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A Canada Vignette giving a humorous animated version of the history of Fort Prince of Wales from its construction to its capture by the French.

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

Printed manually on a vintage tabletop press using hand-carved linoleum blocks, this very short animation is about a new parent who learns about free expression and the power of letting go. Inspired by the filmmaker’s new baby boy and found sound. Produced as part of the 11th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

A group of ghouls get together for a house party.

Who hasn't felt apprehensive at the thought of starting high school? This is the central theme of this short animated film. Playing on imagination and humour, the director offers viewers a thought provoking piece dealing with the transition that young people between the ages of 10 and 13 experience. Inspired by the work of Escher and Magritte, Catherine Arcand has created a graphically rich film through optical illusions and trompe-l'oeil effects. Her style aptly illustra tes the theme of perceptions and is perfectly suited to conveying the dream world into which the film takes us.

An animated film created from pastel drawings by Clorinda Warny, Premiers Jours traces the complete cycle of life, from birth to adulthood, in four seasons, and through the evolution of earthly landscapes that become human bodies. Completed Postumously by Suzanne Gervais, Lina Gagnon

An animated safety film adapts the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice" into a song where the mice are factory workers who disregard safety rules and wind up injuring themselves.

Microscopic plastic particles are now everywhere, including in the food we eat. What implications does this have for the future of humanity?

Racial stereotypes and prejudices deprive a highly qualified candidate of a fair interview – and may prevent an employer from hiring the best person for the job.

A Pierrot, a Queen of Les Sommets, a Trilobite and a Moth attempt to reach the highest summits: how will the moon react?

After Rosie bullies Caillou, he embarks on an imaginative adventure of epic proportions: confronting a giant who shows up at an important car race and causes chaos.

An hand drawn animation of Frogs.

When her parents leave her behind for the first time, Madeleine sees them off with tears in her eyes. Fortunately, her grand-mother is there to coax her out of her sadness. Grandma's house is full of surprises, including a chest full of costumes perfect for dress-up. Together they play and bake. Slowly, Madeleine discovers that Grandma seems to know exactly how to have fun. Adults will reminisce about cherished moments shared with grandparents and reflect on the nature of memory. Younger children will be delighted by young Madeleine's adventures.

This short film brings together animated interpretations of four poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: "Riverdale Lion" by John Robert Colombo, "A Kite Is a Victim" by Leonard Cohen, "Klaxon" by James Reaney and George Johnston’s "The Bulge."

This model-animation vignette takes a humorous look at the theme of transportation.

RGBebop / Anthropology is an animated visual music improvisation in color and sound, made by hand with laser-cut stencils, pen, brush, ink, and paper.

The Itch Short Film by Yang Huang, a graduate from Sheridan College. All the works from idea to sound effects are done by myself in four months.

Inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s ballet with choreography and dancing by Mistaya Hemingway.

Tête à Tête à Tête takes place in another realm, where three heads sharing a single body live in idyllic harmony... until one of them begins to have a mind of its own. The film playfully explores how we're all "connected" but at the same time need to think for ourselves and respect differences.

W.O. Mitchell recounts Newton's Law of Falling Backhouses, a story based on the youthful pranks of his prairie childhood.

Two young friends are spending a day away from their camp. Unfortunately for them, an ancient land spirit -- an amautalik -- is also in the area. Luckily for them both, one of the children's difficult life has taught him to think quickly.

The enduring romance of the lines. A visual exploration of Dave Brubeck's jazz classic "Take Five".

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren and collaborator Evelyn Lambart.

A long-term relationship can seem picture-perfect on the outside, but as this couple celebrates their fortieth anniversary, we see that life isn’t always as rosy as it appears.

"Framing the Self" is a multimedia platform for developing an aporetic dialogue between the two basic figures of a movie: the director and his character. They engage in a real conversation between the cinematic language and the animation, questioning the essence of individuality through a non-linear narration. The rules of language slowly lose their validity, being substituted by the principle of doubt. The character will see her individuality breaking apart, progressively exploding into an infinite multiplicity.

Amidst a grotesque but slickly animated menagerie of extreme plastic surgery, a man demands an operation that will realize his inner butterfly.

A positive look at menopause. While different women confide how they experienced this natural and important passage in their lives, a female character tames her new environment and welcomes new ways of perceiving and projecting her femininity.

An animated film about the Hudson's Bay trading post, and the relationship between fur traders and Indians.

As the balance of the world turns upside down for the Anishinabek people, the elder Naamowin builds a healing drum to save his grandson and his people

A short, sweet tape. Kind of painterly in its use of camera as it moves in a fluid way over a set that consists of a white picket fence, a plastic goose and hen, plastic, larger-than-life daisies, and some miscellaneous electronic gismos.

Princess Pea wants to play Tea Party, but Pig and his brothers would like her to play Pirates instead! The Super Readers travel into the famous story of Sleeping Beauty to speak with a princess who loves sleeping just as much as Princess Pea loves tea parties! The Super Readers apply their literacy powers to wake Sleeping Beauty and give an innovative twist to the classic tale. As the Super Readers help convince their new friend that there’s more to life than snoozing they learn how important it is to have an open mind.

Gives us a glimpse of a life which remains very monotonous despite the social upheavals that mark the country.

Monsieur Pointu would like to play his fiddle. But the fiddle has other ideas.

As a young fisherman cruises along a rugged shoreline, a tiny mouse in Haida regalia appears and starts to knit a blanket. A story unfolds on the blanket as it grows longer, illustrating the ancient tale of Haida master sea hunter Naa-Naa-Simgat and his beloved, Kuuga Kuns. When a SGaana (the Haida word for “killer whale”) captures the hunter and drags him down into a supernatural world, the courageous Kuuga Kuns sets off to save him. Will the lovers manage to escape the undersea Mountain of SGaana, or will they, too, become part of the Haida spirit world forever?

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.

Examining how women’s perspectives on their own body hair begin, grow and come undone, this stop-motion animated film traces the ways in which social norms of body hair are easily established, but not always so easily accepted.

An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against a background of changing colors, in response to music specially composed for the films.

Wind burial, influenced by Shamanism, is an old Mongolian tradition. When someone dies, the corpse is carried on a cart until a bump causes the body to fall. The place where the body lands becomes a simple tomb.

Film puts forward a personal cosmology that considers perception, drawing, and agnosticism. The animation is created with a combination of drawn and stop motion methods and accompanied by a text written in a personal voice. This text, which functions as its own kind of artist statement, wrestles with the feeling of uncertainty and hesitation, while recognizing the limited possibility of leaving these states

This animated short by Norman McLaren serves as a wartime savings campaign. Symbolic figures, drawn directly on 35mm film stock, move and dance against a simple painted background. The score is "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie," by Albert Ammons.

An elementary school film on multiplication based on the theories of Professor Zoltan Dienes.

Commissioned by Charles Street Video and the Images Festival. In this animation, the artist goes back in time to help a scared high school bully.

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Cutouts and found objects come to life, flying across the screen in an abstract choreography.

The nocturnal walk of a man obsessed with his imagination.

91 thousand tender, yet unrelenting embroidered stitches on a single piece of leather.

A boy is late for class. As young boys do, comes a fantastic excuse to explain why he's late. In the course of the story everything becomes clear to the last consequence.

Watch as one cloud’s imagination soars from the familiar to the unknown on a captivating journey from dusk until dawn. Animated using partial audio waveform data, A Cloud’s Dream is a stereoscopic particle simulation that explores various cloud formations. This film was made as part of the 7th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

Ethel's childhood ends abruptly when her mother flies away, leaving Ethel alone to care for an isolated homestead and her younger siblings. As a merciless winter descends upon them, Ethel must decide whether to resign herself to fate or to try her luck in the wide world...

A Tahitian dancer tries to reclaim her identity by confronting a tourist audience with a dance of her own.

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Débâcle (a french term referring to spring ice breakups) draws its inspiration from the shifting courses of the St-Lawrence river during wintertime. Through a search for the vast ice patch which usually clings to the Quebec North Shore coastline during the colder months, Débâcle bears witness to climate change and the fragility of our coastal territory.

Fester Fish heads down to the lake for some good old-fashioned fishing, with unforeseen consequences.

Woman is the first part of a trilogy that, from the perspective of the Iranian diaspora, supports the feminist revolution in Iran. Using documentary techniques to highlight street protests, the film presents civil disobedience as a collective performance and probes the discourse around women, life, and freedom.

Featuring a voiceover. 1944 test inspired by surrealist painter Yves Tanguy, an improvised moving growing landscape in a surrealistic manner.

Combining figurative abstraction with magic realism, this animated short depicts a world in which whales fall out of the sky and fish turn into balloons. It is a black and white evocation of the real world, transformed by the director's special sense of whimsy. With bold lines reminiscent of the stark simplicity of Inuit art, this cautionary tale is a reminder of the interconnectedness of all things. We are all affected by the fate of the Arctic, which each year is disappearing a little farther into the ocean.