Streaming February 1 - 28

Finding Sally tells the incredible story of a 23-year-old woman from an upper class family who became a communist rebel with the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party. Idealistic and in love, Sally got caught up in her country’s revolutionary fervour, landing on the military government’s most-wanted list. She went underground, and her family never saw her again. Four decades after Sally’s disappearance, filmmaker Tamara Dawit pieces together the mysterious life of her aunt Sally and revisits the Ethiopian “Red Terror”, a period of violence, upheaval and mass killings that nearly wiped out a generation of educated young people in the country.

Audience Award Winner (Cascade Festival of African Films 2021); 2020 Public Award for the Best FIlm Directed by a Woman of Color (African Diaspora Film Festival); Adiaha Award for Best Documentary Film

Curated in partnership with the DOC Institute, Black Light: A Celebration of Canadian Filmmakers is the first collaborative program in Hot Docs' For Viola’s series. Presented to mark Black History Month, this free collection speaks to the unique and multifaceted history of the Black Canadian experience and draws from a rich archive of stories by Black Canadians from across the country.

Presented in partnership with DOC Institute

Sponsored by Rogers Group of Funds, Toronto Arts Council

Co-presenting Partner: NFB

Community Partners: BIPOC TV & Film, Black Screen Office, POV Magazine