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In this animated short, Mrs. Popcorn is shocked to discover a worm in her canned drink. When the beverage company refuses to accept the blame, she's outraged! An intrepid consumer, Mrs. Popcorn takes the company to court for negligence. Understanding the Law: The Worm is episode two in a series of short films designed to demystify everyday aspects of Canadian civil law. Wry humour and a whimsical style make this informative series lively and memorable.
Pinscreen animation short made for the NFB's "Chants populaires" series of French-Canadian folk songs. En Passant illustrates the song "Et moi je m'enfouiyais."
The accidental reveal of a burlesque dancer’s “true” identity leads to a moment of self-questioning for the audience, and for one voyeur in particular, some deeper self-exploration.
“The Instrument is an ode to listening to music as is and thinking of nothing at all. Not thinking at all. Absolutely nothing”. – KG
Zlatko Grgic's short animated film depicts how humans evolved from the sea and the problems that ensued. Using humour, he shows how industry leads to waste and pollution, which in turn wreak havoc on the delicate balance of our ecosystems.
In this animated short, a delusional young man spots the girl of his dreams in his favourite café and weaves a self-indulgent fantasy story of their imagined life together. Missed Connection examines our universal desire to connect in a world of beautiful strangers. This film was made as part of the 7th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.
A futuristic noodle shop in small-town Saskatchewan has become the world’s first purveyor of the latest in culinary fashion: psychedelic polydimensional comfort food. In this lovingly bizarre short, director and animator Howie Shia examines the small, largely unnoticeable ways in which colonization seeps into our lives, and asks, what is the responsibility of those who dine at a colonial supper table? Dig in.
Barry Doupé's lusty A Boy on a Dock Blowing His Nose features vaguely articulated, quasi-human doodles and Spirographs animated within a bizarre netherworld of its own humid imagination.
The very short animation by Richard Condie is a lesson in how to make a fool of oneself easily and effectively. Two gentlemen are involved: one who wishes to read his newspaper and another who insists on performing acrobatic feats. Although the outcome is surprising, the message is clear: going to great lengths to impress one's neighbor is futile.
We illustrated "Filez, filez, ô mon navire" in charcoal and "J'ai tant dansé, j'ai tant sauté" with cartoons on celluloid plates, using Walt Disney's technique.
“Some days go very fast, and some weeks go very slow,” says a worker in the quarries of the Canadian island of Texada. The human experience of time is relative, but it is nothing compared to the timescale of the limestone being excavated. This stone carries history —not just of humanity, but of the earth itself. And we dig it up, crush it, and use it to make things like toothpaste.
Travel along with the Voyager spacecrafts as they traverse the solar system on their planetary expedition spanning over three decades.
The pilot of an arctic community's candy air-drop is confronted by a visiting government bureaucrat who disapproves of the Christmas tradition.
Martín, a young urban raver, is involved in a strange accident on the road on his way to a party in the middle of the Argentine Pampas. Finding refuge in a mysterious country grocery store and sheltered by two strange locals, Martín's paranoia begins to take over him. As the hours progress, his perception begins to distort, unleashing disturbing visions that will lead him to confront the supernatural forces that hide in the night.
A young couple end their love affair via a phone call, with their break-up spectacularly visualised as an epic martial arts battle in ancient China against vivid watercolour backdrops.
Two prisoners are trapped in a void. Trying separately to escape, they discover each other and have to overcome their fear in order to connect and find a way out. Or do they really discover themselves? Filmmaker Greg Labute renders an austere nightmare world using the SANDDE's stereoscopic animation drawing tool and a dark, slightly perverse imagination. This film was made as part of the 6th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.
During World War II, the production of non-essential goods was kept at a minimum so that war industries could reach a maximum output. Spending power increased, but since employable men were needed by the armed forces, more workers had to be found for war industry.
This film is meant to inspire an interest in reading, especially for those who have difficulties. Words act out their meaning: scare is scary, fun is fun, sob cries, etc. It's an adventure story for the film's two main characters: a "stick" man and his dog; a journey into the world of words.
An animated film made with humor and tenderness whose action takes place in a small village in the African bush.
An allegorical film about the human condition with images that are similar to the art of Kandinsky or Klee and, closely combining surrealism and abstraction, prefigure a world that is becoming decline.
Theatrical short made for Canadian Tire Corporation, Ltd.
A morning in the life of a young Kerala boy who had an idea while having his breakfast. What follows is a fun, chaotic chain of events that leads to the climax. Narrated in Malayalam, the film also utilizes a steady repetition of the sound 'tta' from the language.
Based on the short story by Stephen Leacock, this is a satirical camera-animated story about Christmas expectations and the loss of innocence. Young Hoodoo has bought his parents cigars and a brooch for Christmas. As he opens his presents expectantly on Christmas morning, he keeps his hopes up until the end--will the next gift from Santa Claus be a pair of skates, a puppy dog, Noah's Ark, a sleigh or a drum...? When none of the gifts meets his expectations, he decides to do things differently next year.
Play Doll explores the chilling reality of domestic abuse behind the doors of a seemingly perfect family at Christmas time.
This wartime publicity trailer by Norman McLaren focuses on wartime inflation and the role of price control. Single-frame animation is used with pen drawings made directly on 35mm film stock. Music is by Louis Applebaum, a leading composer and advocate for the arts in Canada.
A telekinetic job hunter encounters an immovable hiring manager.
I, Pet Goat II is an animated film brimming with silent messages and esoteric symbolism. While the movie has no dialog, each symbol tells a piece of a story that covers the fields of history, politics, war, occultism and spirituality. This film explores the Fire of Truth at the Heart of Suffering in a lyrical way. SYMBOLIC REMIX OF THE WORLD’S MODERN TRAVESTIES RENDERED WITH AN INCREDIBLE LEVEL OF POLISH BY A NEW CANADIAN ANIMATION STUDIO.
A short funny self-referential film that is left purposely unfinished. It incorporates experimental animation techniques invisible to the naked eye.
Abstract film by Pierre Hébert, originally made in 1964 and remastered in 2007.
This short animation based on a popular children's story by Robert Munsch tells the story of a young boy with a major problem: his apartment has become a subway station but his mother doesn't believe him and blames him for the commuters' mess.
Short animation by Bruce Wilson
This animated short tackles the subjects of personal space, conflict and conflict resolution in the workplace. At the office, tempers flare as two coworkers who are sitting dangerously close find themselves bumping elbows and spilling ink. The film demonstrates four common approaches to interpersonal tensions: retreat, aggression, denial and - finally - negotiation.
A bunny travels to the big city in the hopes of becoming a successful musician, but faces the challenges of adapting to her new home. Welcome to O'town is an independent animated short film created by Euni Cho at Sheridan College in 2020.
This is your relationship. This is your relationship on eggs.
A fashion-conscious shopper sees beautiful coats advertised in the newspaper. The next day, he's the first in line to get his at the store. But they won't sell him one! "These are women's coats," the store owner says. "For women only!" On the grounds that the newspaper ad constitutes a contract, the customer takes the vendor to court to win his right to the coat. Understanding the Law: The Coat is episode one in a series of short, funny films designed to demystify everyday aspects of Canadian civil law. Wry humour and a whimsical style make this informative series lively and memorable.
The first feature-length animated film in Canada. The story of a new village somewhere in Abitibi, it's people, it's church and a werewolf causing trouble.
"A film in which both sound and image were created with a minimum of photographic or electronic equipment. The images are a few simple geometric forms – squares, circles, lines, ellipses – arranged and counter-arranged to generate an increasing number of perceived images. Their appearance on the screen is as percussive as the sound that accompanies them." — National Film Board of Canada
When an extraordinary new resident – Balakrishna, an Indian elephant – arrived in the town of East River, Nova Scotia, in 1967, no one was more in awe of the creature than young Winton Cook, who became inseparable from his mammoth new friend. Using painterly animation, photographs and home-movie treasures, Balakrishna transmits the wistfulness of childhood memories, while evoking themes of friendship and loss, and issues of immigration and elephant conservation.
An animated cartoon to help children explore why and how animals move as they do. A little boy discovers that he cannot compete with a monkey, a snake or a horse by imitating the way they move. He can only outdistance them when he climbs into a vehicle that can travel in any environment, proving that while other animals are trapped by their environment, humans, the inventors, aren't.
Letter to Celestial is a re-animation and re-imagination of archival documents found in the search for Asian sex workers in Montréal's Chinatown and historic Red Light District.
« While Marilou wears out / Health exhausts / Getting laid »
The ancient myth of the phoenix, the legendary bird with the amazing power of self-regeneration, is reborn with a modern twist. In this animated adaptation of a story by Sylvia Townsend Warner, we follow Lord Strawberry's search for the fabled bird. He finds it in the deserts of Arabia and brings it home to his aviary. Upon Lord Stawberry's death, however, the phoenix ends up as a sideshow in a fairground. This spirited satire of human foibles, with its timely message about our treatment of nature's creatures, will appeal to young people and adults alike.
Confined to his home by a violent storm, a desolate man struggles to fill the long hours, his days blurring in a haze of routine and restless energy. But when eerie sounds echo through the walls and unsettling visions blur the line between reality and delusion, his quiet confinement turns into a waking nightmare. With no escape from the storm, or whatever has awakened inside his house, he must confront a terrifying dread that something, or someone, seems determined to drive him out… or destroy him from within.
Two girls sick of the daily grind thieve their way to riches. The duo strikes big, but will they bite more than they can chew?
Joy, vitality, and a steampunk organ. A perfect recipe for direct cinema. Organic was created with the ancient mariner’s technique called scrimshaw. This film was originally commissioned for the closing ceremonies of the 2019 Annecy International Animation Festival.
A revolution is kicked off when one little cloud has enough of the sun’s tyranny. This film was made as part of the 8th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.
A polite young man transforms into a jerkish monster and runs amok in the office he works at.
Historical events are related through the medium of simulated news broadcasting in 1878.
This short animation tells the familiar story of Christmas in an innovative and colourful way. Filmmaker Evelyn Lambart uses glowing zinc cut-outs to give this traditional tale a contemporary twist. Akin to a joyful medieval manuscript, the film is embellished by the artist's own whimsy—heraldic trumpet sounds, luminescent light, and wildflowers in every scene tell the message of rebirth. A film without dialogue.
A dirge-like hula song illustrates humanity's woes. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
A profound human-animal and human-nature relationship is represented by a painted world filled with a camel’s emotion and tears
A rejection of romanticizing alcohol.
We have lost connection with each other/nature and follow the false ego. We fill this emptiness with more emptiness that the powers that be feed us. Then it all ends. A catastrophic event/moment decimates the Earth. ‘Goodbye sunshine, hello dark skies, so long clean air, do you care?’
Silas Rand and Charles Leland first wrote down the legends of the great spirit Glooscap before the turn of the century. Since then, Summer Legend has been retold many times, but never more beautifully than in this colourful animated interpretation. It tells of the Mi’kmaq people in the cold white dawning of their world, and of how Glooscap battled with the giant Winter in order to bring Summer to the North.
A journey in 2D animation, in which every drawing has been traced onto blank postcards then hand painted, stamped and mailed. Every frame has traveled through the international post prior to appearing in the film.
Based on a story by Iranian Sadeq Hedayat, the life of a dog from his prime to his death. The dog's life is a metaphor for Iran—and perhaps for any nation—and its loss of identity.
A little boy is taken by the Sand Man to Santa's workshop, only to discover that it has been taken over and industrialized by an evil robot.
A man discovers a superpower that could change everything.