Hot Docs
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Truck Mama
LABOUR: Shot in an intimate verité style, Zipporah Nyaruri’s Truck Mama places us beside Evaline on the road, where maternal guilt sits uneasily beside the demands of survival.
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My Father and Qaddafi
MEMORY: A daughter searches for truth after her father’s disappearance under Qaddafi.
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The land is strong. So are the people.
REPORT: Reflections on Indigenous films at Hot Docs 2026.
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Paikar
AFGHANISTAN: Moving between the Netherlands, Iran and the borderlands of Afghanistan, Paikar follows Dawood Hilmandi as he confronts the violence of history through the intimate wreckage of his own family.
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Life After
RIGHTS: A wheelchair-mounted camera meets a chilling reality when Canada’s MAID eligibility rules come into view.
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Coexistence, My Ass!
PEACE: Noam Shuster Eliassi’s path from UN hopeful to fearless comedian, testing taboos and hope between Jews and Palestinians in Israel.
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Top festival programmers to join dok.incubator workshop in Czech Republic
Over 120 film professionals—including leading festival programmers, sales agents, and broadcasters—will gather in Olomouc, Czech Republic from 29 June to 7 July for the annual dok.incubator workshop. Programmers attending the workshop include Sudeep Sharma from #Sundance Film Festival, Mourad-Anis Moussa of Visions du Réel, Amalie Brok from #CPH:DOX, Heather Haynes representing #Hot Docs#, and Elena…
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Ghosts of the Sea
IDENTITY: Through memory, myth, and recovered archives, a filmmaker reckons with a father’s legacy and the brother lost to his shadow.
