This May, the NFB continues its series of free public screenings every Thursday at the Alanis Obomsawin Theatre in the heart of Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles. In celebration of Asian Heritage Month, Hello Film! programming includes a rich selection of powerful works by Asian-Canadian filmmakers, highlighted by an Academy Award-nominated feature documentary.
This May, keep on streaming Canadian on the NFB platforms! This month’s premieres include the latest from a Winnipeg animation legend, a short documentary that takes viewers on a creative road trip and the debut of two new projects on YouTube.
Fresh off The Girl Who Cried Pearls’ Oscar win for Best Animated Short, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) arrives at the Sommets du cinéma d’animation (May 11–16) in Montreal with a strong showing, including seven shorts in the Canadian Competition and five world premieres across all sections of the program.
On Thursday, May 7, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will launch ON FILME, a documentary initiative designed specifically for YouTube. Its goal? To spark meaningful dialogue around timely social and political issues and engage audiences on the platforms they use every day. The works will also be available on nfb.ca and all NFB apps at a later date.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB), the country’s public film producer and distributor, and CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada’s public broadcaster, today announced a new phase of collaboration aimed at strengthening Canadian storytelling and better serving Canadians.
This April on the NFB’s platforms, keep on streaming Canadian! Two documentaries in our collection will be released for free online. Made by filmmakers from different parts of the country, these powerful and moving films explore challenging subjects, from the impact of suicide to the lingering effects of colonialism on Indigenous people.
Kim Nguyen’s Noble Films/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) co-production Saigon Story: Two Shootings in the Forest Kingdom and Min Sook Lee’s award-winning NFB film There Are No Words will make their Western Canadian premieres at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver, running April 30–May 10, 2026.
As of April 1, Cynthia Miller is the National Film Board of Canada’s Director General, People and Culture, a division previously known as Human Resources and Institutional Services.
The National Film Board of Canada will be at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (RVQC) 2026 with six films—both documentaries and animation—that have made their mark on the national and international festival circuit over the past year.
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival will present the international premiere of the National Film Board of Canada animated short film Ultra Strong (Ultra forte), directed by filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Catherine Lepage.
Celebrated Canadian filmmaker Kim Nguyen reveals the elusive connection between two families and one iconic photo in Saigon Story: Two Shootings in the Forest Kingdom, making its world premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto (April 23 to May 3).
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is bringing Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski’s Oscar-winning stop-motion fable The Girl Who Cried Pearls to viewers around the world.
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.
Sophie Bédard Marcotte’s documentary J’ai perdu de vue le paysage (I Lost Sight of the Landscape), produced by the National Film Board of Canada, hits theatres in Montreal on Friday, April 3.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is celebrating 21 years of participation in the Rendez-vous de la Francophonie (RVF).