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The time is early autumn. The woman wakes and dresses the boy. He practices with his sling while she spreads a caribou skin to dry. The boy picks berr...

"the promise" is a stereoscopic 3D film about two men travelling together, the romantic connection they share, and the sacrifices made to achieve pers...

As summer ends near Igloolik in the 1930's, three families build a saputi to trap fish going upriver for the winter. The days are getting shorter and...

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Battery uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain: Why do we get a char...

This short documentary studies the geological evolution that has gone on for millions of years in the High Arctic. Following the evidence of glaciers...

For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then th...

On April 6, 1980, the Canadian Farmworkers Union came into existence. This film documents the conditions among Chinese and East Indian immigrant worke...

Acclaimed Canadian contemporary artist Mark Lewis echoes the classic city symphony films of the silent era with this breathtaking cinematic tour throu...

When Delia announces a breakup on group chat, she’s bombarded with inappropriate and comic remarks from her Salvadoran family. Produced as part of th...

As the world learns to live again in the midst of the pandemic, for many Arabic-speaking LGBTQ+ people living in Montreal, this is just a period of ti...

An eccentric history buff lives in a cabin in the woods but spends most of his time flying his biplane.

This animated short is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited p...

The lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an insurance convention.

A National Film Board of Canada production about synchronized swimmers.

In the summer of 1967, a hippie group called The Diggers - led by the cool and charismatic 23-year old David DePoe - wanted to turn the street where t...

An intimate portrait of Marie Leo, a Sto:lo woman who was adopted into a Líl̓wat family as a baby. Marie’s gentle narrative of her remarkable early ch...

A film about small Ontario town's struggle to restore a desecrated African-Canadian cemetery and the resulting turmoil over it.