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There are three boxes in the same sphere. In one box, a human figure is having trouble fitting in. Sometimes he tries to conform, sometimes he tries t...

An experimental animation film in which the images were hand-drawn directly onto clear film by Guy Glover. The colourful moving forms capture the spir...

A National Film Board public service film detailing the steps to collect and process blood serum donations for transport to Britain during WWII. Inter...

This short documentary focuses on one day in a kindergarten classroom. We watch the teacher encouraging children to turn their curiosity into question...

Thea Pratt explores the exhilarating moment of a poetic dive. The movement of the puppet diver is influenced by Norman McLaren, Leni Riefenstahl and B...

Man's need to create beauty, to interpret the world around him in image and color, has found expression in many forms, from the days of primitive cult...

This film introduces the Fogo Island/Newfoundland Project series which is an experiment in how film can be a catalyst for social change by serving as...

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...

This animated short features Leonard, a 6-year-old boy with the unusual hobby of collecting sounds. Transforming household noises around him into exci...

Witty cartoon in a popular idiom about the serious issues that face the world: overpopulation, starvation, and people’s selfishness when confronted wi...

This short documentary depicts the stories of two hibakusha, survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This film follows th...

An encounter between Russian and American volleyball teams, presented more as an essay in the choreography of the players' movements than as a play-...

The big whale round-up at Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, is brought to the screen with a realism not often found in fish stories. Cameras are on hand to r...

A film on soil conservation, showing problems facing farmers in different areas of Canada. Many scenes of soil eroded, gouged and leached out by water...

A short film in the Canada Vignette series. A cinematic portrait of a blind auto mechanic.

Animator Jacques Drouin looks back on his career.

This feature documentary gives voice to various English-speaking groups in Montréal and other places in Québec as they react to the October Crisis of...

A description of placer gold mining in the Yukon. East of Dawson City giant dredges cut deep into the creek beds, leaving behind monstrous coils of wa...

"I've often wondered what makes beauty" - So says Monique Miller who personifies in this short documentary universal woman, anxious to please since ch...

This animated film by Martine Chartrand (Black Soul) recounts the friendship between a young Félix Leclerc and Frank Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican c...