Budd Knapp

Frédéric Back's second animated film takes up a universal theme: the quest for fire. In this film inspired by an Algonquin legend, fire is kept from humankind by Inon, the God of Thunder. The animals set off to capture the god's fire and bring it back to their human counterparts. The story is set at a time when humans and animals understood each other and lived in harmony with nature. (fredericback.com)

Jean Carter, nine-year-old daughter of the town's newly-appointed school principal, Peter Carter and his wife Sally, is playing in the woods with her 11-year-old friend Lucille, when Jean discovers she has lost her purse containing her "candy" money... (imdb)

A group of terrorists take a radio disk jockey and his wife and child hostage in order to get their manifesto out to the world. (imdb)

This animated short features a night watchman who, with his dog Fang, discovers that museums are not just a collection of dusty old artefacts. With humour, the film shows how the past is very much alive and connected to our present. (nfb.ca)

This short film is based on a short story by Canadian author Rudy Wiebe about a man who fantasizes about being a British king. His "court" is situated in an abandoned house on a frozen prairie. A little boy, wandering by after school, is invited in to meet this royal pretender to the throne. The man's delusion, intensity, and paranoia are depicted in a sombre, haunting atmosphere set to an enthralling classical score. (imdb)

The story of the problems caused by what became known as the Conscripton Crisis in 1917 Canada, which threatened to divide the country. (imdb)

One hour documentary portrait of a working class neighborhood in Montreal, Point St Charles. (imdb)

This feature-length documentary paints a lively portrait of Father of Confederation and first premier of Newfoundland Joseph Roberts Smallwood, or "Joey," as he is known to most Canadians. (nfb.ca)

This short documentary follows Manitoba’s annual Musical Festival, profiling several of the young people whose talents made the festival a leading event in the Canada of the mid-20th century. Featuring boys’ and girls’ choirs, violin and piano solos, an excerpt from Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, and songs by a soprano and a contralto, the film is an idyllic and melodic portrait the prairies of over half a century ago.