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I Am Skylar

I Am Skylar

I Am Skylar is the emotionally compelling story of an articulate 14-year-old girl who is thoughtfully defining her future and the woman she is to become. Surrounded by a family …

Rachel Bower
2019 | 15 min
I Don't Feel Anything Anymore

I Don't Feel Anything Anymore

He’s a magician. She’s a firefighter. Isolating themselves from the chaos of a world in turmoil, the two lovers live in a crane basket high in the sky, where they …

Noémie Marsily & Carl Roosens
2016 | 9 min
I Like Girls

I Like Girls

In this animated short from Diane Obomsawin, four women reveal the nitty-gritty about their first loves, sharing funny and intimate tales of one-sided infatuation, mutual attraction, erotic moments, and fumbling …

Diane Obomsawin
2016 | 8 min
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

This short animation is director Ann Marie Fleming’s animated adaptation of Bernice Eisenstein’s acclaimed illustrated memoir. Using the healing power of humour, the film probes the taboos around a very …

Ann Marie Fleming
2010 | 15 min
I, Barnabé

I, Barnabé

I, Barnabé takes a luminous look at a desperate man’s existential crisis. During a night of stormy drunkenness, he receives a visit from a mysterious bird and is forced to …

Jean-François Lévesque
2020 | 15 min
I'm OK

I'm OK

Following the end of a stormy love affair, Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka enlists in the First World War. After suffering serious injuries in battle, he experiences a series of memories …

Elizabeth Hobbs
2018 | 6 min
Ice Ages

Ice Ages

Seeking shelter from a thunderstorm, a man sits in a pub watching the ice in his glass melt away. Howie Shia marries his graphic illustration style with subtle animation and …

Howie Shia
2004 | 1 min
Ice Breakers

Ice Breakers

Josh Crooks is a promising teen hockey star in a sport where Black players like him are chronically underrepresented. Ice Breakers reveals the buried history of a pioneering Black hockey …

Sandamini Rankaduwa
2019 | 15 min
If I Was God...

If I Was God...

In this short animated film, a Grade 7 boy’s mind starts to wander while dissecting a frog in Biology class. What would you do if you suddenly found yourself charged …

Cordell Barker
2015 | 8 min
The Image Mill

The Image Mill

The Image Mill is an important archival record of a spectacular show put on by Robert Lepage and Ex Machina. The original work from 2008 is now part of our …

2011 | 50 min
The Image Mill Revealed

The Image Mill Revealed

This documentary describes the final 3 months leading up to the opening of Moulin à images, an impressionistic performance-event celebrating Quebec City's 400th anniversary. Director Robert Lepage works with a …

Mariano Franco & Marie Belzil
2009 | 51 min
Imagined States of America

Imagined States of America

When you hear the word “America,” what springs to mind? Car culture, big business, advertising, religious fundamentalism, the consumer society, militarism, suburbia, office towers, and the technology of paranoia? Imagined …

Alberta Nokes
2014 | 43 min
Immersion

Immersion

In this short animation film Megann Reid evokes the solitude and warmth of a bath. Drawn with water colour pencil crayons on frosted acetate, the animation was done under a …

Megann Reid
2004 | 1 min
Impromptu

Impromptu

Impromptu reminds us of the redemptive power of food, wine, music and love, as seen through the eyes of a modern man. While preparing yet another gourmet dinner for his …

Bruce Alcock
2013 | 10 min
In Deep Waters

In Deep Waters

From the moment they are conceived, twin babies forge a close bond in their mother’s womb. But when one twin dies in utero, the surviving twin is left with a …

Sarah Van Den Boom
2014 | 11 min
In Full Voice

In Full Voice

Muslim women are disconcerting, intriguing, polarizing—and straitjacketed by conflations of ideas in front-page stories. While the media tend to portray them as submissive and silenced, filmmaker Saïda Ouchaou-Ozarowski has chosen …

Saida Ouchaou-Ozarowski
2021 | 52 min
In Pieces

In Pieces

Paule Baillargeon is 37 years old, 11 years old, 65 years old. . . In this film composed of fragments, she tells her story: the story of a woman, a …

Paule Baillargeon
2011 | 1 h 21 min
In the Shallows

In the Shallows

Walking down the street or sitting on a commuter train, few of us can resist the siren song of that small, illuminated device in our pockets. Through a carefully choreographed …

Arash Akhgari
2024 | 4 min
Inconvenient Indian

Inconvenient Indian

In this time of radical change and essential re-examination, Inconvenient Indian brings to life Thomas King’s brilliant dismantling of North America’s colonial narrative, reframing this history with the powerful voices …

Michelle Latimer
2020 | 1 h 28 min
Infusion

Infusion

In Acadie, the only “real” tea is King Cole, blended in New Brunswick for the past 100 years. Traditionally drunk with a spot of Carnation condensed milk, it recalls simpler …

Amélie Gosselin
2010 | 17 min
Inhabiting Dance

Inhabiting Dance

This short documentary is a portrait of Sylvie Mazerolle, a young woman for whom dance is as vital and fundamental as breathing. Tracking her process, the film also takes a …

Julien Cadieux
2009 | 25 min
Inkwo for When the Starving Return

Inkwo for When the Starving Return

Two lifetimes from now the world hangs in the balance. Dove, a young, enigmatic, gender-shifting warrior, discovers the gifts and burdens of their Inkwo (medicine) to defend against an army …

Amanda Strong
2024 | 18 min
Inseparable

Inseparable

In their small country home in New Brunswick, Jean-Paul and Anne, who suffer respectively from physical and intellectual impairments, share an unwavering love for each other. Declarations of love, little …

Daniel Léger
2011 | 51 min
Inspector Street

Inspector Street

This short animation begins with a newspaper, discarded on a public bench, whose headlines warn of unusual phenomena. A gust of wind animates the paper's pages, conjuring strange and fantastical …

Emmanuelle Loslier
2013 | 8 min
Interoculus

Interoculus

In an infinitely vast space, a woman, a man and a fish illustrate a flow of questions about perception. Pixillation and stop-motion animation enhance audience doubts about reality in Marie …

Marie Valade
2010 | 1 min
Interview with a Free Man

Interview with a Free Man

In this documentary short, several men go through a job interview eager to get a fresh start in life. With each question that's asked, we glimpse tiny snippets of their …

Nicolas Lévesque
2015 | 6 min
Into Light

Into Light

When a child reveals who they truly are on the inside, how does a parent set aside their own expectations to help them become their most authentic self? Sheona McDonald’s …

Sheona McDonald
2021 | 19 min
Into the Light

Into the Light

Into the Light features the liberating life stories and powerful words of inspiring Quebec women of African origin who’ve regained control over their lives after suffering from domestic violence. The …

Gentille M. Assih
2020 | 1 h 19 min
Invention

Invention

Shot in Paris, Sao Paulo and Toronto, Invention is a first feature length film by Mark Lewis. From famous corners of the Louvre Museum to the modernist buildings of Oscar …

Mark Lewis
2015 | 1 h 27 min
Invisible City

Invisible City

Invisible City is a moving story of two boys from Regent Park crossing into adulthood – their mothers and mentors rooting for them to succeed; their environment and social pressures …

Hubert Davis
2009 | 1 h 15 min
The Invisible Nation

The Invisible Nation

The Algonquin once lived in harmony with the vast territory they occupied. This balance was upset when the Europeans arrived in the 16th century. Gradually, their Aboriginal traditions were undermined …

Richard Desjardins & Robert Monderie
2007 | 1 h 33 min
Island Green

Island Green

Prince Edward Island has long been famous for its spuds and red mud. But in the last 50 years since industrialized farming took root, this small, predominantly agricultural island has …

Millefiore Clarkes
2013 | 25 min
Islet

Islet

Combining figurative abstraction with magic realism, this animated short depicts a world in which whales fall out of the sky and fish turn into balloons. It is a black and …

Nicolas Brault
2003 | 7 min
It'll Be Nice Out Tomorrow

It'll Be Nice Out Tomorrow

IMPORTANT: For the optimal experience, please use headphones and turn up the volume.

The influence of the weather on our daily lives and the immense role it plays in our …

Antoine Létourneau-Berger & Guillaume Lévesque
2020 | 4 min
It's a Dog's Life

It's a Dog's Life

This short animation features Fifi the dog, who fantasizes about interstellar travel as an escape from his day-to-day existence as the family scapegoat. While doing whatever it takes to please …

Julie Rembauville & Nicolas Bianco-Levrin
2012 | 7 min
It's a Girl's World

It's a Girl's World

It's a Girl's World takes us inside the tumultuous relationships of a clique of popular 10-year-old girls. Playground bullying captured on camera shows a disturbing picture of how these girls …

Lynn Glazier
2004 | 52 min
Itch

Itch

Itch is an abstract expression of what it feels like to experience an eczema flare-up.

Produced as part of the 9th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

Su-An Ng
2013 | 1 min