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- When a bishop comes to a prison to hear the confession of an old friend he is forced to watch a play, performed by the inmates, about their youth together, love and betrayal.
- Amy Donaldson, a successful fashion editor of City Magazine, is married to Carl, an accountant, and they have one young son, Brian. Amy is pregnant and she finds that she tests positive for HIV. The films traces the effect of this on her, her family, and her best friend Suzanne.
- Sharon and her ten year old son Bayo live in Tickle Cove on the shores of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland like generations of their family have before them. Sharon hates her life there. She dreams of moving to Toronto - where her now deceased mother was from - to eke out a better life for her and Bayo. She even leaves her big black packed trunk in the middle of the foyer as a symbolic gesture that that move will soon be happening. She equally hates her fisher father, Phillip Longlan, for subjecting her and her mother to life there. Phillip, who spends most of his time on a commercial fishing boat, only provides Sharon enough money to survive but not to achieve that dream of leaving. Bayo, however, doesn't want to leave, especially leave his grandfather behind. He wants to live and die by the sea, much like his deceased father, who he never knew. Based on his grandfather's stories to him, Bayo has a fantasy of rowing across the Atlantic to Portugal. On Phillip's next visit ashore, Bayo pleads with his grandfather not to give Sharon enough money to leave. Aging Phillip's own thoughts about his immediate future and Bayo learning more about his father may have an affect on what happens in Sharon, Bayo and Phillip's collective lives.
- Every summer, Camp Weredale, located in the Laurentian mountains north of Montreal, is home to "system kids," offering them a safe haven and a chance to heal lives scarred by abuse and neglect. Silence and Storm documents two months in the lives of ten kids at this unique summer camp. For some, it was an opportunity to re-learn their capacity to be kids and just play; for others, it was a chance to come to grips with the painful memories that haunt them. Despite backgrounds steeped in pain and disappointment, these young people were able to reveal themselves and express their hopes, fears, anger and loneliness. The result is a sensitive, revealing portrait of an unusual program for youth in care.
- In 1863, when a legless, shipwrecked man washes up on the Acadian coast, he's taken to the home of Jean the Corsican, a burly and bitter former soldier, and his childless young wife, Julitte. The man, who is young, handsome, and well-dressed, remains mute as Julitte nurses him back to health. Jean, meanwhile, who is inexplicably estranged from Julitte and an outsider to townspeople, continues his hunt for pirate treasure, rumored to be hidden in a cave by the sea. The treasure is his ticket out of Acadia. As loneliness and Eros draw Julitte and the mysterious Jérôme together, something's got to give.
- This short fiction film tells the story of a very unusual satellite named Zenon. Zenon is a product of the most up-to-date technology and so displays an unusual characteristic for a computer: he is conscious. Orbiting the Earth, he is in constant contact with Estelle, who is in charge of a major, planet-wide research project on water. Faced with the disturbing situation he observes, Zenon soon becomes bitter and disillusioned--to the point where he substantially alters his mission. Could Zenon's creator, the mysterious Professor Nguyen, have foretold how the mission would turn out?
- Depuis que Maude l'a quitté, rien ne va plus pour Denis Dupuis. Abattu, il se lance à sa recherche, errant dans la nuit et renonçant même à ses études musicales. Pendant sa quête, il fait la rencontre de Simone, qu'il reconnaît aussitôt comme la « femme de sa vie ». Oubliant sa peine d'amour, il entreprend de la séduire. Mais la petite Simone, du haut de ses 18 ans, n'est pas du genre à tomber pour le premier venu. Malgré les conseils de son inséparable ami Filou (grand tombeur devant l'éternel et maître du calembour), la conquête de Simone se révélera pour Denis une longue et délicate entreprise. C'est qu'il n'est pas du genre à dévoiler sa flamme, alors que Simone a toujours fui comme la peste les hommes qui cuvent une peine d'amour.
- Né à Saint-Hilaire, au Québec, en 1864, Ozias Leduc a été une figure dominante de la peinture québécoise. Ce fut aussi un artiste polyvalent, un peintre symboliste, un décorateur d'églises (dont la magnifique chapelle de l'évêché de Sherbrooke) et un photographe. Ce film nous parle de l'homme, de l'artiste et de son oeuvre, en s'appuyant sur les écrits de deux personnes qui l'ont côtoyé, l'écrivain québécois Robert de Roquebrune (1889-1978), et celui qui fut l'apprenti et le protégé d'Ozias Leduc dès l'âge de 15 ans, le peintre Paul-Émile Borduas (1905-1960).
- Walker is a young Aboriginal foster child whose only playmate is his dog. Jamie is a lonely young white boy who is afraid of dogs and has some strange ideas about Aboriginal people. Walker ignores the racist jeering and taunting of the bigger boys and reaches out to Jamie. Together, they find friendship and understanding. Walker challenges racist attitudes toward Aboriginal people, and shows how children from different backgrounds can form friendships. This film is part of the Playing Fair series. Educators are encouraged to preview the series before use and choose the dramas most age-appropriate for their students.
- A Canadian girl makes friends with a immigrant from India.
- Predatory electronics salesman Jack Rhodes uses a video dating service to pick up lonely young women for one-night stands, but meets his match in cunning enticing Barbara, who invites Jack on a date to her high-rise apartment loft.
- Born in the Dakota Hills, Sitting Bull became a leader of Indian tribes during the Great Sioux Wars. Present day descendants help to tell his story. This program covers his life and the developments leading to the Battle of Little Big Horn.
- The Lakota victory at the Little Bighorn is short lived. Soon the Lakota would lose their homeland, Sitting Bull would lose his life and the Plains Indians would lose the fight against the white man.
- Through his memoirs, and the words of his descendants, this film tells the story of Black Hawk and of the brutal government response to the resistance of his tribal allies, which resulted in the forced relocation of Native Americans from their homes in the upper Mississippi to Oklahoma.
- Pontiac, or Obwandiyag, the leader of the Algonquin Nations, and chief of the Odawa, fought against the British with the French. After the French were defeated in Canada in 1759, Pontiac struggled against the British military occupation of the Great Lakes region.
- Known as a peacemaker and defender of his people, Poundmaker surrendered after Canadian forces attacked his camp in 1885 in response to an uprising. His story is told through interviews with Poundmaker‰Ûªs descendants, reenactments and archival images.
- Thayendanegea, or Joseph Brant, was a Mohawk military and political leader in the 18th century, based in present-day New York. Closely associated with Great Britain during and after the American Revolution, he met the most famous figures of his day, including George Washington and King George III.