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The Girl Who Hated Books

Meet Meena – a little girl with a big imagination

The Girl Who Hated Books

Meena’s parents love books, but Meena refuses to even crack one open – until the day she discovers that a world of adventure lives between the pages.

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Old Dog

Ann Marie Fleming
2020 | 3 min
The Physics of Sorrow

Theodore Ushev
2019 | 26 min
The Procession

Pascal Blanchet & Rodolphe Saint-Gelais
2019 | 11 min
No Objects

Moïa Jobin-Paré
2019 | 9 min
The Cannonball Woman

Albertine Zullo & David Toutevoix
2017 | 14 min
Mamie

Janice Nadeau
2016 | 6 min
Blind Vaysha

Theodore Ushev
2016 | 8 min
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days

Regina Pessoa
2019 | 13 min

Indigenous-Made Animation Films

The Mountain of SGaana

Christopher Auchter
2017 | 10 min
Three Thousand

Asinnajaq
2017 | 14 min
Maq and the Spirit of the Woods

Phyllis Grant
2006 | 8 min
Vistas: Walk-in-the-Forest

Diane Obomsawin
2009 | 3 min
Vistas - The Visit

Lisa Jackson
2009 | 3 min
Vistas: Little Thunder

Nance Ackerman & Alan Syliboy
2009 | 3 min
Waseteg

Phyllis Grant
2010 | 6 min
Nunavut Animation Lab: Qalupalik

Ame Papatsie
2010 | 5 min

Animation That’s Definitely Not for Kids

How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels

Craig Welch
1996 | 11 min
Paula

Dominic-Étienne Simard
2011 | 10 min
The Trenches

Claude Cloutier
2010 | 6 min
Bydlo

Patrick Bouchard
2012 | 8 min
Caterpillarplasty

David Barlow-Krelina
2018 | 5 min
Naked Island - Sext Apes

Laurence Vallières
2017 | 36 s
The Tesla World Light

Matthew Rankin
2017 | 8 min
The Subject

Patrick Bouchard
2018 | 10 min

Auteur

Threads

Torill Kove
2017 | 8 min
Impromptu

Bruce Alcock
2013 | 10 min
Subconscious Password

Chris Landreth
2013 | 10 min
Reviving The Roost

Vivek Shraya
2019 | 6 min
Hedgehog's Home

Eva Cvijanovic
2017 | 10 min
My Heart Attack

Sheldon Cohen
2015 | 13 min
The End of Pinky

Claire Blanchet
2013 | 8 min
Mystery of the Secret Room

Wanda Nolan
2016 | 5 min

Great List of Everything

The Great List of Everything –The Phone

Iris Boudreau & Francis Papillon
2019 | 2 min
The Great List of Everything - The Glasses

Cathon, Iris Boudreau, …
2019 | 2 min
The Great List of Everything - The Camera

Iris Boudreau & Francis Papillon
2019 | 2 min
The Great List of Everything - The Lightbulb

Iris Boudreau & Francis Papillon
2019 | 2 min
The Great List of Everything -The Swimsuit

Iris Boudreau & Francis Papillon
2019 | 2 min
The Great List of Everything - The Noodles

Iris Boudreau & Francis Papillon
2019 | 2 min
The Great List of Everything - The Pants

Iris Boudreau & Francis Papillon
2019 | 2 min
The Great List of Everything - The Bread

Cathon, Iris Boudreau, …
2019 | 2 min

Amusing

Shop Class

Hart Snider
2018 | 8 min
If I Was God...

Cordell Barker
2014 | 8 min
Freaks of Nurture

Alexandra Lemay
2018 | 6 min
Animal Behaviour

Alison Snowden & David Fine
2018 | 14 min
The Great List of Everything -The Swimsuit

Iris Boudreau & Francis Papillon
2019 | 2 min
The Great List of Everything - The Noodles

Iris Boudreau & Francis Papillon
2019 | 2 min
The Roommate

Stephanie Braithwaite
2014 | 1 min
The Tooth

Guy Delisle
2017 | 3 min

Science Please!

Why Is the Sky Blue?

Sylvain Charbonneau
2001 | 1 min
The Telephone

Sylvain Charbonneau
2001 | 1 min
The Refrigerator

Sylvain Charbonneau
2001 | 1 min
Mirrors

Sylvain Charbonneau
2001 | 1 min
Magnets

Sylvain Charbonneau
2000 | 1 min
Lightning

Sylvain Charbonneau
2000 | 1 min
Gravity

Sylvain Charbonneau
2001 | 1 min
Fire

Sylvain Charbonneau
2001 | 1 min

The ABCs of Film Animation

The Light Fantastick

Rupert Glover & Michel Patenaude
1974 | 57 min
Co Hoedeman, Animator

Nico Crama
1980 | 27 min
Creative Process: Norman McLaren

Donald McWilliams
1990 | 1 h 56 min
Pinscreen

Norman McLaren
1973 | 38 min
Animated Motion: Part 1

Norman McLaren & Grant Munro
1976 | 9 min
Animated Motion: Part 2

Norman McLaren & Grant Munro
1976 | 8 min
Animated Motion: Part 3

Norman McLaren & Grant Munro
1977 | 10 min
Animated Motion: Part 4

Norman McLaren & Grant Munro
1977 | 7 min

Kids' Movies

The Juggler

Thomas Vamos
1980 | 12 min
The Bear and the Mouse

F.W. Remmler & Ingmar Remmler
1966 | 7 min
Ti-Jean Goes West

Raymond Garceau
1957 | 23 min
Cornet at Night

Stanley Jackson
1963 | 14 min
Mela's Lunch

Sugith Varughese
1991 | 14 min
The Pony

Lawrence Cherry
1955 | 35 min
Adventures

Michael Rubbo
1968 | 10 min
How Do They Make Oatmeal Cookies?

Winston Washington Moxam
1999 | 4 min

Based on Children's Books

Blackberry Subway Jam

Robert Doucet
1984 | 8 min
The Dingles

Les Drew
1988 | 7 min
The Girl Who Hated Books

Jo Meuris
2006 | 7 min
Lights for Gita

Michel Vo
2001 | 7 min
The Reluctant Deckhand

Jan Padgett
1995 | 33 min
Lord of the Sky

Ludmila Zeman & Eugen Spaleny
1991 | 13 min
Snow Cat

Sheldon Cohen
1998 | 23 min
Christopher Changes His Name

Cilia Sawadogo
2000 | 6 min

The ABCs of Film Animation

The Light Fantastick

Rupert Glover & Michel Patenaude
1974 | 57 min
Co Hoedeman, Animator

Nico Crama
1980 | 27 min
Creative Process: Norman McLaren

Donald McWilliams
1990 | 1 h 56 min
Pinscreen

Norman McLaren
1973 | 38 min
Animated Motion: Part 1

Norman McLaren & Grant Munro
1976 | 9 min
Animated Motion: Part 2

Norman McLaren & Grant Munro
1976 | 8 min
Animated Motion: Part 3

Norman McLaren & Grant Munro
1977 | 10 min
Animated Motion: Part 4

Norman McLaren & Grant Munro
1977 | 7 min

Hothouse Animation Apprenticeship

Inside Hothouse 12

Rose Stiffarm
2019 | 9 min
Collector – Hothouse 12

Kassia Ward
2019 | 1 min
The Fake Calendar – Hothouse 12

Meky Ottawa
2019 | 1 min
XO RAD Magical - Hothouse 12

Christopher Gilbert Grant
2019 | 1 min
Mindfork

Catherine Dubeau
2016 | 1 min
Fyoog

Curtis Horsburgh
2016 | 1 min
U.F.O.

Rhayne Vermette
2016 | 1 min
Pumpers

Pascaline Lefebvre
2016 | 1 min

Experimental

Turbine

Alex Boya
2018 | 8 min
I Am Here

Eoin Duffy
2016 | 4 min
Caterpillarplasty

David Barlow-Krelina
2018 | 5 min
The Tesla World Light

Matthew Rankin
2017 | 8 min
A Little Craving

Frances Adair Mckenzie
2014 | 1 min
XO RAD Magical - Hothouse 12

Christopher Gilbert Grant
2019 | 1 min
Skin for Skin

Kevin D.A. Kurytnik & Carol Beecher
2017 | 15 min
Naked Island - Detention

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & David Seitz
2017 | 37 s

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