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Seasons: 1
Episodes: 92

A series of engaging, character-driven, short documentaries by emerging documentary filmmakers from across Canada.

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short film

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 92
E01
World Famous Gopher Hole Museum

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The farm town of Torrington, Alberta wishes to be frozen in time just like the taxidermied gophers in its famous tour...

E02
Billsville

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An intimate portrait of an idiosyncratic artist determined to create even as he grapples with his own mortality. Alon...

E03
Underdog

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With economic challenges in the way, a Japanese expat prepares for a 1000 mile dogsled race to fulfill her mother's d...

E04
Thunder Blanket (1)

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Fresh off the success of directing her first film, Roxann confronts the initial shock and challenges of being diagnos...

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Thunder Blanket (2)

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Roxann braces herself for the daunting first rounds of chemotherapy and learns to cope with its debilitating side eff...

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Thunder Blanket (3)

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Roxann and her family are overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from the community of Kahnawake as the long, frust...

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Wally's World (1): The Deephole

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Walter takes us back to the days of his childhood, growing up in Paris, Ontario, where a complete stranger comes to t...

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Wally's World (2): Feeding the Homeless

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Every Wednesday for the last 10 years, Walter has taken part in a program at his church run by Daily Bread Dinners. W...

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Wally's World (3): Pick Up Sticks

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For years, Walter supplied broken hockey sticks to a school for the blind for students to make benches from them. The...

E10
WhyFi?

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What does your wireless network say about you? WhyFi? is a short documentary about the unique names people give to th...

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Frame 394

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Frame 394 follows a young man from Toronto who entangles himself in one of America's most high-profile police-involve...

E12
Thunder Blanket (4)

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Amid conflicting recommendations from doctors and traditional healers, Roxann prepares for the double mastectomy proc...

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Thunder Blanket (5)

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With the end of the treatment process in sight and her first film running the festival circuit, Roxann gets hard at w...

E14
Between You & Me

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Reeling from the aftermath of unthinkable trauma, a daughter continues to ask questions of her incarcerated father. H...

E15
Bella and Don

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Don Rands is a portrait artist with only one muse: his pet Chihuahua Bella. When asked why, he spins a story as colou...

E16
Grandma Learns to Drive

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86 year-old Thérèse wants to get her driver's license. But is she too old to learn how to drive? And will her husband...

E17
Genderize

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In 2012, director Chase Joynt sat down with Benton (12), Madeleine (10) and Dexter (6) to talk gender, puberty, schoo...

E18
Princess Jack

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Follows an 11-year-old boy with high-functioning autism, whose love for princesses and fairy tales leads him to sew h...

E19
Walk Good

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Walk Good is a poetic look at a mother coming to terms with the death of a child. This is a nightmare that Carol Roac...

E20
This River

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Kyle Kematch's sister went missing 5 years ago. Katherena Vermette's brother disappeared 20 years ago. Their stories ...

E21
SourToe: The Story of the Sorry Cannibal

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3 years ago Joshua Clark swallowed the human toe in Dawson City's famous Sourtoe Cocktail. Now he's back in town look...

E22
100 and Counting: Secrets to a Long Life

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Ashraf is 100. Her husband Mohammed is 110. And they've been married for 80 years. In this funny and moving short, th...

E23
The Tshiuetin Railway

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Climb aboard Canada's only First Nations-owned railway for a breathtaking train journey through Northern Quebec and L...

E24
Kettle

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Kettle revisits the intersection where hundreds of people were held for hours - without charge, surrounded by police ...

E25
Deeply Rooted

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Filmmaker Cazhhmere is a 7th-generation black Canadian. Despite this deep history, she's constantly asked to explain ...

E26
JAAT SDIIHLTL'LXA: Woman Who Returns

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Heather always felt something was missing. Then, at sixteen, she discovered she was Haida. "JAAT SDIIHLTL'LXA: Woman ...

E27
Peace River Rising

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Helen Knott, a Dane-Zaa/Nehiyaw social worker, poet and activist, explores the connection between violence against In...

E28
Four Faces of the Moon

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An Indigenous photographer travels through time to witness moments in her family's history: the legacy of the railway...

E29
Numbers Guy

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David Teitel delights customers with facts, statistics and arithmetic as he rings up groceries at a Toronto health fo...

E30
Karihawanoron: Precious Things

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Yagorihwanirats, a young Mohawk child, attends a unique and special school: a Mohawk immersion program, inspired by h...

E31
Headdress

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Filmmaker J.J. Neepin recreates her great-grandfather's portrait and explores the responsibility of wearing a headdre...

E32
NiiSoTeWak: Two Bodies, One Heart

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Cree teachings say that identical twins are born with two bodies, but share one heart. Meet Tapwewin and Pawaken, 10-...

E33
Finding My Balance

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How does volleyball help heal? 18-year-old Alicia Mollen explores her history of being bullied, then recovering and b...

E34
Declutter

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Filmmaker Madison Thomas has a revelation about why her mother is always cleaning - and realizes she's more like her ...

E35
Little Big Leaf

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Phu Dinh Van runs a little coffee shop in Hanoi. Though physically small, he has big dreams: to study in Canada, beco...

E36
Call Me Olly

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Ken Burns dreams of becoming a world-famous filmmaker. There's only one problem: his name. Call Me Olly follows Ken a...

E37
Exposed Nerves

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This contemporary dance films transports the audience into the mind of Karenza, a dance instructor who suffers from b...

E38
Babe, I Hate to Go

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Delroy spends six months of every year working on a farm in Ontario to support his family in Jamaica. But this year, ...

E39
Follow the Rock

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Every year First Nations from across B.C. bring their best players to the All Native Basketball Tournament. It's more...

E40
The Secret Path: In the Classroom

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Daisy and Pearl Wenjack, Chanie's sisters, visit a school in Toronto where the children have a special surprise for t...

E41
The Secret Path: Ahead By a Century

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A group of Ontario high school students write and perform a play that honours Gord Downie's music and Secret Path pro...

E42
Lucky Moose

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How a headline-grabbing plant theft in Toronto's Chinatown changed Canada's citizen's arrest laws.

E43
Fisk: Untitled Portrait

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Canadian artist William Fisk risks everything for a chance to be represented by world-renowned New York art dealer.

E44
The Secret Path: Freedom to Speak

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It's not your average book club: a group of inmates at Toronto South Detention Centre read Secret Path - and discover...

E45
Little Hard Knox

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Shatekaienthokwen VanDommelen is a 10 year-old from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake. He may be small, but he has bi...

E46
Twilight Dancers

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A group of Indigenous teenagers from Pimicikamak Cree Nation use square dancing to help heal from the trauma of a sui...

E47
Night Strike

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Johnny Tai is a blind martial artist and self-defense instructor. Underneath his independence lies an instinct for su...

E48
Algo, Polly, Turcott

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The tale of two resilient Falcons who make their home amidst the chaos of St. Henri, a Montreal neighbourhood in the ...

E49
Big Men, Small Dogs

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Big Men, Small Dogs is about the men in Toronto who are defying gender stereotypes by adopting small, more "feminine"...

E50
Fix & Release

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A turtle trauma centre in Peterborough, Ontario fights to save endangered freshwater turtles - using a combination of...

E51
Shelina Stand Up

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"To be a Muslim doesn't mean you can't have a laugh at yourself." Aspiring comedian Shelina Merani uses stand up to b...

E52
Freedom Summer

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Black youth in Toronto learn about self-love and Black liberation at Freedom School, a summer camp run by Black Lives...

E53
One Leg In, One Leg Out

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An honest look at the complexities of leaving sex work. After a decade on the streets, Iman takes the first steps tow...

E54
Beyond the Limits

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Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford are two-time world champion pairs skaters - but they've never won an Olympic medal. B...

E55
Run as One: The Journey of the Front Runners

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In 1967 ten Indigenous athletes ran the Pan Am Games torch from Minneapolis to Winnipeg. Just before they entered the...

E56
Kéwku

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Shuswap elder Ralph Phillips walks through his territory picking sage. He reveals the stories of his life that have i...

E57
The Love Songs of Oedipus Rex

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Benjamin's father passed away. His therapist died suddenly. He and his wife are in the middle of a divorce. Heartbrok...

E58
The Haircut

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Marvin grew up in Ottawa in the 1950s. With no Black barbers in the city, Marvin suffered through many painful haircu...

E59
For Dad, With Love

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When his father was diagnosed with lung cancer, Alexander started growing his hair. Four years after his father's dea...

E60
Fourth Period Burnout

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Three teens document how they experience high expectations and pressure to succeed. Their artistic recreations show w...

E61
Hard Learning

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With no high school in her Northern community, Miranda must move 500 km away for grade 9. Back home, her parents worr...

E62
Dilveen

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Dilveen was 11 when ISIS raided her village, killed her father and stole her away. She was sold to a 65 year-old man,...

E63
Player Zero

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Richard Amardi has a chance to play for the Raptors farm team - a step away from the NBA. But to make it happen he'll...

E64
The Unmoveable Harvey Sykes

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A point-of-view documentary featuring Métis elder Harvey Sykes, who has been battling the city of Fort McMurray over ...

E65
Take a Walk on the Wildside

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At Toronto's oldest cross-dressing store, Paddy offers more than wigs and heels - she creates a safe haven for transf...

E66
Home No More

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In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on a Quebec City mosque, 3 Muslim women contemplate leaving the place they c...

E67
Eviction Notice

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You can't fight city hall. Or can you? Residents of a beleaguered mobile home park are about to find out. The City of...

E68
Vika

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Ukrainian orphan Vika, 17, wants nothing more than to be united with her sister, who was adopted by a family in Canad...

E69
Zaasaakwe

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In this uplifting, joyful and colourful celebration of life, a young woman calls upon Indigenous people to embrace th...

E70
Fisk: The New York Opening

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Canadian painter William Fisk risks everything in launching his first 'vernissage' - a private showing of his life's ...

E71
His Nose, Her Eyes, Whose Face?

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Three mixed-race women talk about their hybrid identities - and what it feels like when being half one thing and half...

E72
I Hold The Dehcho In My Heart (Sedze Tah Dehcho E'Toh)

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In the summer of 2017, a group of Indigenous students and elders embarked on a six-week paddle trip down Canada's lon...

E73
Sedra

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Sedra, a young Syrian refugee, grapples with the pressure of caring for her ailing family while navigating the challe...

E74
Retake

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In 2017, two filmmakers set out to make the first-ever feature film told entirely in Haida. The Haida language is cri...

E75
The Hole in Reservoir Hill

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North Bay, Ontario is home to a decommissioned nuclear bunker - an enduring remnant of the Cold War that's left a las...

E76
Pumpkin Movie

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Two long-time friends call each other over Skype to continue their annual Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins and...

E77
Fast Horse

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Welcome to the dangerous high-stakes world of Indian Relay, North America's original extreme sport, where jockeys rid...

E78
Finding Fukue

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They were best friends, then pen pals - until one day, the letters stopped coming. Almost 30 years later, Jessica Stu...

E79
Prince's Tale

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6 years ago, Prince survived a fire in his apartment. Both his arms were amputated. An actor before the accident, Pri...

E80
Snowbirds

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Florida is a winter wonderland for these Québécois snowbirds. They leave the Canadian cold behind for a totally Frenc...

E81
Fit to be Tied: A Story of Twisted Genius

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21,500 balloons. 27 hours. The most intense balloon sculptures you've ever seen. Canada's top balloon twisters compet...

E82
Emptying the Tank

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A striking portrait of Chippewa mixed martial artist Ashley Nichols. This beautiful black and white short celebrates ...

E83
Oshkikishikaw: A New Day

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These 12 year-old twins will cut their hair for the very first time in a Cree coming-of-age ceremony.

E84
Archiving Winston LaRose

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A Toronto community activist works to share his life-long video archive of black history with the world for the first...

E85
Biker Bob's Posthumous Adventure

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Who is Biker Bob? And why does a bottle full of his ashes keep washing up on the beaches of Vancouver Island?

E86
Dish Pigs

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From five-star restaurants to dirty dives, the most compelling stories come from the dish pit. Meet three Montrealers...

E87
In Dog Years

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Senior dogs teach us about love, loss and letting go. Owners celebrate their beloved companions in ten short stories.

E88
Devout and Out: Pip

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After going through conversion therapy, marrying a woman and having children, Pip came out as gay. He's now an Anglic...

E89
Devout and Out: Susan

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Susan navigates her identity as a queer Mohawk minister as she finds herself nominated for the position of Moderator ...

E90
Devout and Out: Cormac

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Cormac left evangelical Christianity after coming out as queer. Now, as an Anglican youth minister, they're trying to...

E91
Take Me to Prom

Air Date: 2019-05-01

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Being queer at prom: true stories from seven different decades. Revisit this iconic adolescent milestone through inte...

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Dream Boxer

Air Date: 2019-05-10

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After years of training, Charles is trying to fight in his first wheelchair boxing match - but it's not easy. He need...

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