National Canadian Film Day Collection
On April 15, the Stratford Festival is proud to participate in National Canadian Film Day for the very first time! To mark the occasion, enjoy free streaming from April 15 to 19 of a specially curated collection celebrating Canadian stories, artists and voices, available through the StratFest@Home platform.
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Women Of The Fur Trade
Set in eighteen hundred and something-something, somewhere upon the banks of a reddish river in Treaty One Territory, where three very different women with a preference for 21st-century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love and the hot nerd Louis Riel. In this lively historical sa...
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Casey and Diana
As the Toronto AIDS hospice, Casey House, prepares for the historic visit of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1991, residents and staff are inspired to beat the odds as a plague continues to ravage a generation. This potent and moving drama by Nick Green, vividly captures a moment in time when a rebe...
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The Understudy
Multi award-winning short film, The Understudy is a peek-behind-the-curtain story of the theatre world. An understudy actor (Tom Rooney) is called upon last-minute to replace the star of a major stage production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. He is also looking after his young granddaughter, and h...
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Long Day's Journey into Night Remastered
Set in 1912, Eugene O’Neill’s play, Long Day’s Journey into Night, is the tragic story of the disintegration of the Tyrone family. Patriarch James Tyrone (William Hutt) was once a Broadway actor but is now a miser and an alcoholic. His wife, Mary (Martha Henry), battles a morphine addiction, whic...
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The Wars Remastered
Based on Timothy Findley's acclaimed novel, the film follows Robert Ross (Brent Carver), a nineteen-year-old Canadian living a protected life with his family in an affluent Toronto suburb. He enlists in World War I after the death of his intellectually disabled sister (Ann-Marie MacDonald) in an ...
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Waiting for the Parade (1984)
Adapted for the screen by John Murrell from his acclaimed stage play of the same name, Waiting for the Parade tells the story of five Calgary women who respond very differently to civilian life during World War II, providing a portrait of Canadian society in the 40s through courage, humour and a ...