Land of the Quintuplets

The Dionne Quintuplets

November 1978 •English

In 1934, Elzire Dionne delivered five identical girls. The Dionne Quintuplets follows Cecile, Emilie, Marie, Yvonne and Annette through twenty-one years of strange upbringing. When the girls were just infants, the premier of Ontario issued a court order removing them from parental care. Cut off from the world and their family, over-publicized, viewed twice daily in a special viewing compound, they grew up as prize exhibits. Director Donald Brittain uses old newsreel footage, home-movie sequences and interviews to depict a historic event that became a tragic exploitation of a family.

Five Times Five

July 1939 •English

Cécile, Annette, Yvonne, Émilie and Marie, the Dionne Quintuplets, turn five years old and have a private birthday party in their garden. Other than the five little French-Canadian princesses-of-the-world, the attendees at the party for the sheltered sisters are their doctor-and-mentor Roy Dafoe; a priest and two nurses; radio's "Town Crier" Alexander Woollcott; and RKO-Newsreel cameraman Harry Smith.

The Country Doctor

March 1936 •English

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.

Reunion

November 1936 •English

Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for delivering the famous Wyatt quintuplets. To honor the doctor on his retirement and to publicize their town, the Moosetown chamber of commerce decides to hold a reunion of all the babies delivered by the doctor, some of whom have become famous.

The Sheep Has Five Legs

September 1954 •French

A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.

Quints

August 2000 •English

A teenager goes to desperate lengths to get attention when her mother gives birth to quints.

The Novelty Shop

August 1936 •English

The novelty shop owner has gone home, and that means it's time for its items to animate and have fun.

Five of a Kind

October 1938 •English

Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.

Button Blanket

October 2009 •English

This short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a Button Blanket by integrating the performance of a traditional dance with the art of the West Coast Heiltsuk Nation.

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Woodstock '99

July 1999 •English

Filmed live at Woodstock 99 Festival in Rome, New York, July 25, 1999.

Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret

December 2019 •French

How a young and wild tomboy Tunisian girl became a great actress by accident. Claudia Cardinale : the fanciful destiny of a paradoxical movie star, who appeared in Federico Fellini's, Luchino Visconti's, Blake Edwards' and Sergio Leone's films.

Wilfred Buck

March 2024 •English

Moving between earth and stars, past and present, this hybrid feature documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck, a charismatic and irreverent Indigenous Elder who overcame a harrowing history of displacement, racism, and addiction by reclaiming ancestral star knowledge and ceremony.

Motherboard

August 2025 •English

Joys, sorrows and life's great tragicomedy in a video diary about motherhood and much more, recorded over nearly 20 years by award-winning British director Victoria Mapplebeck. A deeply personal and completely unsentimental film.

E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

October 2024 •French

A love triangle of jealousy in the Parisian art scene of the 1930s is brought to life in a stylish docufiction about iconic artist and architect Eileen Gray, who built her modernist dream house on the Riviera, only to be upstaged by Le Corbusier.

The Black Garden

March 2024 •French

Samvel and Avo, Erik and Karen live in the land of a century-old conflict, rooted in the rubble of the Russian Empire. In Nagorno-Karabakh, people live, dream and prepare for a tragedy that is always on the horizon. Over 3 years, Alexis Pazoumian films the epilogue of the black garden, a land where war waits for no one.

Our Father Wears a Sun

July 2024 •Danish

After actor Søren Spanning's stroke in 2014, his children document their family's adaptation over six years, navigating their evolving relationship and coping with grief until his death in 2020.

G – 21 Scenes from Gottsunda

March 2024 •Swedish

Loran, a filmmaker from the notorious suburb Gottsunda, grapples with the desire to move away but is torn by loyalty to his childhood friends who lead a criminal life. "G" marks Loran's farewell to Gottsunda but completing the film in a changed community tests his sense of belonging and identity.

Kristina Bitkulova: Who Cares

February 2024 •Russian

The second stand-up special of the rising comedy star Kristina Bitkulova. With the "What's the Difference" program, she visited eight countries, and the single itself was recorded in Kazakhstan. In her speech, Kristina talks about aerophobia and childhood injuries, and also tries to figure out how to keep your mind in emigration.

Za karpatským medvědem

January 1952 •Czech

Nebe patří nám

January 1953 •Czech

A documentary film about parachute training in the Voluntary Union of People's Aviation.