TORONTO \u2014 A documentary that follows a Toronto teenage shooting victim on a gruelling road to recovery has won the top prize at Hot Docs.<\/p>\n
Director Rico King\u2019s \u201cNekai Walks\u201d took home the $50,000 Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary on Sunday night. <\/p>\n
The film follows Nekai Foster, who was caught in the crossfire of a random shooting at age 16 and shot in the head. <\/p>\n
His journey of learning to walk again and speaking out about the harms of gun violence sheds a light on the toll such crimes take on families and communities. <\/p>\n
The 11-day international documentary festival wrapped this weekend and awarded several other major prizes.<\/p>\n
Hot Docs says in a release that \u201cAmerican Doctor,\u201d a film about three U.S. doctors working in Gaza amid a humanitarian crisis, placed first in the overall audience poll.<\/p>\n
The $10,000 best Canadian feature documentary, chosen by a jury, went to Kim Nguyen\u2019s \u201cSaigon Story: Two Shootings in the Forest Kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jury members praised the film for its illuminating analysis of the iconic Eddie Adams\u2019 \u201cSaigon Execution\u201d image, described as \u201cone of the most haunting moments ever captured on film.\u201d<\/p>\n
The best international feature documentary went to Marjolein Busstra\u2019s \u201cHouse of Hope,\u201d about an elementary school run by a couple teaching Palestinian students non-violent resistance. <\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 4, 2026.<\/p>\n
Craig Macrae, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 A documentary that follows a Toronto teenage shooting victim on a gruelling road to recovery has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[415,407,416,3925,3952,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-32140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-film","11":"tag-human-interest","12":"tag-justice","13":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}