ONF | NFB Popular Movie

First Winter is a 1982 Canadian short film directed by John N. Smith. With the father away, an Irish immigrant family struggle to survive their first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kathleen McAuliffe

This short animated film features the sandman and the creatures he sculpts out of sand. These lively creatures build a castle and celebrate the...

Genre: Animation

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"The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar" tells the story of Emery Prometer, a proud bush worker in Ottawa Valley, resisting government aid...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margot Kidder

A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the stretches of rural Alberta that once constituted...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rae Spoon

This feature-length Oscar®-nominated documentary focuses on Malcolm Lowry, author of one of the major novels of the 20th century, Under the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Burton

Arthur Lipsett's first film is an avant-garde blend of photography and sound. It looks behind the business-as-usual face we put on life and shows...

Genre: Documentary

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A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leonard Cohen

A pesky yellow cat becomes the bane of Mr. Johnson's life as it constantly outsmarts his increasingly desperate attempts to get rid of it.

Genre: Music

Cast: Richard Condie

Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the...

Genre: Animation

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To a percussive soundtrack, a succession of more complex animals forms and is consumed by their successors (all formed from beads). Finally, We reach...

Genre: Animation

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Director Anne Wheeler joins actress Babz Chula on a trip to India to rid herself of cancer.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anne Wheeler

The people of Britain resist the German air force and navy with help from North America. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lorne Greene

This film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mort Ransen

Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal after-image visuals.

Genre: Music

Cast: Margaret Mercier

The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Monique Mercure

In this short, an artist creates a painting of the landscape he sees, then finds he can literally climb into the picture to see the fantastic world...

Genre: Animation

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This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Roman Kroitor

This short film portrays the story of singer Paul Anka, who rose from obscurity to become the idol of millions of adolescent fans around the world....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Anka

An ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Jutra

A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the...

Genre: Animation

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