What's On

Our beloved Doc Soup series will return from October 2025 to April 2026.  As always, each screening will showcase a documentary premiere followed by a Q&A with special guests. 

Celebrate the season with holiday classics. Plus, close out your year with our annual Dude's New Year screening of The Big Lebowski.

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. For Viola will return in 2026. Please check back later for details.

A Canadian documentary rewind series. This monthly showcase presents celebrated and award-winning Canadian documentary gems of the past, giving audiences an opportunity to rediscover acclaimed films and filmmaking talent in a theatrical setting. Curated by Hot Docs Cinema lead programmer Vivian Belik.

The world's leading writers and thinkers join us for in-depth conversations to discuss their latest works and share inspiring ideas. 

Welcome to Jukedocs, a new monthly film series from the musical mind of writer and podcaster Niko Stratis, bringing to the screen a dynamic blend of boundary-pushing music docs. 

A monthly screening series highlighting cutting-edge documentaries that challenge the idea of what a doc needs to be. Acting as a spotlight for future cult classics, this series celebrates the most mind-expanding, form-pushing works emerging from the documentary world.