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This film poses the question of whether an honest judgment is better than diplomatic double-talk in situations where an individual's feelings may be h...

Combining the music of Chopin with digital animation, this short film artfully defines pianist Janina Fialkowska’s imprint in the world of classical m...

This short documentary profiles 27-year-old Scoggie Watson, a Cape Breton stalwart who clings to the things he cherishes most: the waters of Lake Bras...

A short film by Roger Blais.

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Operation Lever uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain how a lever i...

Documentary short from the NFB Canada Carries On series on dancing from the different cultures in Canada.

Living in downtown Toronto to attend school, Lina Li returns to the comfort of home in Thornhill and her mother's cooking. In this candid short, filmm...

This short animated film looks at the relationship between social spaces and taboos surrounding mental illness and other forms of marginalization. The...

Old Dog shows how elderly dogs' lives are improved by technology - from diapers for amputees to doggie strollers - through animated vignettes. The sou...

The big whale round-up at Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, is brought to the screen with a realism not often found in fish stories. Cameras are on hand to r...

Journeying through cities, suburbs, plains and deserts, Lawn and Order is a fun, hilarious and touching documentary which reveals the zany and obsessi...

This short documentary film by filmmaker Sophie Dupuis presents a poetic and contemplative point of view of the daily life of the sailors of the friga...

“Ha! That tickles! Well… uh, welcome… to my brain.” In 2028, Health Canada launches an anonymous online platform where anyone can stream their brain a...

In the 1940s thousands of immigrants are coming from Europe to Canada offering strength and skills in exchange for hope and a new life. 'The long nigh...

How a scientist helped the fishermen in a Gaspe fishing village.

An amusingly drawn cartoon about a highly proficient lady bricklayer, graduate of Specialists' School, whose work takes her high up in the world, and...

An animation film about a clarinet and a trumpet that meet, clash, compete, compromise and harmonize.

From his shabby apartment in Montreal’s Centre-Sud borough, a writer finds inspiration in observing his neighbour Piton, who navigates poverty with so...