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Hot Docs Lineup: ‘Luther: Never Too Much’ to Open Toronto Nonfiction Fest Amid Mass Programmer Exit

Hot Docs has unveiled its lineup, including opener 'Luther: Never Too Much,' amid unprecedented organizational challenges.

All this comes on the heels of Hot Docs president Marie Nelson’s comments earlier this month to Canada’s The Globe and Mail and CBC Radio that the festival is still struggling financially post-pandemic and might need to make tough choices if greater funding support, from government to private sector to individuals, is not secured. New sidebars The Art of Resistance (a tight pack of premiering U.S. and international films connecting creativity and protest); Emergence (technology docs, heavy on AI); and competition strand Land | Sky | Sea (screening Jennifer MacArthur’s “Family Tree,” Virpi Suutari’s “Once Upon a Time in a Forest,” Cree filmmaker Dr. Tasha Hubbard’s “Singing Back the Buffalo” and four others) are dedicated focus points, but their themes are explored across the festival. The 13-title Canadian Spectrum Competition includes the world premieres of Josephine Anderson’s “Curl Power,” Tova Krentzman’s “Fire Tower,” Jérémie Battaglia’s “A French Youth,” Miguel Araoz Cartagena and Stephanie Boyd’s “ Karuara, People of the River,” Nicolas Tremblay and Régis Coussot’s “Me, Michael and I” and Kurtis Watson’s “My Dad’s Tapes.”

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