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Dépanneur Sylvestre has welcomed the lonely for 21 years, breaking through isolation. But after the pandemic and a fire, can it survive to continue changing lives?

Documentary | 11 min

Rising from the Ashes

Leymo Mohammed, a young autistic Black man, reads a letter to his late mother, updating her on his struggles, achievements and dreams, as he comes to understand the world around him and his place in it.

Documentary | 12 min

Love, Leymo

In a joyous, life-affirming journey, Sophie Morgan meets different people united by a desire to build new lives around the things they love.

Documentary | 1 season

Living Wild: How to Change Your Life

Returning to work after maternity leave, Maryam, Catherine, and Helen face the challenges of balancing motherhood with being doctors in an over-stretched, post-Covid healthcare system.

Drama | 1 season

Maternal

Visually arresting and breathtakingly intimate, Crystal Pite: Angels’ Atlas combines elements of cinema verite with high-octane dance sequences to reveal the singular vision of world-renowned choreographer Crystal Pite. Culminating in a cinematically immersive live performance of her acclaimed ballet Angels’ Atlas, the film follows Pite and a group of dancers at the National Ballet of Canada, as they remount the ambitious ballet after a two-year shutdown due to COVID-19.

Documentary | 52 min

Crystal Pite: Angels' Atlas

Cut off from his loved ones due to the pandemic lockdown, a quadriplegic rabbi in a long-term-care facility is filmed remotely by his daughter. Offering powerful meditations on love and hope, Perfecting the Art of Longing shows us what it means to be alive in a state of profound isolation.

Perfecting the Art of Longing

During the pandemic, five plants are trapped in an apartment with their human friend’s constant presence. Like the rest of us, they adapt to a new way of living and finding meaning.

Comedy | 1 season

Uprooted: The Plantemic

The Covid pandemic strikes a tragically familiar chord for the Inuvialuit of the Mackenzie River Delta. In the 19th century John Franklin and his crew infected their ancestors with deadly smallpox.

Documentary | 44 min

Pandemic: At The End of the World

Inspired by the landscapes of the Wolastoqey community of Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation), this documentary captures the importance of nature, culture, and storytelling during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Documentary | 17 min

Sakhi Pitiyahte (Bright Light Comes Forth From It)

With his industry on lockdown and no end in sight, Toronto chef Luke Donato tries to keep his culinary passion alive during the COVID-19 pandemic - even if it means teaching a group of misfits online.

Documentary | 28 min

Until Further Notice

Two young adults from opposite ends of Canada relive the harrowing experience of surviving COVID-19, being hospitalized,  and begin coping with the long unknown recovery ahead. They become fast friends through the process and it becomes a form of therapy that only they can understand.

Documentary | 18 min

Recovery

A young Chinese Canadian medical student struggles with her identity after a racist attack during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID & Who I Am Now

Toronto stripper Andrea Werhun was ousted from her club by the COVID-19 lockdown. Now, she's taking business online as a muse for lonely men while struggling to realize her own creative ambitions.

Last Night at the Strip Club

A short film about motherhood, childhood, and two dogs during lockdown.

Documentary | 25 min

Life of a Dog

When a couple has a baby during a global pandemic, they gather their strength and get creative to show their kids what love looks like from a distance.

Documentary | 21 min

Lockdown Baby

A Newfoundland family lives through lockdown, coping with their sister’s mental disability, the death of their mother, and the fallout from a local COVID-19 cluster.

Documentary | 34 min

Me, Mom & Covid

Meet six new doctors who are working during COVID-19 in a world that’s very different from what they expected when they graduated from med school in 2017.

Documentary | 16 min

Patient People

When Tomomi lost her job in Vancouver due to COVID, her husband suggested they move to his parents’ elk farm in Saskatchewan. They arrived in the depths of winter - so began Tomoni’s time on the farm.

Documentary | 13 min

Tomomi on the Farm

With a pandemic that is threatening to take our elders, Sarain Fox sits with her oldest Matriarch, Mary Bell, to gather her stories and preserve her cultural legacy.

Inendi

Sook-Yin and Dylan are currently holed up in a house in Toronto capturing what happens on consumer cameras and mobile phones. Death and Sickness is a work of auto-fiction inspired by real-life events.

Drama | 79 min

Death and Sickness

From talismans to mementos, a look at the stories and memories behind the “lucky somethings” that bring us hope, comfort and confidence in uncertain times.

Documentary | 5 min

My Lucky Something

After the closure of schools across the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic, one family looks to close out the school year with a bang, turning their home and the surrounding forest into an educational wonderland.

Pandemic Elementary

Canada's top doctor speaks with Chief Political Correspondent Rosemary Barton in her first in-depth interview since the Coronavirus pandemic began about the country's response and what the "new normal" could look like.

News | 24 min

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