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This short film was created by a group of Indigenous filmmakers at the NFB in 1972 and is essentially a song by Willie Dunn sung by Bob Charlie and...
Who Were the Ones?
The cod fishery off the east coast of Newfoundland was a way of life, the backbone of society -- until it collapsed. A review of the history leading...
Taking Stock
Ranjit, a farmer in India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the victim of a brutal gang rape. His...
To Kill a Tiger
How the Fiddle Flows follows Canada's great rivers west along the fur-trading route of the early Europeans. The newcomers introduced the fiddle to...
How the Fiddle Flows
A poor boy’s love for a girl whose tears turn to pearls leads him into a perilous bargain between love, greed, and survival.
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Simon Coutu explores the rise of transphobia and the weaponization of transgender identity in political and media discourse. Meeting with members of...
Transpositions
Inuit artist Asinnajaq plunges us into a sublime imaginary universe—14 minutes of luminescent, archive-inspired cinema that recast the present,...
Three Thousand
A portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the National Film Board in 1939. Interweaving archival...
Grierson
In this feature-length documentary, Indigenous filmmaker and artist Alanis Obomsawin chronicles the determination and tenacity of the Listuguj...
Our Nationhood
This short documentary explores homophobic language and its consequences among teenagers. Name-calling and cruel language hurt, say the teens who...
In Other Words
In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, in the vicinity of which the...
Writing the Land
Structured as a cinematic essay, "Un pays sans bon sens!" explores the emotional and political foundations of belonging to a nation. Moving between...
Un pays sans bon sens!
A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
The story of one shepherd's single-handed quest to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the French Alps throughout the first half of the...
The Man Who Planted Trees
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...
In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
This short film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of an abstract art form that developed in Montreal. The movement, initiated by...
Artist in Montreal
This short documentary includes three vignettes about life off the coast of Newfoundland. In Island of Birds, we visit Green Island, a sea bird...
Along Newfoundland's Shores
Striking images, rare archival footage and interviews underpin this analysis of Canadian mining companies' profits, impact on the environment and on...
The Hole Story
In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, filmmaker Murray Siple follows men who have turned bottle-picking, their primary source of...
Carts of Darkness
This short documentary shows Canada's top swimmers in training for the 1964 Olympic Games. Under the critical eye of coach Ed Healy, they practice...
The Big Swim