When is it time to break the silence? Renée Blanchar’s documentary Le silence (The Silence, Ça Tourne Productions/NFB) opening in Montreal, Quebec City and Sherbrooke on September 24

Renée Blanchar’s feature documentary Le silence (The Silence) will open in theatres on Friday, September 24. The film will be presented in its original French version in Montreal at the Cinémathèque québécoise, in Quebec City at Cinéma Cartier and Cinéma Le Clap, and in Sherbrooke at the Maison du cinéma.

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Seven Indigenous works from the NFB featured at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ award-winning Seen Through Woman Productions/NFB feature doc Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy presented along with short documentary and animation.

Audiences across Canada will be able to share in powerful Indigenous storytelling, including seven National Film Board of Canada (NFB) produced and co-produced works, as the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (October 19–24) offers six days of online programming.

NFB documentary and animation on display at the Edmonton International Film Festival. Courtney Montour’s Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again, Sheona McDonald’s Into Light and Joanna Quinn and Les Mills’ Affairs of the Art showcased at EIFF.

Three National Film Board of Canada produced and co-produced short films are being featured at the Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF), with in-person screenings October 1 through 10, and virtual screenings available across Alberta from October 4 at 9 a.m. to October 31 at 9 p.m.

Four National Film Board of Canada works featured at the 2021 Calgary International Film Festival. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ acclaimed feature doc Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy from the Kainai First Nation in southern Alberta, as well as three new NFB shorts.

The 2021 Calgary International Film Festival (September 23–October 3) will present a powerful story of hope and change from the Kainai First Nation in southern Alberta, as Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ award-winning feature documentary Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (Seen Through Woman Productions/National Film Board of Canada) has its Alberta premiere as part of the DGC Canadian Doc Competition.

National Film Board of Canada acquires global distribution rights for acclaimed Rezolution/NFB co-pro Reel Injun. Film will be featured at brand new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Rezolution Pictures International have announced that the NFB has acquired international distribution rights for their acclaimed 2009 co-produced feature documentary, the Gemini and Peabody Award-winning Reel Injun, directed by Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge and Jeremiah Hayes.

The National Film Board of Canada pays tribute to master animator Jacques Drouin.

The National Film Board of Canada is grieved to learn of the death of filmmaker Jacques Drouin, an outstanding animator and skilled picture editor. Over the course of his 30-plus years with the NFB, he created six unique and poetic films, including the now classic Mindscape (1976). Drouin’s work is inextricably linked to the Alexeieff–Parker pinscreen, a legendary tool in the history of animated film.