12th Oscar for an NFB film—and 1st for the Montreal animation duo. Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski take home Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for their National Film Board of Canada short The Girl Who Cried Pearls.

Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski’s haunting stop-motion fable The Girl Who Cried Pearls is an Oscar winner—the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) production has been named Best Animated Short Film at the 98th Academy Awards, presented March 15 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

A profound gesture of cinematic empathy from one of Canada’s most distinctive filmmakers. Alan Zweig’s feature documentary Love, Harold screens this spring in Toronto, Hamilton and Victoria, followed by online launch.

Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig’s powerful documentary Love, Harold, a 52 Media/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) co-production, will screen in Toronto (March 29), Hamilton (March 30) and Victoria (April 7)—followed by a free national online launch on NFB.ca, YouTube and NFB apps starting April 13.