The National Film Board is pleased to announce the return of its Aide au cinéma indépendant du Canada (ACIC) program, which supports French-speaking independent filmmakers across the country. Applications may be submitted to the NFB beginning January 30. Details are available here.
The National Film Board (NFB) is pleased to announce the return of its Filmmaker Assistance Program (FAP), which supports English-speaking independent filmmakers across the country. Applications may be submitted to the NFB beginning January 30. Details are available here.
Black History Month activities by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in February will feature screenings and events in the heart of Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles and communities across Canada—along with a rich selection of special online programming.
Jenny Cartwright’s feature-length documentary Les perdants (A Losing Game) opens Friday, February 28, in theatres throughout Quebec. This theatrical run will follow the film’s world premiere on February 19 as the opening film of the 43rd edition of the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma. The film’s production team will be at the premiere.
As Alanis Obomsawin’s creative home for nearly 60 years, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is proud to highlight the presentation of the exhibition The Children Have to Hear Another Story at MoMA PS1 in New York, after presentations in Berlin, Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is mourning the passing of veteran animator, director and film producer Robert Verrall, who died in Montreal on January 17, at the age of 97.
An immersive cinematic experience that transforms our understanding of wildfire, Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper’s National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary Incandescence will have its US premiere at the 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which takes place February 4 to 15, 2025.
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.
The Available Light Film Festival in Whitehorse will feature two world premieres from Yukon creators as part of a selection of five powerful new works from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
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, has been selected to screen at the 2025 Festival international de programmes audiovisuels documentaires de Biarritz (FIPADOC) in France. The film will screen in competition in the musical documentary section of the festival, which takes place from January 24 to February 1, 2025.
The rich and diverse talents of British Columbia filmmakers will be on vivid display in the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) selection at the 2025 Victoria Film Festival (VFF), which takes place February 7 to 16.
Three National Film Board of Canada (NFB) co-productions have been named to Canada’s Top Ten—a list of the country’s finest feature-length and short films in 2024, as chosen by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
Two legendary figures in National Film Board of Canada animation, composer and sound designer Normand Roger and animator and producer Eunice Macaulay, will be honoured by ASIFA-Hollywood with its Winsor McCay Award for career achievement, to be presented at the 52nd Annie Awards on Saturday, February 8, 2025.
Free films, first-come, first-wowed! After the Holidays, continue your family get-togethers or round up some friends and come see recent gems from the NFB collection on the big screen in Montreal. Starting Thursday, January 9, we’re presenting five free public screenings at the NFB’s Alanis Obomsawin Theatre in the heart of the Quartier des Spectacles.
Newfoundland director Justin Simms tries to answer this vital question throughout his National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary Sons, which premieres January 20 on nfb.ca and the NFB’s streaming platform for smart TVs.