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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.

After a twenty-year-long career, the contemporary art group BGL (Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère and Nicolas Laverdière) are offered a wonderful and colossal challenge. In a short period of time, they are to create and oversee two monumental public art pieces – one in Montréal and the other in Toronto – and represent Canada during the 56th Biennale in Venice. What better moment than to shine the spotlight on this immensely creative trio and allowing us to take a retrospective look on their prolific and disconcerting legacy. This fairy-tale like documentary, entangles humour, extravagance, oneirism and camaraderie.

3D animation by Sabrina Ratté

Set in the heart of the Middle-Eastern community in modern-day Vancouver, Kayan is a multifarious story of belonging, loyalty and love. Hanin, a Lebanese independent single mother of two, struggles to keep her restaurant, Kayan, afloat. Unexpected revelations in her private life coincide with complications in the lives of her employees and customers. Things take a twisted turn

The National Film Board of Canada wishes you a happy holiday season with this animated card by Malcom Sutherland. Best wishes for 2012!

Committed documentary in the footsteps of three Quebec chefs who think outside the box to offer gastronomy that resembles us and brings us together. In the forests, the fields and the great St. Lawrence River, they pick surprising products and place the territory on the plate. These gourmet creators offer a change of mentality in order to participate in the development of a culinary art in harmony with nature.

A glimpse into how young lives are destroyed by war.

Watch his story unfold as we recount his rise as a journalist covering some of the most controversial UFO events seen across Mexico in history. Jaime Maussan started his career in journalism at some of the highest profile news agencies in Mexico, including 60 minutes and TV Azteca. His ambition and powerful desire to tell stories at a feverish pace led to the creation of his own news reporting agency Tercer Milenio which still has a growing base of over 2 million viewers a week internationally.

Set in the criminal underworld of Waterloo, Stoner Jack inadvertently becomes involved in a drug war between two rival gangs. Jack must survive an onslaught of home invaders as he fends not only for himself but also for his precious marijuana.

The first of a five-part series of short documentaries: This story begins over a century ago, when the City of Winnipeg decides that the water surrounding the traditional Anishinaabe territory of what is now Shoal Lake 40 First Nation will be diverted and used as Winnipeg’s primary water source. The community, their ancient burial grounds, environment, and ways of life are forever disrupted, and access to opportunities and essential services are severed. Enforced residential schooling and a tainted water supply compound the devastating impact. Community leader and former combat engineer Daryl Redsky sheds light on how generations of complex planning, cultural preservation and mobilization have led us to the current moment—and to the construction of Freedom Road.

Bonnie Sherr-Klein recalls the early days of Studio D, the women's studio, and the birth of the seminal film Not a Love Story which she co-directed.

Mustaches have feelings too.

A flock of nymphs herald the arrival of spring.

'The Coasters" is a character driven feature documentary that explores the lives of the people living on the Lower-North-Shore of Quebec namely: the Coasters. Anglophone, francophone and first nations innu communities share the isolation of this barren land where there are no roads to the outside world. Every season brings a different challenge for these hardened canadians who live of the land and the sea. They all wait for winter, for when the frozen water and the snow offers the proper conditions for snowmobile travel. Then, the world is theirs. For almost a century, hockey tournaments, carnivals and dancing nights take place every weekend all up "The Coast" in a different village. People that left the region for lack of work comes back for this moment frozen in time, knowing that everytime they come back home, might be the last.

Exploring the capacity of the medium to express various notions of time, the film begins with a woman looking out from the shoreline.

Commissioned by the Toronto Animated Image Society

Day and night in a hotel window in Ottawa. The window frame vibrates and multiplies. An embarrassment of lampshades.

Adult men share their stories of how their fathers explained sex to them as kids in an animated compilation.

A song of creation: immaterial space spawns volatile matter; obfuscated landscape emerges from splintering celluloid. Created at the Independent Imaging Retreat, the landscape is seen anew by 16mm hand-manipulation giving rise to a geometry of trees and meadows; the sonic score is subjected to similar direct manipulation.

"ZAIA: Crossroads in Macau" is a documentary that demonstrates the concepts from which the first Cirque du Soleil show in Asia was created and how they were layered onto the real life challenges of its artists and creators.

Gifted animator Leslie Supnet collaborates with Winnipeg storyteller Glen Johnson for this contemplative comic fantasy about a time-obsessed squirrel.

A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving pictures provided new behavior modellings. How do pictures change desire, or the behaviours of desire? This question carried extra weight after the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, as movie makers struggled to find combinations of pictures that might help create the conditions for safer sex.

A film that explores the unspoken issue of LGBT domestic violence. It distills the tensions between classes in society, the plight of immigrants in Canada, the double-edge of charity, and the transference of violence from people’s fetish and fear.

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 woman reflects on a past relationship as she disposes of an infected mattress

a memorable and initiatory sunday "family" dinner

“We use the strength of resilience pro- voked by six emotional states: bore- dom, sadness, solitude, anger, disgust and indifference.” The manifesto of the At-Work collective appears onscreen, proclaiming artistic and intellec- tual guerrilla tactics with Situationist aspects: “Work is considered as an experimental field in which conflictual relationships between private utopias, collective necessities and economic realities are at play.”

An autobiographical film for that is set in an isolated park, where a young man has a silent yet intense encounter with another man, which results in a euphoric, childlike chase through the forest.

A hand-crafted memory film told through the brutally simple point of view of a child. It deals with the relationship to things, places and people left behind when one is forced, by whatever circumstances, to leave what they considered home.

Skaters instead of adolescent movie stars! DIYs instead of dead bodies! Rob Sluggos instead of trains! Inspired by the coming of age classic Stand By Me, Alana Paterson’s short “Slam By Me” is a charming, funny and nostalgic portrayal of everything that comes with putting your foot on a board.

An ode to overcoming dark energies that lie within; confronting fear and the journey to self-acceptance.

Ocean III is part of a series of films loosely connected by a similar process of cinematography that sees the operation of the camera as a kind of intuitive performance; specifically the way lenses, filters, and camera are manoeuvred in a single long take to create an impression of a space, while also frequently abstracting it.

Like Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbour, on a smaller but equally poignant scale, 3000 members of India's tiny Chinese community were incarcerated in an old POW camp for up to 4 years in the aftermath of the India-China war of 1962. Even children, expectant mothers and the elderly were not spared. Most people don't know about this tragic episode. There is no acknowledgment or apology either from the government to date. And yet, among those who suffered, the love for India and things Indian remain alongside the pain and hurt. It's a story that reminds us that history has a way of repeating itself. Again and again.

Masculine tropes are undone to form a relationship between male sexuality and the human death drive. The body, violence and humour are positioned in the larger context of nothingness and somethingness, bridging a tension between externalized anxieties and the terrors of nature.

Alanis Obomsawin talks about how she got her start at the NFB and the overarching importance of sound/story in her work.

The film explores the way traditional hunting in Nunavut has evolved so that it can continue to play a vital role in contemporary Inuit culture.

Drawing on footage from Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, "Empty Nightclub" is a maze of urban streets, dark corridors and dance floors. The video weaves scenes from Orlando, San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Toronto to take the viewer on a mysterious journey. Are we looking for the party or are we desperately searching for the exit?

Bugs and Beasts Before the Law explores the history and legacy of the “animal trials” that took place in medieval Europe, in which animals—and other non-humans, such as insects and inanimate objects— were put on trial for various crimes and offences, ranging from trespassing and thievery, to assault and murder. This history of colonial law-making forged political and sometimes profane relation- ships between humans and animals. Bambitchell’s essayistic film reimagines common perceptions of legal history and, in doing so, produces a world where past and present, fiction and non-fiction, human and animal fuse.

As a child, Marie-Pascale began to make a raucous sound. As a young adult, she discovers that this voice can be the instrument of katajjaq, or Inuit throat singing. This discovery propels her on a quest and jostle her life. She learns to practice throat singing with the Inuk singer, Charlotte Qamaniq. She meets the Inuit people of today. By listening to their stories and History, she senses parts of her own, intimate, and collective story.

Traje de Luces | Suit of Lights is an expressive documentary composed with footage of a Spanish bullfight, that iconic imagery of highly decorated masculinity and violence masked as nationalism. The footage was drawn from Jacques Madvo Collection material filmed in Spain between 1976-1978.

Young actress Lee Seon-hwa visits her relatives living in Vancouver, Canada, over the course of the summer and has numerous brief encounters.

An in depth look at the insanity of hit-to-pass racing.

Apis the bull of Memphis, earthly representation of the god Ptah. At the temple, Apis the oracle, his movements interpreted as prophecies, his breath as medicine. He had a window in the temple through which he could be seen and out which he saw. On holidays Apis was led through the streets of Memphis, adorned in jewelry and flowers. His sacrifice signaled the rebirth of a king as a god.

A dialogue is born in a prison between Spoon, an African American poet imprisoned for life, and me. After eight years of conversation, Spoon’s words console me, while my ear is a channel for him to the outside world. The film takes as a starting point the desire to measure the power of language, both his poetry and his activist prose, and to share notions of time.

Fears are visible as constant companions of their owners. These creatures can make people's lives more difficult, but they can also be very useful.

A colour reversal film shot on 35mm.

Richard, a traveling salesman disillusioned with his job, contemplates ending his life. He stops at a small inn between shifts and meets Christine, his roommate, who is completely drunk. As she falls asleep, Richard discovers that she keeps a strange collection. Loosely based on Stephen King's short story “Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away.”

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.

Sonya Stefan turn on the TV, drink a coffee and then she rehearse for her dance show.

A mysterious blue rock keeps bothering Érik who's trying to carry on his daily routine. He soon discovers that it has magical powers that can cause a lot of trouble.

A close look at the author, journalist, Quebec's ambassador of South Africa, a mother stretched out between two continents, a woman, a lover, both so strong and so fragile. Lucie reveals in all sincerity chapters of her life. From her childhood in English Canada where she felt rejected. The influence of her mother who introduced her to all forms of art. Her meeting with South Africa... and her soulmate: Jay Naidoo.

It's a story of friendship: Sobhan and Hamid. Two young Afghans. The journey from Afghanistan to Paris brought them together. It was there, around a makeshift fire lit by a canal, that they found each other. La nuit remue shows what sometimes happens after dark in the heart of our cities. A film about the night's passengers in Europe, about Afghan youth living in exile and secretly writing their own story. With actions, words, and cell phones.

RM Vaughan's love poem of men and their night world of camaraderie is bathed in vivid colours, evocations of the empathy men have for one another, presented with the virile yet sentimental music of the Chinese violin.

"HORSEY is meant to be fun and uplifting. It’s a “tip of my hat” to everyone who finds happiness, validation, self-appreciation, etc. through sex and play." - Amber Dawn