Once Upon a Time...

The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over it.

1895

Free

Inspired by true events, a young Frederick Douglass is secretly taught to read and write by his master's wife. Using only the air as their blackboard,

2019

Document 56

In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ceausescu. With 48 hours to prepare for the arrival

David Thompson: The Great Mapmaker

This short film recreates the story of David Thompson – a man who, over the course of his lifetime, mapped a-million-and-a-half square miles of unchar

1964

Candid Cameramaniacs

Short comedic subject on the history of photography from the daguerrotype to modern amateur photographers.

1937

A Jupatarama

2024

13 Courts Mortels

2006

M.I.A.

After a hasty retreat near La Fere, Matthew Villeneuve is found Missing in action. But he survived, and now has to find his way back to friendly line

2024

Nisei (Second-generation)

Follows Iwao Ichikawa, a second-generation Japanese Mexican, navigating racial segregation in Mexicali, Baja California during WWII, offering a poigna

2024

Letter of Forgiveness

In the household of a wealthy Romanian noblewoman in 1855, Maria, a Roma-Gipsy slave, fights to obtain freedom for her son Dinca. Part of a future ful

2020

A Piece of Land

Ahmed flees his war-torn homeland of Syria and faces discrimination in Iraq. The people of the new society he joins make it impossible for him to move

2019

Lessons in Red

When a junior high student in 1963 suspects his teacher of being a communist, he investigates the truth to gain approval from his father.

2020

La Bataille du Long Sault ou Dollard-des-Ormeaux

1912

Barking Island

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, 1910. There are too many stray dogs on the streets, so the government decides to deport thousands of them on a desert

2010

Visas and Virtue

Europe, 1940. For thousands of Jews, a Japanese diplomat and his wife defy Tokyo and the Nazis, and offer visas, for life.

1997

Saving Greensboro

When lock & dam construction along the Monongahela River threatens to flood the quiet town of Greensboro, desperate citizens seek the help of Glenn To

Woman with an Editing Bench

Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s censorship of

2016

The Flying Sailor

The Flying Sailor is based on the Halifax Explosion of 1917 when two ships collided in the Halifax Harbour causing the largest accidental explosion in

2022

James Baldwin Abroad

Showcasing three short films by American writer James Baldwin, wherein he muses about race, sexuality and civil rights, among other topics, in Istanbu

2023

Sigurdr

This short tells the story of a mythical Norse warrior hero who in myth, gains an accursed hoard of gold.

2013