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  • 1982
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    First Winter

    First Winter

    7.10 1982 HD

    First Winter is a 1982 Canadian short film directed by John N. Smith. With the father away, an Irish immigrant family struggle to survive their first...

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  • 1977
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    The Sand Castle

    The Sand Castle

    6.50 1977 HD

    This short animated film features the sandman and the creatures he sculpts out of sand. These lively creatures build a castle and celebrate the...

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  • 1969
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    The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar

    The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar

    6.00 1969 HD

    "The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar" tells the story of Emery Prometer, a proud bush worker in Ottawa Valley, resisting government aid...

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  • 2013
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    My Prairie Home

    My Prairie Home

    6.70 2013 HD

    A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the stretches of rural Alberta that once constituted...

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  • 1976
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    Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry

    Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry

    5.70 1976 HD

    This feature-length Oscar®-nominated documentary focuses on Malcolm Lowry, author of one of the major novels of the 20th century, Under the...

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  • 1961
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    Very Nice, Very Nice

    Very Nice, Very Nice

    5.90 1961 HD

    Arthur Lipsett's first film is an avant-garde blend of photography and sound. It looks behind the business-as-usual face we put on life and shows...

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  • 1966
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    Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen

    Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen

    7.20 1966 HD

    A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian.

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  • 1988
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    The Cat Came Back

    The Cat Came Back

    7.00 1988 HD

    A pesky yellow cat becomes the bane of Mr. Johnson's life as it constantly outsmarts his increasingly desperate attempts to get rid of it.

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  • 1972
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    Street Musique

    Street Musique

    6.80 1972 HD

    Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the...

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  • 1977
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    The Bead Game

    The Bead Game

    6.60 1977 HD

    To a percussive soundtrack, a succession of more complex animals forms and is consumed by their successors (all formed from beads). Finally, We reach...

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  • 2013
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    Chi

    Chi

    6.20 2013 HD

    Director Anne Wheeler joins actress Babz Chula on a trip to India to rid herself of cancer.

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  • 1941
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    Churchill's Island

    Churchill's Island

    6.40 1941 HD

    The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with...

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  • 1977
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    The Street

    The Street

    5.60 1977 HD

    This film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he...

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  • 1968
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    Pas de Deux

    Pas de Deux

    6.50 1968 HD

    Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal after-image visuals.

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  • 1977
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    J.A. Martin Photographer

    J.A. Martin Photographer

    6.20 1977 HD

    The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the...

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  • 1976
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    Mindscape

    Mindscape

    6.40 1976 HD

    In this short, an artist creates a painting of the landscape he sees, then finds he can literally climb into the picture to see the fantastic world...

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  • 1963
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    21-87

    21-87

    6.80 1963 HD

    This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National...

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  • 1962
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    Lonely Boy

    Lonely Boy

    6.20 1962 HD

    This short film portrays the story of singer Paul Anka, who rose from obscurity to become the idol of millions of adolescent fans around the world....

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  • 1957
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    A Chairy Tale

    A Chairy Tale

    6.70 1957 HD

    An ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.

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  • 1955
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    Blinkity Blank

    Blinkity Blank

    6.30 1955 HD

    A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the...

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