screenings
Celebrate Canada Day with the NFB
Tomorrow is Canada Day (yay!) and the NFB has a few ideas to celebrate this wonderful place we call home.
The first is a Canada Day film selection we put together for the occasion. Containing animation shorts and documentaries alike (as well as a memorable...
NFB Films at Rendez-vous de la Francophonie 2011
150 screenings in 62 cities across Canada! Now that’s a full slate of films. From March 4 to 20, the National Film Board is participating in the Rendez-vous de la Francophonie’s annual celebration of French culture, screening films from coast to coast for the...
Anita Lebeau’s Big Drive to screen in Winnipeg and Vancouver this spring
When I was a kid and my parents would take us on road trips to visit with my cousins, down in the States, my brother and I would always get into the worse fights. Between the are-we-there-yet's and the mommy-I-gotta-pee's, being stuck in the...
Turning 32: An interview with director Robbie Hart
What are the universal characteristics we humans share? Robbie Hart and Luc Côté explore this intriguing question in their new feature-length documentary Turning 32 as they meet again with 5 people they originally interviewed 16 years ago for the television series Turning 16. In...
Racing Thoughts in theatres for Mental Illness Awareness Week
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Louiselle Noël’s new film, Racing Thoughts is being screened in cities across Canada this week in conjunction with Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 3-9, 2010). In the film, Louiselle Noël focuses her camera on 4 young people suffering from mental illness and sets...
Climate change and The Arctic Circle: Have we already passed the point of no return?
On Wednesday April 7, the Toronto Mediatheque is screening The Arctic Circle as part of the Green Screens series. The entire film will also air on Discovery HD on April 21 at 7 pm & 8 pm.
Shot in some of the world's most desolate...
Filmmaker Philippe Baylaucq on screening A Dream for Kabul in Japan
Note: This post was taken from our French sister site, ONF.ca, and has been translated into English.
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Philippe Baylaucq is back from Tokyo, Japan, where he presented his film A Dream for Kabul at the Canadian Embassy. We asked him to give us his...
Montrealers! Win tickets to see Higglety Pigglety Pop
We have 2 family passes to Sunday's premiere screening of Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life to give away (4 tickets per pass). For a chance to win, answer the following question in the comment section below:
What recent film was...
3 NFB shorts among Canada’s Top Ten
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Every year since 2001, the folks behind the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) get together and select the Top Ten features and shorts of the past year. In 2009, 3 of our films made that list: Runaway, The Spine and Vive la Rose.
All 3...
On Common Ground: Eliminating Child Poverty is something we can all agree on
Whenever I’m overwhelmed by contrast, by conflict, I contemplate one of my favourite lines, a string of words conjured by 13th-century Persian Poet Rumi: “Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
It doesn’t matter that I...
Join our in-house film experts as they present 2 of their NFB favourites
Albert Ohayon and Marc St-Pierre, our two in-house film experts, will be presenting the NFB archives and 2 of their favourite films (The Railrodder and This is Not Einstein) at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal on Thursday, December 3 at 7 pm.
The...
