José Heppell

Drawing inspiration from their unique relationship, Virginie Francoeur explores the journey, work, and imagination of her father Lucien, an atypical creator, an uncategorizable provocateur, and offbeat Dad, worn out by a life of excess.

Cortometraje antibelicista sin palabras realizado con tinta india y pincel artístico, sobre un grupo de soldados canadienses en la Primera Guerra Mundial. (FILMAFFINITY)

En un lujoso palacio situado en el primer piso de una casa de un barrio obrero de Montreal, la princesa Isabelle está sumida en una fuerte crisis narcoléptica. Junto al lecho donde duerme está el rey, quien, para ayudarla, acude a su tío Enrique VIII, a su tía Victoria, a un extraterreste, a una bruja muy moderna y a un apuesto príncipe. (FILMAFFINITY)

In a quest to rediscover the spiritual values of his own people, an African filmmaker from the Gourmantche tribe of Burkina Faso visits an Aboriginal band, the Atikamekw of northern Quebec. The resulting documentary is a dialogue between those who divine the future in the sand with those who use snow-encased sweat lodges to reconnect with the spiritual world.

The film is an abstract allegory, showing two penguins with different ideas abot sea creatures that are their food or their shadows, depending on the perspective. Basically, sense-twisting animation.

For an Inuit fisherman, technology means absurdity. Floating out on a block of ice, he doesn't have any other choice to grab onto some flying fish to save himself.

Why isn't it green, yellow or striped?

Where would we be without these microscopic particles?

What keeps us down to earth? This clip from Science Please! answers the question.

Are cows a time bomb just waiting to explode? Part of the Science Please. collection for children.

What lights your fire? Part of the Science Please! collection for children.

How do we convert motion into electricity?

A clip in the Science Please collection, The State of the Matter uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain how temperature affects the state of matter.

Edison's bright idea, or how the electric light bulb works?

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Lightning uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain: What causes the electrical discharge we see as lightning?

Four strokes of genius.

How soap cleans? Part of the Science Please! collection for children.

A clip in the Science Please. collection, The Wonderful World of Colour uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain how the cones of the retina enable us to perceive the spectrum of colours.

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Slippery Ice! uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain why we slip on ice.

In the collection Science Please!, the first clip, entitled The Wind, explains the phenomenon of the wind with the help of archives, animation and narration.

A clip in the Science Please! collection, Wheel Meets Friction uses archival footage, animated illustrations and amusing narration to explain how the invention of the ball bearing reinvented the wheel.

A clip in the Science Please! collection, The Force of Water uses archival footage, animated illustration and amusing narration to explain the Archimedes principle, of why some things float and others sink.

An eccentric old grandmother decides to leave her nagging daughter's house to live on her own. Her teenaged granddaughter seizes the opportunity to go too.