Martin Duckworth Movies

This touching documentary follows a cast of blind and visually impaired actors as they prepare Dancing to Beethoven, a play about blindness. The film...

Michael J. Pollard stars in Derek May's short film exploring the touristic landscape of Niagara Falls.

OUTREMONT AND THE HASIDIM reveals the challenges of accommodating the “Hasidim” – or ultra-Orthodox Jews – in the affluent...

This feature documentary takes us back to April 20, 2001, as Quebec City prepares to host the 3-day Summit of the Americas. A 4-kilometre fence has...

Martin Duckworth is a staunch defender of peace and justice and one of Quebec’s most important documentary filmmakers. Helped by his...

The story of a young boy forced to spend all five years of his short life in hospital while the federal and provincial governments argued over which...

This short documentary portrays the complex effects of incarceration on individuals. Prisons, the film shows, lock men within themselves, depriving...

A film about the women who supported the 1978 miners strike against Inco, the multinational which owned the nickel mines in Sudbury, Ontario. As the...

Oliver Jones, one of Canada's foremost jazz pianists, tours Nigeria with his bassist and drummer, discovering in Africa the roots of much of today's...

Temiscaming, Québec is the story of a town's struggle to survive after its main source of employment, the CIP mill, closed down. Part I tells...

The World is Watching is a political film about the moral issues surrounding news gathering and newsmaking in the electronic age. Who decides what...

Between March and October 2000, millions of people around the world took to the streets to denounce poverty and violence against women. The historic...

This fictional feature follows a twenty-something man who is struggling to define his position in the world in early adulthood. He has left their...

This short documentary profiles a community engaged in developing sustainable living methods, including food production and small-scale solar and...

This short film was shot on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and shows off the new technology employed on modern fishing boats in the mid-1960s. The...

Lucia has left her native Chile and is now living in Montréal, Canada. Here, she tries to start a new life as an art teacher while also...

Survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki travel to New York for a UN conference on disarming nuclear weapons.

This short satirical film, created entirely from archival footage, is about the British Empire—on which the sun never sets. The majority of the...

Filmed in Saigon in 1970, this documentary observes the effects of the Vietnam War on daily life away from the battlefield. Through the perspectives...

A surrealistic look at life through the eyes of a man returning to life from the edge of death, after surviving an airplane crash. He discusses his...