Ontario Arts Council Movies

  • 1987
    I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

    I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

    I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

    5.81987HD

    Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle...

    I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
  • 1987
    Family Viewing

    Family Viewing

    Family Viewing

    5.71987HD

    An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a...

    Family Viewing
  • 2010
    The Quarry

    The Quarry

    The Quarry

    4.52010HD

    Charlie (Ruben de Baat), a boy of twelve, creates the most personal gift for his friend best friend, Natalie (Meagan Brodie). It’s a mix tape...

    The Quarry
  • 2019
    It's Nothing

    It's Nothing

    It's Nothing

    02019HD

    A recent graduate is urged by an impossibly perfect woman to start digging a hole in a nearby park, setting in motion a chain of events that threaten...

    It's Nothing
  • 2009
    To My Son in Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

    To My Son in Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

    To My Son in Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War

    02009HD

    This documentary features the story of Jules Paivio, the last living Canadian volunteer of the infamous Mackenzie-Papineau Battallion of the...

    To My Son in Spain: Finnish Canadians in the Spanish Civil War
  • 2010
    Junko's Shamisen

    Junko's Shamisen

    Junko's Shamisen

    5.72010HD

    A young Japanese orphan, and her mystical friend, exact poetic justice on a malevolent samurai lord.

    Junko's Shamisen
  • 1991
    Masala

    Masala

    Masala

    61991HD

    An Indian-Canadian heroin addict becomes involved in the lives of his mother's family, watched over by the god Krishna.

    Masala
  • 2023
    Demon Box

    Demon Box

    Demon Box

    02023HD

    After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a...

    Demon Box
  • 2003
    Urda/Bone

    Urda/Bone

    Urda/Bone

    02003HD

    Against the backdrop of a European cityscape, worlds intersect when a woman and a man on separate travels meet, or rather, collide on the screen....

    Urda/Bone
  • 2017
    Twice Upon a Time

    Twice Upon a Time

    Twice Upon a Time

    02017HD

    Twice Upon a Time is a fairy tale for all generations about a king with split personality, split time and a split screen. It is a story about dual...

    Twice Upon a Time
  • 1964
    Peggy's Blue Skylight

    Peggy's Blue Skylight

    Peggy's Blue Skylight

    3.71964HD

    Filmed in Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow’s loft in New York, the film covers a day of friends visiting, writing and drawing from noon of one...

    Peggy's Blue Skylight
  • 2019
    Borrachero

    Borrachero

    Borrachero

    02019HD

    After a job goes wrong, a woman flees to her hometown in southern Colombia. Along the way she encounters a mysterious figure, which might be the...

    Borrachero
  • 1979
    Star Ways

    Star Ways

    Star Ways

    01979HD

    A young boy with his "Star Wars" comic book runs to the front window of a subway train and pretends to pilot a spaceship out of the station and into...

    Star Ways
  • 2007
    Sleep Lines

    Sleep Lines

    Sleep Lines

    02007HD

    On a sunny afternoon between dreaming and waking a couple come together and move apart in the interior world of their home. A hand-processed...

    Sleep Lines