Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival

Canada
Documentary

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America’s largest documentary festival, conference and market and it is widely considered to be one of the world’s leading documentary events. As well as offering more than 200 cutting-edge documentaries for screening in the Festival, its industry programs provide market, professional development and networking opportunities for the many attending documentary professionals.
In 2023, the festival celebrated its 30th anniversary, and submissions numbering 2,848. It screened 214 films from 72 countries, plus streamed 100 into Canadian homes.

Hot Docs accepts Canadian and international documentaries of all lengths and subject matter.

Film Length
• Feature Length: 65 minutes or longer
• Mid-Length: 40-65 minutes
• Short: under 40 minutes

Awards

2014 - Won - Ghost Train - Best Short Documentary Award

2012 - Won - My Thai Bride - Best Mid-Length Documentary - International Spectrum

2002 - Nominated - Wedding in Ramallah, A - In Competition (nominated) - International Showcase

Screenings

2024 - Festival Favourites, Canadian Premiere - Every Little Thing

2024 - Festival Favourites, Canadian Premiere - This Is Going To Be Big

2023 - Human Kind - Because We Have Each Other

2023 - Artscapes - You Can Go Now

2022 - Artscapes - Anonymous Club

2021 - Special Presentations - Playing With Sharks

2021 - World Showcase - Descent

2021 - Artscapes Shorts Program - Recorder Queen

2021 - Artscapes - Firestarter - The Story of Bangarra

2021 - Artscapes - I'm Wanita

2021 - Systems Down Shorts Program - Game of Three Halves, A

2020 - Shorts - Flame, The

2020 - DocX - Ecosphere

2019 - Special Presentations - Mystify: Michael Hutchence

2019 - International Spectrum - World Premiere - In My Blood It Runs

2019 - DocX - Awavena

2019 - Shorts - World Premiere - Happy Android

2019 - Shorts - Dust Devil

2019 - Shorts - Handout

2018 - Artscapes - Gurrumul

2018 - Artscapes - Have You Seen The Listers?

2018 - Nightvision - 'I Used to be Normal': A Boyband Fangirl Story

2017 - World Showcase - Digilante

2017 - Democrazy - PACmen

2017 - Nightvision - Spookers

2016 - Made in Australia - Chasing Asylum

2016 - Made in Australia - Another Country

2016 - Made in Australia - Let's Dance: Bowie Down Under

2016 - Made in Australia - In the Shadow of the Hill

2016 - Made in Australia - Opposition, The

2016 - Made in Australia - Shadows of Displacement

2016 - Made in Australia - Putuparri And The Rainmakers

2016 - Made in Australia - Zach's Ceremony

2016 - International Spectrum - Hotel Coolgardie

2016 - Redux - 14's Good,18's Better

2016 - Shorts - Strudel Sisters

2016 - Shorts - At Midnight

2015 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Gayby Baby

2015 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Sam Klemke’s Time Machine

2014 - Mystery, Myth & Legend - Darkside, The

2014 - Next - From The Bottom of The Lake

2014 - Shorts - Ghost Train

2014 - Special Presentations - Ukraine is Not a Brothel

2012 - International Spectrum - My Thai Bride

2012 - World Showcase - Scarlet Road

2012 - World Showcase - Despite The Gods

2011 - World Showcase - Something to Tell You

2011 - International Spectrum - Memoirs Of A Plague

2010 - Next - Shadow Play

2009 - World Showcase - Good Man, A

2009 - Next - Intangible Asset Number 82

2008 - World Showcase - Searching 4 Sandeep

2008 - International Premiere - Beyond Our Ken

2007 - International Spectrum - Forbidden Lie$

2007 - World Showcase - Last Days of Yasser Arafat, The

2007 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Eat The Suburbs

2005 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Land Mines - A Love Story

2004 - Made In South Africa - Man who Stole my Mother's Face, The

2004 - International Showcase - President Versus David Hicks, The

2002 - International Showcase - Wedding in Ramallah, A

2001 - International Showcase - Remembering Country

2001 - International Showcase - ¿Cuántos Colores?

2000 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Memories and Dreams

2000 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Breath, A

2000 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Relative Strangers

2000 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Bush Mechanics

2000 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - My One Legged Dream Lover

2000 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Original Schtick

2000 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Sadness

2000 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Tosca - A Tale of Love and Torture

2000 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Pozieres

2000 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Uncle Chatzkel

1999 - International Showcase - Video Fool For Love

1998 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Imaginary Life, An

1998 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Mabo: Life of an Island Man

1997 - International program - Kosky In Paradise

1997 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Rats in the Ranks

1997 - Under 60 Minutes - Return to Sandakan

1997 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival - Aeroplane Dance