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Saturday Night: “People are my true homeland”

Saturday Night: “People are my true homeland”

A short documentary essay on solitude, filmed in Spanish and narrated by filmmaker Rosana Matecki, Saturday Night (2021) offers a poetic and bittersweet snapshot of aging in an urban setting, viewed through the lens of dance.

This Week on NFB.ca: Explore the World of Dance through 5 Films

This Week on NFB.ca: Explore the World of Dance through 5 Films

This week on NFB.ca we focused on the intersection between cinema and dance, using the former to explore the latter. Watch 5 films on the art of dance.

NFB Pause with Christine Chevarie-Lessard

NFB Pause with Christine Chevarie-Lessard

To make her feature documentary A Delicate Balance (released this fall), Christine Chevarie followed a group of children working tirelessly toward their dream of becoming professional dancers.

Kyma by Phillipe Baylaucq: Exploring the Waves in 360

Kyma by Phillipe Baylaucq: Exploring the Waves in 360

Learn more about Kyma, a new immersive projection experience created by Philippe Baylaucq for the Montreal Planetarium.

Pow Wow Power | Watch Award-Winning Short Doc Red Path on NFB.ca

Pow Wow Power | Watch Award-Winning Short Doc Red Path on NFB.ca

Got 15 minutes? Put them to good use and watch Atikamekw filmmaker Thérèse Ottawa's first film, Red Path, now streaming on NFB.ca.

Oops, Son. You Slept With Your Mama and Killed Your Pa | Watch 3 Greek Myths Unfold on NFB.ca

Oops, Son. You Slept With Your Mama and Killed Your Pa | Watch 3 Greek Myths Unfold on NFB.ca

Millennia later, Greek mythology continues to baffle, excite, and inspire us. Brush up on the ever-relevant myths of Oedipus, Icarus and Narcissus with these 3 modern interpretations of the old classics by NFB filmmakers.

Movement and music: explore the power of dance in 5 films

Movement and music: explore the power of dance in 5 films

Dance your worries away with these 5 NFB films that explore the powerful connection between music and the human body in motion.

Heat-sensitive: a behind-the-scenes look at our thermal 3D film ORA

Heat-sensitive: a behind-the-scenes look at our thermal 3D film ORA

This morning on the bus I found myself reading an argument by a Hindu scholar, somewhere online, about how some people are poets and others scientists. According to this man,...

ORA: Innovative thermal 3D dance film to premiere at TIFF

ORA: Innovative thermal 3D dance film to premiere at TIFF

The word is out: our brand-new dance film ORA will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this fall. We are very excited. A terrific collision between dance and...

Friday Staff Pick: Pas de Deux

Friday Staff Pick: Pas de Deux

Pas de Deux wasn’t the first Norman McLaren film I ever saw. Nor was it the film that tipped me into becoming an animation filmmaker. But when I finally did...