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Baba Yaga has heard what people say about her: she's old and wicked, lives in a hut on chicken feet and eats children.

A story shared online describes a teacher who takes a student's water bottle to the front of a classroom.

On September 3, 1897, the Winnipeg Free Press reported that two men had returned to the city after photographing Manitoba's harvest.

Laetitia Colombani’s film The Braid had producers in France and Canada. In a May 2022 funding announcement, Telefilm Canada named French companies Moana Films and Curiosa Films alongside Canada’s Forum Films.

In 1913, the Halifax-based Canadian Bioscope Company filmed Evangeline in Nova Scotia, adapting Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem about the Acadian expulsion.

Netflix’s Newfoundland-set thriller Below has spent two consecutive weeks atop Netflix’s global English-language television chart, generating a reported 38.2 million equivalent full-series views between October 8 and 18. Its 21.2 million views in the second chart week set a new single-week record for a Canadian Netflix original title, according to the streamer.

Crave’s YAGA premieres in Canada on Friday, October 23, 2026, with two episodes. The eight-part mystery thriller will then release one episode each Friday before ending with another two-episode drop on November 27.

After everything that happened at Little Pot Rock, Calvin and Wade are back on a boat together, surrounded by blue water beneath a blue sky.

Seven Alberta-made horror shorts screened under the title Alberta Kills at NorthwestFEARFest on October 18, with a program that moved from a two-minute comedy to a teenage revenge ritual and the nightmares of a young man caught in sleep paralysis.

Denis Villeneuve's Incendies had one distributor in Canada and another in the United States.

Below opens on a beautiful, peaceful sunrise, with Calvin Penney apparently waking from a dream about being underwater.

Episode 4 opens with Calvin Penney heading straight for the RSV Sir John Franklin, demanding to know where Wade is.

Episode 3 of Below opens with Wade back out near the iceberg, despite everything that happened to Jerry Biles.

A Canadian film can be listed as a theatrical release even when there are few opportunities to buy a ticket. In a new study of Ontario independent cinemas, exhibitors reported deciding whether to book Canadian films they often had never heard of

An independent Canadian television production company may own copyright in a finished series even when a broadcaster commissions it and a streaming service carries it overseas.

A missing heir brings a private investigator to a coastal town in YAGA, Crave’s forthcoming mystery thriller inspired by the folklore figure Baba Yaga.

An independent Canadian film can have a finished screenplay, an experienced producer and a detailed budget and still be a long way from starting production.

Canadian television series disappear from streaming services when licensing agreements expire, distribution rights change hands or broadcasters decide to keep programs for their own platforms.

Crave’s upcoming mystery series YAGA was filmed in Victoria and the surrounding area of southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Crave’s YAGA premieres October 23, 2026, with Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid, Clark Backo and Hudson Williams leading the cast.

If “movie” means a feature-length dramatic film produced in Canada, the answer is Evangeline, filmed in Nova Scotia in 1913 and released in 1914.

In HBO’s The Last of Us, downtown Calgary stands in for part of post-apocalyptic Boston, Fort Macleod represents Austin, Texas, and the Alberta Legislature Building becomes the Massachusetts State House.

The fifth and final season of Acting Good premieres Monday, Oct. 19, on CTV Comedy Channel, with APTN following on Oct. 20.

Episode 2 of Below picks up in the harbour at Snooks Arm, where a diver is searching the water around the wreck of Jerry Biles' boat.

The first episode of Below, Netflix's new six-part Canadian thriller, opens in Newfoundland in 1986, with a family towing their house across the water.

Toronto-based Beverly Valley Productions is developing its first feature film and two comedy series, with all three projects set outside the fictional world that brought YouTube creators Daniel Kipnis and Riya Malik their audience.

Jared Keeso’s next Crave comedy, I Kill the Bear, will premiere Nov. 6, with two episodes released each Friday over three weeks. Bell Media announced the date Oct. 6 alongside a trailer and new cast details for the six-part series, which reunites Keeso with New Metric Media, the production company behind Letterkenny and Shoresy.

Prime Video will release all six episodes of Hometown Giants in Canada on Oct. 16, 2026, bringing cameras inside the Vancouver Giants for a season-long look at the Western Hockey League club.

Canadian horror film This Is Not a Test will arrive on Crave on Oct. 16, adding Adam MacDonald’s adaptation of Courtney Summers’ 2012 novel to the streamer’s October lineup.

Canadian feature A Tribe Called Love begins streaming on Crave on Oct 8, 2026, bringing Mohamed Ahmed’s Toronto-set romance to the service after its festival and theatrical runs.