TIFF 2021 features world premieres of NFB short films Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair by Alanis Obomsawin, Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics by Terril Calder and Saturday Night by Rosana Matecki. Ms. Obomsawin’s legendary career celebrated with the Jeff Skoll Award and a special retrospective.

TIFF 2021 features world premieres of NFB short films Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair by Alanis Obomsawin, Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics by Terril Calder and Saturday Night by Rosana Matecki. Ms. Obomsawin’s legendary career celebrated with the Jeff Skoll Award and a special retrospective.

Co-presented with the Montreal Black Film Festival. Michèle Stephenson’s award-winning Hispaniola Productions/NFB co-production Stateless opens August 20 in Montreal at the Cinéma du Parc and Cinéma du Musée. National online theatrical debut September 3 on Online Cinema.

Opening August 20 in Montreal, acclaimed Haitian-Quebec filmmaker Michèle Stephenson’s Hispaniola Productions/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) co-production Stateless reveals the racial hatred and institutionalized oppression that divide Haiti and the Dominican Republic, through the grassroots campaign of young attorney Rosa Iris as she challenges electoral corruption and fights to protect the right to citizenship for all people.

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.