The power and damage wrought by labelling children is front and centre in this short animation with puppets.
After being given an enigmatic locket to protect, a detective encounters strange phenomena and beings from the afterlife in this surrealistic animated film noir story.
Strolling with his master through a constantly shifting landscape of corridors and stairs, a beret-capped canine discusses life, philosophy, and his master.
Like polished gems, these middle-aged women are splendid, ripening but not fading. They are rich in intelligence, beauty and charm. So why are they unattached?
Using fixed frame time lapse photography, Landscape compresses 15 hours into eight minutes of sea, mountains, and sky. It was designed to be rear-projected by a continuous loop projector onto a plexiglass screen framed by a traditional wooden picture frame on a false wall.
This documentary focuses on cherished West Coast artist, Toni Onley, his contemplative artistic process and his provocative public life, including recent interviews with the late artist at work.
The Last Chinese Laundry relates the story of the Chinese in Newfoundland since their first arrival in 1895. Forced to leave their wives and children behind in China, the men endured both loneliness and prejudice as they toiled for a meagre living in the hand laundries of St. John's.
This rich and evocative epic of a Japanese-Canadian experience following World War II is filled with the vibrant intensity of one family's struggle to rebuild their lives and to be accepted as Canadians.
Set in Goldrush Days in Barkerville, this silent-movie-style short fiction film retells the story of children who spot a fire and raise an alarm to those who stop it from spreading. Silent with sub-titles.
In this episode of Storytellers in motion, independent producer Laura Milliken is profiled.
Documentary on artist LauraLee K. Harris. She has studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design and creates unique paintings on wood, utilizing and incorporating the natural grain to create beautiful, organic works.
The Lavallee family, members of the Piapot reserve in Saskatchwan's Qu'Apelle Valley, discuss the importance of their family roots and culture.
The Least We Can Do tells the story of Canada's response to the Yazidi genocide, the decision to bring Yazidi women and girl survivors to Canada as refugees, and the failure to provide them with promised trauma care. The film chronicles the activism of a small group of BC women who organize Canadians across the country to come together to urge the government to keep its promise.
Documentary on artist Lee Claremont. A member of the Iroquois Grand River Six Nations in Oshweken, Ontario, she says, “my art making takes me to a place of creation, soaring with Skywoman to create an eclectic perception of nature, people, spirituality and Mother Earth.”
The Legacy of Colonialism examines the role worldview played in the 500 years of colonization that began in the 15th century, tracing historical structures contributing to the current status of many lesser-developed countries.
With a critical eye, Lest We Forget looks at the issues of race, human rights and homeland security post-911 in the United States and Canada.
North America's Indigenous people have always had a sacred relationship with water. This series shows their perspective on a most precious resource–a resource to be protected, not a commodity to be exploited.
In this documentary, two crystal meth addicts discuss the struggle to get and stay clean.
Almost a year after the American invasion of Iraq and ousting of Saddam Hussein, Kurdish-Canadian filmmaker Jiyar Gol takes an unpredictable journey into the heart of the war-torn country.
Lida Moser (1920-2014), a New York photographer, created over 1,000 photographs of rural Québec in 1950. Sixty years later, she recounts her road trip along the St Lawrence to Montréal director and animator Joyce Borenstein.
Alex Janvier has long been recognized as one of Canada's greatest artistic treasures whose work helped change the face of Canadian art. He is an internationally renowned artist whose paintings are in great demand and have been exhibited in galleries and private collections around the world. For Janvier, a Dene Suline from the Cold Lake First Nations Reserve in Alberta, painting has always been a way to tell a story and his art reflects the incredible changes that have taken place to Indigenous people in Canada during his lifetime.
One of Canada's greatest artists, Daphne Odjig, is a Potowatomi from Manitoulin Island. Her work, based on Indigenous traditions and way of life, spans over four decades. This epic goes beyond her paintings and drawings and looks at the forces that molded her spirit and her keen interest in art.
A documentary that traces the beginnings of the Woodland Artists, a group of seven First Nations artists working together in the 1970s.
This simple poetic work is based on the observation that light is greatest, and perhaps most beautiful, when surrounded by darkness. Hauntingly gorgeous music by Oliver Shroer, set to the mysterious shadows of equinox, invites us to marvel at the profound simplicity of beauty.
In this short drama, a 10-year-old boy facing a terminal illness works to help his father move beyond grief and loss.
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