WINNER—Full Frame Grand Jury Award, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2024; Golden Eye Award, Zurich Film Festival 2023; Frame Competition for Best Documentary, New Zealand International Film Festival 2024; Best Documentary, Adelaide Film Festival 2023; The Mayor of Gdynia Award, Millennium Docs Against Gravity; FIPRESCI, El Gouna Film Festival 2023; Special Jury Prize, FIDADOC 2024

Unprecedented and audacious, Hollywoodgate is the riveting result of the year director Ibrahim Nash'at spent with the Taliban in the wake of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

Risking his life in the war-torn nation, Nash'at is on the ground with the Taliban when they enter an American base loaded with a portion of the roughly $7 billion worth of U.S. armaments left behind. Driving towards an astonishing and chilling end, Nash'at tracks Taliban leaders as they attempt to transform from a fundamentalist militia into a modern military regime, employing Hollywood-style propaganda to achieve their goals.

Both screenings of the film will be followed by an insightful pre-recorded Q&A with director Ibrahim Nash'at, moderated by Hot Docs Festival Programmer Aisha Jamal.