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A BAFTA award nominated animation showing what biophysics and biochemistry now perceive as the facts of life concerning evolution and the genetically determining factor of the DNA molecules.

Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS) is the largest First Nation police force in North America. Police officers in this severely underfunded police force go above and beyond the call of duty when compared to other police officers. NAPS officer duties include, cutting firewood for the wood stove that heats the police detachment and emptying slop buckets with prisoners’ urine and excrement. "A Sacred Calling" shows the deplorable working conditions and the devastating personal consequences to NAPS officers as they heroically provide security and safety to First Nation communities in the remote north of Ontario.

In 2019, Blank Collective Films were on a search for an explanation to their insanity. Anticipation. Inspiration. Creativity. Perseverance. Experience. Exploration. And Satisfaction. These 7 Stages are designed to postulate a progression of the emotional stages during a ski season. Simply, the Blank Collective takes you on a journey through the 7 Stages of Blank, a lighthearted look into the bond that develops around the sport of skiing.

"Port Lands" presents Toronto's industrial waterfront as a complex landscape in which past, present and future geographies transition and converge. Using archival aerial photographs, microscopic videography and data mapping, this work documents how aquatic life has persisted despite intense industrialization. Earlier phases of development transformed the Port Lands into a human-built space for economic activity without regard for negative impacts on the existing environment. Evidence of this disregard persists in new so-called "revitalization" plans in which the water, land and inhabitants are conceived not as a living ecosystem but as data points to be optimized in a high-tech urban landscape.

Elizabeth Bagshaw was a forerunner of the women's movement. As one of the first women to practise medicine in Canada, she had to overcome society's bias against women in medicine. During her seventy-year career she helped to instigate change in public opinion on that issue, as well as the issue of birth control. The film captures the personality of this remarkable woman through a contemporary interview and re-enactments of episodes from her youth. The sepia tones of the re-enactments are in keeping with the film techniques of the time, giving the viewer a strong sense of the period. The film is of special interest to persons interested in the evolution of women's roles in Canadian society.

A documentary that is the journey of adopted identical Vietnamese twins. At a tender age, one of the twins begins to navigate their gender identity and the family pulls together to support Levi's transition.

Director Smith examines the reasons why he likes to wear pink.

A woman seeks to make the outdoors more accessible for fat people – just as they are and without shame. Armed with her slogan “Trails Not Scales”, she soon finds herself hosting events all over North America.

How do multiple identities (Canadian, youth, Asian, queer) intersect and shape the way we navigate our world? This short film documentary explores how six queer Asian Canadian youth redefine and radicalize the concept of intimacy. Various types of intimacy that defy heteronormative values suggest that seemingly “concrete” notions of closeness and identity are not so straightforward after all.

Anishnawbe Health produced this documentary as part of Toronto Living With AIDS. It addresses the issue of AIDS in the Native community. Ojibway Elder, Verna Johnston presents basic information about the disease while her comments are illustrated with archival and family photographs, videotape of special gatherings and community activities. The intention of the tape is to promote awareness of Aids within the historical and cultural context of Native health.

The epic story of how people around the world lived through the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, from lockdowns to funerals to protests. Filming across the globe and using extensive personal video and local footage, FRONTLINE documented how people and countries responded to COVID-19 across cultures, races, faiths and privilege.

A broken history that has torn Anishinaabe families from their sacred objects is healed through the repatriation of sacred objects and the determination of the indigenous people to return to their traditional knowledge to carry it into the future.

This video, edited initially in a 48 hour turnaround, became a fundraiser and helped save a human being. The story is of a Mexican transsexual woman's struggle to immigrate to Canada, in order to live her life with dignity and be with those she loves. This video has been described as instrumental in helping to secure her safe passage back to Canada.

In its present discourse Ivory Towers embodies and reflects concepts that contest the dialectics of power games and power structures that permeate narratives of individual development under fascist regimes.

Last Song to Xenitia is a story familiar to millions of immigrants. Folk-poet, Vasiliki Scotes left Greece in 1931 during the Great Depression seeking to fulfill her dreams in America! The Greeks call this "xenitia," which means: living as a stranger on foreign shores. Part of an ancient oral musical tradition, Vasiliki recites 350 ancient songs from memory in the last years of her life. These songs are published in a book and at the age of 103 she journeys to Greece for the last time with her book of songs and a message of courage for the youth... who face xenitia once again.

This collaborative video shot at a glacial lake in the Rocky Mountains, features a dialogue between two women friends who explore their relationship to the natural environment as influenced by their different cultural backgrounds. Through the layering of meditative images of canoeing, this video evokes a subtle examination of race, gender and privilege: how do we enter into this landscape, as residents, immigrants, tourists, and adventurers?

A 16mm hybrid visual poem, at the crossroad between intertextuality and documentary. This film "plays" with images in a mysterious way. In the words of Eugenio Montale, weaving a disappearing and deserted suburban landscape into the fabric of images, sounds, and textures of two far-away lovers yearning for each other.

After winning the American Triple Crown, Secretariat races at Woodbine, a Canadian track.

Growth in all aspects of Canadian life. Sequence on babies in maternity ward, immigrants arriving by ship, Newfoundland being welcomed into Canada. Governor General Alexander does the honors on Parliament Hill. Sequence on Birthday Celebrations: 200th in Halifax, 75th in Winnipeg, float parades and warships. Hotel Vancouver is shown being demolished. Ships are launched, the Avro jetliner takes to the air, the Toronto subway is begun and an atom smasher goes into operation in Montreal. In sports: largest crowd ever attends running of King's Plate in Toronto, Maple Leafs win Stanley Cup for third time, Allouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders. Sequence on Calgary Stampede. Shots of Miss Canada and Mr. Canada contests. Camera focuses on search for 6 year old boy; on the Noronic fire. Final sequence on election campaign and on Louis St-Laurent as Prime Minister.

Mathieu Favreau offers this tribute to Canadian rapper Daybi and his community, the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve on the outskirts of Montreal. There, nature and tranquility have given him creative breathing space and, more important, a solid, positive, nurturing environment for his twelve-year-old son.

An early student collaboration and shot on 16mm in Sicily, this cycle of kinetic assemblages is accompanied by a soundtrack composed of improvised sounds recorded on location and then in Vancouver.

A Québec barber who volunteers for the homeless every Tuesday on her day off gives us a glimpse of the lives of several homeless , all with striking and distinct personalities.

Depicts a fictitious German invasion of Canada .

Produced as part of the National Film Board’s Five Feminist Minutes, this collaborative work between Gwendolyn and fellow sex trade workers is an examination of police harassment, safe sex education and sex worker’s rights. Well received by the public and the critics, the film also won the award for Best First Short Film at La Mondiale de films et vidéos réalisés par des femmes in April 1991.

Inspired by the filmmaker's life experience, Ketchup & Soya Sauce is a feature documentary highlighting how partners in mixed relationships involving a first-generation Chinese immigrant and a non-Chinese partner celebrate and manage their cultural differences. The Canadian participants range in age from 20 to 90 years old and are in either a heterosexual or homosexual relationship. The documentary depicts an 80-year evolution in culture and attitude toward mixed relationships in both China and Canada. It explores the participant's social background and how their romance began as well as food habits, language and communication, intimacy, financial management, child education, pop culture, and culture shock. The documentary's tone mixes humor with reflective and emotional moments.

Another Day is a city symphony film of Thatcher’s hometown, Toronto. Like other city symphony films, Thatcher’s follows the chronology of a day’s activity, fragments continuous action, and emphasizes quotidian objects (the alarm clock, the toaster, the coffee pot) to present a modernist visual record of Toronto. The film was named one of the Ten Best amateur films of 1934 by Movie Makers magazine.

Legendary Brazilian composer and singer Antônio Carlos Jobim delivers a masterful performance at the world famous Montreal Jazz Festival in July 1986.

Small Town Show Biz: 2 Dreams From A Harbourtown follows two middle-aged people – a Rock Singer and a Pin Up Model – who are dreaming big, while living in a small place. How do you chase your show-biz dreams when you’re far from the shine of big city lights? Small Town Show Biz examines the world of dreams – the ones that haunt us and the ones that inspire us.

A character exploration into the fandom that surrounds the Toronto Maple Leafs and the infamous loyalty devoted to the team.

Canadian Pacific II is designed as a companion piece to Canadian Pacific I. Shot from a window two storeys higher and in the building adjacent to the artists’s studio of the previous year, one enters into a dream state… an involvement with a vocabulary of seeing and feeling by subtle transitions of the passage of time

[19:30 | 35mm (1.85) | Stereo Sound | 2013] The Broken Altar is a portrait of open-air theaters documented under the strange light of day, emptied of the once present hum of human voices, radioed-in soundtracks and tires on gravel. Scripting the landscape and exploring the residue of a cinematic history, The Broken Altar forms a sculptural treatment of the architectural artifacts of these abandoned and barren spaces: speaker boxes rise from tall grass like grave markers and the screens themselves are monumental, sepulchral in their peeling whiteness.

The Great Toronto Fire was a devastating blaze that destroyed 122 buildings and put 5,000 people out of work. The fire started in a clothing warehouse on Wellington Street and quickly spread, gutting thirteen acres of Toronto's prime commercial district. Special trains brought hundreds of firefighters from as far as Buffalo, New York. There was only one person injured -- the Toronto fire chief. Amazed firefighters and onlookers watched photographer George Scott and his assistant set up in the thick of the fire and film the burning buildings on Front Street. One of the first big Canadian film scoops, Scott's film was distributed throughout Canada and the United States.

1 in 3 children is impacted by this environmental illness- 22,000,000 U.S. children today, but chances are they've never even tested your child. It conservatively costs the U.S. $100 billion annually, however a carefully crafted political campaign has made you think it's not your problem. Think again.

Haunted by visions of the future. Vilified by the political establishment. Charming beyond belief. Behold the dazzling ascent of Brian Mulroney, the “Boy from Baie-Comeau” who built a brand-new Canada.

Life Beyond Odyssey is a cinematic, introspective journey that explores what happens after the end of a long, defining chapter. Blending emotion, storytelling, and sound, it reflects on identity, growth, and the uncertainty of moving forward when the path that once defined you disappears. It’s not just an ending, it’s a transition into something unknown, where the past echoes but no longer leads.

The documentary explores the incredible rise of the African and Caribbean community in Iqaluit, in the Canadian Far North (Nunavut). The film follows the daily lives of five newcomers who have chosen to settle on the ice floe, illustrating the cultural and human adaptation between the tropics and the Arctic.

Winnipeg, where strikers attend meetings and marches. Police are filmed making arrests. The strike lasted six weeks.

Against the backdrop of war, Iraq's football team defies the odds, uniting a nation and achieving the impossible by becoming the Champions of Asia in 2007.

A collection of anonymously shared stories detailing women’s experiences of sexualization, showcasing that it may not be ‘every man,’ but it is every woman.

March 11, 2011. Japan is hit with the fifth-strongest earthquake ever recorded. But the real legacy of this disaster is the ensuing nuclear accident - power plant engineers try, and fail, to avert catastrophe. This is the story of a chain of errors that led to the nightmare of nuclear meltdown. The film recreates the sequence of events inside the Fukushima control room and plant, to help determine what happened and why.

Projection is of primary interest in Constellations, which begins at a defunct 1960’s planetarium in Canada named after Queen Elizabeth II. A planetarium is, put simply, a domed surface upon which to project a representation of the cosmos for entertainment and educational purposes. In its exploration of projection as a both a delivery system for moving images and psychological process of imposing the internal on the external, Constellations follows the history of film projection, visiting La Ciotât, where the Lumière Brothers first projected their films, as well as the Cannes red carpet where tourists pose and imitate the “stars,” and finally, virtual spaces where individual identities and desires play out in ways that are both infinitesimal and infinite

Artist Bill Lishman a.k.a. "Father Goose", teaches a flock of Canada geese an old 400-mile migration route from Ontario to Virginia, using his ultralight aircraft. The true story of the feature film "Fly Away Home".

A contemplative short capturing the present and a predictive vision of the future-world.

This participative documentary studies girl-girl friendships and follows two friends in the streets of Montréal, dwelling about soft, but heavy memories.

On the reefs of Pulau Manuk in Indonesia’s Banda Arc, sea kraits thrive among coral rooted in a volcanic island rising from deep ocean. As their daily rhythms unfold, a rare behaviour emerges. Sea kraits hunt in groups alongside schools of bluefin trevally, forming one of the ocean’s most elusive predator alliances.

Attractive low-rent housing and new opportunities for business and industry came about as a result of clearing a ten-block slum area in the centre of Halifax.

Winter in the Klondike will change you - but now the winters are changing.

The Way of the Wing is a short documentary that follows Raza Jafary as he decides to quit his 9-5 job to try one more time at running his own restaurant business.

Sets in motion hundreds of photographs that capture the bodily movement of the Palestinian youth while protesting the Israeli military occupation forces during the 2015-2016 Uprising. It depicts the steps of stone slinging at the settle colonial army and merges individuals into the collective body of the Palestinian people.

Two friends attempt to adapt their competing visions of Don Quijote

Discover the wild, passionate, and utterly improbable journey that led to the creation of Club L.

Tour of the garden through the eyes of a feline.

The Last Reel is a short film with the mission of shining a light on independent movie theatres, with a particular focus on the Hyland Cinema in London, ON

WOMEN WHO DIG showcases Canadian women on a journey to combat food insecurity and the industrial farm system by utilizing traditional farming techniques rooted in ancestral history. The small family farm is often perceived to be an occupation of the past that is being overtaken by large-scale industrial farming practices. Big Ag wreaks havoc on our global climate, all the while creating a GMO monoculture that contributes to an enormous loss of our planet’s biodiversity.

An upbeat, positive film about a group of women dealing with mid-life and menopause. The women come from a wide range of backgrounds, careers and lifestyles. Some are married; some are divorced. Interviews alternate with sequences showing the women both at home and in the workplace. Based on the women's experiences, the film effectively dispels popular myths and fears about life during and after menopause.