Canada Council for the Arts

17-year-old Adelaida lives comfortably with her parents Lena and Francisco until cracks begin to show. Francisco isn’t that involved in the domestic details, most of the housekeeping and parental duties fall onto the already ove...

Drifting from fiction to documentary, Greatest Hits tells the story of Emilio, a man in his fifties who shows up at the family home after fifteen years of absence. His wife and his twenty-eight year old son receive him with bitter...

Ryan is a 2004 animated documentary by Chris Landreth about the Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who in later years lived on skid row in Montreal following a history of drug and alcohol abuse.

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is notorious as the heroin capital of North America. Drugs and prostitution are rampant in this corner of the city, but first-time feature director Nathaniel Geary trains his eye upon the glimmers o...

"*Corpus Callosum" is simultaneously static and elastic. Though Michael Snow credits a cast, he really uses his actors like action figures and deploys postproduction technology to stretch their forms and switch them arou...

Van's father, Stan, is fond of video, always taping scenes of daily family life. But he does not take care of Van's grandmother, Armen. Although he could afford having her at home, she is spending her days watching TV in an old pe...