The films of Hot Docs
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America’s largest documentary festival, conference and market. Each year, the Festival presents a selection of approximately 200 cutting-edge documentaries from Canada and around the globe. Hot Docs was founded in 1993 by the Documentary Organization of Canada (formerly the Canadian Independent Film Caucus), a national association of independent documentary filmmakers. In 1996, Hot Docs became a separately incorporated organization with a mandate to showcase and support the work of Canadian and international documentary filmmakers and to promote excellence in documentary production.
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I Lost My Mom
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In the style of a film diary, this documentary immerses us in the personal experience of the filmmaker and his sister as they try to ensure their mother can end her days with dignity in the CHSLD system. Amid this complex challenge, Denys Desjardins films his mother with incredible tenderness. He communicates her vulnerability and warm personality from a place of love and respect. This feature-...
The Mountains
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Armed with 30 years of home-video, 75.000 family photos and three tightly fit superhero costumes, the director Christian, ventures into landscapes of long-lost time, in an attempt to confront a 25-year old tragedy, and the hidden wounds left in its wake.
The Hairdresser
Kathleen is a hairdresser. Always has been. Always will be. Even at 83, she's still doing hair. But not in the way you would expect. Her work is special. For the last 31 years, Kathleen has been primping and pampering terminally ill patients in palliative care. In this short documentary, Kathleen reflects on her experience as we bear witness to her unusual work.
Ostrov - Lost Island
On the desert island of Ostrov, in the Caspian Sea, a handful of inhabitants live without roads, electricity, or jobs, abandoned by the Russian state since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In this dystopian atmosphere, this film reveals the portrait of a family forced to imagine a future in the midst of ruins, or to turn towards the outside world, towards Russia and its current state.
Mother-Child
In the consulting rooms of a public hospital in Argentina, social workers dialogue with pregnant young girls, women who has just given birth or other ones that are hospitalized due to unsafe abortions. Coming from the environment of extreme poverty and vulnerability, many of them are victims of gender violence. Hence, their pregnancies make it even more difficult to imagine a hopeful present or...
êmîcêtôcêt: Many Bloodlines
A Cree filmmaker and her white partner document their pregnancy and journey to parenthood. From the search for an Indigenous donor and midwife to their concerns about raising a child as an interracial queer couple, the joy of having a child together gives them the courage to overcome any obstacle.
Call Confession
In a village in Catalonia, a hunter succumbs to his killer instinct and inexplicably shoots two wildlife rangers he happens upon in an olive grove. When he puts through a call to emergency services, he finds it nearly impossible to articulate why he pulled the trigger.
Cavebirds
La réalisatrice Emily Gan suit le parcours de son père alors qu’il construit une ferme de salanganes - des oiseaux aux nids comestibles - dans son village natal en Malaisie, un lieu qu’il a quitté il y a des décennies. Ensemble, ils explorent les différents endroits où ils se sentent chez eux, parfois situés d’un bout à l’autre de la planète. À l’écran, les oiseaux volent d’une scène à l’autre,...
I Lost My Mom
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In the style of a film diary, this documentary immerses us in the personal experience of the filmmaker and his sister as they try to ensure their mother can end her days with dignity in the CHSLD system. Amid this complex challenge, Denys Desjardins films his mother with incredible tenderness. He communicates her vulnerability and warm personality from a place of love and respect. This feature-...
The Mountains
Subscription access
Armed with 30 years of home-video, 75.000 family photos and three tightly fit superhero costumes, the director Christian, ventures into landscapes of long-lost time, in an attempt to confront a 25-year old tragedy, and the hidden wounds left in its wake.
The Hairdresser
Kathleen is a hairdresser. Always has been. Always will be. Even at 83, she's still doing hair. But not in the way you would expect. Her work is special. For the last 31 years, Kathleen has been primping and pampering terminally ill patients in palliative care. In this short documentary, Kathleen reflects on her experience as we bear witness to her unusual work.
Ostrov - Lost Island
On the desert island of Ostrov, in the Caspian Sea, a handful of inhabitants live without roads, electricity, or jobs, abandoned by the Russian state since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In this dystopian atmosphere, this film reveals the portrait of a family forced to imagine a future in the midst of ruins, or to turn towards the outside world, towards Russia and its current state.
Mother-Child
In the consulting rooms of a public hospital in Argentina, social workers dialogue with pregnant young girls, women who has just given birth or other ones that are hospitalized due to unsafe abortions. Coming from the environment of extreme poverty and vulnerability, many of them are victims of gender violence. Hence, their pregnancies make it even more difficult to imagine a hopeful present or...
êmîcêtôcêt: Many Bloodlines
A Cree filmmaker and her white partner document their pregnancy and journey to parenthood. From the search for an Indigenous donor and midwife to their concerns about raising a child as an interracial queer couple, the joy of having a child together gives them the courage to overcome any obstacle.
Call Confession
In a village in Catalonia, a hunter succumbs to his killer instinct and inexplicably shoots two wildlife rangers he happens upon in an olive grove. When he puts through a call to emergency services, he finds it nearly impossible to articulate why he pulled the trigger.
Cavebirds
La réalisatrice Emily Gan suit le parcours de son père alors qu’il construit une ferme de salanganes - des oiseaux aux nids comestibles - dans son village natal en Malaisie, un lieu qu’il a quitté il y a des décennies. Ensemble, ils explorent les différents endroits où ils se sentent chez eux, parfois situés d’un bout à l’autre de la planète. À l’écran, les oiseaux volent d’une scène à l’autre,...
