Canada

A story about two symbolic characters who sway to the song Alouette.

This film promotes, in the best K-Tel tradition, a new device used to speak French.

An animated film showing a woolly mammoth and its offspring. These animals lived on the Canadian tundra over ten thousand years ago.

An animated vignette. A lively dance of painted wooden dolls that twirl, swing and sway to gay music.

This animated film illustrates the terrible journey, the back-breaking work, the exotic and gaudy city of Dawson, and the turmoil and triumphs of the 1898 Klondike gold rush.

W.O. Mitchell recounts Newton's Law of Falling Backhouses, a story based on the youthful pranks of his prairie childhood.

An animated allegory demonstrating the need to integrate the disabled into general society.

This vignette illustrates the variety of professions, people and technical procedures required by the filmmaking process.

Ice cutting on the St. Lawrence River in the 1860s is illustrated in song and animated graphics.

This model-animation vignette takes a humorous look at the theme of transportation.

Veteran war correspondent Murray Sayle journeys west across Canada at a time when sections of the country’s “national dream” — its vast transcontinental railroad — faced extinction. In his 7,000-mile adventure, Sayle discovers mounties, moose, and a colorful assortment of railroad men and women. He also shares glimpses of a lesser-known Canada - Fishermen of the Maritime provinces, Indian settlements on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, polar bears frolicking, cowboys in the prairies - all loosely linked by the now resurgent transcontinental railway. Take the LAST TRAIN ACROSS CANADA for an unforgettable rail adventure, one filled with romance and extraordinary beauty.

For the past seven years, cartoonist Sean Martin has brought to life the characters of 'Doc and Raider', two gay men in a committed relationship who deal with AIDS, homophobia and everyday life in the nineties. The documentary, using the framework of a Calgary gay rodeo that Sean Martin participates in each year, looks at the influences on Martin's work and the search for his own space within the gay community.

Canada's Best Kept Secret: The Natural World of R.D. Lawrence chronicles the life and work of Canadian author/naturalist who, along with his wife Sharon rescued and cared for over 2,000 animals on his property in the Haliburton highlands of northern Ontario.

A short film in the Canada Vignette series. A cinematic portrait of a blind auto mechanic.

A Circle-Vision 360 degree film capturing the sites, sounds, and people of Canada.

A visit to the capital of British Columbia and to its largest city.

The documentary tells the story of the immigrants who came to Canada with dreams of a better life. Featuring incredible archival footage, photographs and documents as well as interviews with historians, sociologists as well as first-hand accounts from several Italian Canadians.

Be it India or Canada, it is common in Punjabi families to roast each other. The story is about Indians living in Canada who often get stuck in tricky situations, resulting in chaos and hilarity.

Hailed -the best Nutcracker on the planet- by The Globe and Mail, The National Ballet of Canada’s acclaimed production, choreographed by James Kudelka, features 233 performers – 50 dancers, 98 children from Canada’s National Ballet School and high schools all over Toronto, 65 musicians and 20 young singers from VIVA! Youth Singers of Toronto who join The National Ballet of Canada Orchestra for the famous snow scene. The streamed performance of The Nutcracker was captured live at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in 2008 and features Principal Dancers Sonia Rodriguez and Piotr Stanczyk as The Sugar Plum Fairy and Peter/The Nutcracker. The Nutcracker is made possible by generous financial support from production underwriters Sandra Pitblado & Jim Pitblado, C.M., Lawrence and Ann Heisey and an anonymous friend of the National Ballet.

A look at the issues surrounding gay marriage in Canada, political, religious and social as evidenced by three gay marriages that the film focuses on.