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A sensual and erotic short drama about secrets and desires. By covertly watching the most intimate moments of each other's lives, two neighbours discover their mutual longing for each other.

This feature documentary uses animation, archival stills and live-action footage to detail the history of women's participation in the largely male-dominated world of baseball and softball. Zany and affectionate, it features 7-year-olds learning the rules and skills of the game and 50-year-olds hitting home runs, from the early days of the Bloomer Girls to the heyday of the Colorado Silver Bullets.

Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.

How conflict between parents is reflected in the anguished drawing of a child. An animated film combining puppets and drawings on paper. Film without words.

The mountain-village passions of a German widow and her sons unfold in the style of a 1920s expressionist movie.

This documentary examines the battle strategies of citizens, scientists, loggers, environmentalists and First Nations people who are fighting over the liquidation of public forests and, with it, a way of life.

A doctor in Ottawa invents a miraculous machine that uses a record of a person's DNA to reverse injuries to his body. The victim of an accidental shooting, he becomes the first patient in his own machine... and awakens whole, but with his left and right reversed. Or has he, instead, slipped into a reversed parallel universe? On top of this, summer has mysteriously turned into winter, and a visiting American senator is trying to buy or steal the machine to sell it to another country for military use. Written by Anonymous

Matthew Czerny was a film production student in Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in the early 1990s and did a documentary about his grandmother as his major first-year assignment. It was highly regarded by the film school; they scheduled it as the final showing in the annual best-of-the-year film night.

Very first animated Orphan Annie--and a wonderful Christmas tale it is. Daddy Warbucks has Annie at his huge estate with Sandy, her big dog, It seems Daddy is more like Scrooge this season. He is irrated and crabby---so cranky that Annie runs off into the night with her beloved Sandy. Punjab tells Warbucks Annie is gone! and that this event is unlucky and will upset the Grand Order of things. So, Warbucks and Punjab take off searching for missing duo. An adventure begins and the rest you must find out for yourself because I don't want to give the plot away!

In wintry Winnipeg a man struggling to keep the poor lodging he can find meets a homeless man lugging around an unopened electric heater. They cook up plots to get some money for the heater and survive the cold.

An East European butcher, the Cowboy Kid, heads west to find Saddle River. A comic odyssey, filled with odd characters, misadventures and stunningly beautiful western landscapes. A classic Canadian road movie comedy.

At a Montreal railway station, passengers are stranded because of a snowstorm. One of the stranded, Pierre-Paul, discovers a young schoolgirl on the brink of suicide. While he searches for someone to intervene, Chili, the young girl, disappears, only to reappear of her own accord after Pierre-Paul's fruitless search. This brief encounter leads to flashback revelations and interaction among the supporting characters also stranded in the storm.

A documentary about the Newfoundland fiddling legend Rufus Guinchard

Tom Patterson’s vision transforms a quiet railway town into a world-renowned cultural destination.

Retrospective documentary about the British rock band "Queen", from the 1970s till the death of Freddie Mercury, victim of AIDS. Includes interviews with the band members, friends and fans, behind the scenes material, the making of music videos, concerts and lots of music.

Two children find themselves trapped in their school, the day before Christmas Eve. Their vigilance and resourcefulness are no match for the locked doors, barred windows and the snowstorm that, by causing a power outage, deprives them of light and heat. Worried, frozen, hungry, they confront each other, support each other, console each other in order to overcome their fear. More than courage, it is the discovery of solidarity that will allow them to emerge stronger from this journey to the end of the night.

Mary recounts to her daughter Eva the childhood story of when Mary and her father fell through the ice on a frozen pond.

Set in the aching years of the 1960s, this dark comedy-drama explores the prevailing gender attitudes through the eyes of an eight-year-old misfit. Schoolyard taunts and the sexually charged battles of Mom and Dad capture the confusion and magic of childhood with irony and insight.

Tintin and Captain Haddock travel to Tibet in search of an old friend who has disappeared after a plane crash.

Irène lives in her cage, Grégoire lives in the apartment. The iron bars constitute the condition of their love and its limit. Grégoire is the double of Tania, the deceased wife of her Russian boss during the siege of the red city. Will Irene, haunted by Tania, be able to counter the recurrence of tragic events?

After moving his family from one end of Montréal to the other, the hockey legend scores 5 goals toward a 9–1 victory against the Detroit Red Wings.

In 1922 the first documentary in the genre sense came on the big screen, "Nanook of the North" (1922). Kabloonak is the story of the making of this movie for which the story was partially staged by his director 'Robert Flaherty'.

A strong point of view on the deforestation of Quebec's boreal forest in Canada.

After abandoning his poetry, from 1880 until his death in 1891, Arthur Rimbaud drifts between Yemen and Abyssinia as a shopkeeper, trader, explorer, and arms trafficker.

"Poor Miss Clavel, how would she feel if she knew that on top of the ferris wheel, in weather that turned from bad to rotten, Pepito and Madeline had been forgotten?" Luckily, the Strong Man, the Clown and the elephant rescue Madeline and Pepito, and the adventurous pair join the gypsy circus!

In 1991, Igloolik Isuma Productions gathered 13 Igloolik elders for a week of discussion, to choose and then record 24 traditional ajaja songs considered most important to preserve for the future: where did the songs come from, how where they made and how have they been passed down generation to generation? Each elder remembers their own family's ajaja songs and explains how they were created by poets taking their words from their life experiences. The video, translated and subtitled for the first time, includes priceless footage of these elders singing and drumming the songs, and their playfully combative and humorous interactions are a joy to watch. The process also allowed Isuma to publish a full CD of the selected songs and to use and preserve many of them in Isuma's films over the next 25 years.

Tom Paradise, a young 40-something refusing to grow up, drives his bus endlessly through the city dreaming of the landscape of the American West that forever impressed him. In love with freedom and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, he resists all the sensible people who try to persuade him to settle down. For Tom has only one idea in his head: to once again head south, riding the waves of love and fate.

A documentary covering the life and death of Jamaican reggae musician and cultural icon Peter Tosh. Drawn both from Tosh's "Red X" series of autobiographical tapes that he was recording at the time of his murder and from interviews with other figures in his life.

Legal scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate John Humphrey drafts the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In 1994 one of Canada’s most respected Inuit elders -95 year old Noah Piugatuk – announced that he wanted to taste the bowhead whale one more time before he died. Honouring the elders wish, Piugatuk’s son-in-law caught an illegal whale near Igloolikin September 1994. A few months later, the whale hunters were charged and ordered to stand trial. In June 1996, the government finally dropped all charges against the Igloolik hunters. In august 1996, Inuit hunters from across the arctic gathered in Repulse Bay to catch the first legal bowhead in more than forty years. Arviq! traces the history of the bowhead in the Arctic up to the first legal hunt in 1996.

As a man, what kind of woman would I be?

The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name.

Narmada: A Valley Rises is beautifully photographed, inspiring film. It documents a 200 kilometer non-violent Gandhian march involving 6000 participants. The film offers a compelling and intimate portrait of a unique movement while raises critical and universal issues of human-rights, social justice, and development within a democracy.

Egoyan juxtaposes home-video images of his son Arshile with a self-portrait of the famed Armenian artist, Arshile Gorky; Egoyan narrates in English, while his wife narrates in Armenian. The self-portrait made from a photo of the artist as a child at the time of the great massacre of the Armenians is used as a focus for meditations on the nature of self-awareness, artistic expression, and the relationship between the artist and the viewer.

A junkie couple board themselves in their apartment while they try to kick their heroin habit.

A man's video-taped apology to his ex-boyfriend turns into an epic confession about his attitude towards relationships.

The last film Denis Villeneuve made during his participation in the third season of La Course Destination Monde, a show broadcast on Radio-Canada in which contestants travelled to different regions of the world to make short films about their journeys. This was presented in the Gala episode to mark the end of the program, before Villeneuve recieved his award for being the winning participant.

Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.

As the new millennium approaches, God considers pulling the plug on the planet unless St. John the Baptist finds a reason to spare humanity. John travels to the Newfoundland city that bears his name where he becomes entangled in the lives of talk-show host Marietta, her husband Rick. (Toronto International Film Festival)

As summer ends near Igloolik in the 1930's, three families build a saputi to trap fish going upriver for the winter. The days are getting shorter and young people daydream, while waiting for fish to come. But nature is not always predictable.... [Third Isuma recreated fiction, 1993.]

Giant chihuahuas arrive on Earth to cause havoc and destruction

In this French Canadian drama, the life of a paraplegic painter implodes when an old girlfriend comes back into his life and accuses him of raping her 15 years earlier.

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Wheel Meets Friction uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain how the invention of the ball bearing reinvented the wheel.

Since the death of his colleague, which was partly his fault, Lieutenant Nick Gentry lives a lonesome life. Reporter Joan wants to write a story about him, and seems to be interested in other ways too, but he rejects. Instead he falls in love with his new neighbor Irene and witnesses how she's repeatedly beaten up by her husband Allan. One day, when Allan threatens her with a gun, he shoots him. Certainly self-defense -- until it turns out, that Alan's gun was made inoperable...

The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels to Canada to perform Bach's Cello Suites.

A filmmaker initiates a dangerous and threatening game when a woman responds to her ad in a tattoo magazine.

In the 1960s, a dreamy kid tells how he thinks he can change his alcoholic father's personality: with magic flowers. First film of a trilogy on father-son relationships.

After five years of travelling abroad, Alex arrives back in Montreal. All he has with him are a back-pack and a slip of paper with an ex-girlfriend's address scrawled on it.

Martin Short teaches all about home safety in a very entertaining way.

It explores the fate of the endangered wild Suffield horses of Alberta. Located near a military base close to Medicine Hat, these animals were originally domesticated but returned to the wild over generations. These horses face endangerment because of their growing numbers and the limitations of their environment.

Two teams of naked women compete against each other in a gymnastics competition.

The story began in the 1860s in London, England. For as long as he could remember, twelve year old Tom Canty had dreamed of being a Prince. Whenever he was not begging for money for his cruel father, Tom played "being Prince" with his friends. Tom Canty and Prince Edward, the soon to be king, bear a striking resemblance to one another and decide to swap places. Unfortunately, the once innocent trick turns into a nightmare, and the Pauper and the Prince become desperate in their struggle to prove their real identity before it is too late and the Pauper is crowned King.

A new documentary on the tragic battle at Beaumont Hamel, a documentary that traces the activities of the Newfoundland Regiment from enlistment in St. John's and training in Europe to combat in the Mediterranean and, finally, to the battle in France that virtually destroyed the entire regiment. The uniqueness of this documentary is that it is told exclusively through the words of the soldiers and their loved ones, words lifted directly from actual letters, diaries and memoirs.

Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.

This documentary takes an in-depth look at the witch hunts that swept Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to massive torture and burnings at the stake and ultimately to the destruction of an organic way of life. The film questions whether the widespread violence against women and the neglect of our environment today can be traced back to those times.

This biography of the well known scientist and nature program host details his early life as a child in a WW2 internment camp and the development of his environmental philosophy.

All Melvyn Rosenbloom wants is to go back to the days when things were simpler and people were kinder -- the good old days. Deciding to renounce women altogether, he finds a house in his old neighbourhood and persuades his elderly crotchety father Harvey to move in with him. Harvey is something of a comic and, as Mel rediscovers, none too easy to live with. To add to the friction, there's the landlady, Jackie. From Mel's point of view as an aspiring celibate, she's all wrong: far too intelligent, attractive and unconventional. But, strangely enough, Jackie becomes the focus of the Rosenblooms' refashioned lives.