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WaaPaKe (Tomorrow)

Sit with Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin and unravel the tangled threads of silence suffered by residential school Survivors through truth, freedom and power, in this deeply personal, award-winning short documentary.

New Documentaries

WaaPaKe (Tomorrow)
Jules Arita Koostachin 2023 1 h 20 min
Dear Audrey
Jeremiah Hayes 2021 1 h 29 min
Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land
2024 5 episodes
Fire-Jo-Ball
Audrey Nantel-Gagnon 2023 16 min
Our Maternal Home
Janine Windolph 2023 27 min
Andrea Martin: Nine Lives... and Counting!
Michelle Mama 2024 4 min
Wes “Maestro” Williams: Wes to the East - Forward Movin'
Gilles Doiron 2024 3 min
Jenny Belzberg: Home is Where the Art Is
Will Prosper 2024 4 min
Measha Brueggergosman-Lee: A New Song
Will Prosper 2024 4 min
The Passion and Puppetry of Ronnie Burkett
Michelle Mama 2024 5 min
Mélanie Demers: Artistic Frictions
Gilles Doiron 2024 4 min
Diane Juster: Foundation of a Song
Gilles Doiron 2024 4 min

The NFB @ Sheffield DocFest

What is Democracy?
Astra Taylor 2018 1 h 47 min
NCR: Not Criminally Responsible
John Kastner 2013 1 h 39 min
A Short History of the Highrise, Part Four: Home
Katerina Cizek 2013 4 min
A Short History of the Highrise, Part Three: Glass
Katerina Cizek 2013 3 min
A Short History of the Highrise, Part Two: Concrete
Katerina Cizek 2013 6 min
A Short History of the Highrise, Part One: Mud
Katerina Cizek 2013 3 min
The Socalled Movie
Garry Beitel 2010 1 h 27 min
Peggy Baker: Four Phrases
Howie Shia 2009 5 min
Junior
Isabelle Lavigne & Stéphane Thibault 2008 1 h 36 min
RiP! A Remix Manifesto
Brett Gaylor 2008 1 h 26 min
War Hospital
David Christensen & Damien Lewis 2005 1 h 29 min
Men of the Deeps
John Walker 2003 51 min

The NFB @ Hot Docs

Perfecting the Art of Longing
Kitra Cahana 2021 12 min
Someone Like Me
Sean Horlor & Steve J. Adams 2021 1 h 19 min
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers 2021 2 h 4 min
Stateless
Michèle Stephenson 2020 1 h 35 min
nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up
Tasha Hubbard 2019 1 h 38 min
What Walaa Wants
Christy Garland 2018 1 h 29 min
Unarmed Verses
Charles Officer 2016 1 h 25 min
Out of Mind, Out of Sight
John Kastner 2014 1 h 27 min
Alphée of the Stars

Hugo Latulippe 2012 1 h 22 min
The Boxing Girls of Kabul
Ariel Nasr 2011 52 min
Junior
Isabelle Lavigne & Stéphane Thibault 2008 1 h 36 min
Forgiveness: Stories for Our Time
Johanna Lunn 2007 53 min

RIDM: Showing NFB films for 26 years

Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers 2021 2 h 4 min
The Magnitude of All Things
Jennifer Abbott 2020 1 h 26 min
Stateless
Michèle Stephenson 2020 1 h 35 min
Wintopia
Mira Burt-Wintonick 2019 1 h 28 min
My War
Julien Fréchette 2018 1 h 37 min
What Walaa Wants
Christy Garland 2018 1 h 29 min
Our People Will Be Healed
Alanis Obomsawin 2017 1 h 36 min
Freelancer on the Front Lines
Santiago Bertolino 2016 1 h 38 min
Unarmed Verses
Charles Officer 2016 1 h 25 min
Pipelines, Power and Democracy
Olivier D. Asselin 2015 1 h 28 min
Where I'm From
Claude Demers 2014 1 h 18 min
Trick or Treaty?
Alanis Obomsawin 2014 1 h 24 min

Being Young

Anything for Fame
Tyler Funk 2023 1 h 24 min
Star Wars Kid: The Rise of the Digital Shadows
Mathieu Fournier 2022 1 h 19 min
What Walaa Wants
Christy Garland 2018 1 h 29 min
Manivald
Chintis Lundgren 2017 12 min
Social Me
Katia Café-Fébrissy 2015 23 min
The Boxing Girls of Kabul
Ariel Nasr 2011 52 min
Junior
Isabelle Lavigne & Stéphane Thibault 2008 1 h 36 min
Shredded
Douglas C. Taplin & Richard Gaudio 2005 22 min
Zero Tolerance
Michka Saäl 2004 1 h 15 min
Almost Real: Connecting in a Wired World
Ann Shin 2002 47 min
In Other Words
Jan Padgett 2001 27 min
Salt
Amber Goodwyn , Morgan Gage , … 2000 1 h 17 min

Studio D: The Women’s Film Studio

Kathleen Shannon: On Film, Feminism & Other Dreams
Gerry Rogers 1997 49 min
Under the Willow Tree: Pioneer Chinese Women in Canada
Dora Nipp 1997 51 min
Taking Charge
Claudette Jaiko 1996 25 min
Listening for Something... Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation
Dionne Brand 1996 55 min
Motherland: Tales of Wonder
Helene Klodawsky 1994 1 h 29 min
Twenty Years of Feminist Filmmaking
Cheryl Sim & Janice Brown 1994 5 min
Hands of History
Loretta Todd 1994 51 min
Long Time Comin'
Dionne Brand 1993 52 min
Return Home
Michelle Wong 1992 29 min
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
Aerlyn Weissman & Lynne Fernie 1992 1 h 24 min
Toward Intimacy
Debbie McGee 1992 1 h 1 min
The Glass Ceiling
Sophie Bissonnette 1992 27 min

Human Rights

Prosecutor
Barry Stevens 2010 1 h 34 min
Picture This
Jari Osborne 2017 33 min
Birth of a Family
Tasha Hubbard 2017 1 h 19 min
Holy Angels
Jay Cardinal Villeneuve 2017 13 min
Paula
Scott Munn 2019 9 min
this river
Erika MacPherson & Katherena Vermette 2016 19 min
Beauty
Christina Willings 2018 23 min
A Mother and Daughter on Abortion
Gail Singer 1987 12 min
19 Days
Asha Siad & Roda Siad 2016 26 min
Silence Is Gold
Julien Fréchette 2012 1 h 17 min
Who Cares
Rosie Dransfeld 2012 1 h 19 min
Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada
Karen Cho 2012 1 h 27 min

Short Docs

Home Cooked Music
Mike Maryniuk 2014 9 min
Debris
John Bolton 2015 14 min
Mabel
Teresa MacInnes 2016 20 min
19 Days
Asha Siad & Roda Siad 2016 26 min
Finale: Making It
Ryan Sidhoo 2018 15 min
Cordell II: For My Family
Ryan Sidhoo 2018 15 min
King Nation III: Bright Lights
Ryan Sidhoo 2018 23 min
Elijah II: Defend Your Crown
Ryan Sidhoo 2018 15 min
King Nation II: The North's American Dream
Ryan Sidhoo 2018 15 min
Cordell I: Trust the Process
Ryan Sidhoo 2018 15 min
King Nation I: Play Small, Win Big
Ryan Sidhoo 2018 23 min
Elijah I: Just a Kid
Ryan Sidhoo 2018 15 min

Classic Docs

Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
Donald Brittain & Don Owen 1965 44 min
King of the Hill
William Canning & Donald Brittain 1974 56 min
Nahanni
Donald Wilder 1962 18 min
Nails
Phillip Borsos 1979 13 min
Lonely Boy
Wolf Koenig & Roman Kroitor 1962 26 min
Action: The October Crisis of 1970
Robin Spry 1973 1 h 27 min
Corral
Colin Low 1954 11 min
The Stratford Adventure
Morten Parker 1953 39 min
How to Build an Igloo
Douglas Wilkinson 1949 10 min
Royal Journey
David Bairstow , Gudrun Parker , … 1951 54 min
Cry of the Wild
Bill Mason 1972 1 h 28 min
Waterwalker
Bill Mason 1984 1 h 26 min

The Green Channel

Losing Blue
Leanne Allison 2023 16 min
Modern Goose
Karsten Wall 2022 22 min
What Rhymes with Toxic
Lynn Smith 2021 5 min
ƛaʔuukʷiatḥ Dugout Canoe
Steven Davies 2021 10 min
The Magnitude of All Things
Jennifer Abbott 2020 1 h 26 min
Sovereign Soil
David Curtis 2019 1 h 31 min
The Whale and the Raven
Mirjam Leuze 2019 1 h 41 min
Matheson Island
Kevin Settee 2021 14 min
Poplar River
Kevin Settee 2021 10 min
Borealis
Kevin McMahon 2020 1 h 33 min
Balakrishna
Colin MacKenzie & Aparna Kapur 2019 15 min
Way of the Hunter
Robert Moberg 2018 16 min

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