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I needed to make a film about Palestinian women persevering
Elizabeth Vibert on telling Aisha's Story in her new documentary about a woman's quest to preserve her food culture in exile.
Arts April 25
Her brother vanished at sea. But there's a bigger mystery at the heart of this doc
In Ghosts of the Sea, filmmaker Virginia Tangvald dives into her legendary family lore, only to discover a dark and complicated reality. It opens Sunday at the 2025 Hot Docs Film Festival.
Leah Collins
Arts April 25
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What the anxious hero of my documentary can teach us all about happiness
Acclaimed filmmaker Denis Côté pens an essay about the lessons of his new film Paul, which is screening at the 2025 edition of Hot Docs.
Denis Côté
Arts April 25
Destination: Art
The Alberta artist building a fence that keeps pipelines away
Peter von Tiesenhausen calls Lifeline, the slow-growing row of white pickets he began building 35 years ago, his ‘most profound’ work of art.
Chris Hampton
Arts April 24
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The fight for 2SLGBTQ+ rights in Canada is a story of love and resistance
Noam Gonick
Arts April 24
What's worth watching at Hot Docs 2025?
Arts April 24

50 years after he first hit newsstands, Captain Canuck is ready for a comeback

The 2025 Sobey Art Award long list is here

Halifax filmmaker captures the city's hidden arts crisis in Making Space: A Halifax Story

National Canadian Film Day returns with record-breaking number of free screenings

Jasmeet Raina questions the meaning of success in Season 2 of Late Bloomer

Now, more than ever, let's come together as a country and hold space for Canadian movies

DESTINATION: ART

People love these giant Screaming Heads, but how did they get here?

Home galleries are hiding in plain sight across Canada

Calgary filmmaker dreams up a big gay Bollywood wedding in new rom-com

Aparita Bhandari

At Regard it's more than OK to be a 'little freak'

Nationalism at the ballet? On mounting a very Canadian Swan Lake

Severance star Britt Lower takes a new job as a Toronto librarian

Marriska Fernandes

Destination: Art

Inside Yellowknife's fairytale Snowcastle, a photo festival that pictures the North differently

How this Juno-nominated music video director captured the feeling of losing a loved one

The garbage artist who will make you rethink trash

Brandon Kaufman

New play asks what happens when technology comes for all our jobs

DESTINATION: ART

In Halifax, you'll find amazing art where you least expect it

DESTINATION: ART

From poems in stone to a chime that plays Loverboy, Vancouver is full of great public art

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