Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema’s June program includes new documentary premieres, specially curated Pride Month programming, and exciting special events.
The Cinema will undergo a temporary summer closure starting June 12 as the organization regroups and recalibrates. The Cinema will return in September, offering its renowned captivating cultural programming, supported by a sustainable and strategic operating plan.
To view the June 2024 calendar, please visit http://go.pardot.com/e/463832/whats-on-watch-cinema/kyp42/673809556/h/8S8aZVEYO2OsYFhW71ggs0RrEgeyP_EKGUAveAsjH4U.
JUNE SCREENINGS
Fresh off its success at the 2024 Hot Docs Festival, Toronto audiences can catch the captivating Wilfred Buck on the big screen. Using archival footage, stylized re-enactments, poetic imagery and vérité, director Lisa Jackson brilliantly jumps between genres in this Festival hit.
Hot Docs Festival 2023 favourite It’s Only Life After All, an exhilarating doc tracking forty years of revolutionary music making with legendary folk-rock band and queer icons Indigo Girls.
Hot Docs celebrates Pride with a screening of Glitter & Doom, a fantastical summer romance set to the hits of the Indigo Girls, in which two young aspiring performers fall in love at first sight. Punctuated by a star-studded cast, Glitter & Doom is an electric queer musical about the power of love.
The riveting The Gullspång Miracle, a one-of-a-kind doc that begins as an eerie story of destiny, faith and improbable coincidence and soon becomes a Pandora’s Box of stranger-than-fiction revelations and awkwardly comical mishaps.
The highly anticipated new Canadian doc Plastic People, in which acclaimed author and science journalist Ziya Tong takes us on a personal approach to uncover the truth about the growing threat of microplastics to our health. The screenings will be followed by insightful Q&As with directors Ben Addelman and Zia Tong.
Cinema Ticket: $15 (Members tickets from $10) *
*Unless otherwise specified.
PREMIERES
Premiere
WILFRED BUCK
D: Lisa Jackson | Canada | 92 min | 2024
Weaving together moments of his life today as an expert in Indigenous cosmology and his past as a troubled young child and teen, charismatic Cree Elder Wilfred Buck shares his embodied wisdom and profound reflections on colonial trauma in this expertly crafted adaptation of his autobiographical memoir, I Have Lived Four Lives.
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Opened Friday, May 24
Premiere
PLASTIC PEOPLE
D: Ben Addelman, Ziya Tong | Canada | 84 min | 2024
Follow acclaimed author and science journalist Ziya Tong as she takes a personal approach to uncover the truth about the growing threat of microplastics to our health.
Join directors Ben Addelman and Ziya Tong for Q&As after both screenings.
Saturday, June 1 / 3:30 PM
Tuesday, June 11 / 7:00 PM
Premiere / Pride on the Big Screen
IT’S ONLY LIFE AFTER ALL
D: Alexandria Bombach | USA | 123 min | 2023
Fusing decades of the bands home movies with intimate present-day verité, It’s Only Life After All tracks forty years of revolutionary music making with legendary folk-rock band and queer icons Indigo Girls.
Hot Docs Festival 2023 Official Selection
Opens Friday, June 7
Premiere
THE GULLSPÃ…NG MIRACLE
D: Maria Fredriksson | Sweden, Norway, Denmark | 109 min | 2023
What begins as an eerie story of destiny, faith and improbable coincidence soon becomes a Pandora’s Box of stranger-than-fiction revelations and awkwardly comical mishaps in this riveting and one-of-a-kind documentary.
Opens Friday, June 7
SERIES & SPECIAL EVENTS
Pride on the Big Screen
GLITTER & DOOM
D: Tom Gustafson | USA, Mexico | 115 min | 2023
In a fantastical summer romance set to the hits of the Indigo Girls, two young aspiring performers fall in love at first sight. Punctuated by a star-studded cast, Glitter & Doom is an electric queer musical about the power of love.
Saturday, June 8 / 9:30 PM
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