2. Focus on the NFB
• 70 years • 13,000 productions • 5,000 awards
• 70 Oscar® nominations (and 12 wins)
• And 1,000+ films to stream online at NFB.ca
The world changes, our stories live on: The National Film community filmmaking projects, cross-platform media,
Board of Canada marks its 70th anniversary in 2009 with a interactive cinema, stereoscopic animation – and more. Since
new national online Screening Room and a slate of bold, the NFB’s founding in 1939, it has created over 13,000
innovative productions. Canada’s public film producer and productions and won over 5,000 awards, including 12 Oscars
distributor, the NFB produces and distributes social-issue and more than 90 Genies. In 2009, the works of NFB
documentaries, auteur animation, alternative drama and animation pioneer Norman McLaren were added to
digital content that provide the world with a unique perspective. UNESCO’s Memory of the World Registry. To watch over 1,000
In collaboration with its international partners and co-producers, productions online or for more information, visit <NFB.ca>.
the NFB is expanding the vocabulary of 21st-century cinema
and breaking new ground in form and content, through
3. Table of Contents
Documentary The Strangest Dream 10 Runaway 18
Targets: Reporters in Iraq 10 Spare Change 18
Arctic Circle 4
This Land 10 The Spine 19
A Time There Was: Stories from the
Last Days of Kenya Colony 4 Tiger Spirit 11 Tying Your Own Shoes 19
Avenue Zero 4 Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Vive la Rose 19
Humanitarian Dilemma 11
Capturing Reality: Wapos Bay 20
The Art of Documentary 5 Tulku 11
Under the Hood:
The Coca-Cola Case 5
A Voyage into the World of Torture 12 Coming Soon
Earth Keepers 5
Waterlife 12
Examined Life 6 Kent Nagano and the Orchestre
Symphonique de Montréal 22
Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action 6
Animation Living with Murder 22
Finding Farley 6 The Prosecutor 22
Four Wings and a Prayer 7 Animate Everything! 15
Seven Wonders 23
Griefwalker 7 How People Got Fire 15
The “Socalled” Movie 23
Has God Forsaken Africa? 7 Land of the Heads 15
Turning 32 23
Invisible City 8 Léon in Wintertime 16
Victims and Executioners
Martha of the North 8 The Man Who Slept 16 The Fate of Girl-Soldiers 24
Outbreak: Anatomy of a Pandemic 8 Molly in Springtime 16 War is Not a Game 24
Paris 1919 9 Peggy Baker in Four Phrases 17
Reel Injun – On the Trail of the The Real Place 17
Hollywood Indian 9 NFB at your fingertips, visit
Retouches 17
RiP! A Remix Manifesto 9 Robes of War 18
NFB.ca/distribution
4. Documentary
Arctic Circle A Time There Was: Avenue Zero
Ground Zero of the climate crisis — the Arctic is Stories from the Last Days of Asian girls are enslaved in a suburban massage
being devastated by global warming at a faster Kenya Colony parlour... Vancouver gangs recruit Honduran boys
rate than any other ecosystem. A stunning duo of to sell drugs... Girls in a Montreal subway station
HD programs explore various aspects of the Under British rule, white settlers claimed the land are lured into prostitution... Human trafficking is
crisis: the threat to wildlife as polar bears and of hills and valleys — and all its gifts — but by a reality today, and it’s happening closer to home
seals contend with dramatic shifts in their the 1950s, they could no longer stem the tide of than you might think. Featuring candid interviews
environment, and the international race as long-simmering resentment by the colonized with victims, witnesses and perpetrators, Avenue
governments and industry rush to claim newly Kikuyu people. Donald McWilliams was there. Zero paints a dark portrait of a sinister trade
revealed natural resources. At stake — untold And, combining his own photographic records flourishing in the shadows of the law.
riches and the future of the planet itself with archival footage, original animation and
interviews with players from both sides, he
returns to Kenya to confront his past and tell the
story of the Mau Mau Rebellion.
2 x 42 min 52 min
French version available soon 88 min Available in French Avenue Zéro
A Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) and French version available soon Produced by Les Productions Virage
National Film Board of Canada co-production Produced by the National Film Board of Canada Distributed by the National Film Board of Canada
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5. Documentary
Capturing Reality: The Coca-Cola Case Earth Keepers
The Art of Documentary Colombian union leaders are assassinated. Their Human beings — and the damage we cause to
Filmmakers have been trying to capture reality ever colleagues are kidnapped and tortured by the planet — are the biggest challenge Mother
since the Lumière Brothers — and the documentary paramilitary forces. And the trail leads back to Nature has ever faced. But rather than give in to
genre has sparked lively debate ever since. The their employer — the legendary Coca-Cola apathy, activist Mikaël Rioux takes inspiration
National Film Board of Canada — a crucible of Company. Dusting off a 200-year-old law, two from visionaries on the front lines of eco-
innovation since 1939 — proudly presents American lawyers sue the company for human innovation around the world. He is looking for
Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary, a rights abuses — in the United States. With all the answers and reaching out to form an inspiring
landmark reference piece that features some of the makings of a cross-border legal thriller, this is vision for the future. Are you listening?
genre’s brightest lights. From Errol Morris and Albert their extraordinary story.
Maysles to Alanis Obomsawin, Nick Broomfield and
the great iconoclast Werner Herzog — over thirty
leading directors discuss the creative genre that is
documentary. Featuring clips from Grey Gardens,
The Thin Blue Line, Darwin’s Nightmare and other
groundbreaking docs.
97 min 80 min • 52 min in production 43 min • 82 min • 52 min in production
Available in French Available in French L’Affaire Coca-Cola Available in French Visionnaires planétaires
L’art du réel – Le cinéma documentaire Produced by Argus Films in co-production with the Produced by Films du Rapide-blanc in association
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada National Film Board of Canada with the National Film Board of Canada
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6. Documentary
Examined Life Fierce Light: Finding Farley
Visually inventive and unashamedly brainy, When Spirit Meets Action After filming the 2004 NFB documentary Being
Examined Life takes philosophy out of academia Can compassion change the world? In the face Caribou, Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison struck
and into the streets. Taking a cue from Nietzsche, of unprecedented threats to global well-being, up a friendship with legendary Canadian author
who said that only ideas conceived while walking an exciting new wave of activism is sweeping the Farley Mowat.And now, with their two-year-old son
have value, Astra Taylor embarks on a series of planet. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, writer Alice in tow, they’re on a six-month, cross-continent
transitory encounters with the leading thinkers of Walker and actor/activist Daryl Hannah are odyssey to the writer’s Cape Breton farmhouse.
our age. Sharing a Manhattan cab with Cornel West, among the charismatic personalities who speak Travelling by canoe, train and sailboat, the journey
walking San Francisco with Judith Butler and out in Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action. will test their limits and take them through the very
garbage-picking with the iconoclastic Slavoj Zizek, From the producers of The Corporation comes an wilderness that inspired Mowat’s most famous works.
Taylor reframes moral philosophy and cultural theory inspiring profile of a movement that is capturing Farley Mowat is the author of over 40 books,
in a vital new light. hearts and minds from Los Angeles to Vietnam. including Never Cry Wolf and People of the Deer.
Also featuring Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwame
Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt
and Sunaura Taylor.
90 min
Available in French La vie sous examen 97 min
Available in French Lumière ardente : Quand
Produced by Sphinx Productions in co-production l’esprit rencontre l’action 62 min • 52 min in production
with the National Film Board of Canada in French version available soon
association with Ontario Media Development Produced by Fiercelight Films in co-production with
Corporation, TVO and Knowledge Network the National Film Board of Canada Produced by the National Film Board of Canada
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7. Documentary
Four Wings and a Prayer Griefwalker Has God Forsaken Africa?
Oscar®-nominated actress Kristin Scott Thomas An extraordinary portrait of the man they call the Discover the tribulations of five young
narrates one of nature’s most astounding stories Angel of Death, Griefwalker features Stephen Senegalese men seeking to emigrate at any cost.
— the 3,000-kilometre migration of the monarch Jenkinson — the Harvard-trained theologian who In a Dakar neighbourhood, Kader, Ibrahima,
butterfly. A winner at the Banff World Television believes in “befriending death.” As the baby- Ahmadou, Omar and Djiby meet every day on the
Festival, Four Wings and a Prayer captures all boomer generation enters old age, Jenkinson “strays’ bench” to share their burdens and build
the wonder of the monarch’s phenomenal flight challenges the cultural denial and neurosis their dreams of a future in the West. Their goal: to
from eastern Canada to the volcanic mountains surrounding mortality. It’s only in accepting find a captain to take them by canoe, or
of Mexico, while raising the alarm on its death, he maintains, that we learn to live life to someone who will sell them a visa on the black
threatened habitat. Based on the acclaimed the fullest. A powerful and illuminating film from market. This story echoes the hardships of
book by Sue Halpern. award-winning director Tim Wilson. thousands of young Africans.
81 min
Available in French L’Aile d’un Papillon...
70 min • 52 min in production 52 min
Produced by Primitive Entertainment in
co-production with Films à Trois and the Available in French L’Accompagnateur Available in French Dieu a-t-il quitté l’Afrique?
National Film Board of Canada Produced by the National Film Board of Canada Produced by the National Film Board of Canada
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8. Documentary
Invisible City Martha of the North Outbreak:
Kendell and Mikey live in Toronto’s Regent Park, Geopolitics and movie history collide in the Anatomy of a Pandemic
Canada’s oldest housing project. And over the astonishing story of Martha Flaherty, whose
In a climate of political tensions, confusion and
next decade, their inner-city community will be family members were used as pawns in Canada’s
fear, a once-eradicated deadly disease makes a
torn down in the name of urban renewal. Filmed Cold-War claim to the High Arctic — an issue with
comeback. Inspired by Plague: A Story of Smallpox
over three years as the walls come down around renewed contemporary resonance. In a surprise
in Montreal, Michael Bliss’s bestselling book,
them, Invisible City chronicles Kendell and twist Martha reveals her link to Robert Flaherty,
Outbreak: Anatomy of a Pandemic, examines the
Mikey’s struggles at school and on the street, as the legendary director who fathered — but never
world’s last great urban epidemic in Montreal in
they battle stereotypes, peer pressure, poverty acknowledged — a son with Maggie Nujuarluktuk,
1885; recounts how an international team of
and the odds to find a promising future. one of the Inuit “stars” of Nanook of the North.
scientists conquered the disease a century later;
Clips from Flaherty’s classic film provide ironic
From Academy Award®-nominated director and explains why this invisible killer is now back
counterpoint to Martha’s story.
Hubert Davis with a vengeance.
75 min 47 min • 83 min 90 min • 52 min in production
French version available soon Available in French Martha qui vient du froid French version available soon
Produced by Industry Pictures and Shine Films in Produced by Les Productions Virage in association Produced by PMA Productions inc. in co-production
co-production with the National Film Board of Canada with the National Film Board of Canada with the National Film Board of Canada
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9. Documentary
Paris 1919 Reel Injun – On the Trail of RiP! A Remix Manifesto
The last shots had been fired in the worst war of the Hollywood Indian More than a movie — it’s a cultural event.
all time — but peace had yet to be brokered. Where did Hollywood get its native stereotypes? And Entertaining, provocative and hot-button topical,
Inspired by Margaret MacMillan’s acclaimed book, is there any truth to them? Tracing a humorous RiP! A Remix Manifesto gauges the impact of
Paris 1919 takes us inside the most ambitious history of Native people on the silver screen, digital technology on global culture, as old ideas
peace talks in history with a vivid sense of story Cree-Indian director Neil Diamond sets the of intellectual property and copyright get joyously
and character. Recreating popular history at its record straight. And with clips from hundreds of trashed. Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative
engaging best, Oscar®-nominated director Paul films, and candid interviews with the likes of Clint Commons, joins mash-up artist Girl Talk, Brazilian
Cowan evokes the extraordinary atmosphere of Eastwood and Graham Greene, he proves how music legend Gilberto Gil and Mickey Mouse in
the post-war metropolis, while reflecting on the powerful American myths have influenced our this rock-n-radical pop doc hit.
great missed opportunities of history. understanding (and misunderstanding) of North
American Natives.
90 min • 2 x 1 hr 85 min • 52 min in production
Available in French Paris 1919 French version available soon 85 min
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in Produced by Rezolution Pictures International Inc. Available in French RiP : Remix manifesto
co-production with 13 Production, Galafilm and Arte in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada Produced by EyeSteelFilm in co-production with the
France and in association with TVO and in association with CBC Newsworld National Film Board of Canada
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10. Documentary
The Strangest Dream Targets: Reporters in Iraq This Land
The Strangest Dream recounts the story of Since 2004, the war in Iraq has become impossibly Every year, the Canadian army conducts a
Joseph Rotblat, the history of nuclear weapons dangerous for journalists. Few remain in Iraq and sovereignty patrol in the High Arctic. And this year,
and the fight against their proliferation. Featuring fewer still venture outside the Green Zone or work their mission is to plant a flag at its northernmost
interviews with members of the Pugwash movement unembedded. Meet some of the unembedded tip. The gruelling and dangerous journey takes
and passionate public figures such as Senator reporters and follow their incredible stories. them across jagged sea ice and the hostile
Roméo Dallaire, this compelling documentary Among them are Canadian Scott Taylor and Turkish terrain of the North. And, as the Rangers — most
demonstrates the renewed threat of nuclear journalist Zeynep Tugrul, who were kidnapped and of them Inuit — lay claim to the land, filmmaker
weapons, while encouraging hope through the tortured by an Al-Qaeda-related group in Tal Afar, one Dianne Whelan documents the icy landscape…
example of morally engaged scientists and citizens. of the most dangerous spots in Iraq.They managed before it disappears.
to talk their way out.This is their heart-stopping story.
We also see the war as it continues to degenerate,
through the lenses of several award-winning
photographers from the New York Times, the
Guardian and Newsweek. And we meet local Iraqi
journalists and see how the violence against
reporters affects them and how the targeting of
journalists in Iraq has changed war journalism itself.
47 min
90 min Available in French Journalistes en Irak 35 min
Available in French Un rêve étrange Produced by Triplex Films French version available soon
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada Distributed by the National Film Board of Canada Produced by the National Film Board of Canada
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11. Documentary
Tiger Spirit Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Tulku
Korea is a divided nation.The psychic scar shared Humanitarian Dilemma When he was three years old, Gesar Mukpo
by families divided during the Korean War in the became one of the first people born outside Tibet
Director Patrick Reed follows Dr. James Orbinski
1950s is symbolized by the Demilitarized Zone to be recognized as a tulku — the present-day
on a heart-wrenching journey back to the lands
(DMZ) dividing communist North from capitalist reincarnation of a Buddhist master. And, for his
and people whose life-and-death struggle
South. Along this infamous border, filmmaker Min entire life, he’s been trying to figure out what that
marked him forever. Dr. Orbinski has personally
Sook Lee begins an emotion-charged journey into really means. In this intensely personal documentary,
witnessed a world gone mad as a doctor during
Korea’s broken heart, exploring the rhetoric and Gesar journeys from New York City to Nepal,
the Rwandan genocide, the Somali famine and
realism of reunification through the extraordinary tracking down other Western tulkus who struggle
other catastrophes. In Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s
stories of ordinary people. to reconcile the ideologies of East and West.
Humanitarian Dilemma, the past president of
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) takes the viewer
back to the land and people whose life-and-death
struggle marked him forever.
88 min • 52 min • 46 min
52 min • 73 min Available in French Triage : le dilemme
Available in French L’esprit du tigre humanitaire du Dr James Orbinski 76 min • 52 min in production
Produced by Storyline Entertainment Inc. in Produced by White Pine Pictures in co-production Available in French Tulku
co-production with the National Film Board of Canada with the National Film Board of Canada Produced by the National Film Board of Canada
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12. Documentary
Under the Hood: A Voyage Waterlife
into the World of Torture The Great Lakes provide daily drinking water for
35 million people... and yet they’re under assault
The war against terror is being used today by by the deadly combination of sewage, industrial
democratic countries to justify torturing victims toxins, invasive species, climate change and
with full impunity. This documentary explores the profound apathy. Immersing us in the extraordinary
history of torture as well as America’s shameful beauty of these lakes, Waterlife examines the
history of complicity with the perpetrators to show ecological complexity and extreme distress of the
the true face of suffering and sound a warning last great supply of fresh water on Earth. Will we
about a barbarity that is becoming institutionalized. act before it’s too late?
Narrated by Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip
107 min
Available in French Sous la cagoule, un voyage 109 min • 52 min in production
au bout de la torture Available in French L’eau c’est la vie
Produced by Macumba International inc. in Produced by Primitive Entertainment in co-production
co-production with the National Film Board of Canada with the National Film Board of Canada
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13. Celebrating NFB ANIMATION
Since 1942, the NFB’s animation unit has been pushing creative and technical boundaries. And,
from pinscreen and pixilation, to classic cartoon and 3D animation, the extraordinary results speak
for themselves.
NFB animation is cited as an important international influence by the likes of George Lucas and the
late Stanley Kubrick. Scores of NFB animation directors have risen to international prominence.
Plus, we’ve garnered a total of 32 Oscar® nominations (and seven wins), and 20 awards from the
Cannes International Film Festival.
Recognized internationally as a pioneering force in auteur animation, the NFB is the world’s leading
publicly funded animation producer.
14. Focus on JACQUES DROUIN
Master of Shadow and Light
With an extraordinary career spanning nearly four darkness. As they are pushed in, their shorter shadows
decades, filmmaker Jacques Drouin is a master of create shades of grey. And, when they are pushed in
pinscreen animation – one of the rarest and most completely, a brilliant white light shines through.
difficult animation techniques in the world. Starting with
a white screen pierced by hundreds of thousands of Highlighting this painstaking process, and the
pins, Drouin captures cinematic images of shadow and filmmaker’s extraordinary prowess, is a new
light through minute and meticulous adjustments. When documentary, Jacques Drouin, In Relief – to be released
all the pins are pushed out, their shadows create total in December 2009.
Films by Jacques Drouin:
•Trois exercices sur l’écran d’épingle d’Alexeïeff (1974) •Ex-Child (1994)
•Mindscape (1976) •A Hunting Lesson (2001)
•Nightangel (1986) •Imprints (2004)
15. Animation
Animate Everything! How People Got Fire Land of the Heads
Take a picture. Move the object. Take another The village children sit in Grandma Kay’s kitchen Forced to decapitate ever-growing numbers of
picture. With help from their dad, a professional — drinking tea, eating bannock, and listening to children for his youth-obsessed, head-swapping
animator, Lindsay and her brother, Will, explore the tale of how clever Crow gave fire to humans. mistress, Emile is an unhappy little ogre living in
creative ways of making animation. And, using Twelve-year-old Tish is among them. And a perpetual world of gloom… that is, until the
simple objects they find in the garden, at school although she thinks “now will never be now day an enchanting songstress moves him to
and on the beach, suddenly they discover again,” Grandma Kay’s timeless story connects revolt. Featuring dark humour and an expressionistic
themselves on the road, under the sea, in a video her with a rich past where myth and reality combination of 2D bas-relief and 3D puppet
game and even blasting off into outer space. A collide. An inter-generational, cross-cultural animation, Land of the Heads blends classic
collection of five animated shorts. collaboration by filmmaker Daniel Janke and a horror with a happy ending.
group of young First Nations animators.
6 min
12 min 16 min Available in French Au pays des têtes
Available in French Tout en animation! French version available soon Produced by Hélium Films in co-production with the
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada Produced by the National Film Board of Canada National Film Board of Canada
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16. Animation
Léon in Wintertime The Man Who Slept Molly in Springtime
One winter, a ravenous ogre terrorizes the land A grief-stricken woman mourns her late husband. The carnival celebrations have begun, and lucky
of King Balthasar. Meanwhile, Léon, an adopted But blinded by her love and sorrow, she still sees Princess Molly has just been crowned queen of the
bear cub, runs away from home. Braving the cold, him as sleeping soundly in their bed. A rooster event. For her king, she chooses a young bear
he has many an adventure. Léon befriends a crows, the village comes alive, and the man named Leon, but Boniface, the storyteller, has
hedgehog and an elephant, confronts an ogre slumbers on. Although she is crushed by the other ideas and is willing to resort to extreme
and sets Princess Molly Gingerbread free. In the weight of her sorrow, the broken woman finally measures to get his hands on the princess, the
end, the cub earns everybody’s respect (and lets go to find that the cycle of love lives on. crown, and the kingdom... Can Molly and her
even some self-respect). This puppet animation hedgehog pal foil his wicked plot and save the day?
is a charming medieval tale topped with a
spoonful of honey!
27 min 26 min
Available in French L’hiver de Léon 12 min Available in French Le printemps de Mélie
Produced by Folimage in co-production with Available in French L'homme qui dort Produced by Folimage in co-production with Piwi,
TPS Jeunesse, Divertissement Subséquence and Produced by Sacrebleu Productions in co-production Divertissement Subséquence and the
the National Film Board of Canada with Central Unit and the National Film Board of Canada National Film Board of Canada
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17. Animation
Peggy Baker in Four Phrases The Real Place Retouches
This animated celebration of a great Canadian artist Puccini’s famous aria from the opera Tosca, Vissi d’arte, Visual acrobat Georges Schwizgebel plays with
explores the passion and energy that propel the vissi d'amore (“I lived for art, I lived for love”) provides perceptions and grasps at the fleeting movements
groundbreaking modern dancer, choreographer and a fitting summation of playwright John Murrell’s life and of our lives. And as waves break unceasingly on
teacher Peggy Baker. “Everything is evaporating, work. Born in Lubbock, Texas, John Murrell became a the shore, Retouches marks time with an ever-
even as it happens,” Baker says. And in her ever- playwright in, of all places, an Alberta high school. changing cadence of motion and sound. Lapping
changing world of fleeting moments, dance is a rich, Caprice and serendipity have marked his work ever waves give way to windshield wiper blades… and
transformative metaphor that resonates long after a since. Animator Cam Christiansen gives Murrell's a hurdler racing across the field becomes a
performance is over. imagination free rein, suspending the laws of time and tennis game where the ball is motionless, and
space, to create a visual accompaniment to the where the court itself is at play around it.
playwright's flights of poetic fancy. Despite its more
fantastic elements, Murrell’s work is grounded in a
profound appreciation for the real. History and place
play a critical role in his work, where everyone from
Sarah Bernhardt to Walt Whitman puts in an
appearance. But behind the spectacle, the mask, and
the play itself, is a man happily creating his own world.
5 min 5 min
5 min Available in French Le véritable lieu Available in French Retouches
Available in French
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in A co-production by Studio GDS, the
Peggy Baker en quatre phrases co-production with the National Arts Centre and the National Film Board of Canada, the Télévision
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation Suisse Romande and Arte France
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18. Animation
Robes of War Runaway Spare Change
War has pierced her maternal armour… and from What if the world were a driverless train thundering Spare Change is a joyous and surreal journey
within her head, soldiers march out, trampling recklessly over bumpy tracks? In his third NFB short, through Oscar®-nominated animator Ryan Larkin’s
everything in their path. Like a grieving Madonna, twice-Oscar®-nominated Cordell Barker presents his powerful imagination. Completed after his death
she weeps for son and brother, and from the caustic and comical answer, because when this train and based on comical experiences he had as a
blood of the fallen, an army of women emerges runs into trouble, the result is a class struggle that’s panhandler, this animated short film takes us
to seek revenge. She who has given life, now as amusing as it is merciless. Rarely has a disaster from the sidewalks of wintry streets to the gates
seeks to take it. With brushstrokes like stab seemed so delightful! With music by Benoit Charest of heaven and hell, and back. Featuring original
wounds, Robes of War is a visceral, visual poem (The Triplets of Belleville). works by Larkin and the music of singer-songwriter
by award-winning filmmaker Michèle Cournoyer. Laurie Gordon.
7 min
Available in French
5 min 9 min Un peu de monnaie s’il vous plaît
Available in French Robe de guerre Available in French Train en folie Produced by MusiVision in co-production with the
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada Produced by the National Film Board of Canada National Film Board of Canada
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19. Animation
The Spine Tying Your Own Shoes Vive la Rose
Mary and Dan Rutherford are at a particularly “They thought I couldn’t tie my own shoes… They In an abandoned fisherman’s cabin, a simple
tense group counselling session for couples thought I couldn’t do it… And I could do it!” man raises his voice in melancholy tribute to his
living with co-dependency. After 26 years of Featuring animated segments created by young beloved. Filmed on location in Newfoundland,
marriage, she’s become a ranting, weeping, adults with Down syndrome, Tying Your Own Shoes and based on a song performed by local musician
misshapen sphere of a woman, and he is but a weaves together the stories, dreams and experiences Emile Benoit, Vive la Rose features an innovative
shriveled shadow of his former self. “What’s of four exceptional artists who, guided by animation visual structure that, along with objects like fish
happened to us, my songbird?” he asks. A filmmaker, Shira Avni, explain what being “special hooks, shells, and driftwood, give the film an
poignant story of a man and woman trapped in needs” is all about. unusual physicality and mirror the tragic love
a spiral of mutual destruction, from Oscar®-winning story as it unfolds. From Director Bruce Alcock.
director Chris Landreth.
11 min
Available in French L’échine
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 6 min
association with Copperheart Animation and C.O.R.E. 17 min
Digital Pictures, and with the creative participation of Available in French Vive la rose
Autodesk Canada Co. and Seneca College School of Available in French En laçant mes souliers Produced by Global Mechanic Inc. and the
Communication Arts. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada National Film Board of Canada
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20. Animation
Wapos Bay
Aboriginal filmmakers Dennis and Melanie
Jackson’s exquisite characters come alive with
the voices of well-known Aboriginal performers
such as Gordon Tootoosis (North of 60, Legends
of the Fall), Andrea Menard (The Velvet Devil) and
Lorne Cardinal (Corner Gas). Wapos Bay is a
fascinating, and often humorous portrait of a
northern Aboriginal community from the
perspective of its children.
19 x 24 min
French version available soon
Produced by Wapos Bay Productions in co-production
with the National Film Board of Canada
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22. Coming Soon
Kent Nagano and the Orchestre
Symphonique de Montréal
What does it take to make great music?
Find out from famous conductor Kent
Nagano, his world-class orchestra and the Living with Murder
city they inspire.
Produced by Ciné Qua Non Média, in co-production
with BCE Film and the National Film Board of Canada Mason Jenkins is serving a life sentence for
murdering his sister, Jennifer. But to his
parents, he’s still their beloved little boy.
Produced by JSK Jasper Productions Ltd in co-production
with the National Film Board of Canada
The Prosecutor
Exploring the intricacies and challenges of
international criminal court proceedings.
Produced by White Pine Pictures in co-production
with the National Film Board of Canada
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23. Coming Soon
Seven Wonders
Experience the exhilaration as seven of the
world’s master drummers gather to teach,
perform and inspire in the Canadian wilderness.
Produced by John Walker Productions in co-production
The “Socalled” Movie
with the National Film Board of Canada
Jam with Montreal-based music sensation
Josh Dolgin and find out why he has diehard
fans around the world.
Turning 32
Produced by Beitel/Lazar Productions Inc.
in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada
It’s been 16 years since six remarkable
sixteen-year-olds from the developing world
first told us their stories. Where are they now?
Produced by Adobe Productions in co-production
with the National Film Board of Canada
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24. Coming Soon
Victims and Executioners
The Fate of Girl-Soldiers
Paramilitary forces around the world regularly
“recruit” girls as sex slaves, cooks and front-line
fighters.This is the girls’ story. War is Not a Game
Produced by Macumba International inc. in co-production
with the National Film Board of Canada
Soldiers from the front lines share their stories
of war. Should they be held accountable for
exceeding the authorized limits of violence?
Produced by Ciné Qua Non Média in co-production
with Simple Production, Lieurac Productions, PointProd
and the National Film Board of Canada
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