Events and Screenings
The NFB Mediatheque offers an entertaining program of award-winning NFB films, as well as insightful panel discussions and hands-on animation workshops. Each event offers the chance to learn something new, and to engage in an interactive environment.
5,500 FILMS - ALL FREE, ALL THE TIME!
Celebrate the launch of FREE FILMS on our Digital Viewing Stations! From May 1st onwards, over 5,500 NFB films will be available for FREE on our Digital Viewing Stations (DVS). Visit the Mediatheque...
September 22 2010
A WORLD OF SHORTS presents GROWING PAINS
September 22 at 7 PM Looking for short films from around the world that you won’t see anywhere else? Check out A World of Shorts! As the air gets crisper, the scent of sharpened pencils and new...
September 25 2010
FÊTE DE LA CULTURE as part of CULTURE DAYS
September 25 at 2 PM Celebrate French culture with a free screening featuring three documentaries by recent Tremplin filmmaking competition winners, with special guests in attendance. Films will be...
September 29 2010
NORDIC NIGHTS presents TOINEN JALKA HAUDASTA (One Foot Under)
September 29 at 7 PM FREE Directed by Johanna Vuoksenmaa, Finland, 2009. In Finnish with English subtitles. In this comedy, a man diagnosed with a rare and incurable illness agrees to let a journalist...
October 1 2010
THE ELDER PROJECT
Eva Colmers’s The Elder Project follows seven diverse seniors over two years. As they face the possibility of increasing frailty and transitioning into more dependant living scenarios, the elders...
October 2 2010
NFBeats at SCOTIABANK NUIT BLANCHE 2010
6:57 pm to sunrise, October 2 FREE With each move visitors will trigger new patterns, colours and images, generating an interactive art project fuelled by the collective rhythm of everyone who steps...
October 6 2010
GREEN SCREENS presents CRAPSHOOT: THE GAMBLE WITH OUR WASTES
October 6 at 7 PM FREE Directed by Jeff McKay, 2003, 52 min 43 s A hazardous mix of waste is flushed into the sewer every day. The billions of litres of water - combined with unknown quantities of...
October 5 to 7 2010
CINÉ JEUDI presents ÇA TOURNE DANS MA TÊTE (RACING THOUGHTS)
A Ciné-Jeudi and Mental Illness Awareness Week special screening. This film features four young people with mental illness and their loved ones who make the courageous decision to open up about...
