CANADA
TODAY

To get the package he's been waiting for, Damien challenges himself to go to the post office and confront his speech impediment.

The film depicts Kaukai and Chamberland, two Inuit teenagers from Kangirsuk, Quebec, performing Inuit throat singing over scenes of the changing seasonal landscape in the community.

A story of how being biracial and trilingual in Northern communities brings certain questions on the social dynamics between Crees and non-Natives living in Chisasibi.

Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask auctioneering champion, Tim Dowler, CATTLE CALL uses a hallucinogenic barrage of stop-motion and avant-garde animation techniques to create a film that looks the way auctioneering sounds.

A blond spokesmodel marches across a succession of natural backdrops, out-of-place in her inexhaustible wardrobe of glamourous gowns. The woman holds aloft a series of digitally composited 3D signs, advertising in part slightly manipulated platitudes to a barren landscape. Empty and prescriptive, tongue-in-cheek phrases such as "Live Large," "Go with the Flow," or "Survival of the Fittest" bring up questions of entitlement, systems of colonialism and consumerism, and how meaning is created and demanded of our lives by society and mass culture.

In a pounding critique of Canada's colonial history, this short film draws parallels between the annihilation of the bison in the 1890s and the devastation inflicted on the Indigenous population by the residential school system.

Reclamation is a documentary-style imagining of a post-dystopian future in Canada after massive climate change, wars, pollution, and the after-effects of the large-scale colonial project which has now destroyed the land. When Indigenous people are left behind after a massive exodus by primarily privileged white settlers who have moved to Mars, the original inhabitants of the land cope by trying to restore and rehabilitate the beautiful planet they belong to.

This animated film recounts the friendship between a young Félix Leclerc and Frank Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican chemical engineer and university graduate who worked for a pulp and paper company. An inveterate jazz fan, Macpherson inspired Leclerc, who wrote a song about the log drives and entitled it 'MacPherson' in honour of his friend. Paint-on-glass animation shot with a 35mm camera.

Based on Sancinetti's own real-life friendship with Madeleine, a centenarian woman, the film blends documentary and fictional elements, and both live-action and puppet animation, to depict a story about her taking Madeleine on a road trip.