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Your essential space for Canadian cinema. Watch 6,000+ films for free on https://t.co/EQykPZLsKr! French/Français → @onf
Montreal
Joined February 2008
What does Stompin’ Tom Connors mean to you? 🎶 Born on Feb. 9, 1936, in Saint John, NB, this Canadian folk legend still inspires. For musician Chad Matthews, his legacy runs even deeper. Discover his story in Susan Rodgers’ THEN SINGS MY SOUL → #NFB
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🚨 Deadline approaching! There's only a couple days left to submit your project to Composite #42! Get yours in before Feb. 10 by filling this form→
🕒 𝗣𝗹𝘂𝘀 𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗺𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝘁 pour le Composite #42 présenté par @ARTFIFA à l’@onf ! ✨ 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗺𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝘇 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝘁 avant le 10 fév 👉 ✨Minutes 👉
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"[W]e should really be aware of the stories that we tell about ourselves and who gets to tell the story of who we are.” @nexusnewspaper looks at Virginia Tangvald’s GHOSTS OF THE SEA ahead of its screening at @VicFilmFestival → #NFB
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"The film’s ambiguity is a key part of its beauty and strength.” Stream A MAN IMAGINED for free today →
A Man Imagined, now streaming from @thenfb, offers a vérité portrait of Lloyd, an unhoused man in Montreal.
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@joelassenburg 😭 We're so very aware and have some major updates coming soon. That said, our newest releases are always available on our main page. We also highlight some of our fresher "out of the vault" titles here:
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Stream 30 MINUTES, MISTER PLUMMER for free here 👉
In 1963, the NFB released 30 Minutes, Mister Plummer. Two years later, he was cast in the role of Captain Georg Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. The film won five Academy Awards. Plummer disliked the movie, calling it "awful and sentimental and gooey". 🧵6/16
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👤🌀 A MAN IMAGINED is now free to stream! Meet Lloyd—a man living on the fringes of society and his own mind—in this bracingly intimate, hallucinatory portrait by filmmakers @Brian_M_Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky. 🌸 Watch now → #NFB
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"A warm hug of a film" tells the story of Saturdays in Whitehorse. 🤗 Read more about Jessica Hall's new doc SATURDAY, screening opening night of @alffyukon on Feb. 7, via @yukonnews → Have you got your tickets to see it yet?
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"The first step to telling a story is feeling it." — Filmmaker Yuqi Kang (@YUQIII) Dive into the making of 7 BEATS PER MINUTE ahead of its upcoming screenings with @thelasource → 🎦 Capital 6 - Feb.11 🎦 Intrepid Theatre - Feb. 13 & 15 🎦 @VicFilmFestival - Feb. 7 to 16
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🤩 Forty years after vanishing from public view, this 20th century icon finally gets her second act! See ANY OTHER WAY: THE JACKIE SHANE STORY (@thejackieshane) on the BIG SCREEN for FREE tomorrow, Feb. 6 at 7 PM at the Alanis Obomsawin Theatre inside Îlot Balmoral. 🎫 Reserve your place today → #BHM2025 #NFB
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RT @NFB_Katja: ❤️🔥 INCANDESCENCE is covered in British Cinematographer (@BCineMag) today. Next screenings: Feb 10: Victoria, BC – V…
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⚠️ LAST CHANCE TO SNAG YOUR SEAT! RSVP today to attend tomorrow's free artist talk with Hayat Najm and first look at THE SOUNDS OF THINGS ABLAZE at the #NFB's Alanis Obomsawin Theatre! Details here → Thanks to our partner @sommetsanim for making this French language event possible.
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"[A] reminder that “we need to work from the bottom up” to protect the coastal plain is as relevant as ever." 💚 Sarah Gilman remembers activist and author Karsten Heuer, and the importance of "Being Caribou" in this article for @highcountrynews → #NFB ▶️ Stream BEING CARIBOU for free here →
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It’s Theodore Ushev’s birthday!🎂 What better way to celebrate than by exploring his bold animation or peeking inside his mind? Do both! Stream his films & meet the man behind the art in THEODORE USHEV: UNSEEN CONNECTIONS for free on #NFB platforms →
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Make like Marilyn, and enjoy Canada! 📽️🍁 Enjoy over 6,000 Canadian-made films for free on our website or app → 📸 Marilyn Monroe & Corporal Ray Morris, photographed during the filming of the movie RIVER OF NO RETURN in #Banff, Alberta, 1953. Source: Ric Hall, @rcmpgrcpolice
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