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This short probes the taboos around a very particular second-hand trauma, leading us to a more universal understanding of human experience.

A long and thoughtful look at those desperate days of October 1970, when Montréal awaited the outcome of FLQ terrorist acts. This film puts the...

Six months following the events of her documentary The People of the Kattawapiskak River, Alanis Obomsawin returns to the Cree community of...

The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left...

The hedgehog between balloons, the feline predator on the hamster wheel, the fish in the lifebuoy: A young woman portrays herself in the best...

A 1-minute cart ride through the mental shopping mall of attention deficit disorder. Inspired by found sound of a shopper’s vlog, hand-drawn...

This full-length drama depicts the reality of managers getting fired and the emergence of a new industry specialized in handling executive...

The artwork of well-known Quebec animator Frédéric Back are used to tell the tale of Champlain’s life in New France – from...

Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now...

A suave safecracker offers his reflections on wintertime unemployment in Canada.

This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and...

A touching story of the friendship between a grandfather and his grandson, this is a film about aging and death. Award-winning animator Co Hoedeman...

This short film was an experiment in using video recordings and closed circuit television to stimulate social action in a poor Montreal...

In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, sets the stage for a...

We witness the race for marriage of thousands of young people, wanting at all costs to escape conscription, then we are transported to the war...

This feature documentary by Alanis Obomsawin is a thoughtful tribute to Norman Cornett, a McGill University professor celebrated by scores of...

An unemployed man with individualist and pacifist values is inevitably brainwashed by society and the mass media to conform to the dominant ideology...

Juan Alvarez, a Spanish refugee in Canada, shoemaker, picks up at his home Manuel, a 12-year-old Portuguese teenager, whom he teaches to read, to...

Filmmaker Jeffrey St. Jules reconstructs the story of his grandparents and their rugged frontier life in the logging towns of Northern Ontario. It is...