Montreal – Not-to-be-missed new releases produced or co-produced by the NFB are coming to nfb.ca in October.
Starting October 28, to celebrate International Animation Day*
- Aphasia by Marielle Dalpé (2023, NFB)
Animated short (3 min 45 s)
Press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/aphasiaAphasia is an unsettling sensory experience that immerses us in the world of people with Alzheimer’s disease who are facing the loss of their language capabilities. The film is voiced in English by veteran actor Clare Coulter and has been selected to screen at a dozen festivals in Canada and around the world.
- Miserable Miracle by Ryo Orikasa (2023, Miyu Productions/NFB/New Deer)
Animated short (8 min)
Press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/miserable-miracleInspired by the poems and drawings of Henri Michaux, Miserable Miracle takes animation to the breathtaking limits of language and perception, with Tony Robinow’s feverish voiceover in English. The film won the Grand Prize for Short Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) and was selected to screen at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival.
- Channel: Experimental Animation
This selection features the best of our experimental animated films, from classics like Very Nice Very Nice by Arthur Lipsett and Blinkity Blank by Norman McLaren to recent shorts like No Objects by Moïa Jobin-Paré and THE TESLA WORLD LIGHT by Matthew Rankin.
*In 2002, the International Animated Film Association (ASIFA) launched International Animation Day to commemorate the first public performance of Émile Reynaud’s Théâtre Optique at the Musée Grévin in Paris on October 28, 1892. This celebration is now held in over 40 countries.
SPECIAL PROGRAMMING – CULTURAL EVENTS
THEMED CHANNELS AND BLOG POST
Celebrating Latin American Heritage Month
- Channel: Latinx-Canadian Cinema
Discover the different phases of NFB films made in Latin America, or by Latin Americans, from the mid-1970s until today. Don’t miss Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes My World, Your Melody (2024), Rosana Matecki’s Saturday Night (2021) and Jorge Fajardo’s Steel Blues (1976).
- Channel: NFB Abroad: Latin America on Screen
Discover nearly 30 films made across Latin America that illuminate the continent and its people, arts and culture, in addition to Canadian intersections with Latin America across the years. Watch Michèle Stephenson’s Stateless (2020) and Germán Gutiérrez’s Who Shot My Brother?, among others.
- Blog Post: “Carlos Ferrand’s Cimarrones and the Peruvian New Wave at the NFB”To mark Latin American Heritage Month, collection curator Camilo Martín-Flórez devotes this blog post to the life and work of Carlos Ferrand, an important and prolific Latin-Canadian filmmaker whose credits include roles on 22 NFB films.