Caroline Leaf Movies

A short documentary about singers Kate and Anna McGarrigle made by animator Caroline Leaf.

Features clips from 21 documentary and animation film classics, interviews with NFB filmmakers past and present, and incisive commentary from film...

Live-action drama conceived for educational and social debate purposes.

A facially disfigured author's life with her guardian of a sister is disrupted when a stranger arrives at their door, claiming to be a fan.

This animated film about blind prejudice is based on a short story by Canadian author Wilma Riley. Mrs. Cherwak is Polish and owns a cow. Mrs. Meuser...

In this short animation based on an Inuit legend, a goose captures the fancy of an owl, a weakness for which he will pay dearly. The sound effects...

This film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he...

I Met a Man is a piece of whimsy inspired by the ever present whistling wind on the Irish coast of County Cork where the filmmaker was living when...

An animated adaptation of Franz Kafka’s acclaimed novella, “The Metamorphosis,” made from carving images into sand with glass.

Caroline Leaf’s films are renowned for their emotional content and graphic style, which evolves from the innovative hand-crafted animation...

In this parable, a hungry fox hunts for his dinner one night in the jungle. Nearby is a tiger who is also pondering his next meal. The tiger catches...

A live-action, stop-motion story of a one glove coming up against a gang full of mobster gloves. This used lost gloves the filmmaker collected with...

A trio of short films commissioned to be shown to visitors entering the National Freedom Center in Cincinnati Ohio. Freedom and Unfreedom by...

A freewheeling cinematic experience, this film is the work of two filmmakers who relate their perceptions of each other through their respective...

Sand or Peter and the Wolf is a loose interpretation of the fable Peter and the Wolf, in which a boy's fear of the dark, the woods, and the wolf, is...

In 1994, Caroline Leaf accepted the Sir Allen Sewell Fellowship to give a series of studio workshops and lectures to animation students at the...

Animated commercial short directed by Caroline Leaf.

The story is designed to be part of a trilogy of animated films called Suite For Freedom, which was commissioned to be shown to visitors entering the...

Is a version of an age old verbal teaching tool, the parable. Traditionally an oral form of storytelling used to transmit moral insights, the parable...

Caroline Leaf's second animated short film. The filmmaker reinterprets the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in a very free and poetic way. Here,...