National Canadian Film Day: Our Staff Picks
Check out our staff picks for National Canadian Film Day
Animation
Explore our vast collection of animated films and get info about the world of animation in general.
Free Animation! | Celebrate World Health Day With 5 Tonic Shorts
Despite the fact it is (or should be) everyone’s highest, most prized possession, health remains a bit of a mystery. What is health, exactly? Harmony between all of the body’s parts?...
Syrinx | Ryan Larkin’s Very First Film Is Finally Online
Watch Oscar-nominated Ryan Larkin's ravishing first film Syrinx, a very short charcoal animation recently added to NFB.ca
Free Animation! | Welcome Spring with 3 Refreshing Ryan Larkin Shorts
Mesmerizing and verging on the psychedelic, Ryan Larkin’s early shorts are always a breath of fresh air. A visual artist first, Larkin attended the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Art...
8 Female Directors Who Are Crushing It At the NFB
With the current conversations surrounding the abysmal under-representation of female directors in Hollywood we’ve decided to highlight the fantastic history and confidence the NFB has, and continues to have, with female directors.
NFB English Production: Five to Watch in 2016
2016 kicked off on a high note here at the NFB with news that Canada’s public producer has nabbed 19 Canadian Screen Award nominations – getting the nod in no...
Who Are We? | Explore Your Canadian Identity with This Hilarious Short Cartoon
O Canada. Who are we, and why do we live here again? These questions, as slippery as codfish and as vast as the Prairies, have haunted Canadians since before 1867. In Who Are...
Darwin Said What?! | Celebrate Darwin Day with 4 Off-The-Wall Shorts About Evolution
International Darwin Day, a day used to “highlight Charles Darwin’s contribution to science and to promote science in general,” was more like International Darwin Week this year. Science was, refreshingly, all over the headlines....
Annies 2016: Follow If I Was God… and Carface to the “Oscars of Animation”
Cordell Barker’s If I Was God and Claude Cloutier’s Carface have both been nominated for an Annie Award! Sometimes known as the “Oscars of Animation,” the Annie Awards are the highest honor...
Enter the Deep, Colourful World of NFB Animator Ishu Patel with These 5 Free Shorts
Virtuoso animator Ishu Patel is a rare sort of talent. His works, addictive, bite-sized meditations on the human experience, are both philosophical and eye-popping. Born in Gujarat, India, Ishu Patel...
Watch 4 Mi’kmaq Legends Come to Life on NFB.ca
Get a taste of the fascinating ancestral mythology of Canada's Mi'kmaq people, who were among the original inhabitants of the Atlantic provinces, with these 4 films that bring their legends to life
The #GIFnTAKE Goes on Tour!
Exciting news, Canadians! The NFB’s #GIFnTAKE is coming to a city near you. Be a star with the #GIFnTAKE Inspired by the classic photobooth, the #GIFnTAKE is a type of “video...