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A moving documentary about a poet not far from being a legend.

How does prolonged confinement shape our experience of time? Filmmaker Conor McNally explores the question in the company of his brother Riley, a youn...

The story of a young woman facing her father’s death, remembering moments in life that help her make sense of it, and finding connection in unlikely p...

After the near death of her grandfather, Chinese Canadian filmmaker Michelle Wong embarks on a personal journey back home to her small town of St. Pau...

A series of very brief clips celebrates the 50th anniversary of the National Film Board of Canada.

Explores the creation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie,” and the phenomenon it became.

This tribute to Denis Marleau takes a simple and forthright approach to one of the major themes of his work: the relationship between material reality...

This short film for kids offers a lesson in proportions in which simple actions achieve surprising results. A man wants a door in a wall. He draws a r...

A layered narrative exploring memory and family history is constructed using a collage of family photos, photocopies and personal audio recordings. Th...

Two prisoners are trapped in a void. Trying separately to escape, they discover each other and have to overcome their fear in order to connect and fin...

This film is about the Moroccan Jews who have come to Québec since 1956. It explodes the myth of Jewish unity, showing the Moroccans caught between th...

The Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia is marketed as a destination of leisure, recreation, retirement and wealth. Behind th...

From behind the closed doors of women's washrooms, The Powder Room reveals women sharing intimacies in the privacy of each other's company. Originatin...

Filmmaker/activist Melaw Nakehk’o has spent the pandemic with her family at a remote land camp in the Northwest Territories, “getting wood, listening...

This short documentary is an absorbing study of Japanese business and industry. Discipline and productivity in Japan are much more regimented than in...

A man with a cancerous growth seeks treatment in a medical facility.

Easter service takes place in the Russian Orthodox church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Montréal. The depth of emotion touched by this ancient ceremony...

Offers a candid portrait of four French Canadian women who adopt surprising new roles as they approach their 50s. Leaving behind husbands and children...

In this feature documentary, husband-and-wife team Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison (Being Caribou),along with their 2-year-old son and dog, retrace...