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Most-Viewed Films of 2023

Arctic Song

Arctic Song

In this six-minute short, Inuit artist, storyteller and co-director Germaine Arnattaujuq (Arnaktauyok) depicts Inuit creation stories in all their glory. Arctic Song tells stories of how the land, sea and …

Germaine Arnattaujuq, Neil Christopher & Louise Flaherty
2021 | 6 min
The Flying Sailor

The Flying Sailor

Two ships collide in a harbour, an explosion shatters a city, and a sailor is blasted skyward. With ears ringing, blood pulsing and guts heaving, he soars high above the …

Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby
2022 | 7 min
Holy Angels

Holy Angels

In 1963, Lena Wandering Spirit became one of the more than 150,000 Indigenous children who were removed from their families and sent to residential school. Jay Cardinal Villeneuve’s short documentary …

Jay Cardinal Villeneuve
2017 | 13 min
The Mountain of SGaana

The Mountain of SGaana

In The Mountain of SGaana, Haida filmmaker Christopher Auchter spins a magical tale of a young man who is stolen away to the spirit world, and the young woman …

Christopher Auchter
2017 | 10 min
Nalujuk Night

Nalujuk Night

Nalujuk Night is an up close look at an exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying, Labrador Inuit tradition. Every January 6th from the dark of the Nunatsiavut night, the Nalujuit appear on …

Jennie Williams
2021 | 13 min
Three Thousand

Three Thousand

In this short film, Inuk artist Asinnajaq plunges us into a sublime imaginary universe—14 minutes of luminescent, archive-inspired cinema that recast the present, past and future of her people in …

Asinnajaq
2017 | 14 min
Trick or Treaty?

Trick or Treaty?

Covering a vast swath of northern Ontario, Treaty No. 9 reflects the often contradictory interpretations of treaties between First Nations and the Crown. To the Canadian government, this treaty represents …

Alanis Obomsawin
2014 | 1 h 24 min
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab …

Alanis Obomsawin
1993 | 1 h 59 min