NFB feature-length doc and two animated shorts at TIFF 2024. World premieres of Halima Elkhatabi’s debut feature Living Together and Amanda Strong’s animated short Inkwo for When the Starving Return—plus the North American debut of Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove’s short Maybe Elephants.

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) selection at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), taking place September 5 to 15, will feature captivating explorations of identity and powerful storytelling, with a new NFB feature documentary and two NFB co-produced animated shorts.

The NFB at the Congrès mondial acadien Fifty years of French-language Acadian film production by the NFB

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is delighted to be at the Congrès mondial acadien (CMA — Acadian World Congress), which this year takes place from August 10 to 18 in southwest Nova Scotia. Along with the pre-launch screening of the short film Trécarré: Exploring the Saint Mary’s Bay Sound, which was shot in the host region, the NFB will also present films for all audiences, taking the opportunity to highlight its 50 years of French-language film production in Canada’s Atlantic region.

Julia Qiwen Zhu named NFB’s new CFO

Suzanne Guèvremont is pleased to announce that Julia Qiwen Zhu is our new Chief Financial Officer and Director General, Finance and Administration, effective August19.

In August, nfb.ca gets into the rhythm of summer! Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land making its premiere and Fire-Jo-Ball launching online Channels will highlight major cultural and social events.

Vibrant new NFB productions will be launched in August: Audrey Nantel-Gagnon’s short Fire-Jo-Ball will be online as of August 2 and the documentary series Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land, by Graeme Mathieson and Chris Flanagan, will have its premiere on nfb.ca on August 23, the day after a special launch event in Toronto.

Jamaican musical trailblazers made Toronto a world-class reggae hotspot. Graeme Mathieson and Chris Flanagan’s anthology series Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land premieres August 23 on nfb.ca. Featuring Johnny Osbourne, Nana McLean, Leroy Sibbles and more.

At the height of the golden age of reggae, some of Jamaica’s brightest stars left their homeland to relocate to Toronto. Now their stories and the musical community they helped build are celebrated in Graeme Mathieson and Chris Flanagan’s captivating National Film Board of Canada (NFB) anthology series Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land, premiering August 23 on nfb.ca and the NFB’s streaming platform for smart TVs.

June on nfb.ca is all about brighter summer days, with special programming for National Indigenous History Month. Don’t miss the online launch of Our Maternal Home by Janine Windolph.

This June, more films than ever will be streaming for free at nfb.ca. The lineup of works from different regions of the country includes special programming to mark National Indigenous History Month. Among the new offerings: the online launch of Our Maternal Home, directed by Janine Windolph, and the Haida-language version of Now Is the Time (Waaydanaa) by Christopher Auchter. In addition, two rich themed channels curated around Indigenous subjects will feature more than 40 films. Lastly, the seven short films produced by the NFB in tribute to the 2024 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA) laureates will also be launched online.

Strong presence for the NFB at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival

The National Film Board of Canada will take part in this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival (June 9–15) with a strong, diverse lineup of 11 productions and co-productions, screening across a wide range of sections at the event. Four films have been selected for various competitions, including Torill Kove’s Maybe Elephants (Mikrofilm/NFB), which will be having its world premiere. In addition, Michèle Lemieux, a virtuoso with the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen, will present her latest short, Le tableau (The Painting).

National Film Board of Canada lends animation artwork to LA’s Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles will showcase legendary National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animation beginning May 12—with Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart’s Begone Dull Care and Ishu Patel’s Paradise featured as part of Inventing Worlds and Characters: Animation. The gallery takes visitors on a journey through animation, highlighting nearly a century of animation history, as told through the stories of diverse filmmakers.