Catalogue
Science and Nature
Arctic Circle - Episode One: On Thin Ice
Climate change is hitting the Arctic harder and faster than any other region on Earth. Although the North may seem remote from the population centres of the world, sensitive ecosystems ...
Arctic Circle - Episode Two: Battle for the Pole
Climate change is hitting the Arctic harder and faster than anywhere else. This is where sensitive ecosystems are being altered by global warming the most. Shot in HD, in some ...
Being Caribou
In this feature-length documentary, husband and wife team Karsten Heuer (wildlife biologist) and Leanne Allison (environmentalist) follow a herd of 120,000 caribou on foot across 1500 km of Arctic ...
The Chocolate Farmer
This full-length documentary takes us to an unspoiled corner of southern Belize, where cacao farmer and father Eladio Pop manually works his plantation in the tradition of his Mayan ancestors ...
An Ecology of Hope
A documentary portrait of ecologist Pierre Dansereau, the film takes us from Baffin Island to New York City, from the Gaspé Peninsula to Brazil. At each stop on this world ...
The End of Time
Visionary filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again seeks to film the unfilmable on a journey that takes him to a particle accelerator in ...
Finding Farley
In this full-length documentary husband-and-wife team Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison (Being Caribou), along with their 2-year old son and dog, retrace the literary footsteps of Canadian writer Farley Mowat ...
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
Award-winning director Sturla Gunnarsson presents a biography of ideas featuring iconic Canadian scientist, educator, broadcaster and activist David Suzuki. At 73 years of age Suzuki delivered what he describes as ...
Four Wings and a Prayer
Four Wings and a Prayer is a documentary about one of the world's most beautiful and mysterious creatures: the Monarch butterfly. Nowhere in nature is there a more powerful ...
The Fruit Hunters
Hunting mangoes in Bali, elusive rare durian in Borneo, scouring Renaissance paintings for ancient, lost figs, uncovering the secrets of taste-bud-altering Miracle Fruit: The Fruit Hunters tells a story of ...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
The Man with the Golden Cells
In The Man with the Golden Cells, director Florence Martin-Kessler asks crucial and timely questions about the right to personal physical integrity in the face of scientific research. Travelling through ...
Meltdown
March 11, 2011. Japan is hit with the fifth-strongest earthquake ever recorded. But the real legacy of this disaster is the ensuing nuclear accident—power plant engineers try, and fail ...
Mug of a Diver
Jean-Claude Roubaud's passion is the sea. He's a diver, and for over 15 years has been making his childhood dream come true: earning his living finding sunken treasure ...
Mystical Brain
This short documentary reveals the exploratory work of a team from the University of Montreal who seek to understand the states of grace experienced by mystics and those who meditate ...
Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague
Patient Zero is a flight attendant, stricken with what she thinks is chickenpox. She goes to ground in a Montreal hotel room. A few weeks later, she’s back on ...
A Sea Turtle Story
Under the cover of night, a sea turtle secretly digs a hole on a tropical beach and lays her eggs in the sand before returning to the ocean. With each ...
The Strangest Dream
This is the story of Joseph Rotblat, the only nuclear scientist to leave the Manhattan Project, the U.S. government’s secret program to build the first atomic bomb. His ...
Vanishing Point
This feature documentary tells the story of 2 Inuit communities of the circumpolar north—one on Canada’s Baffin Island, the other in Northwest Greenland—that are linked by a ...
Waterlife
Waterlife is a documentary film about the Great Lakes that follows the flow of the lakes' water from the Nipigon River to the Atlantic Ocean. The film's goal is ...
Weather Report
For many people, global warming is something happening somewhere else to somebody else, but for millions, it is right at their doorstep. This film journeys across the globe, from the ...
