Having suffered the loss of their plane, three pilots inexplicably find themselves stranded in the middle of the desert. While following the perilous and unpredictable course that will ultimately lead them home, they fall prey to visions and must confront the siren call of their own strange fantasies. With Pilots on the Way Home, Priit and Olga Pärn (Divers in the Rain) have created a new, satirical meditation on male-female relations. The film tackles masculinity and the male psyche with the same pointed sense of the absurd that has marked Priit Pärn's previous films. Pilots on the Way Home is also a journey through time and space, and to the universal sources of artistic eroticism. Olga Pärn is a master of the art of animating sand, giving Priit Pärn's unique line drawings a warm and subtle texture reminiscent of etching. Her work is perfectly matched to the impassioned beats of this tale. - Written by NFB
My name is a “cockroach”. I was called that from childhood.
A satirical film about modern British politics and tactics of distraction.
a lazy girl is depressed and confused of what to do next, after she realizes that she has grown up.
In Buffalo Milk Yogurt, a collaboration with Corey Fogel, a man experiences a nervous breakdown in a gourmet supermarket while a woman practices yoga in a display of fall decorations.
The Oven Sky (2011) is set in a quickly gentrifying neighborhood where newcomers pressure a longtime resident to turn her yard filled with lawn ornaments into a dog park. This animation features music by Rachel Mason.
A woman dreads attending a Thanksgiving dinner.
Bo Peep explains what happened to herself and her sheep between the events of Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 4.
When a sinister entity emerges from the forest on a 1970s Halloween night, a young woman's true motives are revealed - and her future is decided forever.
Revelers mingle, drink, and dance at a street carnival.
A medieval writer attracts the attention of Death itself while he writes his stories. Soon Death enters a tale he is creating and attempts to kill his main protagonist.
After growing up adopted, a man makes a gargantuan discovery when meeting his biological father.
Strange experiences lead a grieving artist to reconsider his identity and beliefs in this meditation on grief, family and mental illness.
Before his first public performance, the young pianist Louis Brafort, accidentally falls in his piano and finds himself confronting his stage fright.
A strange dog meets four orphaned sisters.
Short horror mockumentary about a camera crew that follows two serial killers.
A married man on a business trip checks into a hotel. The hotel manager’s daughter falls for him at first sight. Rejected by the man, she embarks on a journey of revenge...
In this short animation film the triangle achieves the distinction of principal dancer in a geometric ballet. The triangle is shown splitting into some three hundred transformations, dividing and sub-dividing with grace and symmetry to the music of a waltz. The film's artist and animator is René Jodoin, whose credits include Dance Squared and several collaborations with Norman McLaren.
"Labyrinth" is a groundbreaking multi-screen 45-minute presentation produced for Chamber III of the Labyrinth at Expo 67 in Montreal, using 35 mm and 70 mm film projected simultaneously on multiple screens. A film without commentary in which multiple images, sometimes complementary, sometimes contrasting, draw the viewer through the different stages of a labyrinth. The tone of the film moves from great joy to wrenching sorrow; from stark simplicity to ceremonial pomp. It is life as it is lived by the people of the world, each one, as the film suggests, in a personal labyrinth. Re-released in 1979 as "In the Labyrinth" by the National Film Board of Canada in a 21-minute single projection format.
An animated short film about two flocks of sheep and their shepherds who are at odds with one another and attempting to keep them separated.