Michel Roux Jr sets out to discover the secret of chocolate not just why we're addicted to the sublime and complex foodstuff but its rich and varied history, from a sacred drink of Aztec Emperors to the aphrodisiac of choice at the court of Louis XIV in Versailles. For Michel Roux Jr the best cho...

A young woman’s experiences in the first year of grad school, presented through a series of conversations re-contextualized by abstracted characters.

World Premier at Sundance 2009. China’s remote western region of Xinjiang is home to a booming market in Jade, the gemstone much prized by the Chinese. Local Muslim minority Uyghur turn from farming to digging during the winter months to supplement their income.

China Reverse accompanies Chinese who arrived in Vienna by chance, many years ago, seeking a better future. In the meantime they have grown and developed. They constantly look ahead, these days to the future of their children. Homesick? Maybe, but what for? The subjects of China Reverse could be ...

This incisive portrait of the daily lives of children and teens from four military families reveals the particular circumstances of life at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa. Every day, each must come to grips with absence, an uncertain future and the looming perspective of death. In a world where gi...

Children of Beqaa documents director Elias Matar and his daughter Lyla, traveling to the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon in June of 2016 to work with Salam LADC, a local NGO. Here in the Beqaa, there are over 800,000 Syrian refugees who have been living in a state of limbo for the past 5 years. These refug...

Dale Chihuly reunites with some of the world's best glassblowers who have been important in the development of many of his most well known series.

Directed by Peter West and
music by Tom Tom Club

Covering nearly half a century of Dale Chihuly's work, Chihuly Outside documents his career as an installation artist, in particular his work done out in the landscape. The film begins with Chihuly's early experiments with floating glass on water and using ice and neon in large-scale installation...

The De Young exhibit has 11 galleries of new and achieved works of glass artistic team of Dale Chihuly. The workshop is in Ballard, Seattle, Washington state. Chihuly has his work displayed all around the world. We see here the process of making many large pieces.

Directed by Peter West and
mus...

Anyone who knew Babz Chula—a talented, larger-than-life actress from Canada’s West Coast—could tell you that her life force, or chi, was incredibly strong. When Babz reconnected with director Anne Wheeler in 2009, they discovered a mutual interest: India.
Babz easily convinces Anne to join her on...

"Chavez " is the only documentary recorded during the funeral of the Venezuelan former president.

A documentary based on the public and political life of this iconic figure, from the day of the rebellion he commanded on February 4th, 1992 until his death in March 2013.

Aimed primarily to the u...

Snowboarding down under.

A short documentary about a man saying goodbye to a lifelong friend: his film projectors.

Filmmaker Emily Gan films her father, Howard, as he takes on an unusual project: returning to his home village in Malaysia to build a habitat for swiftlets. The birds’ nests, made from their saliva, are a delicacy in Chinese cuisine. Howard hopes to leave a legacy for his descendants, but will th...

The guerrilla war in Colombia is over, but Carolina who lives in a remote rural region of Catatumbo hasn't seen much change. As for the past 20 years, her only viable subsistence comes from the illegal growing of coca and selling coca paste for just enough money to buy food and basic supplies. On...

You see them on the street everyday. Walking to work, driving home, or shopping downtown, you see people standing on the corner holding cardboard signs. “Cardboard” tells the story behind the signs in order to help people understand what’s really happening in the life of a panhandler.

Produced by, written by and starring the award winning actor Saara Lamberg, Candy Cravings tells the story of a young woman struggling with the desire of eating people and her girlfriend in particular. Also starring Sandy Greenwood (Killer Elite) and Isabelle Bertoli. Directed and produced by Seb...

Canadian Wrestling Elite is a burgeoning organization run by Danny "Hotshot" Duggan. See the action on their western Canada tour as he aims to make CWE a nationally touring company.

This documentary examines the life of Pol Pot, the notorious Cambodian dictator.

Immigrants in London call their relatives abroad.

When early Spanish explorers accidentally released wild horses (Equus cabalus) to the continent in the early 1500s, they returned an American original. Although the remnants of the escaped Spanish horse are protected by the 1971 Free-Roaming Wild Horse and Burro Act, each year thousands are remov...

BÖIKZMÖIND is a 30 minute documentary film about riding fixed gear bikes in beautiful Bristol. The film shows the diverse cross section of riders and asks why ride bikes with no gears in a city full of hills.

Shot in Bristol and made on a shoe string budget, the film shows what's possible when l...

A short poetic film about a young Scottish woman with albinism.

Butterflies and Hurricanes is a documentary which follows Alisanne Casey, an American Muay Thai boxer, 24 hours before, during and after one of her fights. Filmed during a championship match in Las Vegas, the film takes the audience behind the scenes as she goes through the process of weighing-in...