National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

Follows Beryl, a 59-year-old factory worker who’s obsessed with drawing and determined to become a hyper-futurist artiste. We also meet her grown son, Colin, a techno geek, her husband, Ifor, now Beryl’s model and muse, and he...

Following the end of a stormy love affair, Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka enlists in the First World War. After suffering serious injuries in battle, he experiences a series of memories and visions as medics transport him th...

The Road Forward, a musical documentary by Marie Clements, connects a pivotal moment in Canada's civil rights history-the beginnings of Indian Nationalism in the 1930s-with the powerful momentum of First Nations activism today. Th...

A hedgehog is made fun of by a sly fox, a greedy bear, a wicked wolf and a muddy wild boar.

From the moment she was born, Vaysha was a very special girl. With her left eye she can only see into the past, and with her right she can only see the future. The past is familiar and safe, the future is sinister and threatening....

The new short by historic animator Paul Driessen is a sentimental adventure in symmetries and split screens starring a dog and a cat. Impossible love? Doesn’t exist.

The animator nominated for two Academy Awards changes his technique and spirit in his fourth film: from cartoon to puppet animation and from salvage, black comedy to a friendlier, more playful humor.

An automotive waltz in which a series of cars perform circular pirouettes to the rhythm of the renowned song ‘Qué será, será’. Meanwhile, Mother Earth continuously pumps the thick black fluid that feeds their engines. If we...

This feature film chronicles the personal life and political career of Danny Williams, the 9th premier of history of Newfoundland and Labrador. Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada as the 10th province in 1949. Although it was ...

Amina Arraf became a star blogger when her online Montreal girlfriend encouraged her to launch A Gay Girl in Damascus. This film explores the global hunt that ensued after Arraf was kidnapped when Syria entered the Arab Spring in

Three pilots with plane trouble are making an arduous journey home through the desert, struggling to keep their yearnings in check. Exhaustion and fantasy intermingle, as they resist delusion and hopelessness, and fight to keep up

Me and My Moulton tells a very personal story. She travels through the thoughts of an eight-year old girl who comes to realize that her family is not quite “normal.”

With only an acoustic guitar and a laptop, transgender singer/songwriter Rae Spoon, who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun “they,” embarks on a modest tour across the vast and blue-skied plains of Canada, facilitated by Greyho...

From the Russian front to the Chinese revolution, and Dresden to Guernica, great black birds fly over graves while vampires and reapers keep moving.

A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.