This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to midnight, we take in the neighbourhood’s pulse: a mother fussing over children, a father's enforced idleness, teenage boys clowning, young lovers dallying - the unposed quality of daily life.

This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United St...
Rites and operation of the circumcision of thirty Songhai children on the Niger. Material of this fi...

After years of preparation, a team of highly motivated Quebeckers set out on one of the longest wild...
Huntingdon Mayor Stéphane Gendron wants to encourage immigration to save his town, which has been st...
Resilience is dedicated to those whose lives have been fragmented by intergenerational trauma, but w...

Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic ...

'L'ultimo pugno di terra' (The Last Fistful of Land) is a 1966 documentary film directed by Fiorenzo...

Based on the book by Naoki Higashida, filmmaker Jerry Rothwell examines the lives of five non-speaki...
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.
One Saturday morning, filmmaker Madison Thomas has a revelation: she’s just like her mother. As she...

Spain, 1968. An analysis of the political and social situation of the country, suffocated by the boo...

Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland...

Snowflakes at the End of the World offers a meditation on the beauty and ugliness of Montreal winter...

Hot Docs will commemorate Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation with the commissioning of In t...
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawi...

This film takes us into the harsh realm of BC's early coal mines, canneries, and lumber camps; where...

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman'...