Hot Docs 2024 will showcase 168 films from 64 countries, presenting a wide variety of inspiring films from Canadian and international documentarians and filmmakers. The non-profit is screening films at Scotiabank Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox, and The Hot Docs cinema now through May 5, with select films available online.
This year, the renowned festival showcases a range of short and full-length features ranging from animation to live-action, each telling beautiful, informative and striking stories. Themes of resistance, emergence and persistence are common throughout this year’s works.
Hot Docs 2024 will also features a series of “Special Events”, including surprise screenings, conversations with filmmakers, international premiere and memorial screenings.
Canadian works in this year’s festival focus on the the retelling of childhoods through a variety of lenses, migrant and immigrant stories of life in Canada and the strength and tribulations of the country’s Indigenous populations.
