Despite a series of depressing headlines last year and a significantly scaled setback alignment in 2025, Toronto documents have returned for another year.
The documentary festival, often described as the largest in North America, has been mainly in the news during the last year for its budgetary struggles, exodus of employees and subsequent existential crises. Even so, the festival (which extends from April 24 to May 4) has a list of 113 documentaries by 2025, which covers everything, from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to the Russia-Ukrainian war to the realities often ridiculous of being raised in the circus (that is, in the adorable and contemplative. Circusboy).
To help you navigate the festival, we have gathered a list of some of the best films offered, as well as when and how those outside Toronto can see them.
Ashamed
How do you face evil when nobody seems to be doing anything to stop it? And how many rules will break to ensure that those responsible are stopped?
Those are the questions that Windor, Ontario, the Jason Nassr man apparently asked himself by establishing Creeper Hunter TV, one of the many North American organizations that are promoted as grassroots bait groups that persecute online child predators. While it may sound like the introduction to a superhero film, the documentary filmmaker Matt Gallagher tries to show how these groups can sometimes cause meaningless cruelty, generalized damage and even criminality.
As Ashamed Documents, Nassr, finally found itself already its organization connected to a complicated judicial case, and more than one suicide. Speaking to relatives, the police and Nassr himself, Gallagher does not throw blows when examining the apparent motivations behind online vigilantism, and the possibly tragic consequences of taking the law in their own hands.
Until Thursday morning, there were tickets available for their presentations on May 28 and 2.
If you are out of Toronto: Ashamed It is scheduled to broadcast online and transmit in TVO in autumn.
The track
There is something beautifully strange in Ryan Sidhoo’s The track. The meditative sports documentary is apparently a Bobsled, Skeleton and LugE of Sarajevo neglect that was one of the least 20 work complexes in the world. Now, it is a crumbled testimony and marked with bullets of the Bosnian war, and Sidhoo documents the determined effort of the former Lux Senad Olyanovic Ultimio to maintain it, and the sport he loves, does not disappear forever.
But while Sidhoo follows Omanovic and the group of Olympic candidates who train under him, The track It becomes something else. The Bellaly triggered Doc, annotated majestically and rhythm professionally is an examination of both the indomitable nature of hope and the wonderfully strange sport in its nucleus.
Tickets for their presentations on April 27 and 30 were available from Thursday morning.
If you are out of Toronto: The track This fall is ready for a wide launch, little ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games.
2000 meters to Andriivka
The Associated Press War correspondent, Mstyslav Chernov, put his life at risk while doing 20 days in MariupolThe Oscar winning documentary focuses on the first days of the Invasion of Russia of Ukraine.
2000 meters to Andriivka It is incredibly, more of the same. Embedded with a group of Ukrainian soldiers in the first line, the new Chernov documentary shows the absurd human cost that must be paid simply to move two kilometers to a small Ukrainian village. Fire shooters explode, military vehicles are bombarded and many die on both sides when the Cherno Rueda camera. The result is a heartbreaking documentary, it is as vital as it is difficult to see.
Tickets were available for the presentations of April 27 and April 29 from Thursday morning.
If you are out of Toronto: While 2000 meters to Andriivka It is a joint release of PBS Frontline and Associated Press, the producers say they plan to show it theatrical at the end of this year.
Marlee Matllin: Not only
Depending on your age, you can know her Children of a minor godplaying a deaf jet trapped in a love story with a auditory co -worker. O The best winner of the Oscar’s image CodaAbout, as the title suggests, children of deaf adults. Or that episode of Seinfeld Where Jerry made her read a couple’s lips breaking on another table.
But wherever you have seen it, the work of actor Marlee Matllin has probably left you strike. In Marlee Matllin: Not onlydetails what he took to do it. That implies the difficult relationship with his parents, what he explains was an abusive relationship with actor William Hurt, and the long way to see another deaf actor (she Coda The co -star Troy Kotsur) follows his steps to win an Oscar.
Tickets were available for the three presentations on April 27, April 30 and May 4.
If you are out of Toronto: Marlee Matllin: Not only It will have a theatrical career from June 20.
Saints and warriors
The Saints of Skidegate of Haida Gwaii are the team that expires in the native basketball tournament. And if you listen to their players, old hands that approach the 40 that now cling to their dominant streak of victories in the championship, basketball is more than a sport for them. It is a way of life.
Saints and warriors It does much more that only shows the way to a title. Touching the colonial history of Canada with personal stories of indigenous resilience, director Patrick Shannon documents a community and the complicated connection that its residents have with it. It is one of several incredible documentaries of indigenous manufacturing at the festival, including social networks exhibition #Skodenand the almost incredibly beautiful masculinity study Siksikakowan: The black man – All that is worth more than your time.
Tickets for Saints and warriors They were still available for the presentations of April 28 and 30 from Thursday morning.
If you are out of Toronto: Saints and warriors It will appear at the Doxa Film Festival in Vancouver in May before its theatrical release on September 30, coinciding with the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. After a theatrical race, it will be transmitted in Crave.
Mr. Nobody against Putin
He is already winner of the Sundance Festival Award, Mr. Nobody against Putin It focuses on what can be the dominant theme of this year’s festival. Pavel (Pasha) Talankin is a cameraman in a Russian primary school, in charge of recording what they are, at first, cute, although notable, among students. That changes rapidly after the invasion of Russia of Ukraine, when you have the task of documenting increasingly disturbing events: registering new lessons about the inferiority of Europe in Russia. Record students to read pre -written scripts about their understanding of the in progress. Record a grenade launch competition among teenagers.
In Mr. NobodyTalankin documents the slow sliding towards authoritarianism on exhibition at school, and his eventual decision to flee Russia to show his footage to the world. The result of this plan is the documentary itself, which is a heartbreaking account of a man in disagreement with his country and his family.
The tickets were available for April 27 that was shown from Thursday morning. The April 26 exhibition has been reduced to Rush Access.
If you are out of Toronto: Mr. No one against Putin is showing in Doxa in May.
Antidote
Christo Grozev was the man mainly behind Bellingcat, the research journalism group based in the Netherlands that, among other things, investigated and identified a Murder team working for Russian President Vladimir Putin. In AntidoteGrozev has the script overturned on him. After seemingly members of the Russian government with their articles, there may be a team of successes that track Grozev and his family. All this develops while Grozev tries to help a defective member of the Russian chemical weapons program, and working to free a prominent Russian activist in treason.
When telling these intertwined stories, Antidote It’s nothing if you don’t stake high. It is also an incredibly important and timely portrait of research journalism and the dangers of modern activism.
Tickets were available to AntidoteApril 28 is shown from Thursday morning. Its presentation of April 26 has been reduced to Rush Access.
If you are out of Toronto: Antidote It is due to an American launch in PBS Frontline on May 6, available on its website and Apple TV+. Availability times may differ slightly for the Canadian public.
