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An erotic play session with a small doll.

In a dark forest, a soul caresses itself with feathers. And the birds fly away.

Short animated film by Marv Newland

Ponytail follows several inflicted characters and recounts the ways in which they find resolve. A series of scenarios held together by an attraction to failure and its spectacle describe the characters’ malfunction – their inability to fulfill personal desire. Compelled by the consequences and rewards of their attempts they question their own trajectory. Ponytail presents a unique society of characters that employ elements of melodrama, performative monologue and traditional narrative structure.

April 29, 1903, the coal mining town of Frank, in the Crowsnest Pass of the southern Canadian Rockies, was shattered by the sudden roar of a landslide, earning Frank a place of history as the site of North America's deadliest rockslide. This film explores the coincidences and explains its geological conditions.

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 seemingly dutiful son, Brad acts as his father’s lifeline and does everything possible to prolong his father’s life. Who could expect more from such a caring son?

Every year Santa Claus comes to town bearing gifts for children all over the world providing they leave him a little something in return... a cup of blood. A skeptical young boy, Billy Bester, refuses to comply each year as he is convinced that St. Nick is not the kind, generous man the world believes him to be. Santa travels at night, wears red, needs to blood of youth, and "Know what you get when you take the letter "n" out of Santa and put it at the end?" Something's not right about all this. Deck the halls with cloves of garlic cause Santa Claus is coming to town...and he's thirsty.

A man breaks into a woman's home to murder her.

A couple raises their four children, but their relationship ends.

In this animated short Malcolm Sutherland lovingly pokes fun at the transient yet timeless life of the beach tourist. Animated ink on paper, made in 2007.

This film and video hybrid depicts a rainbow digital apocalypse looming directly outside a floating cinema entrance-way.

Rooted in tradition, adoption is a reality that all Inuit families have experienced. In Inuit culture, adopting a child from a relative, friend or acquaintance is a common practice. Marie-Hélène Cousineau, the adoptive mother of Alexandre Apak, lived in Igloolik, a small island southwest of Baffin Island in the Arctic, for many years. This documentary, which she directed in collaboration with Mary Kunuk (an old friend and colleague), explores Inuit family relations through the personal histories of women who have experienced adoption in one way or another. In a parallel thread, the film documents the creation of an intricate felt wall-hanging that depicts key moments from their lives. All skilled seamstresses, these women of Igloolik use fabric to draw, cut, and embroider their personal life stories – an intimate portrait of family ties and a vibrant illustration of the role adoption has always played in Inuit culture

After Nature, after the Fall, after all - where do we go from here? Digital imagery and optically printed superimpositions combine in a cascading plunge to no(w)here – new beginnings or more of the same?

"Your life is like a candle burning. Whether you are aware of it or not, it is burning." (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar)

An experimental dark comedy about an aging prairie poet who tells the fantastical tale about the birth of her muse.

A video recording of a 1999 performance in which a transsexual prostitute shares work-related anecdotes spiced-up with political comments about her butthole.

In the animated short My Obscure Object of Desire, the heart will go to any lengths to become the object of its love's desire. So it woos, coos and even "awoos." But in the end not even the heart can always get what it wants.

Peeling back the layers of her grandmother's life, filmmaker Linda Ohama discovers a painful, buried past in this feature-length documentary. Asayo Murakami, 103 years old, recalls life in Japan, her arrival in Canada as a "picture bride," her determination to marry a man of her choice, the bombing of Hiroshima and the forced relocation of her family during WWII. Beautifully rendered dramatic sequences are merged with an exquisite collection of memories, feelings, images and voices. Culminating in an emotional reunion with a long-lost daughter, this film is a personal reflection of Japanese-Canadian history and a testament to one woman's endurance and spirit.

In this short documentary about The Tragically Hip, director David Battistella uses a split-screen and acid-etched colours to distil the iconic Canadian band’s essence.

Part 7 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

This documentary brings together a group of long lost classmates who used to belong to an after-school film club. Formed at the initiative of a Grade 8 teacher eager to pass along his love of cinema, the club attracted a klatch of immigrant kids eager to embrace their new country. Stimulating and creative, the club was a complete departure from anything they had known and provided a safe haven from the harsh world around them. Together, they made a tiny 8mm award-winner called Ohh Canada. Twenty-five years later, the group looks back to marvel at their childhood dreams and the bond they share with the teacher who brought them together.

In Quebec, the lakes we love and take for granted are quickly perishing, as highlighted by the proliferation of aquatic plants and algae in our water bodies. With images of lakes and dozens of interviews, the documentary points the finger at those responsible for this decline.

This searing indictment of society's failure to deal with intimate partner violence pays homage to Cathy Bowie, a vibrant young woman whose life became a headline and then faded into a statistic after she was murdered by her husband, George Jackson.

A look at nudist resorts in the predominantly English-speaking parts of Canada.

A documentary about the Canadian documentary filmmaker Frank Cole.

"Each of my films is the exploration of a territory that I urgently want to understand", Allan King states in this elegantly structured and inspirational biography of one of Canada's most significant filmmakers. King's work has been central to the development of documentary film and direct cinema around the world, and he continues to make powerful films that confront and move us with the painful and beautiful understanding of what it is to be human. A beautifully constructed homage to the work and life of this accomplished filmmaker - Official Selection, 2006 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.

The arrival of a new worker to a jeans factory causes changes to the rhythms of the workplace. This mysterious narrative integrates personal and collective history with fiction. The visuals were created with both found images and original photography reproduced on acetate sheets which were subsequently sewn together and projected onto a wall and video-taped. This mixed-media work is a reflection on the repetitive labour and materiality of textile work and the im/possibilities for resistance to challenging working conditions.

The 10 new and retooled silent video works presented here are each director's response to a silent and nocturnal viewing situation. They are short, eclectic and remarkably diverse, representing a glimpse of contemporary Canadian video art.

Concert live at Astoria, London 28th September 2001 with bonus footage of the band behind the scenes and a selection of official music videos.

Extreme and violent fantasies intertwine around a washing machine.

On the eve of his 50th birthday Jimmy W finds himself at the cross roads of his existence. For him it's now or never. The time has come to become rich and maybe even famous. Pretending to be an American Producer, he offers his services to the St-Tite Rodeo to develop an ad campaign to attract American tourists. Charmed as much by his demeanor as well as by his proposition, the Rodeo organizers call him in for a meeting to present his project. The meeting turns out to be a complete fiasco. Suspicious about Jimmy, they politely turn him down. Jimmy returns home furious and determined to get his revenge. Operating from his kitchen, he plans an elaborate scheme to extort the beer stock from the Rodeo valued at a quarter of million dollars.

An eccentric grandfather drags his unsuspecting granddaughter on the run, in search of safety from the nuclear war he believes has begun.

Young Canadians of Indian descent try to break into the Bollywood film industry.

Dans un univers post apocalyptique, deux hommes cherchent à sortir... Une mise en scène simple et efficace, bien soutenue par le jeu des acteurs, crée ce sentiment d'être pris au piège.

A re-photography in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux, painted, scratched and burned film loops from an old western 16mm film. Traces of an impossible past and future collide in a trajectory where the present unravels.

Experimental computer animation that also use ink on paper made by the collective Insertsilence. Peterson and Pitaru are respected names in the field of media design and their work has been exhibited in galleries from Seoul, New York to London

An abstract representation of an erotic relationship.

This documentary looks at distinctive young artist Andrea Cooper's work. Cooper's credo is "home is not Hollywood, and I am not a movie star". Award-winning director Anita McGee examines how Cooper's art was shaped by her large Catholic family and the physical harshness of her birthplace.

Fred's life takes a tragic turn when he realises that he turns into something inhuman. While her mother wants to hide him from all prying eyes, Fred only thinks about a thing: the sea.

Mockumentary of the films and process of Russian-Canadians Zep and Zudo Chnoborov.

Watch the adventure featuring colorful cars and characters racing across an impossible, ever-shifting landscape.

Told from the perspectives of local residents, Nakuru Song provides a first-person look at a country where hope is struggling to survive against monumental complacency. While Ken coaches a football team to keep boys off the street and James works tirelessly at the Melon Orphanage, countless other Kenyans live on: legions of children sniff glue to avoid hunger, other collect scrap metals for their income, and middle-aged men mix formaldehyde and jet fuel to create the "illicit brew."

Robin's Hood is the final chapter in a trilogy of the adventures and histories of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle Kent Monkman, a wandering artist from the Great Plains of North America, who journeys far across the seas to study the unspoiled European Male in his native habitat. She meets the handsome Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest, but realizes too late that one can never trust a white man, especially on his own turf.

Toronto's diverse culture and heritage are explored through a couple's belongings, juxtaposed with the neighborhood in which they live.

Rewriting the Script features frank discussions with parents, siblings and extended family members of South Asian gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people. Poignant testimonies are shared not only about the coming out experience but how these families transformed themselves to include their queer children, changing the larger South Asian community in the process. The documentary speaks not only to experiences of South Asians (which includes people originating from the Indian subcontinent), but to other diasporic communities as well.

Eamon (Bazuk), a disillusioned college dropout, decides to take the low road, working as a gas station attendant in rural Ontario and purposefully keeping to himself. The narrow life he has prescribed for himself is disrupted by Daisy (Leroux), a lonely, hearing-impaired girl with a persistent crush on him.

Someone dreams of falling from a building.

Finding the courage to leave the fold is only the beginning for most of these young people. Those who have decided to take this step become pariahs, often completely cut off from the emotional and financial support of their families. To make matters worse, judged by our secular standards, they have no marketable skills. Many only speak Yiddish— or some Hebrew that is stilted and archaic because it is restricted to use only for prayer.

Home movies shot on Nauru in 1973.

This documentary looks at how children deal with a parent who has died by suicide. Meet 3 people who lost their fathers to suicide at an early age but learned the truth much later, after years of confusion, grief and guilt. In French with English subtitles.

A daughter's "coming out" to her mother falls on deaf ears. Sometimes people just don't want to listen.

Portrait of Genetic Girl Paddy's marriages and attractions to TS/TG people.

Douglas Bacon, member of the Quirk-e Riting Kollective for elders, gives a touching, intimate account of his life and the process of coming out.

Turmoil of unsheltered childhood: The dwelling as self.

« While Marilou wears out / Health exhausts / Getting laid »

An indepth account of Maria Altmans pursuit of Gustav Klimt's, "Portrait Of Adele Bloch-Bauer I", from the Republic Of Austria.

Acclaimed Iranian-Canadian musician Kiya Tabassian leaves behind the slush, congestion and impersonal towering buildings of his home in Montreal to encounter the deep sources and inspirations of diasporic Persian music. His search takes us on a richly textured journey into the landscape, the poetry, the memory, and above all, the compelling spirituality of the music of southern Iran.