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Education

1. Collateral Damage

1. Collateral Damage

Over six episodes, Maisonneuve looks at the repercussions flowing from the arrest of 11 students at Montreal’s Collège de Maisonneuve as they prepared to join the ranks of the Islamic …

Jean-Martin Gagnon
2023 | 27 min
2. Systemic Problems

2. Systemic Problems

Over six episodes, Maisonneuve looks at the repercussions flowing from the arrest of 11 students at Montreal’s Collège de Maisonneuve as they prepared to join the ranks of the Islamic …

Jean-Martin Gagnon
2023 | 26 min
3. Intergenerational Conflicts

3. Intergenerational Conflicts

Over six episodes, Maisonneuve looks at the repercussions flowing from the arrest of 11 students at Montreal’s Collège de Maisonneuve as they prepared to join the ranks of the Islamic …

Jean-Martin Gagnon & Nicolas Wadimoff
2023 | 26 min
4. Collective Responsibilities

4. Collective Responsibilities

Over six episodes, Maisonneuve looks at the repercussions flowing from the arrest of 11 students at Montreal’s Collège de Maisonneuve as they prepared to join the ranks of the Islamic …

Jean-Martin Gagnon
2023 | 28 min
5. Rebuilding Relationships

5. Rebuilding Relationships

Over six episodes, Maisonneuve looks at the repercussions flowing from the arrest of 11 students at Montreal’s Collège de Maisonneuve as they prepared to join the ranks of the Islamic …

Jean-Martin Gagnon
2023 | 22 min
6. Daring to Risk Failure

6. Daring to Risk Failure

Over six episodes, Maisonneuve looks at the repercussions flowing from the arrest of 11 students at Montreal’s Collège de Maisonneuve as they prepared to join the ranks of the Islamic …

Jean-Martin Gagnon
2023 | 30 min
As the Crow Flies

As the Crow Flies

Every summer, the Royal Canadian Air Cadets offers its top cadets the chance to participate in an elite flight-training camp. As the Crow Flies follows a group of these young …

Tess Girard
2016 | 1 h 23 min
Children of Soldiers

Children of Soldiers

In this documentary shot at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa during a troop deployment to Afghanistan, children and teens talk about the particular circumstances of having soldiers as parents.

Directed by …

Claire Corriveau
2010 | 51 min
Elisha and the Cacao Trees

Elisha and the Cacao Trees

This charming short documentary takes us on a trip to Belize, where we meet 13-year-old Elisha, the daughter of a cacao farmer. What links a village in Belize and millions …

Rohan Fernando
2010 | 17 min
First Stories - Life Givers: Honouring Our Elders and Children

First Stories - Life Givers: Honouring Our Elders and Children

"Some say when a child dies, you lose your future, and when an elder dies, you lose your past." Life Givers: Honouring Our Elders and Children is a poignant short …

Janine Windolph
2007 | 5 min
First Stories - Two Spirited

First Stories - Two Spirited

This short documentary presents the empowering story of Rodney "Geeyo" Poucette's struggle against prejudice in the Indigenous community as a two-spirited person (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender). First Stories is …

Sharon A. Desjarlais
2007 | 6 min
Guidelines

Guidelines

Guidelines (La marche à suivre) explores the world of adolescence through a series of tableaux that illustrate the occasionally trying existence of young people at a rural secondary school. During …

Jean-François Caissy
2014 | 1 h 15 min
Hi-Ho Mistahey!

Hi-Ho Mistahey!

In 2010, a national movement for fairness in education for First Nations children, in safe and suitable schools, was born in the Cree community of Attawapiskat. This was Shannen’s Dream. …

Alanis Obomsawin
2013 | 1 h 39 min
Hope Builders

Hope Builders

This feature documentary zooms in on a Grade 6 class in Quebec where a teacher is implementing an experimental teaching method aimed at preparing children to take up environmental challenges. …

Fernand Dansereau
2010 | 1 h 29 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
Little Big Girls

Little Big Girls

In this feature documentary, director Hélène Choquette sheds light on the phenomenon of early-onset puberty in girls. Today, it isn't unusual to see the earliest signs of puberty in girls …

Hélène Choquette
2014 | 52 min
Our People Will Be Healed

Our People Will Be Healed

Our People Will Be Healed, Alanis Obomsawin’s 50th film, reveals how a Cree community in Manitoba has been enriched through the power of education. The Helen Betty Osborne Ininiw Education …

Alanis Obomsawin
2017 | 1 h 36 min
Private Eyes

Private Eyes

This 3D stereoscopic animation tells the story of Matthew, a boy who is never afraid of the dark. Since he's been in darkness all his life, Matthew has eyes where …

Nicola Lemay
2011 | 14 min
Professor Norman Cornett: "Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?"

Professor Norman Cornett: "Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?"

This feature documentary by Alanis Obomsawin is a thoughtful tribute to Norman Cornett, a McGill University professor celebrated by scores of students appreciative of his unconventional yet powerful teaching methods …

Alanis Obomsawin
2009 | 1 h 20 min
Sexy Inc. Our Children Under Influence

Sexy Inc. Our Children Under Influence

Sophie Bissonnette's documentary analyzes the hypersexualization of our environment and its noxious effects on young people. Psychologists, teachers and school nurses criticize the unhealthy culture surrounding our children, where marketing …

Sophie Bissonnette
2007 | 35 min
Surviving Progress

Surviving Progress

This feature documentary connects the financial collapse, growing inequity and the Wall Street oligarchy with future technology, sustainability, and the fate of civilization itself. Inspired by Ronald Wright's bestseller A …

Mathieu Roy & Harold Crooks
2011 | 1 h 26 min
Waterlife

Waterlife

Waterlife is a documentary film about the Great Lakes that follows the flow of the lakes' water from the Nipigon River to the Atlantic Ocean. The film's goal is to …

Kevin McMahon
2009 | 1 h 49 min
The Wild Horse Redemption

The Wild Horse Redemption

At a prison in the high desert foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, hardened criminals are taught the training methods of ‘horse whisperers’ and given 90 days to tame wild …

John Zaritsky
2008 | 52 min
Writing the Land

Writing the Land

In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, near where the Musqueam people have lived for thousands of years.

Writing …

Kevin Lee Burton
2007 | 7 min