Friday: About Cars

Back to the Land

Feature-length documentary as part of Pierre Perrault's Abitibian Cycle. The filmmaker questions the past and present of Abitibi and draws up, face to

1976

Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment

A documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the importa

2000

The Things I Cannot Change

"This feature documentary is considered to be the forerunner of the NFB's Challenge for Change Program. The film offers in inside look at 3 weeks in t

1967

Little Burgundy

"This film is one of the first French Unit productions of the “Société Nouvelle/Challenge for Change” program. When an old area of Montréal is to be d

1968

Cesar's Bark Canoe

"This documentary depicts a canoe being built in the traditional manner. Cesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve North of Mont

1971

Belle famille

A working class family leaves St-Henri quarter in Montréal to build a new home in the countryside.

1978

Michel Brault, l'instinct de vue

Laibach: Divided States of America

Laibach North American Tour 2004 and Laibach live 13.12.2004 La Locomotive, Paris, France This Film is a unique document of the Laibach tour, during

2006

Me and the Voice In My Head

Joe Tracini discusses life with Borderline Personality Disorder, a condition that has led to struggles with addiction, suicide attempts, and panic att

2024

Arrival of a Train (Joinville Station)

One of a few versions of the "arrival of the train" narrative. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flip

1896

"The Journey", or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist

George Melly explores his lifelong relationship with surrealism in all its forms and prominent personalities.

1978

Lords of Riga

Lords of Riga allows to see an insight into a passionate subculture of bike couriers. Weaving their way through the urban traffic, they have become si

2015

Life of a Dog

Quantum Code

Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs is a man who feels the world with each single one of his atoms and breaks the stereotype about physics as a dry and impersonal

2016

A Hungry Feeling: The Life and Death of Brendan Behan

Colleagues and relatives reflect on the dynamic life of Irish writer Brendan Behan, beginning with his adolescent years as an activist and his affilia

1988

The Woman Who is Awaited?

A film about a woman's role in the society.

1978

In the Image of God

The fourth generation in his family to be born intersex, Jewish Rabbi Levi was assigned the female gender at birth and grew up thinking he was sick an

2020

Walt Whitman

This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn

2008

Bataan Rescue

This is the story of a group of 514 prisoners of war from the Bataan Death March and how they were rescued near the end of the war. The reason this wa

2003

Sheena Ringo: Electric Mole

"Electric Mole" is a concert film that documents Sheena Ringo's nationwide "Sugoroku Xstasy" tour in the summer of 2003. It marks the start of Sheena'

2003