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Mallory is determined to win the local 100 meter qualifier, even though no one believes in her, not even her mom.

As a trying summer in Toronto comes to an end, longtime friends Shawn and Erin decide to take a week-long camping trip to escape their mounting obligations. At first they revel in the sights and sounds of the countryside, but soon ulterior motives and personal baggage begin to chip away at the foundation of their friendship

A homeopath experiments with bee stings as a way to cure cancer.

For more than 70 years, actress Janine Sutto, the grande dame of Québec theatre, has brought to the stage her passion for her art: portraying life.

Tribute to director, screenwriter and actress Sarah Polley. A whimsical, playful film tells the story of the kinds of stories Polley tells, using humorous, simple line animation, the film comments on the messiness of life and art.

Combining the music of Chopin with digital animation, this short film artfully defines pianist Janina Fialkowska’s imprint in the world of classical music and beyond. A swirling choreography of light particles reveals an otherworldly beauty, channelling the pianist’s explosive performance. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in co-operation with the National Arts Centre and the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation on the occasion of the 2012 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards.

A missionary attempts to repatriate a man claiming to be a Vietnam veteran who is thought to be dead.

Inspired by a woodcut from a university art collection, this animation explores issues of myth, art, history, education and sexual violence.

Not only did Norman McLaren create his own film imagery, he also made his own music by drawing, etching and photographing patterns directly onto the sound track area of the film, becoming a pioneer of electronic music long before the invention of the synthesizer. Norman McLaren: Animated Musician celebrates this exploration and presents much never-before-seen work by this master of cinema.

Lying in bed, she receives a text message from a man she likes. He asks for a photo of her. Dissatisfied with the clichéd shots she takes of herself, she starts a game, pretending to be the illustrious Cindy Sherman, in four photographs from her Untitled Film Stills series.

In the wild Sonoran desert, the greatest criminal of the Far-West suffers the wrath of a four years old child after stealing her ice cream cone.

Eddie Scarugi is the king of the Chicago underworld. When he finally takes a bullet during a prohibition raid, his soul is sent on a journey with the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. But unlike the traditional Scrooge incarnation, mobsters tend to look fate in the face on a daily basis and the only thing that will make Eddie change his ways is betrayal by his one true love.

Silent 16mm loop made for the situated cinema project at ArtSpace in Sydney, Australia. Filmed in an unlit abandoned music hall in Sackville, NB.

Set in the unique landscape of China's Loess Plateau, Of Shadows captures the liveliness and resilience of a group of local shadow play artists navigating between the rural staging of ancient plays and the urban spectacle of national cultural heritage.

Two beings who traverse the same zone of desire, with no other goal than to satisfy the tensions between them. They do so in a remarkable mise-en-scène, where the play of light and shadow is as effective as the composition of the image. As if the movement, the encounter, and the anxiety of the end were responding to the quest for a new balance; in this film, the art of disappearing beautifully both ignites and soothes.

By using techniques such as direct manipulation and optical printing, this work was meamorphosed from found fotage originally existing as a documentary film on Ancient Greece to it's existing form. This short pieces is the result of an independent study with Jean Théberge as my advisor. My approach was to subject the original film to constant experimentation as would an archeologist, peeling and re-layering scenes by means of collage, referencing the original images under multiple layers of psychedelic imagery

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.

After the accidental death of her husband, a renown geneticist creates a clone of the deceased in a desperate effort to restore life to the way it was. As the clone assimilates the modern world, unforeseen effects propel it out of control.

Generation Baby Buster is a documentary feature that explores why so many women are just saying no to procreation. Armed with insight from those who write and think about the current state of affairs for mothers, the director confronts her own ambivalence towards children head on and offers up some baby food-for-thought to a new generation of women: the baby busters.

Colton Harris-Moore, best known as the Barefoot Bandit, was on the run for nearly three years after hot-wiring a Cessna, flying 400 miles before crashing in a field and vanishing into the wilderness. His crimes included a half dozen stolen boats, at least 10 cars and five stolen airplanes.

A documentary about Vancouver metal band 3 INCHES OF BLOOD. The film follows the band on tour across Canada and gives a first-hand look at what it takes to thrive on the road.

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.

A short film reminiscent of another era. It was written, shot and edited on an impulse - three days. It is the melancholy journey from the suburbs to the city of a woman full of doubts.

A young man returns to a traditional life in rural Newfoundland after tragedy strikes.

An Alaskan town threatened by rising water levels takes the world's largest oil and mining companies to court.

Sir Ludwig must keep the DuClaudian twins apart in order to stop the bloodline from ending.

A library clerk wrote an ambitious essay on his native Quebec, but he has a hard getting people interested in it. These difficulties force him to reassess the values ​​he cherishes.

Poetic portrait of choreographer Édouard Lock, founder of the dance company LaLaLa Human Steps.

This eye opening documentary follows former NHL all star Theo Fleury on his 10 day Victor Walk from Toronto to Ottawa, to bring awareness about child sexual abuse, promote healing to the survivors and stiffer laws for predators.

When Jimon Sodoin loses his job at the newspaper Le Noir, he has no choice but to move into a new building with his wife Mérédith.

What began 9 years ago as a drag king competition night at one of the last lesbian bars in Vancouver—the now closed Lick nightclub—has since turned into a monthly multi-gender drag spectacular and queer dance party in East Vancouver. Celebrating Kings, Queens, Things and everything in between, Man Up has grown to become indispensable in Vancouver’s vibrant and diverse queer community, proving that drag is for everybody. Stay Gold Man Up features interviews with key figures, attendees, and performers alike.

In a meticulous reconstruction of a famous New York studio session, musicians jam for hours non-stop. Inspired by Godard’s film portrait of The Rolling Stones recording their hit single Sympathy for the Devil, Stan Douglas evokes a 1973 Miles Davis recording session.

When an aggressive new gang arrives in town and calls for a turf war, Catfish, the leader of the Stationary Biker gang 'Static Fury' must overcome the physical deterioration of his gang and fight from falling back on addictions from his past.

A family escapes persecution in Vietnam, traveling by boat to a Malaysian refugee camp before finding a new home in Montreal.

Tiny and fragile, they wander in immensity, drifting with currents. Their migrations are accidental, their deployments are spectacular. Shaped like matter in a pictural experimentation, here are some wanderings, in the world of silence… the black abysses of Saguenay and the clear waters of the Saint-Laurent.

The documentary highlights the journey of three women as they break free from abuse, change their lives and inspire other women to reclaim their voices.

A small-time drug dealer tries to escape the business unscathed after his police officer brother overdoses on his product. Set in real-time, one apartment, with a revolving door of characters, our hero’s life spirals out of control one fateful afternoon.

DBtH! is a silent looping video intended for screening on public surfaces in gay neighbourhoods across Canada. It beckons viewers with sensuous displays of queer public affection paired with scrolling text that both provokes and informs. This site-specific work claims public space for queer intimacy and political imagining at a time when Canadians are being encouraged by both the federal government and LGBT civil society organizations to celebrate the so-called 50th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality.

Queer Coolie-tudes is a creative essay documentary and queer ethnography which traces the intergenerational lives, histories, identities, familial relations and sexualities of a diverse range of subjects (academics, artists, and activists) from the Indo-Caribbean diaspora in Canada. Some are mixed race, including: dougla (Indian-African mixture), callaloo (creole mixtures)), genderqueer, disabled, aids activist, and perform drag identity.

Starting with her own memories of working as an actress on Abbas Kiarostami's Ten, filmmaker Roya Akbari proceeds to elicit other testimonies on the masters of Iranian cinema from three people who are themselves among the foremost Iranian directors: Rafi Pitts on Parviz Kimiavi; Amir Naderi on Sohrab Shahid Saless; and Bahram Bayzai on Arby Ovanessian. Bayzai also analyses Haji Agha, the Cinema Actor (1933) by Ovanes Ohanian, considered the first feature film made in Iran.

I watch tv so you don't have to. Like the short description summaries that often accompany tv programs though an on-screen cable guide, Don't Ask Don't Tell Gay, Gay, Gay is a jump-cut/short-cut edit that summarizes the content of Season 4, episode 4 of Boston Legal. All excess footage has been removed to capture the mainstream reflection and tone of American discourse around DADT.

A poignant all-Indigenous English and Cree-English collaborative documentary that breaks long-held silences imposed upon indigenous children who were interned at the notoriously violent St. Anne’s Residential School in Fort Albany First Nation, Ontario. Use of a homemade electric chair at St. Anne's and the incorporation of testimony about student-on-student abuse makes this documentary stand apart from other films about Canadian residential school experiences. This film will serve as an Indigenous historical document wholly authored by Indigenous bodies and voices, those of the Survivors themselves.

Playfully collapsing the space between Hollywood Cinema and what Dao refers to as 'Domestic Cinema', The Protagonists explores relationships between representation and reality. Motifs of a clumsy animatronic hand, colorful smoke bombs, a backyard garden and a metronome become characters – protagonists, so to speak – in the deconstruction of filmic colonisation.

In the folklore of most cultures around the world there are stories of magical little folk. And the Arctic is no exception. Inuit traditional knowledge is filled with references to many different races and tribes of little folk. These beings always try to avoid human encounters, but over the years Inuit hunters and shaman have gathered stories and experiences to help us understand these small inhabitants. This short introduces viewers to the little folk of the Arctic.

Warlords, soldiers, and child laborers all toil over a mineral you've never even heard of. Coltan is a conflict mineral in nearly every cell phone, laptop, and electronic device. It's also tied to the deaths of over 5 million people in Congo since 1990.

Director Sylvia Hamilton reflects on her work with the NFBs Atlantic Studio and the birth of New Initiatives in Film - A Studio D initiative for women of colour and aboriginal women.

Tom Decker is a clergyman in his late twenties with a rural church outside of a small college town. Laura Carlisle is a mid-thirties history professor who has recently begun a romantic relationship with Tom. Abigail Scott is a mid-twenties graduate student studying under Carlisle who is also Tom's oldest and closest friend from childhood. The three realize that they have interconnecting relationships when they find themselves at the funeral for Laura's former mentor. Unbeknownst to Laura, Tom and Abigail have a past that extends beyond friendship - they were once lovers. While Abigail longs for a return to that passionate relationship, Tom struggles with his continuing attraction to her, even as he falls further in love with Laura. Observing all of this at a distance is Rev. Ezekiel Hartt, a clergyman in his mid-sixties who has returned to town after a long absence with a secret that threatens to destroy them all.

Fester Fish returns in another throwback to classic theatrical cartoons with a dose of modern black humor.

Voleurz' eighth feature-length film showcases the antics and exploits of the Voleurz family, and features snowboarders and skiers forced against each other in an all out bloodbath. Who will take the throne? Kill Your Boredom highlights include riding from newly appointed Voleurz snowboarder Geoff Brown jumping unique road gaps and adding a double cork in the backcountry to his already heavy bag of tricks; skier Rob Heule shows us what it takes to be skiing’s up-and-coming urban slayer, proving that the infamous 5-kink elbow rail in Calgary is actually possible; and of course, the hilarious and not-to-be-missed Winter Volympics will once again leave your mom asking, “who are these morons?”

A film maker's journey to bring together her gay brother and devout Catholic parents to openly discuss their conflicting beliefs for the first time.

After 48 years of emotional longing, a mother meets her son who she relinquished at birth. In the months after the reunion, Dorothy and Joe must overcome nearly five decades of separation in order to reconnect.

A day in the mind of Geoffrey Oswald Dodd, a seemingly kind, gentle and sane high school teacher. As we follow Geoffrey through the course of a typical school day we gain an eerie insight into the darkest corners of his soul and beyond. Beneath the carefully constructed veneer of Geoffrey Dodd lies something wretched, insidious and foul rotting him from the inside out.

An advertising startup uses birds to spread its message. Documentary.

Canadian territory Nunavut is created.

The piece poetically unites abstract and textural moving images with a traditional Syrian song that was written by Omar El Batch in Aleppo around the year 1900.