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HA'Aki

HA'Aki

In this short abstract-impressionist film the animation and music were made simultaneously in an organic process of symbiotic creativity. Filmmaker Iriz Pääbo tells the highly subjective story of a complete ...

Hardwood

Hardwood

Hardwood is a personal journey by director Hubert Davis, the son of former Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis, who explores how his father's decisions affected his life and those of ...

Has God Forsaken Africa?

Has God Forsaken Africa?

In this feature documentary, Senegal-born director Musa Dieng Kala returns to Dakar, where he grew up, and asks this painful question: has God forsaken Africa? The answer is bitter. As ...

Here and the Great Elsewhere

Here and the Great Elsewhere

This abstract yet compelling philosophical tale uses the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen as a metaphor for the particles that make up the universe. Through 4 tableaux that explore her character’s thoughts ...

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

Once Jennie had everything. The terrier had two food bowls, two pillows, and for cold weather, a red wool sweater. She even had a master who loved her. But Jennie ...

The Hole Story

The Hole Story

In this feature documentary, Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie continue in the same provocative vein as their earlier Forest Alert, this time turning their lens on Canada's mining industry ...

Hollow Land

Hollow Land

A story about the eternal human search for home, Hollow Land begins, as all such searches must, with the dream of utopia. Solomon and Berta are two seekers who arrive ...

Hope Builders

Hope Builders

The future of the world is perhaps being played out in an elementary school in Quebec, where a teacher is implementing a new teaching method (Action Research) aimed at preparing ...

How People Got Fire

How People Got Fire

In the village of Carcross, in the Tagish First Nation, Grandma Kay invites the local children into her kitchen and tells them the traditional tale of how Crow brought fire ...

How does it feel

How does it feel

Like many people, Kazumi was daunted by the idea of singing in public. But at 58, he has decided to use his awe-inspiring singing voice to channel his cerebral palsy ...

Humanima: A Falconer for Life

Humanima: A Falconer for Life

Carl Millier has been practising the art of falconry for several years. Fascinated by birds of prey, he breeds them and trains them to perform some amazing feats like ensuring ...

Humanima: A Man Among Predators

Humanima: A Man Among Predators

Rolland Lemieux is every inch a man of nature. As a wildlife technician who specializes in the humane capture of predators, he is particularly interested in bears and wolves. His ...

Humanima: A Naturalist's Magic Touch

Humanima: A Naturalist's Magic Touch

Pierre Leduc the biologist is first and foremost a naturalist painter. To create a painting, he'll take a walk in the forest to observe and immerse himself in the ...

Humanima: A New Set of Wings

Humanima: A New Set of Wings

Guy Fitzgerald has dedicated his life to sheltering, treating and rehabilitating birds of prey. Every year, hundreds of injured and orphaned birds of prey are brought to his clinic in ...

Humanima: A Refuge for Life

Humanima: A Refuge for Life

Do animals have rights? If you ask Christian Huchedé, the answer is a resounding yes. An ardent defender of animal rights, he has dedicated his life to 'Refuge de l ...

Humanima: Behind the Camera - Jean Cardinal

Humanima: Behind the Camera - Jean Cardinal

Quiet on the set ! Victor the dog is ready. Standing beside the camera is his trainer Jean Cardinal. Well-known to Canadian, American and European movie producers, Jean Cardinal is revealed ...

Humanima: In Sync with the Great Whales

Humanima: In Sync with the Great Whales

In 1986, during her medical internship in the Gaspé Peninsula, Janie Giard discovered whales. It was love at first sight. Ever since, she has lived in sync with the great ...

Humanima: Mother Goose

Humanima: Mother Goose

Pascale Otis has done extensive studies over the years to determine how Snow geese and Canada geese are able to resist extremely cold temperatures. This biologist will even turn herself ...

Humanima: One Good Deed Deserves Another

Humanima: One Good Deed Deserves Another

On their farm located in Carignan, Québec, Gloria Grow and her husband Richard Allan provide a home for hundreds of abandoned and abused animals. They were the first to take ...

Humanima: One Man's Heaven on Earth

Humanima: One Man's Heaven on Earth

Henri Jacob, a committed environmentalist, likes to get involved in down-to-earth projects. He has spent his summers since 1995 identifying and banding hundreds of ducks on Lake Parent in Abitibi ...

Humanima: The Calls of the Wild

Humanima: The Calls of the Wild

Maryo Pépin developed his great passion for animals when he was very young. From the age of ten on, he began to drop out of regular school, opting instead for ...

Humanima: The Challenges of an Untamed Soul

Humanima: The Challenges of an Untamed Soul

300 kilometers from Halifax, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Sable Island is a land not easily tamed. For more than 20 years, Zoe Lucas has been studying the island and ...

Humanima: The Season for Newborns

Humanima: The Season for Newborns

Josée Tremblay could easily have become a veterinarian in a private clinic, taking care of dogs and cats. Instead, her passion for nature led her to the Wildlife Zoo in ...

Hungu

Hungu

Under the African sun, a child walks in the desert with his kin. Death is prowling, but a mother's soul resurrected by music will return strength and life to ...