Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema

Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema One of the world's only documentary cinemas and a century-old Toronto landmark. Health & Safety Plan: bit.ly/3zuyMXV
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Owned and operated by Hot Docs, this 650-seat venue is a year-round home for first-run Canadian and international documentaries, as well as special documentary presentations and showcases. Continuing its longstanding role as a community cinema, it also hosts many of the city’s independent film festivals and offers audiences some repertory and specialized film programming.

Vintage posters from the vault: Turning up the temperature with Midtown Matinees.🎞️ SOME LIKE IT HOT 🎷Midtown Matinees r...
05/29/2026

Vintage posters from the vault: Turning up the temperature with Midtown Matinees.

🎞️ SOME LIKE IT HOT 🎷

Midtown Matinees revisits this enduring Billy Wilder classic just in time for the summer heat.

📅 Screening:
Sunday, May 31, 3:15 PM

05/29/2026

🎸 FUTURE COUNCIL 🌍

School of Rock meets An Inconvenient Truth in this coming-of-age journey that dares to imagine a brighter future.

Featuring a special post-screening panel discussion with special guests. Moderated by climate storyteller Karishma Porwal.

📅 Screening:
Saturday, June 6, 4:00 PM

Curious Minds Speaker Series Returns with Toronto: Cinema City 🎬Course 1 | The Nabes: Neighbourhood cinemas, the rise of...
05/29/2026

Curious Minds Speaker Series Returns with Toronto: Cinema City 🎬

Course 1 | The Nabes: Neighbourhood cinemas, the rise of rep culture, the innovators and the survivors
📅 Saturday, June 6, 1:00 PM

Decades before the first Cineplex opened at the Eaton Centre, Toronto was a city of neighbourhood cinemas: single-screen houses embedded in culturally vibrant communities.

This week we'll trace the rise, decline, and constant reinvention of these local theatres, from early storefront cinemas and postwar picture palaces to the emergence of ethnic cinemas in the 1950s and repertory programming in the 1960s and 1970s at places like The New Yorker, Cinecity, Cinema Lumiere, The 99c Roxy.

We'll examines the fight to maintain Toronto's screens in the face of industry consolidation and shifting audiences, and asks what the city's surviving neighbourhood cinemas—The R***e, Fox, Paradise, and Hot Docs Cinema—can tell us about the future of moviegoing in Toronto.

📸 Photo credit: Opening night of the Eglinton Theatre, 1936 - Archives of Ontario

05/28/2026

👠 IT'S DOROTHY! 🌈

Dorothy’s journey to Oz continues to inspire audiences united by their search for belonging. This vibrant, imaginative portrait celebrates her cultural legacy and the diverse communities who claim her as their own.

📅 Screening:
Sunday, June 7, 3:30 PM

🧩 THE ADJUSTER - WITH ATOM EGOYAN 🎬The lives of an insurance claims adjuster and his wife are turned upside down in this...
05/28/2026

🧩 THE ADJUSTER - WITH ATOM EGOYAN 🎬

The lives of an insurance claims adjuster and his wife are turned upside down in this surreal puzzle from Atom Egoyan.

The Adjuster will be presented with a live introduction by filmmaker Atom Egoyan.

Pair with Curious Minds, Toronto: Cinema City - with Eric Veillette - Week 3: Classified by the Ontario Board of Censors.

📅 Screening:
Saturday, June 20, 3:30 PM

🌿 AKI 🏞️A cinematic act of listening and immersion, AKI draws its power from the land, the seasons, memory and the rhyth...
05/28/2026

🌿 AKI 🏞️

A cinematic act of listening and immersion, AKI draws its power from the land, the seasons, memory and the rhythms of life on Atikameksheng Anishnawbek territory.

Official Selection, 2025 Toronto International Film Festival

📅 Screening:
Friday, June 19, 6:30 PM

🎸 I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART: A FILM ABOUT WILCO 💔June’s Jukedocs brings the legendary film about the creation and ...
05/27/2026

🎸 I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART: A FILM ABOUT WILCO 💔

June’s Jukedocs brings the legendary film about the creation and aftermath of Wilco’s groundbreaking album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

Join producer Peter Abraham for a special post-screening Q&A via Zoom.

📅 Screening:
Thursday, June 18, 6:30 PM

🗽 DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE 🗳️Sharp wit and insightful art are used to explore the challenges facing U.S. democracy leading ...
05/27/2026

🗽 DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE 🗳️

Sharp wit and insightful art are used to explore the challenges facing U.S. democracy leading up to the 2024 election.

Join director Laura Nix and subject Ann Telnaes for a special post-screening discussion.

📅 Screenings:
Saturday, May 30, 7:00 PM

🏛️ CURIOUS MINDS TORONTO: CINEMA CITY 🎬Toronto's history can be told through its movie theatres. From bustling neighbour...
05/27/2026

🏛️ CURIOUS MINDS TORONTO: CINEMA CITY 🎬

Toronto's history can be told through its movie theatres. From bustling neighbourhood cinemas and Yonge Street grindhouses, experimental film co-ops, to the corporate rise of multiplex chains and decades of censorship battles, the city's screens have mirrored its cultural, social and political life.

Curious Minds Lectures return with this four-week course that looks at the history of film exhibition in Toronto. In Toronto: Cinema City, journalist and film historian Eric Veillette will lead us through a four-part journey through Toronto's exhibition history, uncovering the theatres, controversies, and communities that shaped how Torontonians have watched movies for 130 years.

📅 Saturdays, June 6 - 27 at 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
🔗 Register for the full course and save at Hotdocs.ca/CuriousMinds

🎞️Playing this week at Hot Docs MAY 26-31:FRIDAY:🎤 THE BLIND COUPLE FROM MALI 🇲🇱 7:00 PMSATURDAY:💄 MODERN WH🌸RE 👠4:30 PM...
05/27/2026

🎞️Playing this week at Hot Docs MAY 26-31:

FRIDAY:
🎤 THE BLIND COUPLE FROM MALI 🇲🇱 7:00 PM

SATURDAY:
💄 MODERN WH🌸RE 👠4:30 PM
🗽 DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE 🗳️7:00 PM

SUNDAY:
👠 SOME LIKE IT HOT 🎷 3:15 PM
🏙️ HOGTOWN: THE POLITICS OF POLICING 🚔 6:30 PM

05/26/2026

🏙️ HOGTOWN: THE POLITICS OF POLICING 🚔

This month's Stories We Told takes us back to February 2004 to Toronto's city hall.

A look back at this riveting Toronto politics exposé, winner of the 2005 Hot Docs Award for Best Canadian Feature.

Join director Min Sook Lee and former councilor John Filion for a special post-screening discussion. Moderated by Toronto-based organizer, researcher, and audio artist Aliya Pabani.

📅 Screening:
Sunday, May 31, 6:30 PM

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506 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON
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