Local creators Christopher Auchter, Yuqi Kang and Amanda Strong in the spotlight. Seven NFB documentary and animated works featured at VIFF 2024. Plus a sneak peek and a concert by the legendary Alanis Obomsawin.

The 2024 Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) will feature a stellar selection of seven National Film Board of Canada (NFB) productions and co-productions, including the world premiere of the riveting NFB feature-length documentary The Stand by Burnaby-based Haida filmmaker Christopher Auchter.

A modern look at Gen Y and Z against the backdrop of the housing crisis. Fresh off its selection at TIFF, Halima Elkhatabi’s Cohabiter (Living Together, NFB) will be screening in Montreal starting September 13.

Halima Elkhatabi’s feature-length documentary Cohabiter (Living Together), produced by the NFB, hits theatres in Montreal on September 13, screening at Cinéma Beaubien and Cinémathèque Québécoise. The film’s theatrical release in its original French version follows its world premiere at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where it was selected alongside another of Elkhatabi’s films, the narrative short Fantas.

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.