Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada will be well represented at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival (June 8–14) with a diverse selection of works, including the eagerly awaited return of filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski. Three NFB shorts are featured in this year’s prestigious official competition: The Girl Who Cried Pearls (La jeune fille qui pleurait des perles) by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (Madam Tutli-Putli, 2007; GYMNASIA, 2019); …
Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada will be prominently showcased at the 2025 Festival cinéma du monde de Sherbrooke (FCMS) with six feature-length documentaries, including two in competition (Cercle d’or Meilleur documentaire) and one in the Ciné-Échange series of screenings followed by talks. Filmmakers Halima Elkhatabi (Cohabiter/Living Together), Kim O’Bomsawin (Ninan Auassat: Nous les enfants/Ninan Auassat: We, the Children), Virginia Tangvald (Les enfants du large/Ghosts of the Sea) and Anne-Marie Rocher …
Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is featuring new animation and documentary films on nfb.ca throughout the month of March. nfb.ca now offers more than 7,000 films, available to stream free of charge, along with over 100 interactive works. Five new documentaries will be premiering online, in addition to five new and recent animated works. To help mark International Women’s Day, March 8, there’s a special focus on women’s cinema this month—with 8 of the 10 …
Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada is celebrating its 20th year of participation in the Rendez-vous de la Francophonie (RVF). For this year’s RVF, whose theme is “Cultivate your roots!,” the NFB is making six documentary and animation programs available free of charge to francophones and francophiles. Screenings will take place across Canada, from March 1 to 31—from the East Coast to the West Coast, and from the Great Lakes to the Arctic. …
Montreal – The NFB returns to the Festival REGARD with five short films, including two in official competition: Eisha Marjara’s documentary Am I the skinniest person you’ve ever seen?, making its Quebec premiere, and Ehsan Gharib’s animated film Samaa. Red River Michif/Métis filmmaker Amanda Strong’s animated film Inkwo for When the Starving Return will also get its Quebec premiere at REGARD. Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin is attending the festival for a workshop-screening for her new film, My Friend the Green Horse, being …
Montreal – International Women’s Day, March 8, has a special significance for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as it honours Studio D, its trailblazing English Program feminist film unit and the landmark French Program series En tant que femmes—both of which were founded in 1974 in anticipation of the UN’s International Women’s Year, and marked their 50th anniversaries last year. Highlight events this month include: A special Studio D …
Montreal – For the 17th year, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is bringing together filmmakers, NFB producers and creative teams from across the country to create short cinematic tributes to Canadian performing arts legends, as the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA) gets set to honour seven new laureates. Acclaimed Canadian directors Tara Johns and Monique LeBlanc will direct the films, which are produced for the NFB by Christine Aubé and Robert Vroom. These films …
Montreal – International Women’s Day, March 8, has a special significance for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as it honours Studio D, its trailblazing English Program feminist film unit. The NFB will be taking part in the book launch of Olivier Ducharme’s Nous ferons les films que nous voulons – ONF féministe (1971–1976) at the Cinémathèque québécoise on March 12. Published by Éditions Écosociété, Ducharme’s book is available in stores starting February 25. …
Montreal – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences appreciated Oscar winner Torill Kove’s Mikrofilm/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated short Maybe Elephants. A playful and loving autobiographical homage to family, adolescence and the therapeutic power of memories, however unreliable, Maybe Elephants reunites the cast of Kove’s previous Oscar nominee, Me and My Moulton. This shortlist selection is the latest honour for Torill Kove, who recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from SPARK ANIMATION in Vancouver, Western Canada’s …
Montreal – Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee’s feature doc Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, a Banger Films/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) co-production, was selected to screen at the 2025 Festival international de programmes audiovisuels documentaires de Biarritz (FIPADOC) in France. The film was screened at competition in the musical documentary section of the festival, recently. This tribute to a trans soul-singing legend has garnered over 15 awards …
