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  • 2008
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    Glorious

    Glorious

    3.50 2008 HD

    A story about an aging crime family patriarch.

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  • 2005
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    MYURBANEYES

    MYURBANEYES

    1 2005 HD

    A film about urbanity and Indigeneity dedicated to Kamala Todd's child.

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  • 2019
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    Labour/Leisure

    Labour/Leisure

    1 2019 HD

    The Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia is marketed as a destination of leisure, recreation, retirement and wealth. Behind...

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  • 2017
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    Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?

    Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?

    6.20 2017 HD

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

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  • 1994
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    The Darling Family

    The Darling Family

    1 1994 HD

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  • 2023
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    Cabbage

    Cabbage

    1 2023 HD

    An intimate film made in collaboration with the filmmaker's family, Cabbage looks at the complexities of bodily autonomy within an ableist paradigm....

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  • 2019
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    The Embrace of the Valkyries

    The Embrace of the Valkyries

    1 2019 HD

    Four dancers perform in a violent, wild and organic landscape. A metaphor for what unites human with the biosphere.

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  • 1975
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    Great Grand Mother

    Great Grand Mother

    1 1975 HD

    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...

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  • 2017
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    Twice Upon a Time

    Twice Upon a Time

    1 2017 HD

    Twice Upon a Time is a fairy tale for all generations about a king with split personality, split time and a split screen. It is a story about dual...

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  • 2025
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    Beauty's Pride

    Beauty's Pride

    10.00 2025 HD

    Beauty’s Pride is an evocative short film to accompany Born Ruffians’ new album by the same name.

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  • 2019
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    Digging Up the Last Spike

    Digging Up the Last Spike

    1 2019 HD

    "Digging Up the Last Spike" is a video from Kamala Todd's installation piece at the exhibition Hexsa'a̱m: To Be Here Always, shown at the Morris and...

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  • 2010
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    Umbra

    Umbra

    6.75 2010 HD

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

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  • 2025
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    Ratgirl

    Ratgirl

    1 2025 HD

    Ratgirl, a diffident 19 year-old woman, as she and her older roommate Alice discover their apartment is infested with rats — a claim which is...

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  • 2024
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    Pieces Within

    Pieces Within

    1 2024 HD

    A poet's muse calls on his inner child to save their relationship.

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  • 1984
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    Or D'Ur

    Or D'Ur

    1 1984 HD

    Male prostitution in a Montreal brothel run by a hard-nosed procuress.

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  • 2009
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    To My Son in Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

    To My Son in Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

    1 2009 HD

    This documentary features the story of Jules Paivio, the last living Canadian volunteer of the infamous Mackenzie-Papineau Battallion of the...

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  • 2019
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    Handler is crazy

    Handler is crazy

    1 2019 HD

    A short documentary following Koyote Moone and her medical and psychiatric service dog Banner. This film explores issues surrounding non-visible...

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  • 2009
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    The Drawer and the Crow

    The Drawer and the Crow

    4.00 2009 HD

    Best Canadian Short Film - Ottawa International Animation Festival 2009

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  • 1970
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    Paper Lantern

    Paper Lantern

    1 1970 HD

    A portrait of a Vietnamese-Canadian family opening up a restaurant and cocktail bar in Calgary's Chinatown, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • 1993
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    Fish Traps

    Fish Traps

    1 1993 HD

    As summer ends near Igloolik in the 1930's, three families build a saputi to trap fish going upriver for the winter. The days are getting shorter and...

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