First Festival Screening – September 13, 2015 @ 8:30 PM at Ryerson Last Festival Screening – September 19, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at Elgin/Winter Garden Theatres After his parents are killed, a young African boy is forced to become a child soldier in a rebel army led by a brutal commandant (Idris Elba, Mandela: Long […]
First Festival Screening – September 18, 2015 @ 6:15 PM at The Ryerson Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 19, 2015 @ 9:15 PM at The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema The astonishing feature debut by director Robert Eggers evokes Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining in its tale of a family of settlers in 17th-century New England […]
First Festival Screening – September 14, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at The Elgin/Winter Garden Theatre Second Festival Screening – September 15, 2015 @ 2:45 PM at The Princess of Wales Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 18, 2015 @ 10:00 PM at The Princess of Wales Theatre Johnny Depp stars as notorious Irish-American gangster Whitey […]
First Festival Screening – September 17, 2015 @ 5:00 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 19, 2015 @ 3:30 PM at The TIFF Bell Lightbox Shooting almost entirely within a cab circling the streets of Tehran, the great director Jafar Panahi (Offside, This Is Not a Film) offers a multilayered mosaic […]
First Festival Screening – September 15, 2015 @ 4:30 PM at the TIFF Bell Lightbox Last Festival Screening – September 17, 2015 @ 6:15 PM at The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Filmmaker Louise Osmond follows the story of a group of friends and neighbours in a small Welsh town who pool their modest resources to […]
Hot Docs is pleased to open the 2015-16 season of its Doc Soup monthly screening series with the Canadian premiere of Racing Extinction (D:Louie Psihoyos, USA, 90 min.), nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. From the team behind Academy Award®-Winning Film The Cove (2009), Racing Extinction will screen on […]
First Festival Screening – Thursday, July 30, 2015 @ 7:00 PM J.A. De Seve Theatre Working stiff Aram (WE ARE WHAT WE ARE’s Francisco Barreiro) is miserable at the office and unhappy in his married life. It seems that everything he does ends up reminding him of how little he stands up for himself. At […]
First Festival Screening – Thursday, July 16, 2015 @ 7:00 PM J.A. De Seve Theatre At a time when both our personal lives and the public sphere have been invaded by social media, certain people literally spend their days being observed by countless strangers. Such is the case for Shiori, 17-year-old host of a blogcast […]
Festival Screening – Wednesday, July 15, 2015 @ 9:35 PM Concordia Hall Theatre The Hallow follows a family (Mom and conservationist Dad, plus baby on board), who take up residence in a woodland cottage. These outsiders immediately get the usual cold shoulder and dire warnings from the locals, and Dad further rubs the townsfolk the […]
