National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Office national du film du Canada (ONF)
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The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is Canada's public producer and distributor of audiovisual works. It produces and co-produces documentaries and animation, supports filmmakers and artists, and preserves a national audiovisual collection. Its online screening platform presents Canadian films in French and English to audiences of all ages.
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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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Bisou sauvage
As world tragedies pile up, a bored couple is looking for their next distraction. This…
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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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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
After an explosion, an elderly woman wanders through deserted city streets and recalls her…
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Affairs of the Art
Beryl, a 59-year-old factory worker, is obsessed with drawing and determined to become an…
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Altötting
In the small Bavarian pilgrimage town of Altötting, a boy who visits the chapel with his…
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The Subject
An animator dissects his own body, extracting memories, emotions and fears that will…
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Embraced
Standing at an open window, a woman watches dark clouds gather as memories of a past lover…
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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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Hedgehog's Home
A hedgehog lives peacefully in a forest and values his modest home above all else. His…
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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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Carface
Filmmaker and comic strip artist Claude Cloutier has made a striking satire on big oil, a…
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Hollow Land
Solomon and Berta bring their bathtub to a new country, hoping to find a permanent home…
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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
Kali is a young vampire who longs to join the children he watches from the shadows. When…
