
Walt has cerebral palsy and lives on the farm with his recently separated father. Their daily routine is interrupted when a young woman shows up to use the phone.

The immortal nature of Johann Sebastian Bach's music makes it difficult to imagine him ever giving his attention to anything other than his splendid music. The wonderful cut-out animation in Bach's Pig gives us a glimpse into one of the more earthly moments in the great composer's life.

In this short animation, Al Sens gives us a glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes of a nursery rhyme.

This episode of The Artist's Life profiles sculptor and installation artist, Badanna Zack.


In this episode of Storytellers in motion, director and producer Jeff Bear is profiled.

This episode of Ghost Towns of Canada explores Barkerville, British Columbia that was known not only for money-making opportunities due to fantastic amounts of gold, but also for its cultural openness.

In this episode of Storytellers in motion, filmmaker Barry Barclay is profiled.
Confined to an apartment that’s too small for the both of them, two roommates must learn to respect each other’s personal space.

It's another drab day at the rooming house. Outside, wind and snow. Inside, nothing on Flo's calendar. What can take away those April blues? Ah, yes ... a bath!

Karen Chapman examines media representation of beauty and hair, in particular. She interviews a number of women from the African and Caribbean Canadian community and in her journey to explore the relationship of hair to beauty shaves her head, only to experience a new sense of freedom.

This sobering and enlightening documentary examines eating disorders that have become commonplace in a society where diet products are a $74 billion dollar industry.

The Borealis String Quartet, one of Canada's finest chamber music ensembles, performs at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts in Vancouver, BC.

Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to being healthy.

In Beings of Light, some critical thinkers consider how we continue to be controlled by light even though we're no longer confined by the simple rhythm of day and night.
Residents of Toronto’s Junction Triangle work to stop Metrolinx and the Provincial Government’s joint plan to run more than 400 diesel trains a day through their neighbourhood.

In Southern Chile, in a region of vast forestry plantations, two neighbours, a powerful landowner and a respected Mapuche Chief, fight over contested land.

Between You and Me (Tangled Garden, Act III, Scene I) looks at the internalization of homophobia and fatalism present in mainstream representations of the AIDS pandemic, as it reflects on the conflict between grief and desire in a gay man's psyche.


Stories of early 20th century Sikh and Chinese immigrants who built first a cement plant, and then the Butchart Gardens, enriches the history of Vancouver Island, while illustrating the harsh impact Canada's restrictive immigration laws had on those communities.

In this delightful cut-out animation, the family butler recounts the fascination of a Victorian woman with the newest form of transportation - the bicycle.


This episode of the Chiefs and Champions series profiles wrestler Billy Two Rivers.

A young girl, caught between the harsh realities of cultural traditions and generational conflict in her family, takes a stand against her tyrannical grandmother, changing their lives forever.

An examination of the history of Tibetan medicine in Russia, this documentary is also an illuminating look at one of its most devoted practitioners today.

"Clouds & waves passing over & under hypnotic reductions of elements washing yr eyeballs the rainbow edges are all in yr mind recommended for seeing."
- Sigmund Freud
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