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.
The Cinémathèque québécoise will usher in the new year by presenting a work by multidisciplinary artist Martin Bureau entitled Les murs du désordre from January 12 to February 10. This tension-filled, moving work of social criticism and geopolitics puts the viewer in control of their own unique documentary experience.
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 Quebec City (Cinéma Cartier), Eastern Quebec and Montreal and in an English-subtitled version at Montreal’s Cinéma Moderne.
The world premiere of Victoria-born filmmaker John Bolton’s feature documentary That Higher Level headlines a stellar selection of eleven National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary and animated films at the Victoria Film Festival (February 1–10, 2019).
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Red Bull Media House present Direction Nord (True North) by Ryan Sidhoo, a nine-episode documentary series now available online with French subtitles.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Rhizome are pleased to announce a growing technical collaboration to ensure sustained access to important interactive digital films and web-based artworks in the NFB’s collection.
Astra Taylor’s timely and provocative National Film Board of Canada (NFB) feature What Is Democracy? is back in Toronto after its North American premiere at TIFF earlier this year, with screenings at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema starting January 4.
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.