Thought Provoking Short Films

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Enjoy these films by the National Film Board of Canada  


Asthma Tech

Length: 7 minutes
Age Group: 5 to 10
School Subject: health / personal development – bullying and discrimination

Description: Young Winston, who suffers from chronic asthma, isn’t able to participate in the everyday activities of his peers and classmates. He copes with the predicament through his vivid imagination, with paper and crayons. On one particularly rainy afternoon, Winston discovers that the magic of imagination has the power to transform and empower, and his skills and talents save the day.


Your Country, My Country

Length: 6 minutes
Age Group: 9 to 17
School Subject: diversity, identity

Description: A film about a friendship between two ten-year-old Montréal schoolkids. She is black and serious, he is white and rather nonchalant, and they look at life in different ways!