Streaming on NFB.ca, Facebook and YouTube, NFB animated short Threads by Oscar-winning filmmaker Torill Kove available free online starting September 10.

On September 10, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will begin streaming the award-winning animated short Threads, by Oscar-winning filmmaker Torill Kove, free on-demand at NFB.ca, Facebook, and YouTube. A year after the film was selected to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the NFB is pleased to make this beautiful tale of emotional attachment publicly available.

Vancouver filmmakers on display with B.C. premiere of Oscar winners Alison Snowden and David Fine’s Animal Behaviour and hometown debut of Jay Cardinal Villeneuve’s Holy Angels. Seven NFB documentary and animated films showcased at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival.

Works from Vancouver-based filmmakers headline a rich National Film Board of Canada (NFB) selection at the Vancouver International Film Festival (September 27–October 12), as Oscar winners Alison Snowden and David Fine’s Animal Behaviour and Jay Cardinal Villeneuve’s Holy Angels join a seven-film NFB lineup.

The NFB at the 2018 Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF). Nine films and VR projects selected, plus the world premiere of Turbine (Alex Boya, Montreal) and North American premiere of Caterpillarplasty (David Barlow-Krelina, Ottawa).

From September 26 to 30, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will have an unprecedented presence at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), with no fewer than nine films and virtual reality projects showcased, including six works in international competition and four premieres.

A landmark documentary about a politically engaged artist whose voice still resonates on the Quebec campaign trail. Theatrical release of Pauline Julien, intime et politique (Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political) by Pascale Ferland September 21 in Montreal, Quebec City, Sherbrooke and Trois-Rivières.

Pascale Ferland’s highly anticipated feature-length documentary Pauline Julien, intime et politique will open in theatres on September 21, in Montreal (Cinéma Beaubien), Quebec City (Cinéma Le Clap), Sherbrooke (La Maison du Cinéma) and Trois-Rivières (Le Tapis Rouge), one week after its world premiere at the Quebec City Film Festival. The film will then go on to screen in cities throughout Quebec. At a special September 19 red carpet screening of the film at Théâtre Outremont in Montreal, performers from the musical tribute La Renarde, sur les traces de Pauline Julien, produced by Spectra Musique, will be repeating a short presentation they’ll be giving at the film’s world premiere in Quebec City on September 15. Pauline Julien was produced by Colette Loumède and Johanne Bergeron (NFB), in collaboration with Radio-Canada.

Acclaimed National Film Board of Canada documentary and animation storytelling from Alberta and BC. Laura Marie Wayne’s Love, Scott, Hart Snider’s Shop Class and Alison Snowden and David Fine’s Animal Behaviour featured at Calgary International Film Festival.

Featuring powerful and emotional stories both gripping and hilarious, the lineup of National Film Board of Canada (NFB) films at the Calgary International Film Festival (September 19–30) includes three Alberta premieres from award-winning Alberta and BC filmmakers.

World premiere for Edmonton filmmakers Kurt Spenrath and Frederick Kroetsch’s Open Sky Pictures/NFB short doc Snow Warrior at 32nd Edmonton International Film Festival. Snow Warrior joins NFB shorts by Slave Lake-born filmmaker Jay Cardinal Villeneuve and Oscar winner Torill Kove.

Ready for another Edmonton winter? Kurt Spenrath and Frederick Kroetsch are helping Edmontonians get in the spirit as the short doc Snow Warrior (Open Sky Pictures/NFB) makes its world premiere at the 32nd Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF), talking place September 27 through October 6.

Experience a transformed Toronto as Indigenous futurism comes to life, September 18–24. NFB’s Biidaaban: First Light offers a stunning virtual reality vision of the city’s future from Nathan Phillips Square.

Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square is flooded. Its infrastructure has merged with the local fauna; mature trees grow through cracks in the sidewalks and vines cover south-facing walls. People commute via canoe and grow vegetables on skyscraper roofs. Urban life is thriving—and so are the languages of the Wendat, Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) and Anishinaabe (Ojibway), this land’s first peoples.

The NFB at the Quebec City Film Festival. World premiere of the feature-length documentary Pauline Julien, intime et politique (Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political) by Pascale Ferland.

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) returns to the Quebec City Film Festival (QCFF), a major film event that runs from September 13 to 22, 2018, with the world premiere of Pauline Julien, intime et politique (Pauline Julien, intimate and political), directed by Pascale Ferland and produced by the NFB in collaboration with Radio-Canada.

Writer David Hare and director Cam Christiansen’s WALL, Christy Garland’s What Walaa Wants, featured at Toronto Palestine Film Festival. Toronto premiere for NFB animated feature written by Hare, a two-time Oscar nominee; Garland’s Murmur Media/NFB/Final Cut for Real co-production a jury prize winner at Hot Docs.

Two acclaimed National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentaries are being featured at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (September 20 to 23) with the Toronto premiere of writer David Hare and director Cam Christiansen’s animated feature WALL, and a screening of Toronto filmmaker Christy Garland’s award-winning co-production What Walaa Wants (Murmur Media/NFB/Final Cut for Real).

Create harmony with Wind Instrument, a bold new interactive installation in the heart of Montreal’s Quartier des spectacles!

Wind Instrument, an interactive installation by Étienne Paquette, co-produced by the NFB, the Quartier des spectacles Partnership and LA SERRE – arts vivants, will be on display from August 16 to October 8 in front of Saint-Laurent Metro station in downtown Montreal. This large-scale work (featuring six steel tubes with a maximum height of 28 feet) creates music by reacting to variations in ambient sound, while incorporating the contributions of passersby as well.

NFB selection at TIFF 2018 showcases Astra Taylor’s timely doc What Is Democracy? and shorts by acclaimed animators Alison Snowden and David Fine, and Patrick Bouchard.

Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, Astra Taylor’s latest National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature documentary, What Is Democracy?, makes its North American premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. It will be joined at TIFF by two new NFB animated shorts: Animal Behaviour, from the Oscar-winning animation duo of Alison Snowden and David Fine, who just received the Grand Prix at Rio de Janeiro’s Anima Mundi; as well as The Subject, the latest stop-motion marvel from Quebec’s Patrick Bouchard.