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For Indigenous peoples the totem pole is the symbol of life, portraying the relationship between humans and animals. Fitting into the landscape of...

A poor boy’s love for a girl whose tears turn to pearls leads him into a perilous bargain between love, greed, and survival.

Every child knows full well that losing a tooth is only the prologue to a magical experience—namely, a night-time visit from the tooth fairy...

Explores the consequences of uranium mining in Canada. Toxic and radioactive waste pose profound, long-term environmental hazards. Miners suffer a...

A sudden rainstorm is unleashed on a city. Everyone seeks refuge. When the clouds thin out, life continues.

While on an airplane, a traveller's spirit plunges into a dream world. Here, under the influence of the unknown, the logic of his desires prevails,...

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...

A portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the National Film Board in 1939. Interweaving archival...

One year after the tragedy that took the lives of fourteen female students, Montreal’s École Polytechnique has returned to something...

People are interviewed in Dresden, Ontario, to sample local attitudes towards racial discrimination against black people that brought this town into...

A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as...

With "sealfies" and social media, a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit is wading into the world of activism, using humour and reason to confront...

A documentary history of lesbianism in North American and Europe, with historic references, archival material, film clips, interviews with many women...

Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In...

Two little men float into the deep blue sky, tied to balloons. But then each decides the sky belongs to him. This film was made as part of the fourth...

A film about urbanity and Indigeneity dedicated to Kamala Todd's child.

Layering real-life details with an otherworldly magic, Thanadoula recounts the story of an end-of-life doula brought to her calling through the loss...

Bad Seeds takes us to a bizarre world populated by carnivorous plants that can change shapes the way a chameleon changes colours. The veteran...

Striking images, rare archival footage and interviews underpin this analysis of Canadian mining companies' profits, impact on the environment and on...

Ranjit, a farmer in India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the victim of a brutal gang rape. His...