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Canada’s longest running showcase of independent short film. For over thirty years, we have given Canada’s best and brightest filmmakers a national audience.

Drama | 149 episodes

Canadian Reflections

Andi Petrillo provides short episode recap, focusing on a defining moment of the show and an interview with a key player of a specific episode.

Reality | 1 season

CBC Sports Reacts to Canada's Ultimate Challenge

A six-part documentary series that explores some of the most riveting viral videos of our time through the eyes of the people who captured them.

Documentary | 1 season

Witness

Two rogue bots teach themselves to be human on the internet. Nothing is original, and clicks are king. Speculative fiction meets cringe comedy, unfolding in the doom scroll.

Sci-fi and Fantasy | 1 season

Content Farm

A dozen of Canada’s hottest new comics gathered for one hilarious night of standup as part of the JFL NorthWest Festival in Vancouver. These rising stars each headline their own 10-minute episode exclusively for CBC Gem.

Comedy | 3 seasons

The New Wave of Standup

Dreams In Vantablack is an animated poetry series featuring the work of 12 Black youth, revealing their truths through evocative poetry with rotoscope and 2D animation styles.

1 season

Dreams in Vantablack

When a foley artist goes home to settle her late mother’s estate, she discovers a dark family secret and becomes obsessed with finding the truth.

Drama | 2 seasons

Something Undone

Three Asian Canadians recall hiding, discarding and forgetting their lunches — the ones their classmates called “weird,” “smelly” and “funny-looking.”

Lunchbox Dilemma

Who doesn’t love a great dating story? Whether it’s true romance or a night gone horribly wrong, we spend hours discussing all the juicy details. Now you don’t have to settle for stories from your BFF. On True Dating Stories, the greatest dating stories ever told are reenacted by performers with all the drama, romance, and comedy they deserve. These sexy, jaw-dropping comedic re-enactments will make you laugh, cry, and quite possibly swear off dating altogether.

Comedy | 2 seasons

True Dating Stories

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

One man's misguided quest to conquer the world of home shopping. Gayl Pile (Morgan Waters) finds himself stuck in the daily grind as a host on the Shop-At-Home-Channel in Hamilton, ON.

The Amazing Gayl Pile

This is a 24/7 style documentary that joins Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes as they attempt to defend their title on the Beach Volleyball World Tour and prepare for the Tokyo Olympics.

Sweat & Power

BIT PLAYAS follows Ahmed and Leon as they spend their days hustling in the casting room, working jobs in the real world, deflecting the occasional “soft racism” and dealing with their own identity crises.

Bit Playas

In this tongue-in-cheek portrayal of his life, Chris Jericho is a former wrestler struggling to make it big as an actor.

But I'm Chris Jericho!

What if you could repeat the most important day of your life until you perfected every moment? Receiving her one birthday wish, Allison Lee gets more than she asked for when she's stuck repeating an epic 25th birthday bash that just went down in flames.

Drama | 1 season

RePlay

The Neddeaus of Duqesne Island is a 1970s documentary parody about a family living isolated on an island in Northern Canada.

The Neddeaus of Duqesne Island

FARM CRIME is a true crime documentary series with a unique twist. Each episode examines a case that wouldn’t typically make the front page; instead of tales of murder, assault or violent home invasion, the series explores unconventional crimes that take place in the margins – the fields, farms and secretive small towns that dot the Canadian countryside. Disappearing truckloads of blueberries. Millions of stolen bees. Herds of rustled cattle. These are farm crimes – indictable offences that exact a real toll on largely rural victims who don’t always get their due. FARM CRIME investigates their stories with cunning curiosity, speaking directly with the fascinating people who populate these worlds, seeking answers, closure and justice.

Documentary | 2 seasons

Farm Crime

An immersive look into hair stylist Nancy Falaise’s monthly workshops for young girls of colour and their natural hair.

Education | 1 season

Nancy's Pro Tips

The Future of Film Showcase (FOFS) is a not-for-profit media arts organization fostering the future of emerging Canadian filmmakers. FOFS presents short works by Canadian filmmakers aged 40 and younger, by providing a platform that celebrates their art with an audience as unique as they are.

The Future of Film Showcase

Amanda is a talented cartoonist and ardent feminist with a problem. She’s fortunate enough to intern at her dream company - a hip, up-and-coming animation house, populated by talented millennials - so she assumes her career will fall into place somehow, eventually. But the only thing she can focus on is figuring out how to find her perfect guy. Unfortunately for Amanda, she ends up dating one shitty guy after another and struggles to learn lessons from her failed romances that will help her navigate future relationships.

Shitty Boyfriends

QUEENS is a comedy-mystery whodunnit following an eclectic cast of Toronto drag queens leading up to the night of the “Miss Church Street” pageant. Each episode focuses on the misadventures of a particular drag performer whose preparation for the pageant is interrupted in a strange and unfortunate way. All of these mishaps lead the queens to realize the truth- they have all been sabotaged! But who among them is the saboteur? Or, rather, saboteuse?

Queens

Don’t ever tell a 75-year-old to go quietly into the night. Hey Lady! is a CBC Gem original comedy series about a wiry old gal with a whiskey voice and a bourbon appetite, who refuses to let herself be put out to pasture. In an age when age is often the problem, Lady is a testament to the life force. Episode after episode, Lady finds herself at the centre of some absurd and very public embarrassments, requiring the assistance - and sometimes the bail bond - of one of her tired and overworked middle-aged children.

Hey Lady!

An infertile couple struggles to conceive with the help of a doctor. And a nurse. And a financial planner. And unsolicited advice from everyone they know.

How to Buy a Baby

Mind Fudge is a highly ambitious, cinematic ride through Justine’s hyper-real, 20-something imagination as she juggles life, love, and what it all means, before landing back in reality with a punchline.

Mind Fudge

While left in charge of Maggie’s Diner for the week, a driven Jade Virani butts heads with the new girl in town while they vie for the new manager position.

Hudson

Talent Drivers is a blue collar "working class" satirical comedy about the Film & TV industry - told from the drivers' perspective.

Talent Drivers

What happens when a Deaf amateur theatre director and his hearing girlfriend unite a group of 30 Deaf and hearing people to mount a unique adaptation of The Little Mermaid? Turns out: a whole lot of drama, onstage and off. That's the story we're telling in Seen & Heard, a new CBC Arts digital series coming later this fall. And for International Day of Sign Languages, we're bringing you this special sneak peek.

Seen & Heard

A buddy comedy rooted in family, set in the madness of the modern world.

My 90 Year Old Roommate

A comedy that lingers in the awkward silences as much as it does on the stunning choreography of the acclaimed Shawn Hounsell, OFF KILTER documents a man re-making himself into the critically acclaimed jerk he never got to be in the ‘90s.

Off Kilter

A writing team working on a new TV series struggle to deal with script deadlines, network interference, and procrastination as their personal lives become increasingly complicated.

The Writers' Block

A call to action by Buffy Sainte-Marie...a call that arrives as Canada turns 150. A CBC Arts original series curated by Jesse Wente.

Keep Calm and Decolonize

Welcome to Cooking with Joy! Each week Joy McCarthy of Joyous Health is sharing a recipe that is both mouth-watering - and mindfully made.

Cooking with Joy

Fronted by entertainer Sean Jordan, Meet Your Maker is a docu-series that explores the maker culture. Meet the most colourful and compelling makers and see their making process first hand.

Meet Your Maker

A comedy set in the seventies about two clueless and often inebriated feminists who co­-host their own late- night, local cable access television show.

Terrific Women

Nations, Languages, And Perspectives On Heartache.

Animation | 1 season

How to Lose Everything

Explore The Digital Destiny Of Humankind. 

Concerts and performances | 1 season

Future Futures

Asian Canadians Recall 'Forgetting' Their Lunches

Five Plants Are Trapped In An Apartment With Their Humans

Short-Form Series

Watch popular shows like Schitt's Creek, Luther, Kim's Convenience, plus Films and Live TV on any device

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Short-form Series

Short-Form Series

How to Lose Everything

Dreams in Vantablack

Lunchbox Dilemma

Filters and sorts

All "Short-form Series" content

Canadian Reflections

CBC Sports Reacts to Canada's Ultimate Challenge

Witness

Content Farm

The New Wave of Standup

Dreams in Vantablack

Something Undone

Lunchbox Dilemma

True Dating Stories

Uprooted: The Plantemic

The Amazing Gayl Pile

Sweat & Power

Bit Playas

But I'm Chris Jericho!

RePlay

The Neddeaus of Duqesne Island

Farm Crime

Nancy's Pro Tips

The Future of Film Showcase

Shitty Boyfriends

Queens

Hey Lady!

How to Buy a Baby

Mind Fudge

Hudson

Talent Drivers

Seen & Heard

My 90 Year Old Roommate

Off Kilter

The Writers' Block

Keep Calm and Decolonize

Cooking with Joy

Meet Your Maker

Terrific Women