Storytelling Movies

The poet and storyteller Fred Pellerin invites us to enter the fantastic and playful world of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton. There we discover a man...

Twenty years after a beloved local fisherman, Richie Madeiras, goes missing off the shores of Martha's Vineyard, a distant cousin locates Richie's...

One afternoon, during tea time, a grandfather's memories and ingenuity inspire three stories to entertain his grandson during his stay. The tale of a...

Located in Winnipeg’s downtown core, Gordon Bell High School is probably the most culturally varied school in the city. In an effort to build...

Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a travelogue of experience, a dreamer's journey through the lives,...

Ts'oostsitsi is a Blackfoot word used to describe the past. Feeling responsible to continue storytelling in his family, Ike Solway recounts a...

Here, where even monsters are political, the topography has its own memory. It has the mythological blues. Meanwhile, old gods are upset with us, and...

This short documentary sifts through the pages of a woman's diary who has recently begun to write her memoir. As she looks back at her life and some...

Humans are story-telling creatures. By thinking, we all unconsciously "author" a self-story in our heads. Most often, the characters and plot of our...

A filmmaker is invited to an actor's house, who is keenly interested in his story. For the story to be told, the characters need to speak for...

Father lost his wedding ring in the ocean once. Like all the sailors, he’d take it from his finger to put on a neck chain, not to lose the...

Five years after "Oluf" was laid to rest, Arthur Arntzen is back with perhaps one of the most beloved Norwegian humor characters of all time. He...

No one could spin a yarn to make a sale like Ray Lum. Twenty years after their initial meeting, Bill Ferris returned home to Mississippi in the early...

As the second work of young director Ran Yinxiao, "May the Rivers and Seas Flow Upward" is set in Chongqing and tells a different kind of family...

Dragphoria is a short film about drag and identity, finding yourself in a noisy crowd, and slowly accepting yourself after a long-awaited denial.

Polonia Brothers horror anthology, includes four short stories of terror.

A documentary about the expansion of storytelling in the online age and the building tools available. A director seeks guidance and insights from key...

Tribute to director, screenwriter and actress Sarah Polley. A whimsical, playful film tells the story of the kinds of stories Polley tells, using...

Raphael Montañez Ortiz tells a story about an elderly Jewish couple that didn't watch television or listen to the radio. Instead they used to...

Light Upon Light: A Documentary on Hijab is an intimate and deeply personal exploration of the diverse, raw, and untold stories of hijabi women....