  • They’re Here
  • Spreadsheet Champions
  • Ultras

2024

  • The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine
  • So This Is Christmas
  • Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
  • Goodnight, Mister Stalin
  • Death of a Saint

2023

  • Time Bomb Y2K
  • Coven
  • Hebron Relocation
  • The Man Who Stole Einstein’s Brain
  • Undertaker For Life!
  • Praying For Armageddon
  • Soviet Barbara, the Story of Ragnar Kjartansson in Moscow

2022

  • Images of a Nordic Drama
  • Still Working 9 to 5
  • African Moot
  • TikTok, Boom
  • Band
  • Dio: Dreamers Never Die
  • Meeting Point
  • Corrupted
  • Handle with Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew

2021

  • Fanny: The Right to Rock
  • The Sparks Brothers
  • Come Back Anytime
  • La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla
  • Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché
  • Taming The Garden
  • The Gig Is Up
  • Bangla Surf Girls
  • Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street

2019

  • The Pickup Game
  • The Wandering Chef
  • Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind
  • Kifaru
  • Push
  • Gaza
  • American Factory

2018

  • The Cleaners
  • People’s Republic Of Desire
  • Anote’s Ark
  • Mr. SOUL!
  • Pick of the Litter

2017

  • Living The Game
  • Tokyo Idols
  • Becoming Bond
  • Shiners
  • Ramen Heads
  • Do Donkeys Act?
  • You’re Soaking In It
  • A Cambodian Spring

2016

  • The Islands And The Whales
  • The Crossing
  • Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World
  • Migrant Dreams
  • Peacemaker
  • Diving Into The Unknown
  • The Pearl Of Africa
  • Aim For The Roses
  • After Circus

2015

  • How To Change The World
  • Seth’s Dominion
  • Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck
  • It’s Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise
  • Being Canadian
  • Pervert Park
  • Love Between The Covers
  • Danny
  • T(ERROR)
  • Double Happiness
  • On The Bride’s Side
  • Magic Island

2014

  • Sacro GRA
  • The Sheik
  • Pipeline
  • Happiness
  • Return to Homs
  • Watchers of the Sky
  • What is Left
  • The Notorious Mr. Bout
  • Songs of Rice
  • Doc of the Dead
  • Shield and Spear
  • Pulp

2013

  • The Unbelievers
  • Buying Sex
  • 12 O’Clock Boys
  • Oil Sands Karaoke
  • Big Men
  • The Great North Korean Picture Show
  • The Auctioneer
  • Fall and Winter
  • The Defector: Escape from North Korea
  • Tales from the Organ Trade
  • 15 Reasons to Live
  • Mistaken for Strangers
  • Shooting Bigfoot

2012

  • West of Memphis
  • United States of Africa
  • Shadows of Liberty
  • Who Cares?
  • The Ambassador
  • Myster Mazo De La Roche
  • The Tundra Book. A Tale of Vukvukai, the Little Rock
  • We are Legion, the Story of the Hacktivists
  • Laura
  • Primer
  • Boxing Girls of Kabul
  • She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column
  • The Waiting Room
  • Legend of the Warrior
  • Charles Bradley – Soul of America
  • Downeast
  • Dragan Wende – East Berlin
  • China Heavyweight
  • The Invisible War

2011

  • Project Nim
  • Fahrenheit 7-11
  • Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
  • I Am Jesus
  • Gnarr
  • Castle
  • Redemption of General Butt Naked
  • Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
  • Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour
  • Magic Was Everywhere Back Then, Magic Trip, Fightville
  • Dolphin Boy
  • The Hollywood Complex
  • El Bulli – Cooking in Progress
  • El Sicario
  • Memoirs of the Plague
  • Weibo’s War
  • The Redemption of General Butt Naked
  • The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
  • Recessionize! For Fun and Profit!
  • National Parks Project
  • A Simple Rhythm

2010

  • Gary’s Primer (what to watch)
  • A small act, Jennifer Arnold
  • David wants to fly, David Sieveking
  • Feathered Cocaine, Thorkell Hardarsson, Orn Marino Arnarson
  • Space Tourists, Christian Frei
  • The Mirror, David Christensen
  • The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island, Suzanne Raes
  • Short Docs
  • Neighbors, Rached
  • Dr Nakamats, Kaspar Astrop Schroder
  • His & Hers, Ken Wardrop
  • Enemies of the People, Thet Sambath, Rob Lemkin
  • Citizen Boilesen, Chaim Litewski
  • Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg
  • The Parking Lot Movie, Meghan Eckman
  • Made in India, Rebecca Haimowitz, Vaishali Sinha
  • Autumn Gold, Jan Tenhaven
  • Human Terrain, James Der Derian
  • Bhutto, Duane Baughman
  • Nenette, Nicolas Philibert
  • The Socalled Movie, Garry Beitel
  • Grace, Milly, Lucy – Child Soldiers, Raymond Provencher
  • Dish: Women, Waitressing the Art of Service, Maya Gallas
  • The Story of Furious Pete, GI Productions
  • Leave Them Laughing, John Zaritsky
  • Strange Powers – Stephin Merrit and the Magnetic Fields, Kerthy Fix & Gail O’Hara

2009

  • Love at the Twilight Motel, Alison Rose
  • Broke – Rosie Dransfeld, 2009
  • The Man Behind The Log – John Lehmann, 2009
  • Pockets – James Lee, 2009
  • Carmen – Larry Young, 2009
  • Steel Homes – Eva Weber, 2009
  • Ma Bar – Finlay Pretsell, Adrian mcDowall, 2009
  • Action Boys – 2009, Byung Gil Jung
  • Cat Ladies – 2009, Christie Callan-Jones
  • Part of the Weekend Never Dies -2009, Soam Farahmand
  • Tiger Next Door – 2009, Camilla Calamandrei
  • Roadsworth – Crossing the line, Alan Kohl, 2009
  • Jackpot – Alan Black, 2009
  • Carmen Meets Borat – Mercedes Stalenhoef, 2008

2008

  • Carny – Alison Murray
  • 4$ Haircut on Youtube
  • White Vans/Carts of Darkness
  • Junior – Isabelle Lavigne, Stéphane Thibault

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