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.

🗡️ KNIFE: THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF SALMAN RUSHDIE 🖋️Alex Gibney follows Rushdie during his physical recovery and the reco...
09/05/2026

🗡️ KNIFE: THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF SALMAN RUSHDIE 🖋️

Alex Gibney follows Rushdie during his physical recovery and the recovery of his spirit and hope for the future.

📅 Screening:
Saturday, September 26, 4:00 PM

09/05/2026

🗼 THE TOWER THAT BUILT A CITY 🇨🇦

Official Selection, Hot Docs Festival 2026

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Toronto’s skyline-defining CN Tower as it continues to symbolize a city that’s become a world-class cultural force in sports, music and global identity.

Join director Mark Myers for a special post-screening Q&A.

📅 Screening:
Saturday, September 19, 7:00 PM

🐘 GHOST ELEPHANTS 🌍Directed, narrated and written by legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, Ghost Elephants is a lyrical tal...
09/04/2026

🐘 GHOST ELEPHANTS 🌍

Directed, narrated and written by legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, Ghost Elephants is a lyrical tale of survival, reconnection and the enduring power of ancient knowledge in the face of modern loss.

📅 Screening:
Saturday, September 12, 4:00 PM

🧑‍🍳 TONY 🎬Toronto’s own Matt Johnson shares the story of the summer that shaped 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain forever.📍Ho...
09/03/2026

🧑‍🍳 TONY 🎬

Toronto’s own Matt Johnson shares the story of the summer that shaped 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain forever.

📍Hot Docs Cinema
📅 Screenings:
Saturday, September 12, 7:00 PM
Friday, September 18, 7:00 PM

📣🎞️NEW SCREENINGS ANNOUNCED! 🎞️📣Tickets on sale now at hotdocs.ca🎟️📽️What's On at Hot Docs Cinema this September:🍿NEW RE...
09/03/2026

📣🎞️NEW SCREENINGS ANNOUNCED! 🎞️📣
Tickets on sale now at hotdocs.ca🎟️

📽️What's On at Hot Docs Cinema this September:

🍿NEW RELEASE🍿
American Doctor
The Big Cheese
CatVideoFest 2026
Eddie Cochran: Don't Forget Me
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
Tony
The Tower That Built a City
Unzipped - 4K Restoration

📽️MUST SEE DOCS🍿
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - 4K Restoration
Ghost Elephants

🎞️ MIDTOWN MATINEES🌆
Mildred Pierce

📽️SPECIAL SCREENING📽️
True Stories - 40th Anniversary
Secrets & Lies - 30th Anniversary

🍁STORIES WE TOLD🍁
The Stairs - 10th Anniversary

📽️TRUTH AND DARE📽️
The History of Concrete - Special Advance Screening

🧀 THE BIG CHEESE 🏆Who will become the world’s best cheesemonger? A scrappy team of American underdogs defies tradition t...
09/03/2026

🧀 THE BIG CHEESE 🏆

Who will become the world’s best cheesemonger? A scrappy team of American underdogs defies tradition to take on the world's top cheese masters in France.

See the film and pre-order your own cheese box!

📅 Screenings:
Sunday, September 13, 3:45 PM
Sunday, September 20, 6:30 PM

📚 IAN BROWN ON SEVENTY: AUTHOR TALK ✍️Join The Globe and Mail's Ian Brown for a special in-depth author talk celebrating...
09/02/2026

📚 IAN BROWN ON SEVENTY: AUTHOR TALK ✍️

Join The Globe and Mail's Ian Brown for a special in-depth author talk celebrating his new book, Seventy, about his daily reckoning with the milestone age.

This event will include an on-stage discussion with award-winning journalist Johanna Schneller and a post-event book signing.

📅 Event:
Thursday, September 3, 7:00 PM

🌿 MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD 📖If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated bestselle...
09/02/2026

🌿 MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD 📖

If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it.

Celebrated bestseller, Pulitzer Prize winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, openly q***r but intensely private, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly 50 years in order to open herself, and her readers, to the known and unknowable world.

📅 Screenings:
Sunday, September 6, 3:30 PM

09/01/2026

🪜 THE STAIRS – 10TH ANNIVERSARY ❤️‍🩹

The triumphs and heartbreaks of three resilient social workers struggling with their own addictions.

Join director Hugh Gibson for a special post-screening Q&A. Moderated by film critic and author Adam Nayman.

Part of the series Stories We Told.

📅 Screening:
Sunday, September 27, 6:30 PM

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