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.
February 8 2012
FREE FAVOURITES: BLACK SOUL and SPEAKERS FOR THE DEAD
Black Soul As an old lady initiates her grandson into his past, a series of perpetually transforming images painted directly under the animation camera unfolds before our eyes. A film without words. Martine...
February 11 2012
FRENCH-LANGUAGE BLACK HISTORY MONTH FAMILY PROGRAM: HOP and HARRY JEROME: L'HOMME LE PLUS RAPIDE AU MONDE
Hop A David and Goliath story for modern times. Meet Justin, a young Pygmy without papers who fights a solitary battle aginast the Belgian state to find his missing father. See the trailer here. Dominique...
February 11 2012
FRENCH-LANGUAGE BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROGRAM FOR ADULTS: VÉNUS NOIRE and HUNGU
Vénus noire The story of Saartjes Baartman, a Black domestic who, in 1808, left Southern Africa, then ruled by Dutch settlers, for Europe, following her boss Hendrick Caesar, hoping to find...
February 15 2012
FREE FAVOURITES AT FOUR: WOMEN AND MEN UNGLUED
At the start of the new millennium, relations between men and women are in turmoil. Traditional marriage is challenged on all fronts. Long-held notions about gender, commitment and courtship have been...
February 15 2012
A WORLD OF SHORTS: ROMANCE IN RUINS
The perfect Valentine's Day antidote: a bounty of tragic and funny mood-killers, romantic mishaps and never-gonna-kiss-yas. From adolescent experimentation to peer pressure, low self-esteem to death,...
February 17 2012
ALL BALLS DON'T BOUNCE: SPORTS WEEKEND
Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears They say that Philadelphia is the capital of boxing and Joe Frazier's Gym is the White House. This is the story of a father, a son and a forgotten legacy. Mike Todd...
February 18 2012
ALL BALLS DON'T BOUNCE: SPORTS WEEKEND
3 PM - White Wash A documentary exploring the complexity of race in America through the struggle and triumph of black surfers. Ted Woods | USA | 2011 | 78 min 5 PM - Fire in Babylon The breathtaking...
February 21 2012
CELEBRATING 60 YEARS OF THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA: CELIA FRANCA: TOUR DE FORCE
A penetrating profile of the Founder of the National Ballet of Canada with some wonderful archival vintage film footage shot in the fifties during the early days of the National Ballet of Canada. Watch...
