National Film Board of Canada

Ryan (2004)

Production

A gentleman panhandler. One of the pioneers of Canadian animation. Oscar nominee. Poor beggar. An artist unable to create. God observing the world. F...

Gjennom mine tykke briller (2004)

Through My Thick Glasses

Production

It's Norway, and it's winter. To convince a short-sighted little girl to put on her cap before going out to play, her grandfather tells her a story: ...

Louise (2004)

Production

Inspired by the animator's grandmother of Belgian descent. Ninety-six years young and fiercely independent, Louise lives on her own near Brussells, a...

L'homme sans ombre (2004)

The Man Without a Shadow

Production

What bother dragging around one's shadow? A man agrees to a pact with a magician and swaps his shadow for riches. He soon discovers that the absence ...

Aria (2001)

Production

In this short inspired by Puccini's opera, Madame Butterfly is a marionette living alone on an island until the handsome young sailor Pinkerton arriv...

The True Story of Sawney Beane (2005)

Production

The fable of Scotland's legendary cannibal, Sawney Beane, is rendered through charcoal and watercolour animation. Spare brush-strokes and erasures of...

Welcome to Kentucky (2004)

Production

A woman's voice leaves messages on her lover's answering machine. "Where are you?" she asks. On the screen, a small fish is snapped up by a big one. ...

Historia Trágica Con Final Feliz (2005)

Tragic Story with a Happy Ending

Production

There are people who in spite of themselves are different from the rest. All they want to do is to fit in with the crowd.

The Danish Poet (2006)

Funding

A young bard in search of inspiration goes to Norway to meet his favorite author and instead sets off an amusing sequence of accidental encounters.

Jeu (2006)

Play

Funding

A variation of musical and visual play inspired by the scherzo of the 2nd piano concerto by Sergei Prokoffieff.

Dehors novembre (2005)

Production

Premonitions of the death of the group's harmonica player through the Colocs' song "Dehors novembre".

Madame Tutli-Putli (2007)

Production

Madame Tutli-Putli boards the night train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past.