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In this pre-Christmas reminder to mail early, filmmaker Norman McLaren used an electric vibra-drill to engrave the images on black film, and included...

A documentary that explores what it means to be a young person in Quebec after the dissolution of the Quebec sovereignty movement.

In this French Canadian film, the lives of teenagers are examined in fantasy sequences and through the use of documentary interviews. Prompted by the...

This Colin Low documentary from 1959 depicts Venice in all its splendor. In the tradition of Venetian painter Canaletto, the film captures the great I...

Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer profiles the young people of Villaways Park, a housing project on brink of historic change.

This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world.

Narrated by Leonard Cohen, this two-part series explores ancient teachings on death and dying and boldly visualises the afterlife according to Tibetan...

Roger and Doris are a childless couple who get more than they bargained for when a strange child appears at their door one day.

There is no indication that this typical online flirtation between two strangers would turn into a case of shocking international intrigue. For months...

A biodoc about the first female filmmaker and her relative disappearance from the history of cinema.

In this short animation, Oscar®-winning director Chris Landreth uses a common social gaffe - forgetting somebody's name - as the starting point for a...

A discussion about Fogo Island fishing, with some criticisms of the longliners.

This gentle tale about mortality works in subliminal ways. When an old man is visited by Death at his home in the meadows, he has to delve deep to sec...

Theodore Ushev’s acclaimed 20th century trilogy concludes with this brilliant fusion of 3D and Russian constructivist-styled animation. Recycling elem...

One dancer, one body, one phone. In a time of collective alienation and technological mass control, one woman rediscovers her soul and reclaims her mi...

On August 9, 2016, a young Cree man named Colten Boushie died from a gunshot to the back of his head after entering Gerald Stanley's rural property wi...

Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In these...

Anne Marie Nakagawa's documentary examines what it means to have a background of mixed ancestries that cannot be easily categorized. By focusing on 7...

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left...

A documentary, using dramatization of fact, that examines the Battle of Verrières Ridge, where on July 25, 1944 and not long after D-Day, an inexperie...