Hot Docs

33rd Canadian International Documentary Festival

Hot Docs

where:	Toronto, Canada
when:	April 23^th - May 3^rd, 2026
address:	506 Bloor Street West Toronto, ON M5S 1Y3 Canada
tel:	+1 416.203.2155
fax:	+1 416.203.0446
email:	info@hotdocs.ca
website:	www.hotdocs.ca
deadline:	January 8^th, 2026
entry form:	Online Submission

Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, offers an outstanding selection of over 200 cutting-edge films from Canada and around the world to Toronto audiences of more than 200,000.
Festival's mission is to advance and celebrate the art of documentary, and to showcase the work of and create production opportunities for documentary filmmakers.

participations

2025	Ai Weiwei's Turandot by Maxim Derevianko: Artscapes My boyfriend El Fascista by Matthias Lintner: World Showcase
2024	Fragments of a life loved by Chloé Barreau: International Competition The Outpost by Edoardo Morabito: The Changing Face of Europe
2023	After the Bridge by Davide Rizzo, Marzia Toscano: World Showcase After Work by Erik Gandini: The Changing Face of Europe Our Fate by Michele Sammarco: Shorts Pure unknown by Valentina Cicogna, Mattia Colombo: International Spectrum
2022	After a Revolution by Giovanni Buccomino: World Showcase Il buco by Michelangelo Frammartino: Markers A Steady Job by Mattia Colombo, Gianluca Matarrese: World Showcase
2021	Bloom up - A swinger couple story by Mauro Russo Rouge: Nightvision Molecules by Andrea Segre: The changing face of Europe My Mohamed is different by Inès Marzouk: World Showcase The Rossellinis by Alessandro Rossellini: Special Screening We are the Thousand by Anita Rivaroli: Artscapes
2020	Res creata by Alessandro Cattaneo: The Changing Face of Europe We are the Thousand by Anita Rivaroli: Artscapes A Youth by Giorgio Bosisio: Shorts Program
2019	Anbessa by Mo Scarpelli: World Showcase Bottoms Up by Brunella Filì: Made In Italy Butterfly by Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman: Made In Italy Dicktatorship by Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi: Made In Italy The disappearance of my mother by Beniamino Barrese: Made In Italy I had a dream by Claudia Tosi: Made In Italy Isis, tomorrow. The lost souls of Mosul by Francesca Mannocchi, Alessio Romenzi: Made In Italy Una primavera by Valentina Primavera: Made In Italy The Valley by Nuno Escudeiro
2018	The Call (La convocazione) by Enrico Maisto: World Showcase - Best Mid-Length Documentary Happy Winter by Giovanni Totaro: World Showcase The Strange Sound of Happiness by Diego Pascal Panarello: The Changing Face of Europe Wind of Swabia by Corrado Punzi: International Spectrum - TIE! Special Jury Prize
2017	The Challenge by Yuri Ancarani: Magnificent Obsessions The Last resort by Thanos Anastopoulos, Davide Del Degan: World Showcase Libera Nos by Federica Di Giacomo: World Showcase
2016	The successor by Mattia Epifani: the Pursuit of Happiness Where Is Rocky II? by Pierre Bismuth: Artscapes
2015	The Creation of Meaning by Simone Rapisarda Casanova: World Showcase Io sto con la sposa by Antonio Augugliaro, Gabriele Del Grande, Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry: World Showcase Magic Island by Marco Amenta: Next (Work in Progress)
2014	Sacro GRA by Gianfranco Rosi: Special Presentations The Special Need by Carlo Zoratti: Love, Factually What is Left? by Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi: World Showcase
2013	Da Vinci by Yuri Ancarani: Shorts
2012	Black block by Carlo Augusto Bachschmidt: Rise Against Italy: love it, or leave it by Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi: World Showcase Piattaforma Luna by Yuri Ancarani: Next Summer of Giacomo by Alessandro Comodin: World Showcase
2011	The Castle by Martina Parenti, Massimo D'Anolfi: Made In Italy Cosmic Energy Inc. by Giuseppe Schillaci: Made in Italy Draquila - L'Italia che trema by Sabina Guzzanti: Made In Italy The Garden of Hope by Antonello Faretta: Made In Italy Heart-Quake by Mark Olexa: Made in Italy Housing by Federica Di Giacomo: Made In Italy I am Jesus by Valerie Gudenus, Heloisa Sartorato: Made In Italy My Reincarnation by Jennifer Fox El Sicario - Room 164 by Gianfranco Rosi: Made In Italy The Valley of the Moon by Giovanni Buccomino: Made In Italy
2010	The Mirror by David Christensen: Canadian Spectrum
2009	Hair India by Raffaele Brunetti, Marco Leopardi: World Showcase
2008	Suddenly, Last Winter by Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi: In Competition
2007	Licu's vacation by Vittorio Moroni: In Competition Liquidman by Martina Amati
2006	Babooska by Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel: International Showcase
2003	Afghanistan: collateral damages? by Fabrizio Lazzaretti, Alberto Vendemmiati: Official Selection