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Inuit artist Asinnajaq plunges us into a sublime imaginary universe—14 minutes of luminescent, archive-inspired cinema that recast the present, past a...

A humorous survey of the history of the development of transportation technology in Canada.

A "cat and dog fight" film that also reminds us to keep emergency numbers close to our telephones.

Wild rice is an important source of food and revenue for many Anishinaabe people, who sometimes travel hundreds of kilometres to harvest the grain in...

This short documentary is a portrait of a tiny town, Lakefield, Ontario, and its independent weekly, the Herald. Across North America, newspapers are...

Three books: a film festival catalogue, a dictionary, the Bible. Three works whose materiality has become obsolete by the digital dematerialization. A...

Newfoundland writer Harold Horwood has been called many things, but his own opinion of himself is undiminished. A former union organizer, politician i...

The body is a magnificent system. But its harmony can be interrupted, sometimes by subversive agents within. Sick uses stop motion to bring to life a...

Voicemails get lost and found in space in this thoughtful commentary on the fractured act of communication and the spaces between people trying to exp...

Ice cutting on the St. Lawrence River in the 1860s is illustrated in song and animated graphics.

Kathleen Shannon describes the look and feel of her childhood to an artist friend, and uses his paintings and her visit to the ruins of the mining sit...

A young police officer goes through Abitibi to take a train with a young convict who escaped from her orphanage.

This animated film tells the story of a young Japanese girl's relationship with her grandfather, a postmaster and amateur geologist. When the neighbor...

This short film serves as a poem-on-film about the coming of the machine age on the eve of World War I. Images and sounds combine to recreate a bygone...

The fur trade is Canada's oldest industry, but today some people challenge the morality of killing animals for their fur. This film examines the publi...

Historical events are related through the medium of simulated news broadcasting in 1878.

A chain-smoking woman has an encounter with a vampire.

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

A portrait of a small Ontario town, this film introduces its audience to the people of Holstein by filming them in the old-fashioned general store, th...