Two NFB shorts screening at the 2021 Fantasia film festival. Richard Suicide’s Centre-Sud Chronicles and Samuel Cantin’s The Turtle Syndrome will have their world premieres in competition at the festival.

The National Film Board of Canada returns to Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival with the world premieres of two hilarious and highly entertaining films by award-winning Quebec graphic novelists: Chroniques du Centre-Sud (Centre-Sud Chronicles), by Richard Suicide, and Le syndrome de la tortue (The Turtle Syndrome), by Samuel Cantin.

Kanien’kehá:ka artists Star Horn and Courtney Montour team up on a unique honour to the courageous Kahnawà:ke woman who fought for the rights of First Nations women and children. Mary Two-Axe Earley’s life and legacy celebrated with a Google Canada Doodle on June 28.

With June 28 marking the anniversary of the passing of Bill C-31 into Canadian law in 1985, Google Canada is recognizing this historic day with a Google Canada Doodle collaboration by Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) artists Star Horn and Courtney Montour honouring Mary Two-Axe Earley—the subject of Montour’s National Film Board of Canada short documentary Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again.

June 21: National Indigenous Peoples Day. NFB marks National Indigenous Peoples Day with the launch of Kevin Settee’s The Lake Winnipeg Project. Plus 400 titles on the NFB’s Indigenous Cinema page, new educational resources and the ever-popular Aabiziingwashi (Wide Awake) cinema initiative.

In honour of National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21), Kevin Settee’s four-part series of short films, The Lake Winnipeg Project, is premiering online at Indigenous Cinema, the NFB’s rich online collection of Indigenous-made films.

June forecast calls for sunny skies and new titles added to NFB.ca. Discover stories that shape our world—from documentaries to web-based art gaming, and the stories of LGBTQ2+ communities and Indigenous Peoples.

Offerings from NFB studios across the country include the feature documentary Standing on the Line, by Paul Émile d’Entremont; the web-based generative art game Wayfinder, by Matt DesLauriers; and a series of four documentary shorts called The Lake Winnipeg Project, by Kevin Settee.

The NFB at the 2021 RVQC: 14 productions and co-productions in the lineup. Works that explore today’s world, from social movements to the pandemic.

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be at the 39th annual Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (RVQC) with 14 productions and co-productions, including the Quebec premiere of Renée Blanchar’s feature-length documentary Le silence (The Silence). The film will also be competing in the category of best French-Canadian film, along with Monique LeBlanc’s feature-length Plus haut que les flammes (Higher Than Flames Will Go).

Four new NFB docs featured online at DOXA. World premiere from Calgary’s Dominique Keller—plus BC premieres from Vancouver filmmakers Sean Horlor/Steve J. Adams and Sheona McDonald, as well as Kainai First Nation/Sámi director Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers.

Vancouver and Calgary creators explore powerful themes of love, identity and human rights in four National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentaries premiering at the 20th-anniversary edition of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, streaming online across Canada from May 6 to 16.