Today is National Canadian Film Day: A coast-to-coast salute to Canadian cinema! Launched in 2014, Canadian Film Day has brought together hundreds of thousands of Canadians to celebrate our stories and the incredible achievements of our filmmakers.
To commemorate this day, the Archer Library & Archive’s Jason Cawood has put together a selection of recent Canadian films that can be accessed through the University Library’s media databases. Pick one to watch today!
Those databases are mentioned after the films’ titles here:
1995 (Ricardo Trogi / 2024) (Criterion On-Demand)
Infinity Pool (Brandon Cronenberg / 2023) (Criterion On-Demand)
Compulsus (Tara Thorne / 2022) (Criterion On-Demand)
The Dishwasher / Le plongeur (Francis Leclerc / 2023) (Criterion On-Demand)
Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story (Michael Mabbott & Lucah Rosenberg-Lee / 2024) (National Film Board of Canada)
Maybe Elephants (Torill Kove / 2024) (National Film Board of Canada)
Blackberry (Matt Johnson / 2023) (Criterion On-Demand)
Posthumans / posthumains (Dominique Leclerc / 2025) (National Film Board of Canada)
