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In a series of playful portraits, Líl̓wat children and youth go about their daily duties at the community’s summer camp outside Mount Currie, B.C. Inf...

The Colour of Beauty is a short documentary that examines racism in the fashion industry.

An unapologetic warning about how complacent we can be.

A woman reminisces about her childhood on a Prairie farm during the Depression. Her memory album is a collection of watercolours by artist/filmmaker B...

The seventh thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren; this time with a focus on his collaborator Maurice Blackburn.

In conversations with passionate sociologist and political thinker Jean Pichette, the filmmaker views the forced downtime stemming from the current cr...

A Chinese shopkeeper, seller of VHS, DVDs and movie posters, now only sells the films of one filmmaker - Jean-Marc Vallée. For this great connoisseur...

Watch 4,000 cattle return from summer grazing to 20 families who share a communal pasture and corral. Mesmerizing visual patterns from sky and ground...

Inspired by found sound of baby noises, this very short animation takes a good hard look at the bizarre behaviour of people working out in a gym. Prod...

Shows the shortage of civilian goods during World War II and illustrates, using diagrams, how uncontrolled buying leads to inflation. Bidding for avai...

Inspired by Norman McLaren’s Spheres (1969),this black-and-white video by Léna Babadjian uses architectural projection to study the relationships bet...

A multi–layered story of an accumulation of encounters between black clouds. This film was made as part of the fourth edition of the NFB's Hothouse ap...

Nature is wondrous and clever. As Darwin taught us, those who improvise most effectively prevail. There are species who under threat revert to earlier...

This animated film, a small educational musical comedy, offers the viewer a proper enigma. He is very smart who succeeds in solving it the first time;...

Oil-covered fish meet skateboards and the War on Terror in this razor-sharp satire of media, government, and the tycoons who take advantage of the sys...

In this joyful portrait, filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming animates the formative days and musical career of Calgary-born identical twins Tegan and Sara Qui...

How do you translate music into images? The possibilities are endless... But how do you avoid illustration? The aim of this experimental short film wa...

Why does metal rust? Corrosion is the result of a chemical reaction between metal and its surroundings.

Life of an ordinary fisherman changes when a young mai-mai fish sees him and falls in love!... Set to original music by composer Gavin Bryars, the fil...