After playing at festivals in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, Jean-François Caissy’s feature documentary Premières armes (First Stripes) is being released in theatres beginning January 18, in its original French version in Montreal and Eastern Quebec and in an English-subtitled version at Montreal’s Cinéma Moderne.
Starting December 17, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has a holiday gift for audiences everywhere as Eva Cvijanović’s multi-award-winning animated short Hedgehog’s Home premieres online FREE at NFB.ca, as well as on the NFB’s Vimeo channel—where it’s a Staff Pick—and its YouTube channel and Facebook page.
On December 14, the original French version of Christine Chevarie-Lessard’s Point d’équilibre (A Delicate Balance) will be released in theatres in Montreal, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, and Trois-Rivières, while Montreal’s Cinéma du Musée will be showing the English-subtitled version of the film.
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.
Canadians can stream Attiya Khan and Lawrence Jackman’s acclaimed Intervention Productions/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary A Better Man—a powerful look at how healing can happen when men take responsibility for their domestic abuse—free of charge.
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.
Michèle Bélanger, Executive Director of the National Film Board of Canada’s French Program, today announced the appointment of Nathalie Cloutier as Executive Producer of the program’s Documentary Studio.
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.
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).
Starting November 15 on NFB.ca, Eric Thiessen’s Golden Sheaf Award-winning National Film Board of Canada (NFB) short doc Talking at Night takes viewers inside Saskatoon’s Mobile Crisis Centre, a critically needed but largely unknown service.
Leaders in their fields, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership (Partnership), Element AI, Google AI and the Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM) are joining forces for the first time in an exciting initiative. Together, they’ll offer a Montreal-based professional multidisciplinary artist or art collective the chance to take part in Art & AI, a research and creation residency mixing the arts and artificial intelligence. As a global hub in both fields, Montreal is a recognized innovation powerhouse.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB), in collaboration with the Video Pool Media Arts Centre and On Screen Manitoba, is launching the second edition of the Déranger creative lab, designed for established multidisciplinary artists working in the French language and hailing from Inuit, Métis and First Nations communities anywhere in Canada.
It is with great sadness that the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) learned today of the death of former NFB Commissioner François N. Macerola.
Starting today, Michel La Veaux’s feature documentary Labrecque, from Film to Memory (Labrecque, une caméra pour la mémoire, ACPAV/NFB) can be streamed for free on NFB.ca in Canada and Europe.
MU, the charitable non-profit mural arts organization, inaugurated a new mural in the Ville-Marie borough paying tribute the great Abenaki filmmaker, Alanis Obomsawin.