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A director and an editor, both women, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the sit...

Moving between earth and stars, past and present, this hybrid feature documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck, a charismatic and ir...

This film is an album of Native womanhood, portraying a proud matriarchal society that for centuries has been pressured to adopt different standards a...

A clip in the Science Please collection, The State of the Matter uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain how te...

In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of...

Acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh presents a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy: the murders and disappearanc...

Seances, co-created with the National Film Board of Canada, presents a wholly new way of experiencing film narrative. By dynamically generating a seri...

Penguins Behind Bars is an Adult Swim special, adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Janet Perlman, that aired only once on July 20th 200...

A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier.

A chronicle of the lives of a couple and the gradual dissolution of their relationship.

This funny yet serious short film demonstrates the effectiveness of advertising and the marketing machine. Its comic appeal lies in the characters and...

With candor, humour and courage, a group of African-Canadian women challenge cultural taboos surrounding female sexuality and fight to take back owner...

From the 1950s to the 1980s, Catholic priests committed numerous sexual abuses on young boys in several French-speaking villages in New Brunswick. Bro...

A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her hometown...

This short satirical film, created entirely from archival footage, is about the British Empire—on which the sun never sets. The majority of the humour...

A man exchanges his shadow for wealth, then, disappointed with the result, he has to be content with the seven-league boots, which will help him to fi...

Meet Tony Rossi, a 10-year-old boy who can only distinguish light from shadow. Despite this difficulty, he leads a very active life. The short documen...

The life and times of Leilani Muir, the first person to file a lawsuit against the Alberta provincial government for wrongful sterilization under the...

As the only First Nations student in an all-white 1940s school, eight-year old Wato is keenly aware of the hostility towards her. She deeply misses th...

Carrots are good for your eyes. Maybe too good.