Moncton – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) returns to the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA) with two documentaries.
50 years of French NFB film production in Acadie
- Opening night will also highlight this major milestone in Acadian and French-Canadian cinema, with Suzanne Guèvremont, Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the NFB, and Nathalie Cloutier, Executive Producer of the NFB’s French Documentary Unit, in attendance.
- In 1974, the NFB launched francophone film production in Acadie. In large part, the NFB’s production unit came to be through the tireless efforts of the great NFB Acadian filmmaker Léonard Forest, who FICFA will also be honouring on this occasion.
Documentary feature film competition
Ninan Auassat: Nous, les enfants (Ninan Auassat: We, the Children) by Kim O’Bomsawin (93 min) – ATLANTIC PREMIERE
Produced at the NFB by Mélanie Brière, Nathalie Cloutier and Colette Loumède
Press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/ninan_auassat_en
- Ninan Auassat is a captivating documentary celebrating the power and vitality of Indigenous youth. Shot over more than six years, the film brings us the moving stories of three groups of children from three different Indigenous nations—Atikamekw, Eeyou Cree and Innu. Filmed from “a child’s eye-view” and without adult voices and “experts” on young people, the film powerfully reveals the dreams of a new generation poised to take flight.
- Winner of the Tides Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the Vancouver International Film Festival, the film will have its Atlantic premiere with the filmmaker in attendance on Wednesday, November 20, at 3 p.m. at the Dieppe Arts and Culture Centre.
- Kim O’Bomsawin is an award-winning Abenaki documentary filmmaker and sociologist who’s deeply passionate about sharing the stories of Indigenous Peoples. Her recent credits include the feature-length documentary Call me Human (Je m’appelle Humain), honoured at the Gémeaux Awards in 2020, and her series Telling Our Story, shown in TIFF’s Primetime program in 2023.