Hot Docs 2023 checks the world's fevered brain
- Peter Howell
- Apr 28, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Jun 3, 2023

Peter Howell
Movie Critic
Toronto’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival has grown over the past three decades from an ambitious selection of 21 factual films into a sprawling cinematic canvas of what’s on the world’s fevered brain.
The 30th edition of this Toronto tradition, running April 27 to May 7 at various downtown venues, will be a mostly in-person affair, with 214 features and shorts drawn from 72 countries. (More than 100 films will stream nationwide from May 5 to 9 on hotdocs.ca.)
With topics ranging from war to witches, and featuring such blazing personalities as singer/activist Joan Baez and former Supreme Court of Canada justice Rosalie Abella, the fest offers its usual array of must-see documentaries.
Here are my alphabetically arranged 10 hot picks at Hot Docs 2023: https://bit.ly/41HBRlm 🌓