National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Office national du film du Canada (ONF)
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The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; French: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary films, animation, web documentaries, and alternative dramas. In total, the NFB has produced over 13,000 productions since its inception, which have won over 5,000 awards. The NFB reports to the Parliament of Canada through the Minister of Canadian Heritage. It has English-language and French-language production branches. (Wikipedia)
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To Our Future Ancestors
A woman travels through time and memory, from savannahs to the cosmos, searching for a…
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Matrescence
A woman sends a voice memo to a friend about the unexpected upheavals of her transition to…
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I Don’t Love You Anymore
In a Niagara Falls motel, an unremarkable couple attempts a romantic getaway. But as the…
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Ultra Strong
Catherine tries to toughen herself to impress the “princes” in her circle, who turn…
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Get a Grip
Gus MacDuffin longs to fly like the other puffins. But when he finally takes the leap, he…
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Bisou sauvage
As world tragedies pile up, a bored couple is looking for their next distraction. This…
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Paradaïz
Welcome to a place where the houses have holes, tomatoes are ticking time bombs and snails…
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Imprint
Chance encounters can leave a lasting imprint, like ink on paper. At 13, Duncan Major met…
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Hypersensitive
Hypersensitive recounts the turbulent, surrealistic journey of a young woman struggling to…
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The Girl Who Cried Pearls
A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed…
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Bread Will Walk
A devoted sister flees with her brother: a benevolent, loaf of bread-turned zombie. A mob…
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A Mother Apart
In this poignant documentary, poet Stacyann Chin confronts the lingering scars of being…
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In the Shallows
A deep dive into the shallow and fragmented world of news, entertainment and ads, where we…
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Society of Clothes
One morning, a shirt and a pair of pants come out of a closet. They come together to form…
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Not Enough Womb for the Two of Us
An in utero skirmish between twins, created with spacious hand-drawn animation,…
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Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying
Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying is a short meditation on love, grief, and…
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LOCA
With dynamic energy captured using India ink on paper, a liberating tango with a stranger…
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Living Together
Halima Elkhatabi’s disarming documentary eavesdrops on dozens of Montrealers as they…
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The Painting
Animated on the pinscreen, this film revisits the tragic fate of Queen Mariana of Austria…
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Corpus and the Wandering
One dancer, one body, one phone. In a time of collective alienation and technological mass…
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Maybe Elephants
In the 1970s, three rebellious teenage daughters, a restless mother, a father struggling…
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7 Beats Per Minute
During a world-record attempt, freediving champion Jessea Lu blacked out and was lifeless…
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Wilfred Buck
An elderly member of the indigenous Cree people of Canada is our spiritual guide in a film…
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Boat People
As a little girl in Vietnam, Thao’s mother would rescue ants from bowls of sugar water.…
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Miserable Miracle
An animated adaptation from Misérable Miracle by Henri Michaux (1956), on his experiences…
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Harvey
A short film adapted from the graphic novel of the same name, HARVEY depicts a young boy…
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Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics
Stop-motion animation charts a challenging journey for a baby girl contemplating her path…
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How to Be at Home
How does one find hope in the midst of a pandemic? Perhaps it is the act of creating…
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Impossible Figures and Other Stories I
An ominous ticking sound triggers an explosion. Wandering deserted city streets, an…
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The Subject
An animator dissects his own body, extracting memories, emotions and fears that will…
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The Cannonball Woman
Human cannonball Madeleine is shot out of a cannon every day. And every day, she has to…
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Blind Vaysha
The tale of a girl who could see the past and the future simultaneously and respectively…
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Here and the Great Elsewhere
This abstract yet compelling philosophical tale uses the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen as a…
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Kali The Little Vampire
It is the history of a boy not like the others, which dreams to find its place in the…
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Land of the Heads
Every night, a vampire must leave his hiding place to find children to decapitate. Why?…
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Sainte Barbe
A bald little boy loves his bearded grandfather. After the grandfather’s death, their…
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Tragic Story with Happy Ending
There are people who, in spite of themselves, are different from the rest.
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Flux
A whimsical animated piece about life, entropy and the inexorable march of time that plays…
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Black Soul
The History of Afro-Americans, from the slave trade and arrival of Africans in America in…
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From the Big-Bang to Tuesday Morning
Propelled by Claude Cloutier’s signature drawing style and absurdist humour, this…
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The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg
A short animation about a boy who sees an iceberg coming. Will he be in time to warn the…
