Canada Council for the Arts Popular Movie

Over the years, a child's romantic ideals about death blossom into necrophilia, the study of embalming and the most profound relationship of her life.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Molly Parker

An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Hemblen

Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sheila McCarthy

Centres on Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who in later years lived on skid row in Montreal following a history of drug and alcohol abuse.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ryan Larkin

This short film is an ode to the women who settled the Prairies, from the days of early immigration to 1916 - when Manitobans became the first women...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Inez Henderson

At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the exploits of one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John...

Genre: War

Cast: Michael Gottli

The mountain-village passions of a German widow and her sons unfold in the style of a 1920s movie.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kyle McCulloch

Genre: Drama

Cast: Linda Griffiths

Four young office workers have a bet going to see who can last the longest without going outside. In the maze that is the downtown core of a large...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fab Filippo

Azra is worlds apart from her conservative Muslim mother. When her father suddenly dies on a trip home to Pakistan, Azra finds herself on a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nimra Bucha

This unique narrative incorporating documentary elements follows Rey, a 40-year-old non-binary teacher and typhoon survivor, on a roadtrip to fame....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rey Jaya Aclao

A surreal and comic exploration of an office space and its inhabitants and the decorations of a living room.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacqueline Anderson

Genre: Documentary

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"How do we know what we know?" asks the journalist in the studio to the special correspondent in Turkey who couldn't get into the conflict zone in...

Genre: Documentary

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“In 1946, my great-grandfather murdered a black man named Bill Spann and got away with it.” So begins Travis Wilkerson’s critically...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Travis Wilkerson

An immersion into the rich landscapes of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Zoe Lucas

An explorer adventures into an unknown world, yet it seems that he has been there before.

Genre: Animation

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An international team of art restorers and archaeologists begin work on the restoration of medieval frescoes inside a network of ancient caves. Faced...

Genre: Documentary

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A recent graduate is urged by an impossibly perfect woman to start digging a hole in a nearby park, setting in motion a chain of events that threaten...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kwaku Adu-Poku

An open and honest autobiographical account of male sexuality centered on Frank, an unemployed photographer, and his circle of mainly gay friends. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Sutherland