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In director Kristina Kraskov’s spirited Spreadsheet Champions, a group of young competitors from around the world vie for glory at the 2023 Excel Spreadsheet World Championships. We posed our...
Maybe it’s the titles I selected, or maybe this year’s crop of Hot Docs short documentaries is just really really strong, but many of my fave films screened so...
Director Nathan Grossman follows a group of climate scientists as they explore feelings instead of facts over the course of a therapeutic weekend in Climate in Therapy. We posed...
Although the lineup at Hot Docs is quite a bit leaner this year — 113 films being screened in 2025 vs. 168 in 2024 — there’s no shortage of...
In Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance, director Noam Gonick and producer Justine Pimlott explore the history of 2SLGBTQI+ activism in Canada. We posed our Qs à la...
Feature documentaries may get the bulk of the attention at Hot Docs, but documentary shorts are often some of the best and most memorable of every fest, due largely...
It’s that time of year again and, although the festival has scaled back and is screening fewer documentaries than in years past (113 in 2025 vs. 168 in 2024),...
When posting my reviews of fest films, I like to group them by theme or subject matter rather than just randomly dumping them by day-of-the-week. But, every year, there...
Every year, the festival serves up a heaping plate of eco-themed docs and plenty of films about nature or humanity’s relationship to the natural world. This year was no...
In Death of a Saint, director Patricia Bbaale Bandak travels to Uganda and reconnects with the past as she probes the murder of her mother 24 years earlier. We...
With a broad range of topics served up in easily digestible bites, the short films at Hot Docs always prove that great (and, sometimes, not-so-great) things can come in...
Be it disability rights, prisoners’ rights or even the right to take ownership of your own cultural heritage, many fest films explore complex social issues. Here are five that...
