National theatrical tour for acclaimed Murmur Media/Final Cut for Real/NFB co-pro. What Walaa Wants, Christy Garland’s award-winning feature doc about a young woman trying to join the Palestinian Security Forces, opens in Canadian theatres starting January.

Hailed as one of the best feature films of 2018 by Canada’s Top Ten, Toronto filmmaker Christy Garland’s acclaimed NFB co-production What Walaa Wants (Murmur Media/ Final Cut for Real/NFB) is touring major cities across Canada in 2019.

Remembering Pepita Ferrari, (1952 — 2018)

The National Film Board of Canada deeply mourns the loss of documentary filmmaker, producer and author Pepita Ferrari, who died on December 30 at her home in Lac Brome, at the age of 66.

Toronto filmmaker Christy Garland’s feature doc What Walaa Wants and Quebec animator Patrick Bouchard’s short The Subject named to Canada’s Top Ten.

National Film Board of Canada (NFB) excellence in documentary and animation is being recognized once again as Christy Garland’s NFB-co-produced feature What Walaa Wants (Murmur Media/NFB/Final Cut for Real) and Patrick Bouchard’s animated short The Subject (Le Sujet) are named to this year’s edition of Canada’s Top Ten—an annual list of the country’s finest short and feature-length films, announced by the Toronto International Film Festival on December 5.

The Girls of Meru, WALL and Love, Scott screen in Paris from December 5 through 18. NFB feature documentaries explore human rights at the Festival International du Film des Droits Humains.

A trio of National Film Board of Canada feature-length documentaries will bring powerful explorations of human rights issues to the screen in Paris from December 5 through 18—as Andrea Dorfman’s The Girls of Meru, writer David Hare and director Cam Christiansen’s animated WALL, and Laura Marie Wayne’s Love, Scott premiere at the Festival International du Film des Droits Humains.