Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of Thiers, France. Vignettes include a boy's...

In Borneo, near the tropical forest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutang in the palm oil plantation where her father works. Kéria's cousin...

Marcel the shell is out of sight.

Norman McLaren instructs Grant Munro on the movements he is to make. The film technique for Two Bagatelles is pixillation, where the actor is...

Montreal, 1940. The Second World War is raging in Europe. Pierre Sauvageau, 22, would like to enlist, but he has to take care of his twin sister,...

Germany, 1945. World War II is nearing its climactic end. Five-year-old Sophie and her parents are refugees fleeing from the advancing Red Army. They...

Rosa's life, a highly valued professional, is turned upside down when her grandfather Marcelino dies.

This cartoon is directed against the brutality of professional Boxing. In parody form it ridiculed unworthy methods and means used to achieve...

An eight-year-old girl tries to build a relationship with her absent father through a class-assigned family tree.

Len Lye scraped together enough funding and borrowed equipment to produce a two-minute short featuring his self-made monkey, singing and dancing to...

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.

Five years after the events of the first film, Christmas is once again just around the corner. In a crazy turn of events, possibly brought on...

An elderly farmer and his family return home to their village after trying to make money in the city, only to find it destitute and ruled by...

A young girl's Christmas wish is fulfilled and complicated.

A female capybara and her cubs are fleeing from a hunter who has settled in the lagoon where they live. Their search for shelter takes them to a...

Follows Hazel King, a single mother determined to protect her daughter from the life she once had while defending and protecting those who can't...

A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.

A piano composer's family moves into a new house; when his pregnant wife collapses from working to support the family, he hires a hot housemaid to...

When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, a glamorous showgirl must reconcile with the...

Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys...