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There are three boxes in the same sphere. In one box, a human figure is having trouble fitting in. Sometimes he tries to conform, sometimes he tries t...

An active organism leaps and quivers in this bouncing one-minute vignette.

Lean into loneliness — and know you’re not alone in it. Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman reunites with poet Tanya Davis to craft tender and profound animation...

Children wait their turn for a once-in-a-lifetime roller coaster ride. A loving and poignant meditation on childhood and the passage of time. Inspired...

Reflections on writing, life and death with French Canadian poet Marie Uguay, who would die of bone cancer shortly after the making of this film.

A neon glimpse into a personal world within an urban landscape. From FOMO to JOMO, The Fake Calendar is an artist’s expression of how people come up w...

This short documentary explores homophobic language and its consequences among teenagers. Name-calling and cruel language hurt, say the teens who spea...

This animated short features Leonard, a 6-year-old boy with the unusual hobby of collecting sounds. Transforming household noises around him into exci...

Just as he does every morning, a man is preparing to jump into his car and head off to work when the remote control gizmo refuses to cooperate.

In Part 1 of this 3-part documentary series, director Donald Brittain chronicles the early years of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque. From the...

A look at the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL.

The seventh thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren; this time with a focus on his collaborator Maurice Blackburn.

A clip in the Science Please! collection,Lift Off uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain what makes a rocket l...

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...

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the chipmunk.

This experimental animation film examines society's deification of architecture and urbanization in the modern world and the impact on our relationshi...

A compilation of seven shorts made for the National Film Board of Canada. Features the NFBC shorts, "Nahanni," "Le Merle," "A Chairy Tale," "The Cars...

A woman reminisces about her childhood on a Prairie farm during the Depression. Her memory album is a collection of watercolours by artist/filmmaker B...

Musician and composer 'Claude Dubois' presents his view of the effects of the growth of urban areas, specifically industrialization and overuse of non...

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