Title: Cold Journey

Description: A feature drama about a young Canadian Indian's attempt to find a place for himself. It tells of the cultural shock of an educational system that teaches him to be a white man, and of his attempts to discover a way of life more meaningful to his Native culture and ancestry. It is a tragic story of unexpected pitfalls and disillusionment that are as cruel as the bitter wind that greets him on his cold and lonely journey.

Creator: Martin Defalco

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 75 min 29s

Relevant Dates: 1975

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: Cordelia

Description: In a little village in the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by receiving men in her house in the absence of her husband. When he is found dead, all suspicion falls to this free woman. She is judged more for her morality then for the crime she's supposed to have committed. Her culpability is still a subject of debate today.

Creator: Jean Beaudin

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 116 min

Relevant Dates: 1980

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: Naked Frailties

Description: [not supplied]

Creator: Larry Reese

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 91 min

Relevant Dates: 1998

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: Marie Anne Discussion

Description: [not supplied]

Creator: Fil Fraser

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 50 min

Relevant Dates: 2004

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: J.A. Martin Photographer

Description: J.A. Martin (Sabourin) is a photog­rapher in 19th-century Quebec. All year he covers the local community events except when, once a year, he leaves in his wagon to serve his more remote customers. But this year is different: his defiant wife, Rose‑Aimée (Mercure), decides to leave their five children at home and accompany Martin, de­spite the scandalized reactions of family and neighbours.

Creator: Jean Beaudin

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 101 min 20s

Relevant Dates: 1977

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: Drylanders Discussion

Description: [not supplied]

Creator: Fil Fraser

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 57 min

Relevant Dates: 2003

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: A Scream from Silence

Description: This brutal, compelling and angry film tackles the subject of rape. One night, Suzanne (Vincent), a nurse working late at a hospital, is dragged into a truck, beaten, verbally abused and raped by a man (Houde). The experience traumatizes her, affects her relationship with her lover Philippe (Savoie) and eventually leads to her suicide.

Creator: Anne Claire Poirier

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 95 min 55 s

Relevant Dates: 1979

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: Solitaire

Description: Friends gather at Christmas and remember the good and bad times. They deal with long-buried conflicting emotions about their relationships.

Creator: Francis Damberger

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 107 min

Relevant Dates: 1992

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: Solitaire Discussion

Description: [not supplied]

Creator: Fil Fraser

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 48 min

Relevant Dates: 2003

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: Loyalties

Description: David Sutton (Welsh), a physician, and his wife, Lily (Wooldridge), are the model of middle-class British comfort, security and composure. So what brings them to the remote village of Lac La Biche in northern Alberta? The local residents can't understand it. Aloof and alone, Lily provides no answers, although her alienation lifts somewhat as she becomes friends with Rosanne, a Métis woman (Cardinal), whom the doctor has hired as a housekeeper. A vivacious single mother with profound attachments to her cultural and spiritual ancestry, Rosanne elicits an unusual sense of trust and affection from the customarily reticent Lily. Their friendship transcends the gulfs of culture and economics, and eventually tests the bonds of family loyalties.

Creator: Anne Wheeler

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 98 min

Relevant Dates: 1986

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: J'aime J'aime pas

Description: This drama follows the romantic troubles of Winnie, a young single mother who gets involved with film-student Thomas. As they get to know each other, Thomas decides to make a docudrama of her life. As the project progresses, Thomas finds himself falling deeply in love with Winnie. Unfortunately, her child's father suddenly shows up after a long absence.

Creator: Sylvie Groulx

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 89 min

Relevant Dates: 1996

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: Road to Saddle River

Description: Road to Saddle River is a road movie about a European immigrant with a cowboy movie fixation. As he heads west in search of a non-existent valley, he hooks up with an entourage of eccentrics.

Creator: Francis Damberger

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 110 min

Relevant Dates: 1994

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: Ordinary Tenderness

Description: It is winter on Quebec’s North Shore. Esther’s (Esther Auger) husband Jocelyn (Jocelyn Bérubé) is a lumberjack away on a job in the far north. As she awaits his return, she talks with her friend Bernadette (Luce Guilbault) – whose presence makes the long winter bearable – and reminisces about other days with her husband.

Creator: Jacques Leduc

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 82 min

Relevant Dates: 1973

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: Princes in Exile

Description: This drama explores the exploits of seriously ill teens who spend the summer at a camp for cancer victims.

Creator: Giles Walker

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 103 min

Relevant Dates: 1990

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: Bye Bye Blues

Description: A delicate, bittersweet and poignant melodrama, Bye Bye Blues is essentially an unapologetic, old-fashioned weepie. It gains much of its resonance from Rebecca Jenkins’s stunning, star-making turn; in her first lead role, Jenkins carries the film with a confident, effervescent performance as the vulnerable and romantic Daisy.

Creator: Anne Wheeler

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 117 min

Relevant Dates: 1989

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: Why Shoot the Teacher

Description: Why Shoot the Teacher relates the frustrating Depression-era plight of Max Brown (Bud Cort), a shy young teacher from the East who faces a particularly gruelling first assignment: educating a motley crew of farmers’ kids in a ramshackle one-room schoolhouse in the remote town of Willowgreen, Saskatchewan.

Creator: Silvio Narizzano

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 100 min

Relevant Dates: 1977

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: Latitude 55

Description: When a woman is stranded in Alberta by a blizzard, she finds it is not just the storm that holds her prisoner on the isolated farm where she seeks help.

Creator: John Juliani

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 102 min

Relevant Dates: 1982

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: The Merry World of Leopold z

Description: One Christmas Eve in Montreal during a major snowstorm, snowplow driver Leopold Z. Tremblay (Guy L’Écuyer) is busy clearing the streets after a heavy snowfall. But there is more in store today for this simple, amiable man: he must also find time to secure a loan, buy his wife a fur coat, take his son to choir practice, meet his New York cousin at the station, and watch her rehearse her nightclub act – all while evading detection by his boss. In the end, after everything has fallen neatly into place, Léopold even manages to attend midnight Mass.

Creator: Gilles Carle

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 68 min

Relevant Dates: 1965

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: Road to Saddle River Discussion

Description: [not supplied]

Creator: Fil Fraser

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 12 min

Relevant Dates: 2003-2004

Rights: [not supplied]

Title: Wings of Chance

Description: Set in the Canadian wilderness, this movie tells the story of two Canadian bush pilots whose business and friendship is threatened when they fall in love with the same woman. One embarks upon a flight without performing a safety check and crashes in the wilderness. He is there for many weeks before thinking to tag geese with his name and whereabouts.

Creator: Eddie Dew

Subject: Canadian Film

Location: 76 min

Relevant Dates: 1961

Rights: [not supplied]