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).
The NFB is back at REGARD with five short films, two of which will make their Quebec premieres.
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.
This March, the NFB continues its series of free public screenings every Thursday at the Alanis Obomsawin Theatre in the Quartier des Spectacles. The whole month will be filled with wonderful cultural evenings featuring recent gems from the NFB’s collection on the big screen. Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh’s award-winning documentary The Nest will open the series.
This March, keep on streaming Canadian on the NFB’s platforms! We’re marking International Women’s Day on March 8, and we’ll have three new films—two documentaries and an animated short—streaming free across the country. All three of these moving, powerful films were directed or co-directed by women.
The National Film Board of Canada returns to the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) with two titles in competition, both screening with the filmmakers in attendance.