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A Sweet & Sour Christmas is the story behind a family-run Chinese restaurant spreading their deep-fried holiday cheer and also taking a bit of time during the seasonal rush for their own holiday celebration.

Documentary | 17 min

A Sweet and Sour Christmas

An elderly Chinese can collector strikes up an unexpected friendship with a house full of friends in East Vancouver.

A-Yi

A documentary exploring the nuances of mixed Chinese-Canadian marriages in Quebec, in light of their historical taboo and criminalization in this country. We follow couples harmonizing their expectations in communication, distribution of labour, parenting styles, financial and household management, and expressions of intimacy (Montreal, QC).

Season 19 | Ketchup & Soya Sauce

Absolutely Canadian

Ackley Bridge is a Yorkshire mill town, home to largely divided white and Asian populations. Like the communities, the school systems have also become segregated.

Drama | 2 seasons

Ackley Bridge

We follow Shane Keyu Song, the multi-talented front woman of Halifax band Century Egg, as she changes the soundscape of Canadian music.

Season 1 | Shane Keyu Song

Art is my Country

Artist Gu Xiong’s painful journey from China to Canada unfolds in every piece he creates.

Season 1 | Gu Xiong

Bad Rap, featuring Awkwafina, follows the lives and careers of four Asian-American rappers trying to break into the hip-hop culture that often treats them as outsiders.

Documentary | 83 min

Bad Rap

With the help of his recent recruit, a gang leader takes on an established crime lord in a battle for control over Vancouver's arms and drug trade.

Drama | 104 min

Beeba Boys

A look at the changing face of Canadian farms from the perspective of local farmers, Chinese immigrants, and investors.

Season 2 | My Farmland

CBC Docs POV

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

Documentary | 12 min

COVID & Who I Am Now

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

Jade Li is a feisty, 20-something Chinese Canadian, trying to achieve that happy medium between giving in to her parent's wishes and fulfilling her own needs and desires - double happiness. Naturally, something's got to give and when love beckons in the shape of Mark, a white university student, the facade of the perfect Chinese daughter begins to slip.

Drama | 87 min

Double Happiness

Embark on an astonishing journey that reveals the awesome power of the natural world, tracking the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles over the course of one single day. It’s an adventure told with humour, intimacy, and jaw-dropping cinematic splendour. You’ll get up close to a cast of unforgettable characters from towering giraffes to flitting hummingbirds. Discover more everyday wonders than you could possibly imagine - until now.

Documentary | 94 min

Earth: One Amazing Day

It’s a mystery that spans decades, continents and cultures, and bridges one Toronto woman’s life with her childhood in Japan: what happened to Fukue? In 1988, Jessica Stuart was nine years old. Her family embarked on a cultural odyssey that would greatly influence her life: the Stuarts dug up their middle-class roots in Vancouver’s Jewish community and replanted them in a rural Japanese town called Saku for a year. It was during this absorbing year that Jessica met Fukue, a bright and bubbly girl with rosy red cheeks and an endless smile. Fukue and Jessica became like sisters, spending their days frolicking in the autumn leaves, dancing under snow-blanketed trees, watching hot air balloons illuminate the skyline in spring and sneaking through rice paddies in early summer. Strangely, Fukue never invited Jessica to visit her family home. One day after school, Jessica insisted. Fukue reluctantly brought Jessica to her house; it was a derelict shack on the outskirts of town. Shocked and disturbed, Jessica started to make sense of the name-calling and bullying that Fukue suffered at school. As the Stuarts’ year in Japan came to an end, Jessica and Fukue assured one another they would keep in touch. They became pen pals, writing letters back and forth for two years, until the letters from Fukue stopped — with no explanation. Now a musician in her 30s, Jessica has never forgotten Fukue. Her memories of their time together are beautiful, but haunting. And so her thoughts turn to the unknown. Where is Fukue now? Does she remember Jessica? Why did her letters stop all those years ago?  Now, nearly 30 years after she left Japan, Jessica is going back to find the answers to these questions. She’s going to find Fukue.

Documentary | 21 min

Finding Fukue

Wang Bingzhang has spent the last 14 years in a Chinese prison. His family chooses to fight for the freedom of the man who once abandoned them.

Season 2 | Inside these Walls

Firsthand

Good People is a sobering, unabashedly human, ultimately uplifting documentary series about acknowledging our failings - and striving to do better.

Documentary | 1 season

Good People with Mark Sakamoto

Chand (Preity Zinta) is a young woman who travels from India to Canada to marry Rocky (Vansh Bhardwaj), a man she has never met. Her dream of a new life morphs into a nightmare as marriage to Rocky and his family becomes a numbing spiral of confusion and pain. Chand finds hope in her friendship with Rosa (Yanna McIntosh), a street-smart woman from Jamaica who works with Chand at a laundry factory. Rosa gives Chand a magical root and promises that it will make Rocky fall deeply in love with her. The experiment ends in a surreal parallel life that mirrors an Indian fable involving a King Cobra.

Drama | 105 min

Heaven on Earth

A weathered woman and her odd teen-aged daughter live in isolation on a desolate farm in South Korea. An affluent city woman comes to them seeking help with a sensitive matter and the three women soon fall into a new rhythm of life together, each working to fill a void within. However, as their very different paths converge, their deal becomes more than what they bargained for.

Drama | 116 min

In Her Place

Space scientists in Mumbai dream of launching the country's first astronomical satellite. Meanwhile the children living next door to the Space Centre are inspired to have dreams of their own.

Documentary | 52 min

Indian Space Dreams

Ken Jeong hosts a night of comedy at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal. With Orny Adams, Jess Salomon, and Matt Wright.

Season 17 | Ken Jeong: Best Medicine

Just for Laughs Galas

Comedy star Hasan Minhaj, best known for his hit Netflix show The Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, leaves the audience in stitches when he takes the stage at Just For Laughs to hosts one night of side-splitting stand-up comedy. Featuring performances by comedy stars Michael Kosta, Nimesh Patel, Emma Willmann, Flo &amp; Joan, Ivan Decker, Jacob Samuel, and Fahim Anwar.

Season 18 | Hasan Minhaj: Adult Boy

After the death of his adopted mother, a Canadian man travels to rural India desperately searching for the birth family he’s never known and seeking to unravel the mystery surrounding his adoption.

Mystery | 86 min

Khoya

KIM'S CONVENIENCE is the funny, heartfelt story of The Kims, a Korean-Canadian family, running a convenience store in downtown Toronto.

Sitcom | 5 seasons

Kim's Convenience

KIM'S CONVENIENCE is the funny, heartfelt story of The Kims, a Korean-Canadian family, running a convenience store in downtown Toronto (Korean subtitled version).

Kim's Convenience (Korean Subtitles)

How the tiny southern shore outport of Cape Broyle became home to two Sri Lankan mechanics and their families.

Season 11 | The Southern Shore Sri Lankans

Land and Sea Network

At the turn of the century, the populace knows the world is coming to an end. This modest comedy-drama examines how the impending doom affects its cast.

Drama | 90 min

Last Night

Late Night in the Studio is an original digital series which takes a deep dive into the illustrious history of the CBC. In each episode, our host Nobu Adilman will share a special treat from the CBC vault; everything from a 1960's holiday special to a short-lived Saskatchewan soap opera, it's all too good to be true.

Comedy | 1 season

Late Night in the Studio

The unlikeliest of friendships are forged on opposite sides of the world, in the wake of a massive natural disaster in Japan.

Documentary | 44 min

Lost & Found

Believing in the healing power of love, a hopeful look at one doctor's struggle to help HIV+ patients in India find love through her match-making efforts.

Lovesick

Drawn from a never-before-seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions.

Documentary | 101 min

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.

First-time filmmaker Bing Liu’s documentary Minding the Gap is a coming-of-age saga of three skateboarding friends in their Rust Belt hometown hit hard by decades of recession. In his quest to understand why he and his friends all ran away from home when they were younger, Bing follows 23-year-old Zack as he becomes a father and 17-year-old Keire as he gets his first job. As the film unfolds, Bing is thrust into the middle of Zack’s tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend and Keire’s inner struggles with racial identity and his deceased father. While navigating a complex relationship between his camera and his friends, Bing explores the gap between fathers and sons, between discipline and domestic abuse, and ultimately that precarious chasm between childhood and becoming an adult.

Biographical | 94 min

Minding the Gap

In this new series, Nadiya shows that being a good cook isn’t just about mastering technique, the real secret is knowing just what to muster up for each occasion and creating dishes that will put smiles on everyone’s faces - including the cook.

Reality | 1 season

Nadiya's Family Favourites

Palisa Anderson visits some of Australia’s most respected and emerging chefs, and explores her own early food memories of Thailand.

Palisa Anderson's Water Heart Food

PEN15 is middle school as it really happened, in all its R-rated glory. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star, playing younger versions of themselves as awkward 7th grade outcasts, surrounded by actual 13-year-olds. Set in 2001, Maya and Anna face the trials and tribulations of middle school. From boys to school dances to overbearing parents. Where the best day of your life can turn into your worst with the stroke of a gel pen.

Dark Comedy | 2 seasons

PEN15

Meet Ronny Chieng. He’s a Malaysian student who’s come to Australia to study law. He’s smart, driven and competitive, which would make him the perfect law student, if he actually wanted to be a lawyer. Blunt, barbed and not afraid to cut through BS, it’s not long before Ronny is at odds with most people on campus. As a genuine outsider, Ronny is suspicious of any group that wants him as a member, be it the beer-drinking Australians, the Mah-jong playing Asians or the pompous blazer-wearing... idiots. Ronny is caught between his old life and his new life, between the international students and the local students, and between his Mom’s expectations and his own dreams, whatever the heck they may be.

Ronny Chieng: International Student

Set in the 1970's Vancouver, Breakaway follows 11-year-old Sammy, an ice hockey-obsessed Chinese Canadian girl. She has dreams of one-day playing ice hockey but her responsibilities at home and bullying older brother get in the way.

Season 13 | Breakaway

Short Film Face Off

In 1965, Tiffany’s mother was separated from her parents. She never saw them again. 40 years later, Tiffany flies to Taiwan to try & find her grandparents - with just two names scribbled on a napkin.

Documentary | 29 min

Sing Me a Lullaby

The TallBoyz - Guled, Vance, Tim and Franco - return with sketches ranging from absurdist themes, like fostering an oil barrel, to hard-hitting examinations of privilege, blackface and spicy food.

Sketch | 3 seasons

TallBoyz

Broke, wanna-be Influencer, Suri Deol (Indian, blonde and bougie) must bail her truck driver father out of jail after he’s arrested for smuggling narcotics or move back to Brampton to her own personal prison: her family home.

Drama | 1 season

The 410

The beautifully normal, absurd story of a man who did everything right, perhaps not quite at the right time. Fine arts student, immigrant, husband, father of two, and owner of his own condom business.

Documentary | 24 min

The Condom King of Newfoundland

The story of Ted Ngoy, a Cambodian refugee who arrived in Los Angeles in 1975 and changed everything we know about America’s favorite pastry, the donut.

Documentary | 99 min

The Donut King

The Family Law gives a vivid glimpse inside the gloriously dysfunctional world of a hilarious and heart-warming Chinese- Australian family through the eyes of 14-year-old Benjamin.

Coming of age | 3 seasons

The Family Law

Romesh is not an adventurous man. His idea of an exotic holiday is a European villa break. But Romesh needs some more material for his stand-up career. So this intrepid comic is going to visit some of the world’s most dangerous holiday destinations. You’re welcome, world!

Stand-up | 3 seasons

The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

In the comedic documentary The Problem with Apu, South Asian-American comedian Hari Kondabolu confronts his long-standing “nemesis” Apu Nahasapeemapetilon – better known as the Indian convenience store owner on The Simpsons.  Kondabolu discusses how this controversial caricature was created, burrowed its way into the hearts and minds of Americans, and continues to exist – intact – nearly three decades later.

Stand-up | 49 min

The Problem with Apu

Based on a true story, Romesh - has reluctantly inherited the pub of his late, much more exuberant, positive father who relished the role of landlord. Running a pub with a bunch of idiosyncratic regulars couldn’t be further from what hip hop loving Romesh wants to do...Julie’s (his on-hand bar staff) bright sparky disposition rubs him up the wrong way, Lemon who props up the bar has become Romesh’s banter-mate but his flaky mischief is always getting Romesh into trouble.

Sitcom | 2 seasons

The Reluctant Landlord

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

Hundreds of years in the future, in the last living colony on earth, a city called New Babyl, twenty-four teenage candidates are chosen to take part in an annual musical competition known as The Exemplar. For all of them it's a chance to write their names in the history books, but for Aliyah, the independent and adventurous daughter to a city government official, it’s the beginning of an incredible adventure.

Coming of age | 1 season

Utopia Falls

Wendy Ohata has just made three startling realizations: One, she has a twin brother named Vincent. Two, she’s a kami-jin - a descendant of an ancient Japanese people who can turn paper into deadly weapons. And three, there’s a kami-jin warrior named Sadako hunting her down for reasons she doesn’t understand.

Action and Adventure | 1 season

Warigami

A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.

Cartoon | 88 min

Window Horses

Celebrate Asian Heritage Month this May with a collection of documentaries, films and shows that honour the rich culture of Asian Canadians.

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Asian Heritage Month

Filters and sorts

All "Asian Heritage Month" content

A Sweet and Sour Christmas

A-Yi

Absolutely Canadian

Ackley Bridge

Art is my Country

Art is my Country

Bad Rap

Beeba Boys

CBC Docs POV

COVID & Who I Am Now

Death and Sickness

Double Happiness

Earth: One Amazing Day

Finding Fukue

Firsthand

Good People with Mark Sakamoto

Heaven on Earth

In Her Place

Indian Space Dreams

Just for Laughs Galas

Just for Laughs Galas

Khoya

Kim's Convenience

Kim's Convenience (Korean Subtitles)

Land and Sea Network

Last Night

Late Night in the Studio

Lost & Found

Lovesick

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.

Minding the Gap

Nadiya's Family Favourites

Palisa Anderson's Water Heart Food

PEN15

Ronny Chieng: International Student

Short Film Face Off

Sing Me a Lullaby

TallBoyz

The 410

The Condom King of Newfoundland

The Donut King

The Family Law

The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

The Problem with Apu

The Reluctant Landlord

Tomomi on the Farm

Utopia Falls

Warigami

Window Horses