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“Without really knowing why, I was convinced I’d find a treasure in my family’s box of home movies. I vaguely remember sitting as a child in front of the flickering light of the projector, watching those films on the screen. Yet I have no memory of seeing the images at that time. What could have led me, years later, to that basket full of 8mm films, stored on the top shelf of the closet in my parents’ bedroom?” - Louise Bourque

A birth worker by day and a dancer in a strip club by night, Nevaeh navigates two very different worlds, in both of which bodies are judged and celebrated. As she reclaims the beauty and agency of her body while defying societal labels and expectations, she generously invites us to rethink our assumptions about sex, labour and healing.

T1D is an expository documentary about living with type one diabetes. The main Subjects are Sarah and Maria. They will tell their unique story of how they got diagnosed, how they lived with it after and how it is living with it now. Type one diabetes is a chronic autoimmune illness in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks the insulin producing cells in the pancreas, which causes high blood sugar levels. This documentary will lead to education about T1D and people living with it.

A portrait of Clay and Paper Theater, Toronto artists whose storytelling, puppets and performances transform public spaces into celebrations of community and collective memory.

Portraits of women activists in the Philippines and their role in the national democratic movement. Portraits of women women activists from all sectors of Philippine society in the movement to overthrow the Marcos dictatorship in the 1980’s. Women farmers, workers, students, mothers, and revolutionaries of the New People’s Army join forces in the people power uprising that ousts the US-backed President Marcos. We meet beauty queen Nelia Sancho, Sister Mary John Mananzan, head of a private Catholic college, Concha Araneta, guerrilla commander and daughter of a prominent landowning family; Alicia Barros, mother of fallen student leader Lorena Barros, and many more, in this inspiring documentary that introduces some of the heroines of the national democratic movement in the Philippines.

A behind-the-scenes look into the elite force securing the perimeter of Salah Tebessi's restaurant show.

This short film from 1973 offers a report on Regina's successful experiment with dial-a-bus, a flexible service midway between a bus and a taxi. The idea is to provide passengers with door-to-destination transportation at an affordable cost.

'Piña, Why is the Sky Blue?' brings us into multiple futures, where technologies have been re-routed to create a spiritual guide steeped in matrilineal knowledge. Here, we learn that Piña is a digital vessel who lives in the distant future and uploads, stores and shares the familial knowledge, dreams and desires transmitted to them from the past. Messengers from various realms and places around the world use digitally altered pineapple fabric to upload their data for the deity, who lives to receive, care for and disseminate the information for its continued preservation.

For several people, the Yukon represents the end of the world, with its pure, natural untouched wilderness stretching all the way to the Arctic Circle. And they’re right!

A short film that explores the intersections of queerness, creativity and culture with three Italian-Canadian writers living in Montreal. What does it mean to be queer and Italian Canadian? And what experiences do queer Italian Canadians have when their sexual orientation and gender identity come in contact with their cultural heritage and traditions?

Produced for the National Film Board of Canada

Home Safe Hamilton is the third film in the documentary series from Sky Works that deals with how Canadian families with children live with the threat and the reality of homelessness. The film examines systemic roots of homelessness as a consequence of economic restructuring, discrimination and displacement. It includes stories of steelworkers affected by industrial layoffs, high school students living in poverty, new Canadians and Aboriginal families.

A response to World Catholic Youth Day and the Pope’s 2002 mass in Toronto, "save myself" is a personal meditation on faith and loss. Why does thought require words, and is anybody listening?

Four women speak about their experiences as queer single mothers.

A short experimental film that explores ancients natives cities in America. Images of Machu Pichu, Sacsayhuaman, Uxmal, Chichen Itza, and Mesa Verde had been blow up from Super 8 to 16 mm, handheld developed and reticulated to create an evocative view of our past.

Maria Amalia Mazzarello is so calm and athletic, she’s easily mistaken for a dancer. The impression is reinforced by L’inis filmmaker Carmen Rachiteanu’s soft black and white images. But Amalia is no dancer, she’s a boxer who left Argentina for Munich, where she rose to the top of the professional circuit. At the Mariposa gym, she presses onward toward new heights thanks to the support and instruction of Kai, a gruff coach with a heart of gold. The film gracefully observes her touching relationship with her coach as well as the inspiring progress of a woman determined to battle the demons of past violence in the boxing ring. “Rocky is a love story”, Kai says to his pupil, who has never seen the film. Mazzarello, it turns out, is also a love story.

Welcome to Africville gives voice to what may have been marginalized members of an Afro-Canadian community in 1969. It's intention is to be a catalyst to thought and reflection about the lives and struggles of people from that community whose stories still go untold. It is the fictional account of a family. We listen to the stories of three generations of women and their friend Julius on the day their community is to be destroyed by the municipal government of Halifax. This story is a portrait of four individuals coping with universal uncertainties and insecurities.

Filmmakers follow up with the students who were with President George W. Bush when he learned of the 9/11 attacks.

Some 40 years after setting foot in Israel for the first time, journalist Pierre Nadeau felt the desire to return there to take stock of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A freelance graphic designer encounters a rare type of crickets.

A question of daffodils, or representation as substitution, or substitution as representation: a film haunted by what remains unsaid and unseen

Tribute artists make a living from the one-time fame of artists like Elvis, Jackie Wilson and Jerry Lee Lewis. Documentary.

Nu•tka• utilizes image bifurcation to explore the history of colonialization on Vancouver Island, where English and Spanish fleets battled over trade routes in the 18th century. Films of the landscape—the only imagery shown—are superimposed on one screen so that the footage appears doubled. This formal effect is echoed by the soundtrack, which includes excerpts from the sea captains’ diaries, which become increasingly paranoid and irrational. At key moments in the narrative all visual and verbal elements meld together in exquisite clarity.

Paraiso, an all-seeing drone spirit, is summoned every Sunday into the heart of Hong Kong where Filipina migrant workers gather to socialise. As the women claim the public space, Stephanie Comilang’s sci-fi documentary considers social connections in today’s age of economic migration and modern technology.

Documentary on Janusz Dukszta, Canadian politician and psychiatrist, who has been a patron of the arts for decades, including commissioning dozens of portraits of himself.

Experience history through a special documentary short film, Pulse of the Continent: Final Spike Steam Tour, telling the story of an incredible journey through North America spanning nearly 10,000 miles over 76 days. Come aboard with us as we revisit the magic and excitement of the Empress 2816 steam locomotive’s epic trip from Calgary to Mexico City and back.

Far from a picture-perfect postcard, this film offers a personal view of the Minganie landscapes in Quebec’s Côte-Nord region. Following the rhythm imposed by the elements, Sylvain L'Espérance patiently observes the sea, plants, rocks, and clouds cohabitate and their interactions with the contrasting sunlight.

Life feels more like a complicated game of snakes and ladders than a straight line.

Migrations We Are is one of the chapters in a series of twelve poetic essays titled Si, Dodecalogue, which is dedicated to timeless heroes. If the stories of the cities become those of everyone inhabiting them, the only way to build one’s identity remains the Imaginary. Therefore, revealing in filigree her socio-cultural fabric, an Argentinian-Montrealer artist reacts to the brilliance of her time through what she paints, films, and writes in different languages. This chapter is dedicated to Pierre Allard, visual artist, and Marcelin François, beneficiary attendant.

In two half-hour parts, The Living Machine explores the progress made in electronics technology and looks forward to an exciting world-to-be. Produced in 1962, the first part demonstrates the capacities of a computer's "artificial intelligence," far exceeding that of any one human brain. The second part shows experiments in electronically duplicating some sensory perceptions.

Mike and Alanna drove a motorbike and sidecar from Alaska to Argentina and interviewed 120 couples about how to stay together for life. They also subjected themselves to scientific tests, to see if their marriage would last. They found out the results at the end of the road...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary following the achievements of a young girl at the Toronto Opera School.

Samwise and Stevie grew up with homelessness in BC and Nova Scotia. Ianos is a gender-queer Greek. Kwaku is a single father who came from extreme poverty and famine.

An experimental documentary about disclosed secrets, social prejudices, and the fragile memories of a dysfunctional family.

This short film introduces us to Sébastien Aubin, a French-speaking member of Manitoba's Opaskwayak Cree Nation. He works as a graphic artist for a living, but he's embarked on a personal spiritual and identity quest on the side. Attempting to transcend the material world, he's apprenticing in traditional Indigenous medicine with healer Mark Thompson. The relationship between the two figures marks the contrast between generations; between modernity and tradition. It makes the 360-degree turn from the values of the past to those of today strikingly apparent.

John T. Davis (pianist/organist/vocalist) and Jim Heineman (saxophonist) are two Canadian jazzmen who have had to wage the war between the compulsion and the passion that they feel towards their music and the struggle that is involved with trying to make a living in the field of jazz music in Canada. John T. Davis is a Black musician from a poor rural environment. Jim Heineman is a white musician from a white middle-class urban environment.

Inclinations began as a moment of “crip” play. The ramp becomes a source of creative movement. Dancers can move in ways that they cannot move on flat surfaces and the ramp itself becomes an artistic object, transformed albeit temporarily into an environment that reveals connection, trust, beauty, and desire. Choreographed, directed, and shot from disability perspectives, this dance-on-video delves into the playful connection enabled where disability, community, and ramp meet.

Accented by collaged radio audio fog of alien invasion paranoia, oneiric images from Serbia fuse with the Canadian Shield of northern Quebec. Dreamland is a conjuring of spectres through hypnotic frequencies; a journey through alien landscapes and brutalist dreams.

Set against the backdrop of a fading, post-industrial London, Ontario, an uncelebrated underclass of Do-It-Yourself musicians stare down a bleak future while searching for meaning in their community. Catharsis for their personal histories take root in an underground venue circuit of dimly lit basements, sleazy apartments, and empty art galleries as they continue to go virtually unnoticed by a placid, indifferent city. Et tu, Dude? serves as an intimate documentation of small-town Canadian musicians screaming unheard into the void.

My Mother's Place is an experimental documentary focusing on the artist's mother, a third-generation Chinese-Trinidadian who at 80 still has vivid memories of a history lost or quickly disappearing. She conveys these with a storytelling style and a frankness that is distinctly West Indian. A tape about memory, oral history, and autobiography, My Mother's Place interweaves interviews, personal narrative, home movies, and verité footage of the Caribbean to explore the formation of race, class, and gender under colonialism.

In the midst of the Quebecois North Shore’s winter, a young directress and a woman with a nomadic past retrace the departures that carved their respectives lives. Through this intergenerational encounter, the filmmaker dives into the intimacy of her own doubts and finds herself confronted to her need for landmarks.

Part of a trilogy of experimental documentaries done on South East Collegiate students. South East is a boarding school in Winnipeg for Aboriginal youth coming from the North. This short film recalls the esthetic of traditional Japanese cinema. It portrays a young solitary figure seeking its place in society. His journey from North to the city encapsulates his struggle to become responsible and seek serenity.

Orange Witness documents the marginalized voices of people who have been exposed to, and affected by Agent Orange. The film paints a bleak picture of the damage caused by the use of herbicides 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T and TCCD internationally. Historically, Agent Orange has been associated with war, but the industrial and domestic of use of the chemical is a story that has yet to reach the masses, until now.

An ice-covered building in Montreal is on fire, and firemen battle two extremes.

Art-house cinema is dying. Many Independent theatres sit vacant as would-be patrons amble past extinguished marquees. At night, they come to life. The lights, the popcorn, the magic of the cinema. But in the age of "home streaming", is this experience enough? Only you, the viewer, can decide.

Blending video art, documentary and music video, Martin Bureau’s film explores the abuses of Western society, at once ravaged by late-stage capitalism and unable to free itself from it. A visceral image and sound experience, All Things Are No Longer Equal juxtaposes an aesthetic of excess and domination with the measured critical commentary of philosopher Alain Deneault, calling for reinvented forms of collective and local solidarity.

An experimental documentary, in which Emma asks people when do you wish to be soft, when do you long to be rough, and when are you both at the same time? Each scene is a fantasy the subjects are invited to play inside. While interviewees’ honest answers offer glimpses into their own inner worlds and contrasting experiences. Merging both the real life and staged aspects of the film.

The name Axomama refers to the Inca goddess of potatoes. In the mountainous regions of Peru, her place of origin, this food permeates various spheres of the lives of the local people. This anthropologically conceived documentary attempts to capture the inseparable connection between potatoes and Peru’s famous colonial history, culture, and traditional beliefs.

A short wildlife documentary that explores the daily lives of penguins at Volunteer Point in the Falkland Islands, showcasing the resilience of these remarkable birds as they face both predators and modern threats such as climate change, commercial fishing, and avian influenza.

This short documentary delves into the last week of training camp for Jean Pascal, ex-light heavyweight world champion at 41, who aspires to become the best in his category again.

As it says on the tin.

Just out of jail, sitting in his car, Joseph drinks iced coffee, smokes cigarettes and makes videos. He loves a USA that he can see disappearing before his eyes, and his rants are a powerful trip into a reactionary and savage American psyche.

Using drama, comedy, and music, this video addresses safer sex, AIDS hysteria, relationships, homophobia, the hazards of sharing needles. Young people are encouraged to examine their ideas, attitudes, and practices, and to make personal health choices based on accurate information. What's wrong with this picture? was written by young people for young people. It uses young people's language and experiences, proving particularly effective where other forms of AIDS education have failed.

A west-coast bible camp staff is documented as they host hundreds of campers in the summer of 2023, taking on every obstacle that comes their way.