A portrait of Bulgarian-Canadian animation filmmaker Theodore Ushev, tracing the links between the filmmaker’s life, his political convictions and his artistic career.
Daughter of a librarian and a filmmaker, the director travels the world to understand, in the digital age, the future of the preservation and transmission of the memory of peoples.
Canadian women of African descent work together to overcome the trauma of clitoral excision and reclaim their bodies.
The challenges faced by a Nova Scotia musician who was paralyzed from the waist down after being attacked outside a nightclub.
In the Canadian boreal forest, black spruce and birch trees live together, talking to each other and deciding when to burn.
The philosophical foundations of democracy, from ancient Athens to modern Greece to the civil rights movement in the United States.
A Punjabi immigrant family in British Columbia reveals a dark, long-buried secret.
The life of farmers who decided to settle in Dawson City, Yukon, near the Arctic Circle.
A Toronto-based inkmaker, that uses berries, plants and wildflowers, sells its products to artists around the world.
In community archives across British Columbia, local knowledge keepers are hand-fashioning a more inclusive history. (Source: NFB)
Corey Lee’s efforts to reconnect with his father, martial arts legend Frank Lee.
The story of Ron Turcotte, famous jockey of the race horse Secretariat.
Portrait of Kent Nagano, conductor and artistic director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
The stories of Courtney and Shelly, two former Edmontonian prostitutes.
Portrait of Danny Williams, former Premier of Newfoundland.
The history of discrimination based on skin color.
A look at prostitution in Canada, at a time when more and more voices are being raised to demand its legalization.
From May 17 to June 15, 1939, the Royal Tour covered all Canadian provinces and cemented Canada’s allegiance to the British Crown.
The story of L’Ordre de Jacques Cartier, a “secret” society that, from 1926 to 1965, served as a networking tool for French Canadians and Acadians.
A car stuntman attempts a somersault between Canada and the United States.
A documentary on violence against women, access to abortion, access to child care, and the progress made in these areas in Canada.
A young man regains consciousness after passing out on the street and wonders if he was struck by lightning after a recent breakup or if he was abducted by aliens.
In Quebec, the difficult school integration of children from refugee families, who have fled their country at war.
In Sherbrooke, and on the international scene, Ensaf Haidar’s fight for the release of her husband, the blogger Raif Badawi, imprisoned in Saudi Arabia since 2012 for opinion crimes.
A reflection on the ethical and moral issues surrounding the relationship between a reporter and a young Somali refugee.
Portrait of Tanya Tagaq, an Inuit throat singer, who uses one of her most passionate performances to tell her story and that of her people.
A farmer sets a precedent in his eastern Indian village by filing a police complaint against the three boys who raped his 13-year-old daughter.
Activist filmmaker Martin Duckworth put down his camera to fight for the most important cause he’s ever faced-caring for his wife, Audrey Schirmer, through the final stages of Alzheimer’s.
The climate crisis, with its ecological devastation and humanitarian tragedies, is experienced as grief by many of the planet’s inhabitants.
Nearly twenty years after unwittingly becoming the first viral phenomenon of the digital age, Ghyslain Raza explores the impact of this painful experience on his life.