More NFB productions and co-productions will be streaming free of charge on nfb.ca beginning in February, with the online launch of compelling documentaries that showcase diversity in both form and content.
Black History Month activities organized by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will have special significance this year, as the NFB pays tribute to acclaimed filmmaker Charles Officer, who died on December 1, 2023.
Nisha Pahuja’s Notice Pictures/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) co-production To Kill a Tiger has been nominated for the Oscar for Documentary Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
The NFB announces reinvestments in production and innovation initiatives to serve creation, distribution and audience engagement.
The 2024 Available Light Film Festival in Whitehorse is featuring five films by National Film Board of Canada (NFB) creators from February 8 through 18—a selection of powerful and deeply personal feature-length and short documentaries.
The NFB will be taking part in the popular Animation First Festival at the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) in New York City, held January 23 to 28, 2024, and featuring a special focus on animated films from Quebec. The program will include the New York premiere of The Girl with the Red Beret (La fille au béret rouge), a genuine ode to Montreal by Janet Perlman
The 30th edition of the Victoria Film Festival (VFF) will showcase a BC premiere and award-winning documentary and animation from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) during a 10-day celebration of cinema in the British Columbia capital, from February 2 to 11, 2024.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just announced that Nisha Pahuja’s acclaimed feature documentary To Kill a Tiger is one of 15 films shortlisted for the Documentary Feature Film Oscar. Link to the Academy press release: bit.ly/487oiii.
Making its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the bold new National Film Board of Canada (NFB) production A Man Imagined captures the bitter day-to-day life of a man who is routinely overlooked and often feared, in a “documentary fable” by the maverick filmmaking duo of Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky.
The National Film Board of Canada will be among the contenders for top awards at this year’s Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
The National Film Board of Canada is returning to the Festival Plein(s) Écran(s) with two award-wining shorts: Audrey Nantel-Gagnon’s documentary Fire-Jo-Ball, selected as the closing film in the Quebec Competition, and Janice Nadeau’s animated short HARVEY (NFB/Folimage), which will screen in the Family Section.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has a wealth of free streaming at nfb.ca through the month of December, including online premieres of two acclaimed documentaries and timely programming.
The National Film Board of Canada would like to recognize the recipient of the 2023 Albert Tessier Award: acclaimed documentarian Tahani Rached.
Over a legendary career spanning five decades, Abenaki filmmaker and activist Alanis Obomsawin has chronicled the hopes and struggles of Indigenous Peoples in their historic fight for their rights.
The month of November will see even more films made available for free streaming on nfb.ca, with a generous and diverse selection drawn from the NFB’s studios across the country.