Shelley Craig Trailers
The Stand TrailerScratches of Life: the Art of Pierre Hébert TrailerKoromousso, Big Sister Trailer
The Stand TrailerScratches of Life: the Art of Pierre Hébert TrailerKoromousso, Big Sister Trailer
Total trailers found: 47
01 January 1989
In this short documentary, five black women talk about their lives in rural and urban Canada between the 1920s and 1950s.
01 January 2006
In Newfoundland filmmaker Mary Lewis' live action/animation hybrid short film, a talking goldfish tells us the poignant story of his best friend, Sparky the dog, and Sparky's owner, a young girl suffering from a serious illness.
01 January 1986
This short documentary looks at how the community of London, Ontario, has implemented a plan to address the issue of domestic violence.
01 January 1994
This documentary follows four female First Nations artists—Doreen Jensen, Rena Point Bolton, Jane Ash Poitras and Joane Cardinal-Schubert are First Nations artists who seek to find a continuum from traditional to contemporary forms of expression.
01 January 1991
This short documentary is a celebration of life on planet Earth. Made from haunting visual images selected from 50 years of NFB productions, the film looks at human beings, their place on earth, and their deep interconnection with all other beings.
01 January 1995
In 1953 the Canadian government relocated Inuit families from Northern Québec to the High Arctic, promising an abundance of game and fish and assuring them they could return home after two years if things didn't work out.
01 March 2009
Emile is an unhappy little vampire, doing a job he detests, in a world plunged into perpetual gloom. He serves a despotic mistress who loathes wrinkles, in the most extreme way.
31 December 1990
Joyously reclaiming "spinsterhood" from its sexist implications, the filmmaker recalls the undauntable great aunt who provided her first driving lesson.
01 January 2001
This documentary portrays the front-line street workers who serve the needy under the umbrella of the Salvation Army.
01 January 1991
This short animated film is an impressionistic exploration of sensuality within the feminine imagination.
28 August 1986
Fabian Gibbs plays a black Montreal college student forced to leave school when his girlfriend Pat Dillon becomes pregnant.
29 July 2022
On a stormy summer night, Mathieu walks in on his parents. Horrified, he shares his disturbing discovery with his friends on a fishing trip and begins to ask some big questions.
01 January 1996
This feature documentary zooms in on Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges borough, where over 75 ethnic groups live side by side in a dizzying swirl of sound and colour.
02 March 2019
A documentary that explores what it means to be a young person in Quebec after the dissolution of the Quebec sovereignty movement.
01 January 2017
Meshes of the Ocean is the story of Ron Ingraham, a charming 96-year-old Newfoundlander who immigrated to Canada during the 1940’s, while the territory was still under the British law.
27 December 1986
In this feature documentary, a Haitian, exiled in Canada for twenty years, returns to his country after the departure of Jean-Claude Duvalier.
13 November 2019
Some people grapple with the moral challenges of treating human beings decently. Others are just… assholes.
01 January 2007
Two little men float into the deep blue sky, tied to balloons. But then each decides the sky belongs to him.
03 October 2024
On a misty morning in the fall of 1985, a small group of Haida people blockaded a muddy dirt road on Lyell Island, demanding the government work with Indigenous people to find a way to protect the land and the future.
18 June 1999
Director Clint Alberta takes us on a hilarious and bittersweet journey into the hearts and minds of some very ordinary, extraordinary young Canadians.
27 August 2007
When an old man is visited by Death at his home in the meadows, he has to delve deep to secure more time for himself.
01 January 2008
After the Ballot is a full-length documentary portraying the gruelling everyday life of two Members of Quebec's National Assembly who, although at opposite ends of the political spectrum, share the fact that their sole power lies in their convictions.
01 January 2008
Four Feet Up is an intimate portrayal of child poverty in Canada by award-winning photographer and documentary filmmaker Nance Ackerman.
21 February 2020
The hedgehog between balloons, the feline predator on the hamster wheel, the fish in the lifebuoy: A young woman portrays herself in the best possible light in her self-description.
05 June 2023
With candor, humour and courage, a group of African-Canadian women challenge cultural taboos surrounding female sexuality and fight to take back ownership of their bodies.
19 November 2019
Kenbe La: Until We Win chronicles the inspiring journey of Alain Philoctète, an artist and activist who dreams of developing a permaculture project in his native country even as he fights an ongoing battle with cancer.
16 April 1997
Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
05 November 2003
Elliott Leyton, the subject of this riveting documentary by filmmaker Barbara Doran, can't help but be fascinating; that's because Leyton, who teaches at the Memorial University in Newfoundland, is also a valuable ally for law enforcement officials who need his expertise in psychology and criminal behavior to catch some of the most heinous criminals: serial killers.
01 January 1990
This documentary takes an in-depth look at the witch hunts that swept Europe just a few hundred years ago.
01 January 1991
The hunters are the Innu people and the bombers are the air forces of several NATO countries, which conduct low-level flights over the Innu's hunting terrain.
01 January 2011
This feature film uses Michael Crummey's seminal piece of Newfoundland literature to examine cultural change and modern relationships.
01 January 1996
A portrait of the country of Mexico, as seen through the eyes of Mario Rojas Alba, a physician and former member of Congress, who fled to Montreal as a political refugee after surviving a brutal physical assault.
30 September 1991
A facially disfigured author's life with her guardian of a sister is disrupted when a stranger arrives at their door, claiming to be a fan.
11 May 2024
A moving portrait of filmmaker Pierre Hébert, which retraces his extraordinary career and shares all about his passion for burning onto film.
01 January 2012
In this autobiographical animated short, Elise Simard crafts the story of a young girl seeking self-discovery and rebirth.
01 January 2009
Diane Obomsawin's whimsical animated short follows medicine man Walk-in-the-forest on a walk in the woods that leads to the discovery of an intriguing secret world.
19 September 2008
Partly figurative, partly abstract, Drux Flux is an animation film of fast-flowing images showing modern people crushed by industry.
01 January 1986
This feature documentary traces the political career of T.C. (Tommy) Douglas, former premier of Saskatchewan and leader of the New Democratic Party, who was voted the Greatest Canadian in 2004 for his devotion to social causes, his charm and his powers of persuasion.
10 February 2003
Combining figurative abstraction with magic realism, this animated short depicts a world in which whales fall out of the sky and fish turn into balloons.
15 September 1990
A historical drama set in 1889, Chandler's Mill examines the plight of workers, and particularly child workers, in the New Brunswick wool industry.
02 May 1995
The reality of life before, during, and after the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the profound effects the economic agreements between big business and government can have on human lives.
22 July 2003
With its interplay of shadow and light, of paint in movement, BLUE LIKE A GUNSHOT is a work of great visual power.
01 January 2007
Uncle Bob is getting up in years, but manages quite well, thank you. Then an unexpected illness changes everything.
01 January 1986
A tribute to Indigenous women everywhere, this short documentary focuses on 5 women from across Canada.