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This film looks at the world of children with hearing loss and the importance of early diagnosis. With its straightforward, rigorous cinematic style a...

By using film as a catalyst for change, the people of Fogo Island, Newfoundland, voice some of their daily concerns. This film shows how one of the Is...

This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life. Of...

A government ministry's fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault, to steal a bag from an armored truck. Meursault goes to Théo, a...

A look at the Hutterites, an Anabaptist religious community similar to the Amish or the Mennonites in rural Alberta.

In this film, Paul Tomkowicz, Polish-born Canadian, talks about his job and his life in Canada. He compares his new life in the city of Winnipeg to th...

Alanis Obomsawin turns her lens to Le Patro Le Prévost, a recreational centre in the Villeray quarter of Montreal. On the eve of its 80th anniversary...

A Montreal man imagines a mermaid in place of the writer whose picture appears on a novel.

An Oscar-nominated short from 1985 by Ishu Patel, which raises the question – which is preferable, a beautiful gilded cage, or your freedom?

A girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.

A cemetery in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada is seen through the eyes of its former superintendent.

This short documentary examines the complex range of issues affecting urban transport in developing countries. After examining cost and available tech...

The personal and social tragedy of drug addiction with its evil accompaniment, drug traffic. Over the side of the silent liner in the darkness slips t...

A documentary film about a group of hunters who gather annually to hunt moose near Maniwaki, Quebec.

Delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is...

This brief animated film was designed to promote the remodelling of old clothing as part of the World War II effort.

World in a City is a portrait of Toronto and the steps Torontonians are taking to create a society that welcomes and encourages new immigrants to flou...

Dorothy Todd Hénaut describes her arrival at the NFB and her work on the groundbreaking Challenge For Change community filmmaking program.

This beautiful short film captures the quiet dignity of a day in the life of a Northern trapper, without use of any dialogue.

Marcel, recently released from prison, attempt to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albe...