Karen Chapman

Walk Good

Karen Chapman

Paul De Courcy, Charlene McCallum

Walk Good is an unflinching documentary about a mother who lost all three of her children in three separate and unrelated acts of gun violence.

Stain

Karen Chapman

Gulsaya Tuleubayeva, Ingrid Hart

A troubled Crime Scene Cleaner regains a sense of compassion on a particularly difficult assignment. This leads her to realize that healing can be found in more than just words.

Beauty Lies

Karen Chapman

Measure

Karen Chapman

Leslie Adlam, Joseph Burke

A nine-year-old boy gets suspended from school and embarks on a journey through the streets of Toronto — before returning home to face his mother.

In the Name of All Canadians

Andrea Schmidt, Ariel Nasr

Hot Docs will commemorate Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation with the commissioning of In the Name of All Canadians, a compilation of six short documentaries inspired by Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. From Indigenous rights to multiculturalism to the controversial ‘notwithstanding clause,’ participating filmmakers have each selected a specific aspect of the Charter to explore, looking at how it resonates in the stories of their fellow Canadians.