Polar Film Stream

Polar Bears in Hudson Bay struggle in a green world. Up close and personal, originally shot all on native 3D.

The ultimate icons of the polar wilderness able to withstand the harshest environments and remain a top predator; the lives of polar bears are nothing short of remarkable!

The polar bear and the brown bear are playing hide and seek in the snow.

Barney just wants to hibernate for the winter, but his nephew, just in from the North Pole, has other plans.

The discovery of an ancient artefact. The night extends beyond the grip of reality. The inhabitants of a small community perish.

A portrait of of an era, a generation, of one of the most emblematic bands of Ecuador, Mamá Vudú.

A Super 8 film.

An Eskimo boy's fishing excursion is interrupted by a cooky pair: a polar cub and penguin.

All of a man's possessions start to disappear.

Bonzo the Pup goes traeling.

A certain combination of objects can warp a person for life. "This is my story." -R.A.

Polar Life’s novelty was its theatre, with the audience seated on a central rotating turntable in the middle of eleven fixed screens. Viewers have described the intricate juxtaposition of screen images and narration and the complex relationship created between moving spectators and multiple screens. Documentation images and scripts of the bilingual narration by Lise Payette and Patrick Watson show elaborate temporal and spatial representations of the Arctic and Antarctic regions: the Inuit in daily activities in the Canadian North; other northern peoples of Alaska, Lapland, and Siberia; and settlers from the South, scientists, explorers, and other inhabitants of the landscape, including reindeer, bears, and birds. Archival film footage of early northern explorers, combined with newly shot documentary footage, was edited across the various screens to create spatial relationships that are sometimes coherent, sometimes fragmented.

Polar Bear pursues an act of violence as it ricochets through time. From Aaron as a young boy first encountering the bear, to ten years on, where his own rage finally explodes. Then over four more years on, a now young adult Aaron encounters Lea, both bound to and haunted by the same ghost of violence.

A stop-motion animated film about the journey of a momma polar bear and her cub as their Arctic habitat undergoes the consequences of climate change.

When Madi struggles with a recent mental illness diagnosis, will her partner stay and support her?

This RKO-Pathe short film produced with the assistance of the United States Air Force is about the construction of the DEW Line, the Distant Early Warming System, a string of radar stations built across Alaska and the Canadian north as part of NORAD, the North American Air Defense Command. These are isolated outposts, many of which are only accessible by air. Buildings, roads and landing strips had to be built from scratch. There's a visit to Barrow Village, Alaska the most northern point of US territory.

Tom and Jerry are washed ashore in a frigid land inhabited by music-loving animals, including walruses, penguins, and polar bears.

An enthralling look at the Arctic's biggest predator on ice, capturing rarely-seen behavior, and featuring breathtaking cinematography shot over 12 months in the Canadian Arctic.

The band's next concert stop is in New Orleans where Nat reunites with a childhood friend, sending Rosalina into a jealous frenzy! Meanwhile, Alex initiates an extreme environmental movement to help save polar bears at the North Pole, but devious reporters frame him to appear as a conceited rock star who hates Santa!