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Total trailers found: 22
Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again Trailer (2021)
06 May 2021
After marrying a settler, Mary Two-Axe Earley lost her legal status as a First Nations woman. Dedicating her life to activism, she campaigned to have First Nations women's rights restored and coordinated a movement that continues to this day.
A Return to Memory Trailer (2024)
17 October 2024
When Canada entered World War II, the National Film Board suddenly had an urgent new mission—and hundreds of women stepped forward, helping to create Canadian cinema as we now know it.
54 Hours Trailer (2014)
01 January 2014
54 Hours is a remarkably vivid account of the 1914 tragedy in which 132 men were stranded on the ice during a severe snowstorm off the coast of Newfoundland.
Danny Trailer (2015)
25 April 2015
A feature documentary about the life of former Newfoundland Premier, Danny Williams
Mabel Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
Feisty, fiercely independent and firmly rooted in place, 90 year-old Mabel Robinson broke barriers back in the 40s when she became the first woman in Hubbards, Nova Scotia, to launch her own business—a hairdressing salon where she still provides shampoo-n-sets over 70 years later.
Shaman Trailer (2017)
01 June 2017
This animated short tells the story of a ferocious polar bear turned to stone by an Inuk shaman. The tale is based on emerging filmmaker Echo Henoche's favourite legend, as told to her by her grandmother in her home community of Nain, Nunatsiavut, on Labrador's North Coast.
Wintopia Trailer (2019)
23 November 2019
IDFA and Canadian filmmaker Peter Wintonick had a close relationship for decades. He was a hard worker and often far from home, visiting festivals around the world.
A Quiet Girl Trailer (2024)
01 March 2024
Adopted Montreal filmmaker Adrian Wills discovers, on camera and in real time, the startling truths of his complex beginnings in Newfoundland.
I Am Skylar Trailer (2019)
26 October 2019
I Am Skylar is the emotionally compelling story of an articulate girl who is thoughtfully defining her future and the woman she is to become.
The Storm Trailer (2021)
01 November 2021
Global pandemics are like prairie thunderstorms. Full of terror and havoc, they eventually pass. Bringing a new baby into the world can also feel like a storm.
Radical Trailer (2019)
05 June 2019
Deanne Foley profiles fellow Newfoundlander Mary Walsh, the Great Warrior Queen of Canadian comedy, musing on time wasted as an object of desire and time well spent as the fearless agent of her own destiny.
Assholes: A Theory Trailer (2019)
13 November 2019
Some people grapple with the moral challenges of treating human beings decently. Others are just… assholes.
Perfecting the Art of Longing Trailer (2021)
07 October 2021
Cut off from his loved ones due to the strict COVID-19 lockdown at the long-term care facility where he lives, a quadriplegic rabbi is filmed by his daughter while reflecting on love, mortality and longing.
Becoming Labrador Trailer (2019)
12 May 2019
In the stark Labrador interior, a growing number of Filipino workers have recently landed in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, travelling halfway around the world for jobs they hope will offer their families new opportunities and a better life.
Island Green Trailer (2013)
15 September 2013
This short documentary takes a look at the changing face of PEI's agricultural industry. Once famous for its spuds and red mud, this tiny island province now has higher than average cancer and respiratory illness rates.
The Muse Trailer (2025)
25 October 2025
When 74-year-old Robert Tilley agreed to take photographer Ting Ting Chen on a road trip across Newfoundland, neither could have predicted the deep, cross-generational friendship that would blossom between them, nor how Robert's role in Ting Ting's art would challenge traditional ideas of the artist-muse relationship.
Evan's Drum Trailer (2021)
23 September 2021
For generations, the sound of traditional Inuit drum dancing fell silent in Labrador due to colonization.
HAND. LINE. COD. Trailer (2016)
14 September 2016
In the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, "people of the fish"—traditional fishers—catch cod live by hand, one at a time, by hook and line.
Balakrishna Trailer (2019)
20 October 2019
When an extraordinary new resident – Balakrishna, an Indian elephant – arrived in the town of East River, Nova Scotia, in 1967, no one was more in awe of the creature than young Winton Cook, who became inseparable from his mammoth new friend.
Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher Trailer (2023)
17 October 2023
Part oral history and part visual poem, Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher is the story of Evelyn Campbell, a trailblazer for an Inuit-led educational system in the small community of Rigolet, Labrador.
Nalujuk Night Trailer (2021)
12 November 2021
Nalujuk Night is an up close look at an exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying, Labrador Inuit tradition.
Rick Mercer: 'Take Action' Figures Trailer (2019)
27 April 2019
While gift shopping at an "enlightened" toy store, a mother and son are out of luck finding the latest Spider-Man and Transformers toys-because all this eccentric shopkeeper proudly sells are Rick Mercer-themed toys that are meant to inspire the next generation of Canadian youth.
