EXCLUSIVE: Toronto-based distribution company New Mountain Films has acquired North American theatrical and streaming rights for Marjolein Busstra's award-winning documentary House of Hope about a pacifist Waldorf school in the occupied West Bank. The agreement was negotiated by Khaled Sabbour…

Hot Docs, the major nonfiction film festival in Toronto, has announced award winners for the event's 33rd edition. Earning Best International Feature Documentary was House of Hope, directed by Marjolein Busstra, a film set in the occupied West Bank that focuses on an elementary school run by a…

EXCLUSIVE: In 2024, almost 80,000 people died of drug overdoses in the U.S., according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. North of the border, the situation is just as alarming. In Canada in the past decade, more than 50,000 people have died of overdoses – a striking number…

Hot Docs, the internationally renowned nonfiction film festival in Toronto, announced awards tonight for the 32nd edition of the event. Best International Feature Documentary went to I, Poppy, written and directed by Vivek Chaudhary. The film centers on a son who "fights corrupt officials while…

EXCLUSIVE: Flying Hands, a documentary film about one family's fight to provide education and establish equal rights for deaf children in the remote Pakistan-administered Baltisan region, has been nabbed by several broadcasters. The World channel has snagged it for the U.S. Other buyers include…

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Sidhoo's documentary The Track has lined up its next two festival appearances – and they're major. The film, about aspiring Bosnian Olympic lugers who train on a track in Sarajevo damaged during the war in the former Yugoslavia, will screen at the San Francisco International Film…

EXCLUSIVE: A simple deck of cards holds the key to solving a centuries-old royal murder mystery. That's the intriguing premise of the documentary Lost in the Shuffle, which makes its world premiere this evening at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto. Jon Ornoy directed the film which is built…

EXCLUSIVE: As we know, cats rule the internet. Countless images and videos are circulating online—perhaps upwards of 10 billion of them, according to one rough estimate. For instance, Puff, a rag doll cat who stars in cooking videos, has more than 60 million followers across social media…

EXCLUSIVE: Composer Ólafur Arnalds, who won a Bafta for his work on Broadchurch and had compositions featured on Nomadland and The Hunger Games, has boarded documentary Ari's Theme as executive producer ahead of its world premiere at Hot Docs. Nathan Drillot and Jeff Lee Petry’s work follows…

EXCLUSIVE: London-based Dogwoof has locked a series of international deals on Eternal You, a documentary about AI startups set to screen at this month's Hot Docs Fest following a debut bow at Sundance. The doc has been picked up by Film Movement (USA), BBC Storyville (UK TV), Movistar (Spain)…

Bonjour and hello, Insiders. This was the week in which the end of the historic MIPTV Cannes confab was confirmed after six decades. Jesse Whittock with you. Let’s begin, and sign up for the newsletter here. London Calling, Cannes…

The ten film programmers who led a mass exodus this week out of Canada's Hot Docs Film Festival have said a "toxic workplace" environment was the central issue behind their public exit.  In a joint statement shared across social media platforms, the ten programmers, including Senior…