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An animated story about a farm girl whose father will not allow her to keep a stray puppy until an event occurs that makes him reverse his decision.

An animated quickie to get you in the swing. Three animated figures, a man, a woman and a child, dance, arms and legs flying, to the compulsive rhythm...

A craftsman's short poem on humanity, using painstaking cutout animation by animating thousands of small pieces of linoleum.

When her parents leave her behind for the first time, Madeleine sees them off with tears in her eyes. Fortunately, her grand-mother is there to coax h...

A startling and ambiguously tangy bit of visual Twang for web connoisseurs from animator Chris Hinton.

Ananse is a spider with a heart full of concern over the enmity existing between his friends. Instead of mediating in a straightforward way, he devise...

In this documentary, the members of the University of British Columbia's Thunderbirds hockey team travel to China to demonstrate their skills to the n...

Vignettes covering various aspects of Canadian life include: "Ball Stars Start Young", "An Auto in Minutes" and "A Railroad Goes to Sea".

An account of the difficulties faced by educators in Europe in the aftermath of WWII.

A boy is making the difficult bicycle ride up a steep hill for the goal of being able to dive off the top of the cliff into the water below. The water...

In 1994, Caroline Leaf accepted the Sir Allen Sewell Fellowship to give a series of studio workshops and lectures to animation students at the Queensl...

Kathy worked as a nurse in Greece and then came to Canada. She and her family live in northern Alberta, where they are developing a farm. Kathy works...

The story of a fishing family, their daily lives, and the son’s wish for a modern boat

Through clever stylistic composition, this experimental film shows that everything is interdependent, even in the arts, and that, inevitably, both the...

This experimental animated short dissects the Earth's surface and soil. Filmmaker Alex Mackenzie uses a specially built film exposure device to study...

Translated from a self-reflexive Chinese saying, Yun Lam Li's I thought of you often, this film is a visual poem about the meaning of aging within a c...

A delightful environmental tale for young children. Two children create an entire world in their sandbox. Their imagination soars, until rampant growt...

A series of six opening logos and one closing logo produced as part of the NFB's contribution to the Ottawa '82 International Animation Film Festival.

Follows the work of sculptor Charles Daudelin. Without dialogue or narration, director Pierre Moretti traces the adventure of creation. We see a gigan...