Keyword Sweater

In this animated short, Roch Carrier recounts the most mortifying moment of his childhood. At a time when all his friends worshipped Maurice "Rocket" Richard and wore his number 9 Canadiens hockey jersey, the boy was mistakenly sent a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey from Eaton's. Unable to convince his mother to send it back, he must face his friends wearing the colours of the opposing team. This short film, based on the book The Hockey Sweater, is an NFB classic that appeals to hockey lovers of all ages.

For almost a century, the Coast Salish knitters of southern Vancouver Island have produced Cowichan sweaters from handspun wool. These distinctive sweaters are known and loved around the world, but the Indigenous women who make them remain largely invisible.

Pressured into giving away his clothes, an emasculated young man obsessively attempts to reclaim his cherished sweater before it vanishes into the donation abyss.

Aspiring models in a Soho photo studio, aiming for the centerfold, are getting molested, tortured and killed by a mysterious perpetrator, who hides its identity by wearing a cloth bag over its head.

A middle aged Assamese widower navigates grief while trying to move on from the death of his beloved wife, and managing his strained relationship with a young daughter who wants to leave the city to go study at the same college in Delhi, where her late mother studied. This tale takes us through the good, bad and ugly parts of mourning and how different members of the same family go about it, mostly through reminiscing, tears, and questionable coping mechanisms. The daughter convinces her father to have a yard sale as the ultimate "move on". The reluctantly onboard father, discovers that love comes in different forms, and sometimes moving on is giving away the sweater which was a gift from your dead wife to a pair of young lovers who remind you of a younger you: in love and hopeful about the future.