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🍜 🥡 Raised between dining rooms and take–out counters, the children of Halifax’s Chinese restaurateurs share stories of family, hard work and identity in Sylvia Mok's RESTAURANT KIDS → bit.ly/REdefined 💚 Produced as part of the #NFB & @TIFF_NET's REDEFINED program.
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45 years ago, the #NFB captured Ken “The Mad Canadian” Carter’s quest to jump the St. Lawrence in a rocket car in THE DEVIL AT YOUR HEELS.🚗💨 Now, the story returns in THE STUNT DRIVER. We caught up with Ed Helms, who plays engineer Dick Keller, on the #TIFF26 red carpet.
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Do you remember the rest of the song? 🪰🎶 Head over to #NFB to sing along with Burl Ives as he recounts the gastronomic misadventures an of old lady who swallowed a fly → bit.ly/4iLhtvg #StreamCanadian
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National Film Board of Canada retweeted
“I’ll never change the way I work.” 🧡 Alanis Obomsawin reflected on her experiences and why it is so important to her to amplify Indigenous voices through her documentary work.
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🤩No less than 19 titles from the NFB's collection were chosen to be part of the #LucasMuseum of Narrative Art's Opening Film Program!
19 #NFB Classics Chosen for #LucasMuseum of Narrative Art's Opening Film Program: works by Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart, Ishu Patel, Martine Chartrand, and Theodore Ushev among selections running continuously at new Los Angeles museum. bit.ly/4hDkSKc #Animation #AnimationWorld
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The Hockey Sweater is one of the most famous books in Canadian history. The story of a boy who received the wrong hockey sweater from Eaton's has been featured on our currency, gone to space, and been turned into an iconic NFB short. This is the story. 🧵 1/12
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It is with great sadness that we learned of Anne Claire Poirier's recent passing. 🤍 A pioneer of Quebec cinema and the NFB’s first francophone filmmaker, she spent her career amplifying the voices of women, leaving behind a significant body of work → bit.ly/ACPoirierNFB
C’est avec tristesse que nous apprenons le décès d'Anne Claire Poirier, pionnière du cinéma québécois et première cinéaste francophone de l’ONF. 🤍 Pendant 40 ans, elle a fait entendre les voix des femmes à l’écran, et elle nous laisse une œuvre majeure → bit.ly/ACPoirier
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🛣️ Through surreal transformations of real-world imagery, Gabrielle Côté's RE/ROUTE offers two visions of urban life, questioning how the cities we build shape our lives and the future we are creating → bit.ly/REdefined 💚 Part of REDEFINED, a @TIFF_NET & #NFB initiative
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Love him or hate him, there’s no denying that Brian Mulroney was a colourful character. 🙆🏻‍♂️🍁 Follow director Matthew Rankin through @tiff_net for the world premiere of his @mmadnesstiff People's Choice Award-winning feature, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BRIAN MULRONEY! #NFB
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What were the documentary highlights of this year's Toronto International Film Festival? From Mulroney to Musk, our TIFF Docs report breaks down the non-fiction slate. #TIFF26 povmagazine.com/the-2026-tif…
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Have you ever considered... the mayfly? ≽༏≼ After MODERN GOOSE, director Karsten Wall has turned his lens and focus to a seasonal insect you've probably encountered. 👀 Here's a production preview of his upcoming short doc.
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Get swept away by Tyra Delver's ode to a dish that has been infused with generations of love, memory, and Indigenous reliance served fresh from Saddle Lake Cree Nation. 🫓 Watch PAHKWÊSIKAN SÂKIHITOWIN: BANNOCK IS LOVE for free → bit.ly/REdefined #StreamCanadian #TIFF26
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🎉Congrats to Jennie Williams and the team behind BILLY GAUTHIER: CARVING THE FUTURE, winner of @thefilmfest's Best Atlantic Short documentary: "For its ability to master balancing both craft and story, visually and emotionally poignant." 🔥 Congrats to Daniel Leger's JE M'APPELLE DANIEL for receiving the Best Atlantic Animated Short honourable mention!
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A message from Matthew Rankin, director of LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BRIAN MULRONEY, winner of the #TIFF26 Midnight Madness People's Choice Award presented by @rogers 💜 Rankin thanks Peter Kuplowsky, his collaborators, and the National Film Board of Canada. Congratulations to the entire LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BRIAN MULRONEY team 🎊
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Ladies and gentlemen, the winner of TIFF @mmadnesstiff Award goes to … BRIAN MULRONEY. “We live in a strange moment of elbows up, knees down … so it’s important to protect spaces like the NFB,” says Matthew Rankin in statement. #TIFF26
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Have you seen this clip before? Filmed before his rise to fame, directors Donald Brittain & Don Owen invited the world to meet the witty, coffee-fueled poet from Montreal in LADIES AND GENTLEMEN... MR. LEONARD COHEN → bit.ly/3TvR7zW ☕ #streamcanadian #BOTD #NFB
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🤩 The people have spoken! Congratulations to Matthew Rankin and the entire team behind LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BRIAN MULRONEY, for winning #TIFF26's People's Choice Midnight Madness Award. A huge honour! 🏆 #NFB
Announcing the winner of the #TIFF26 People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award presented by @Rogers: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BRIAN MULRONEY dir. Matthew Rankin
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What does it mean to belong when your presence is both essential and contested? Prajj's BUTTER CHICKEN TO GO exposes a deep contradiction and the universal quest for belonging as you follow three South Asian delivery drivers during a winter dinner rush → bit.ly/REdefined
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Sometimes you need someone especially apt at "snow jobs" for your film. 🫪 Learn about what goes into making movie magic with SCRIPT TO SCREEN, a cheeky doc by Claude Delorme from 1974 → bit.ly/4ra8F40 #streamcanadian
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BRIAN MULRONEY, director Matthew Rankin, gets our vote of confidence with this uncatgorizable portrait of the 18th prime minister of Canada.  @EM6211 picks Rankin’s collaborative brain for nearly 60 minutes.  Full Episode: lnk.to/354QAK
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