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.

FREE streaming on NFB.ca, YouTube and Facebook, plus a range of download and rental options. Picture This, Jari Osborne’s multi-award-winning NFB doc on self-described “queer cripple” Andrew Gurza, premieres online November 19.

Starting today, NFB.ca is featuring free online streaming of Jari Osborne’s National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary Picture This—an acclaimed profile of Toronto’s Andrew Gurza, a self-described “queer cripple” who’s made it his mission to make sex and disability part of the public discourse.

The NFB at the 2018 Sommets du cinéma d’animation. A diverse lineup of seven films, including Étreintes (Embraced) by Justine Vuylsteker and Animal Behaviour by Alison Snowden and David Fine in the International Competition, plus a master class with Clyde Henry (Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski).

A diverse lineup of seven films, including Étreintes (Embraced) by Justine Vuylsteker and Animal Behaviour by Alison Snowden and David Fine in the International Competition, plus a master class with Clyde Henry (Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski).