Hot Docs has unveiled its lineup and will put 129 films on screen when it returns next month, expecting to draw 60,000 people with domestic and international non-fiction titles including Forever by Heddy Honigmann, Kike Like Me and Let’s All Hate Toronto. Organizers revealed their plans at a Tuesday press conference in Toronto.

The 13th installment of the festival will open with the Canadian premiere of In The Shadow of the Moon, a look at NASA’s Apollo astronauts in the late ’60s and ’70s by director David Sington. The fest is also screening an unprecedented 22 full-length Canadian films.

‘The feature industry is back,’ says Canadian Spectrum programmer Lynne Fernie.

Highlights among the domestic titles include: Let’s All Hate Toronto by Albert Nerenberg and Rob Spence, a funny take on the city that the rest of Canada loves to despise; Lovable, the conclusion of Allan Zweig’s personal journey in search of a relationship; Kike Like Me, Jamie Kastner’s black comic look at anti-Semitism; and Last Call at the Gladstone Hotel, a take on the rejuvinated Toronto nightspot, from Derreck Roemer and Neil Graham.

Honigmann, meanwhile, will receive this year’s outstanding achievement award and screen her latest, Forever, about the famed Peré-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

Managing director Brett Hendrie says that the fest’s annual budget has leapt to more than $2 million, ‘with several million more in contra deals with partners.’ He points to the International Co-production Day as an initiative that builds industry participation. Thirty delegates from Brazil, Germany and Italy will attend the festival and have one-on-one meetings with Canadians with the expectation of coproducing docs in the near future.

The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival runs April 19-29 at cinemas around Toronto. It will screen films from 30 countries, 31 films by first-time directors and 24 world premieres.