Puppet School of the Streets: Watch Grant Munro’s One Little Indian on NFB.ca
Learn some basic traffic safety rules with Grant Munro's quirky puppet animation, One Little Indian (1954.)
Animation
Explore our vast collection of animated films and get info about the world of animation in general.
The Thin Red Line: New Animation from Torill Kove
Few artists mine family lore with such aplomb as NFB animator Torill Kove. Her first short My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts, a fond and finely wrought tribute to her...
Interview With Legendary Method Actor Grant Mously
10:12 PM. Sunday night. The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. I’ve been waiting for two hours for a chance to interview one of the greatest actors of our generation. Celebrated by...
Man the Polluter: Man’s Ridiculous Solutions to the Problem of Pollution
Just in time for Earth Day, I want to let you know about an offbeat animated feature film about pollution that the NFB made some 43 years ago and recently...
National Canadian Film Day: Our Staff Picks
Check out our staff picks for National Canadian Film Day
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....