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This short documentary studies the contrast between the sedate Toronto of the turn of the century and the thriving, expanding metropolis of 1951. Aeri...

"I've often wondered what makes beauty" - So says Monique Miller who personifies in this short documentary universal woman, anxious to please since ch...

Film animation and a knowledge of outer space bring to the screen this spectacular, awe-inspiring view of our solar system. Staggering distances are e...

Tête à Tête à Tête takes place in another realm, where three heads sharing a single body live in idyllic harmony... until one of them begins to have a...

An exploration into the nature of the mind, the brain and reality. A person seeking job counselling receives psychiatric treatment instead, and thereu...

Taa Tam of the Maha Tribe knew music before music even existed... or so this imaginary legend goes. He saw rhythm everywhere: in the flutter of the le...

How conflict between parents is reflected in the anguished drawing of a child. An animated film combining puppets and drawings on paper. Film without...

Such diverse modes of expression as dance, music, poetic narration and images drawn directly on film combine to tell the story of a letter and the joy...

Silas Rand and Charles Leland first wrote down the legends of the great spirit Glooscap before the turn of the century. Since then, Summer Legend has...

An animated allegory demonstrating the need to integrate the disabled into general society.

This fast-paced and entertaining animated film is about water and the demands placed on our waterways by agriculture, industry, and urban life. An arm...

W.O. Mitchell recounts Newton's Law of Falling Backhouses, a story based on the youthful pranks of his prairie childhood.

An animated vignette. A lively dance of painted wooden dolls that twirl, swing and sway to gay music.

This film is about cats--actually, one very clever cat. The title is a play on the French quatuor, meaning quartet, but the chorus is not the usual al...

An animated film, based on an Indigenous comic-strip character created by Duke Redbird, telling the story of a young man who leaves the reserve to mak...

A cartoon film for young children about the adventures of a little chick from the time he falls from an egg basket and breaks out of his shell. Togeth...

An experimental animation film in which the images were hand-drawn directly onto clear film by Guy Glover. The colourful moving forms capture the spir...

In a very traditional and popular setting, this documentary follow Willie Lamothe who becomes a national icone aftera 25 years career. The film follow...

The wind is one of the strongest natural forces around us. Because it is generated by temperature differences in air masses, wind power is, in fact, a...