Atəm kʷaθ nan (Namesake) – ★★★★★ Hot Docs 2026

Atəm kʷaθ nan (Namesake) is a tremendously emotional and necessary documentary, showing us how lost some communities are in their efforts to recognise and respect Indigenous people. If we could all live with the attitude of the Tla’amin Nation, we would be a lot better off for it – A

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The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Unveils Its 2026 Programming as AKI and Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) to Open and Close the Festival

May 7, 2026, Tkaronto/Toronto—The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (imagineNATIVE) is pleased to announce the programming for its 26th festival year, taking place June 2–7, 2026, in Toronto and June 8–14, 2026, online. As the world’s largest presenter of Indigenous screen content, imagineNATIVE celebrates Indigenous film and media arts

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Searching for Drug Peace ★★★★ Hot Docs 2026

Searching for Drug Peace is a raw, but careful conversation starter on the benefits of safe drug use and effective but still illegal methods of tackling the overdose crisis. Director Alisher Balfanbayev’s compelling and important documentary will reframe how people think about this highly political topic. Amidst a deadly overdose

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Fantasia 2026 Announces First Wave of Premiere Titles

The Fantasia International Film Festival will celebrate its upcoming 30th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 16 through August 2, 2026, returning to the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screenings and events at Montreal’s Cinéma du Musée. The

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The Tower That Built a City ★★★ Hot Docs 2026

Informative and engaging, The Tower that Built a City shows us the evolution of Toronto through an overly nostalgic lens. The result is a feel-good jaunt that anyone with a love for the city will finish watching with a smile. Since 1976, Toronto’s skyline has been defined by the iconic

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Concrete Turned to Sand ★★★★ Hot Docs 2026

Ryan Ermacora and Jessica Johnson’s Concrete Turned to Sand is a magnificently shot, contemplative visual essay that blows you away with its meditative immersion in the rising warmth and acidification of the oceans that affect BC oyster farmers. Cortes Island is a coastal paradise in British Columbia’s Discovery Islands archipelago.

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The Delivery Line: Midwives on the Frontlines ★★★★★ Hot Docs 2026

Nance Ackerman’s The Delivery Line: Midwives on the Frontlines is as important as it is unmissable – a crucial documentary that follows five exceptional women who show us that there is far more to midwifery than we could imagine. Inside makeshift tents on the US-Mexico border, across the resource-scarce areas

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Whispers in May ★★★★ 1/2 Hot Docs 2026

Dongnan Chen’s hybrid documentary Whispers in May is an emotional and weighty coming-of-age film that explores the reluctant journey from childhood to adulthood for those given few options – a deeply delicate and caring film. In the remote Liangshan Mountains, 14-year-old Qihuo and her friends Atnyop and Itgop set out

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Sheffield DocFest Announces 50 Documentary Projects for 2026 MeetMarket

●      50 PROJECTS CHOSEN FROM OVER 600 SUBMISSIONS●      WORK BY FILMMAKERS FROM 42 COUNTRIES TELLING STORIES FROM RIGHT ACROSS THE GLOBE●      NEW WORK FROM FIRST TIME FILMMAKERS AS WELL AS WORLD CLASS ARTISTS SUCH AS WANG XIAO SHUAI, JACOB PERLMUTTER & MANON OUIMET AND IBRAHIM OMAR Sheffield DocFest, the UK’s leading documentary festival,

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