Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. 34-year-old Neil Platt plans his own funeral, muses about the meaning of life and the impossibility of terminating a mobile phone contract. With 5 months left to live, and paralyzed from the neck down by Motor Neurone Disease, he ponders how to communicate about his life in a letter for his baby son. How can he anticipate what he might want to know about his father in a future he can only imagine?

For almost 50 years, the world's population has grown at an alarming rate, raising fears about strai...

A fluid documentary in which director Luostarinen interviews fifty women on birth, body image, and t...

"This feature documentary is considered to be the forerunner of the NFB's Challenge for Change Progr...

One of the greatest neuroscience breakthroughs is having discovered that babies are far more than a ...
A city awakens. There are sights and sounds we do not experience if we sleep late.

Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women beg...

Brazilian singer Rita Lee narrates moments about her life, from her childhood to the meeting with Ro...

A very special encounter between legendary American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and young French...

A joyful tale filled with music. The rise of radio. The jazz big bands. The legendary clubs and ball...
The last piece of the trilogy, following 'Katatsumori' and 'See Heaven', filming her grandma and her...

Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of h...

The sequel to Naomi Kawase's Katasumori. The film revisits Kawase’s relationship with her "grandma",...

In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteach...
Every time the task of drawing a circle is performed, it results in a unique shape, a slightly diffe...

A sensitive portrait of grandfather Miroslav Benda, a tried and true Sokol member and an ordinary ma...
Carmen accompanies a group of women who must travel from the island of Vieques to San Juan, capital ...

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short ...

Arab-American filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi embraces the rhythmic rituals that have run alongside Islami...