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
Isabella Weetaluktuk Shines Light on NFB ARCHIVES
It’s little more than a fragment, a few seconds of footage shot in the Canadian Arctic over 50 years ago, but it’s pure visual gold. Four Inuit kids, oblivious to...
Check Out Seances, Guy Maddin’s Latest Interactive Cinema Experiment
Now you see it; now you don't.
Seances: Guy Maddin Invokes Interactive Spirits
The imagined ghosts of silent movies are resurrected in Seances, a deliriously original interactive installation that gets its world premiere in the Storyscapes program at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. The...
Photo Friday | Meet the Indigenous Peoples of B.C.’s Skeena River in 10 Gorgeous Pics
After the Fraser, the Skeena is British Columbia’s second longest river. For the area’s first inhabitants, the Tsimshian and Gitxsan, whose names respectively mean “inside the Skeena River” and “people of...
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
Hobos, Hermits and Drifters | Watch 3 Short Films Starring Wise Loners of the Canadian Bush
Although almost everyone has dreamed of leaving it all behind and vanishing into the bush, it takes a special kind of character with a special set of skills to do it...
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...
Paper Boy | I Should Have Taken a Paper Route
I was a proper boy. I was polite. I was calm. I was a model pint-sized citizen. I did not realize one could be a scoundrel until late in my...
Honour the 5th Anniversary of the 2011 Tsunami with a Free Stream of our Short Film Debris
5 years ago, on March 11, 2011, a megathrust earthquake occurred off the coast of Japan. Referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan earthquake, it was the most...