What gets lost when female voices are stymied during the creative process? Pairing intimate interviews with absurdist re-enactments, Joyce Wong crafts a tartly subversive look at patriarchy and racism in the film industry.

The late Pepita Ferrari seats 33 leading documentarians—from the iconic Alanis Obomsawin to iconoclast Werner Herzog—in front of the camera to delve into the unique challenges and ethical entanglements of documentary filmmaking.

Veteran Tlingit filmmaker Carol Geddes tells the story of five Indigenous women across Canada who have risen to the top of their chosen trades—from a deck hand on a fishing boat, to a band council chief, to a minister of the Yukon legislature—and become inspirational leaders in their communities.

The third short to win an Oscar for Studio D is set to a very different beat. Flamenco at 5:15 lets the camera sit back and simply observe National Ballet School of Canada students as they are taught the moves and proud spirit of the folkloric Andalusian dance of flamenco.

Long before An Inconvenient Truth, Terre Nash filmed an American activist's powerful lecture on the horrors of nuclear war and proliferation, cut with newsreel footage of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Reagan administration labelled this short as propaganda and attempted to have it banned, but instead it won an Oscar.

Nadia is nine years old and lives in Toronto. She goes to swimming class and basketball practice; plays dress-up with her brother; and gets annoyed by the boys at school. She also has spina bifida. This short, narrated with frankness and gentle humour by Nadia, earned Studio D its first Oscar.

Cree director Alexandra Lazarowich riffs off classic cinema verité to craft a contemporary portrait of Métis women net fishing in northern Alberta.

Acclaimed writer Dionne Brand charts the work of two trailblazing Black lesbian Canadian artists—singer-songwriter Faith Nolan and multimedia visual artist Grace Channer—who discuss art, race and sexuality in this intimate tête-a-tête.

A farmer; a union activist; a bookshop owner; a reverend; a domestic worker. In this short oral history, five Black women reflect on the lives they've led and describe the challenges of growing up in the rural townships and urban centres of mid-century Canada.

A group of Syrian women, refugees recently resettled in Canada, are negotiating life in their new home. They have some questions. Directed by Ann Marie Fleming, one of the original Five Feminist Minutes filmmakers.

Deanne Foley profiles fellow Newfoundlander Mary Walsh, the Great Warrior Queen of Canadian comedy, musing on time wasted as an object of desire and time well spent as the fearless agent of her own destiny. A joyous call to action.

In 1990, the National Film Board made waves with Five Feminist Minutes, a series of short films produced by the trailblazing Studio D, the world's first all-woman production unit. As the NFB celebrates its 80th anniversary, four contemporary directors pick up the thread, accompanied by four to-be-announced titles from the original series.

In 1974, Studio D became the first publicly funded feminist film production unit in the world. This program offers a bold collection of its Oscar-winning shorts, produced by studio founder Kathleen Shannon.

Weaving archival footage with interviews of key second-wave feminists, including Betty Friedan, Margo Jefferson, Kate Millett and Rita Mae Brown, this is a fascinating history of one of the 20th century's most consequential social movements.