Here are more of my personal picks and recommendations of films screening at this year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival.

This instalment includes picks from the Canadian Spectrum, Artscapes, Persister, Human Kind, Deep Dive, Markers, and Nightvision programs – as well as the 2023 Outstanding Achievement Award* Honouring Christine Choy.

Volume 3 Picks

Someone Lives Here
Director Zack Russell | Canada | 75min

The Cemetery of Cinema
Director Thierno Souleymane Diallo | France, Senegal, Guinea, UAE | 93min

Echo of Everything
Director Cam Christiansen | Canada | 77min

La Singla
Director Paloma Zapata | Spain, Germany | 95min

Soviet Barbara, The Story of Ragnar Kjartansson in Moscow
Director Gaukur Úlfarsson | Iceland | 90min

Coven
Director Rama Rau | Canada | 88min

The Rebellion of the Flowers
Director Maria Laura Vasquez | Argentina | 81min

We, the Women
Director Emilce Quevedo Díaz | Colombia | 70min

Unseen
Director Set Hernandez | USA | 88min

The American Gladiators
Director Ben Berman, Kirk Johnson (co-director) | USA | 170min

Markers Shorts Program
Directors Various | 83min

Satan Wants You
Directors Steve J Adams, Sean Horlor | Canada | 89min

Who Killed Vincent Chin?*
Director Christine Choy, Renee Tajima-Peña | USA | 83min

For full details on the Hot Docs Festival, please go to hotdocs.ca.