Movies

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, on the first day of school. From dawn to...

How Canadians adjust to their long, snowbound season. Filmed with humour, 'The Joy of Winter' shows people making the best of what they cannot...

This feature-length documentary provides a joyful glimpse of the last evening of the Veillées d'automne, a traditional music festival...

Structured as a cinematic essay, "Un pays sans bon sens!" explores the emotional and political foundations of belonging to a nation. Moving between...

Marcel and Joseph are tireless walkers. Their itinerary is an invitation to discover improbable places and fascinating people. Everlastingly looking...

It is a documentary joining 3 periods of filming in the Mouchouanipi, which is a faraway land in the North of eastern Canada.

After 'A kingdom awaits you' and 'The return to the earth', the filmmaker Pierre Perrault concludes, with this documentary feature, his plea for the...

They come in high-powered convertibles, with cameras and curiosity, to look at French Canada and French-Canadians. Their usual objective is...

Feature-length documentary on Hauris Lalancette, a Quebecer from Abitibi, who travels and draws surprising parallels between two corners of the...

Five men work together in a communal effort to build a skiff on Ile-aux-Coudres, an island in the St. Lawrence River. It is built in a traditional...

This feature-length documentary takes us back to the Montreal-Quebec trip undertaken in 1958 by the students of Francine Laurendeau, Jean-Pierre...

A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.

When was Canada populated by Native Americans from the West? This film relates the discovery of the New World from the time of the Vikings, around...

Two youngsters, a boy and girl barely into their teens, set up housekeeping together after dropping out of school. They have very little money and...

An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter...

An anthology of sequences from the best films that the National Film Board of Canada produced since its beginnings. Divided by themes and presented...

Filmed in 1964, this feature-length documentary by Jacques Godbout explores the world of delinquency through the stories of eight young people who...

The artwork of well-known Quebec animator Frédéric Back are used to tell the tale of Champlain’s life in New France – from...