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Bring Back the Whistle Dog

Fast food menu items come and go, but none have ignited lasting passion quite like A&W’s Whistle Dog. Selected at 42 film festivals in 15 countries worldwide, this award-winning “hot dogumentary” short film profiles diehard fans fighting the good fight to bring back the iconic dog.

Fly Chicks

Fly Chicks explores the practice of fly fishing through a feminist lens. The film follows three fly fisherwomen and their relationship with the river and its inhabitants, the sport, and their identities.

Making The Witcher: Season 2

Explore the secrets and lore of "The Witcher" Season 2 — from new monsters and locales to Geralt's redesigned armor — in this behind-the-scenes look.

Strangers for the Day

This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow them on a snowy journey by train to Montreal.

Cats Dreaming in a Foreign Place

While documenting the streets of Al-Muhammadiyyah in Jeddah, a Filipino expat unexpectedly unveiled his relationship with the place and his peculiar kinship with the community cats in the neighborhood.

The World Turning Honest With Liv Edwards

Interview with multi-disciplinary artist Liv Edwards discussing her work The World Turning Honest which focuses on Women's reproductive rights, delving in to the process of creating this installation work

Les Habitations Jeanne-Mance

Documentary on the revitalization of a housing complex in a working class neighborhood of Montreal. Modern housing has now replaced the old, sagging and overcrowded houses. There is fresh air, light and hope. Habitations Jeanne-Mance, a bold way to renovate a city: a perfect example of the collaboration that can exist at the federal, provincial and municipal levels.

The Black Mambas

South Africa's first and only all-female, anti-poaching unit, fighting to rescue their country's rhinos from the edge of extinction.

FLOAT!

With depth, intimacy, and humor, FLOAT! captures filmmaker Azza Cohen's magnetic grandma’s life-affirming journey learning to swim at 82, inspiring audiences to defy societal expectations of aging and to boldly look forward at every stage.

Crossing the Divide

Two Canadians, one Liberal and one Conservative, attend a U.S. convention focused on depolarizing politics, determined to engage in tough conversations for a healthier democracy.

La Femme Equi-Libre

In Prince Edward Island, Josée Gallant-Gordon is reinventing mental health care through her bilingual equine therapy centre, proving that with ideas, one person can transform their community.

A Stop Gap Measure

When temporary solutions become the status quo, who gets left behind? A Stop Gap Measure follows disability activist Luke Anderson in his fight for accessibility to be a right, not a privilege.

Squirrel and Bird Fun

Wildlife in Cornwall

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Cuba

Unedited film of rural shore Havana, Cuba. Footage includes scenes of the old stone buildings and lighthouse along the ocean, mountain landscapes, people fishing and boating. Shot by Metro Movie Club member Ed Diller.

Life on Tristan da Cunha

This mini-documentary follows Stewart McPherson's journey to Tristan da Cunha, the most remote inhabited island in the world. We meet the Tristanians and an interview with ex-chief islander Harold Green reveals what life is like in Tristan's only settlement, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.