Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be represented in the 2025 Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (RVQC) program with eight productions. Trécarré: à la source du son de la Baie Sainte-Marie (Trécarré: Exploring the Saint Mary’s Bay Sound) by Natalie Robichaud (documentary, 30 min) – QUEBEC PREMIERE Screening: Friday, February 21, 7 p.m., Hydro Québec Theatre, Cinémathèque québécoise Brimming with energy and lively tunes, Trécarré takes us into the heart of an …
Montreal – Abenaki filmmaker Kim O’Bomsawin’s feature-length documentary Ninan Auassat: Nous, les enfants (Ninan Auassat: We, the Children), produced by the NFB, hits theatres in Montreal on Friday, February 7, screening at the Cinéma du Musée with English subtitles and the Cinémathèque Québécoise in its original version. A moving film that gives Indigenous youth the opportunity to speak for themselves, Ninan Auassat won the Tides Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) and the Magnus Isacsson Award at the Montreal …
Montreal – National Film Board of Canada (NFB) The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be at the 27th Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) with two feature films, including this year’s closing film, Ninan Auassat: Nous, les enfants (Ninan Auassat: We, the Children, NFB), by Abenaki filmmaker Kim O’Bomsawin. Wilfred Buck (Door Number 3 Productions/NFB), by Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson, will also be screening at RIDM, where it will be having its Quebec premiere. …
Toronto – Two powerful and award-winning documentaries from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be featured at the 2024 Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival in Toronto, taking place October 25 to November 3. The festival’s opening night film, Vancouver-based filmmaker Jules Arita Koostachin’s WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) unravels the tangled threads of silence suffered by residential school Survivors through truth, freedom and power. The festival will host the Ontario premiere of Montreal filmmakers Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie …
