Nails is a doc in four movements. This gorgeously shot and edited Oscar-nominated short by Phillip Borsos tracks the life of a spike in the preindustrial and industrial periods.
In New Shoes, Ann Marie Fleming points a camera at her subject, seated at the kitchen table with some tea. The woman swiftly tells her story of physical and emotional harassment with candour, but also detachment.
Understanding the value of a first impression, Graeme Ferguson ensured that IMAX made a doozy of one. This groundbreaking short doc is a true Canadian thrill ride.
To make the mesmerising Picture of Light, Peter Mettler undertook a quixotic quest to capture one of the natural world’s most famous and dazzling spectacles, the northern lights.
Documentaries may record quotidian reality but, at their best, they aspire to poetry. There’s an image in Pour la suite du monde, which achieves the clarity and vision of truly transcendent cinema.
Les raquetteurs by Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx became one of the early salvos from a new generation who were about to unleash the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
In the Oscar-winning Ryan, Chris Landreth and Ryan Larkin sit together in a computer-generated cafeteria as they go over Larkin’s past: his artistic achievements, his loves, his brief moments of recognition.
Memory and truth, it turns out, don’t always match up. That is what Sarah Polley discovered in the five years it took her to make Stories We Tell, a deep dive into her family’s past.
A characteristically intimate study of an experimental psychiatric centre for adolescents in Etobicoke, Ontario, Warrendale is both King’s most provocative film bearing a family resemblance to Frederick Wiseman’s devastating Titicut Follies
Embed from Getty Images “The official number is 1700, but it’s actually more like 1800,” says Jack Blum, executive director of REEL CANADA, about the number of screenings for this year’s special Canada 150 edition of National Canadian Film Day [NFCD 150]. It’s a whopping event—literally the largest film festival the world has ever seen.