BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2150@events.nfb.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260115T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T210000 DTSTAMP:20260318T201001Z URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/hello-film-free-screenings-at-the-nfb-2/ SUMMARY:Hello film! | Free screenings at the NFB DESCRIPTION:Free films\, first-come\, first-wowed!\nGems from the NFB colle ction\nRound up your family or some friends and come see recent gems from the NFB collection on the big screen in Montreal. Every Thursday\, we’re presenting free public screenings at the NFB’s Alanis Obomsawin Theatre in the heart of the Quartier des Spectacles. Reserve your seats below. Se e you there!\n\nAll screenings begin at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30).\n\nAc cessible to persons with reduced mobility.\n\n \;\n***\n\nThursday Mar ch 19 - A Delicate Balance\nIn collaboration with the Rendez-vous de la fr ancophonie and the International Festival of Films on Art.\n\nTo reserve y our seats\, click here\n\nChristine Chevalerie-Lessard\, 2018\n75 minutes\ nOriginal French version\, English subtitles\n\nFilmed from the point of v iew of its young subjects\, A Delicate Balance takes an introspective look at the lives of four dancers on the cusp of adolescence—that critical t ime in one’s life when childhood fantasies begin to collide with the rea lities of being an adult. A tender and captivating documentary in which st udents of the École supérieure de ballet du Québec candidly tell their stories and share their hopes and dreams.\n\nThe documentary will be prece ded by the short film Zab Maboungou (Carmine Pierre-Dufour\, 2021\, 4 min) \n\n\nThursday March 26 - A Losing Game\nIn collaboration with Apathy is B oring.\n\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nJenny Cartwright\, 2025\n9 7 minutes\nOriginal French version\, English subtitles\n\nA Losing Game fo llows three candidates in Quebec’s 2022 provincial election—each with one thing in common: no chance of winning. As their campaigns unfold\, the film exposes the cracks in Quebec’s electoral system—from barriers fa ced by women and racialized candidates to flawed voting processes\, skewed campaign financing\, and the outsized influence of media and polls. With a sharp critical lens\, director Jenny Cartwright reveals a system where t he race is rigged from the start—and the real losers are the voters.\n\n \n\n***Taking a 3-week break\, back on April 23!***\n \;\nThursday Apr il 23 - This Is Not a Movie\nTo reserve your seats\, coming soon\n\nYung C hang\, 2019\n88 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nFo r more than 40 years\, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world. Director Yung Chang capt ures Fisk in relentless action—feet on the ground\, notebook in hand\, a s he travels into landscapes devastated by war\, ferreting out the facts a nd firing reports back home to reach an audience of millions.\n\nThis work contains scenes of violence. Viewer discretion is advised.\n\nThe documen tary will be preceded by the short film Return to Vimy (Denis McCready\, 2 017\, 9 min)\n\n\nThursday April 30 - Love\, Scott\nTo reserve your seats\ , coming soon\n\nLaura Marie Wayne\, 2018\n76 minutes\nOriginal English ve rsion\, French subtitles\n\nWhile walking on the street one night in a sma ll town in Canada\, Scott Jones\, a gay musician\, is attacked and paralyz ed from the waist down\; what follows is a brave and fragile journey of he aling and the transformation of a young man’s life. From the first raw m oments in the hospital to a disquieting trip back to the place he was atta cked\, Scott is constantly faced with the choice of losing himself in wave s of grief or embracing love over fear. Filmed over three years by Scott ’s close friend\, Love\, Scott is an intimate and visually evocative win dow into queer experience\, set against a stunning score by Sigur Rós.\n\ nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film The Tournament (Sam Vi nt\, 2020\, 22 min)\n\n\nThursday May 7 - Because We Were Girls\nTo reserv e your seats\, coming soon\n\n \;\nThursday May 14 - To Kill A Tiger\n To reserve your seats\, coming soon\n\n \;\nThursday May 21 - Becoming Labrador\nTo reserve your seats\, coming soon\n\n \;\nThursday May 28 - The Colour of Ink\nTo reserve your seats\, coming soon\n\n \;\nPAST SCREENINGS\nThursday March 12 - Afterwards\nIn co-presentation with Regro upement des maisons pour femmes victimes de violence conjugale and RIDM\n\ nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nRomane Garant Chartrand\, 2023\n24 minutes\nOriginal French version\, English subtitles\n\nInside a shelter\, participants in a talking circle share their experiences of intimate part ner violence as a way to regain their dignity and strength to act. Powerfu lly empathetic\, Afterwards creates a space of sisterhood and solidarity —a chorus of voices breaking down the walls of silence.\n\nThe documenta ry will be followed by a podcast and a Q&\;A with the director *In Fren ch only*.\n\n\nThursday March 5 - The Nest\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nChase Joynt and Julietta Singh\, 2025\n89 minutes\nOriginal Englis h version\, French subtitles\n\nAt the end of her mother’s life\, decolo nial writer Julietta Singh returns to say goodbye to her childhood home. A s she digs into the history of the house\, she uncovers 140 years of forgo tten matriarchs and political histories she never knew. In this genre-defy ing cross-community collaboration\, a single home is transformed from a pl ace of siloed stories into a site of radical potential.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Mary &\; Myself (Sam Decoste\, 2013 \, 6 min)\nThursday February 26 - Beyond Paper\nTo reserve your seats\, cl ick here\n\nOana Suteu Khintirian\, 2022\n131 minutes\nOriginal French ver sion\, French subtitles\n\n***The film contains several languages. The ver sion of the film we will be showing has sequences subtitled exclusively in French. A version with English narration and English subtitles is availab le\, for free\, on our platform NFB.ca.\n\nAt a critical moment in the his tory of the written word\, as humanity’s archives migrate to the cloud\, one filmmaker goes on a journey around the globe to better understand how she can preserve her own Romanian and Armenian heritage\, as well as our collective memory. Blending the intellectual with the poetic\, she embarks on a personal quest with universal resonance\, navigating the continuum b etween paper and digital—and reminding us that human knowledge is above all an affair of the soul and the spirit.\n\n\nThursday February 19 - Nint h Floor\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nMina Shum\, 2015\n81 minute s\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nIt started quietly when a group of Black Caribbean students began to suspect their professor of ra cism. It ended in the most explosive student uprising Canada had ever know n. Over four decades later\, Ninth Floor reopens the file on the infamous Sir George Williams (now Concordia) protests in Montreal—a watershed mom ent in Canadian race relations and one of the most contested episodes in t he nation’s history.\n\nPreceded by the recent short film reXistence by Will Prosper (2025\, 9 min). Through striking Canadian archival footage\, the film exposes systemic violence and celebrates Black strength in Canada .\n\nThe screening\, co-presented by CinéCozry\, will be followed by a di scussion in English and French with author David Austin\, a professor at J ohn Abbott College and McGill. Topics will include what Black radicals env isioned in speaking of freedom and the internationalist ideals these revol utionaries inspired\, both then and now.\n\nThis event will also mark Worl d Day of Social Justice (February 20).\n\n\nThursday February 12 - Love\, the last chapter\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nDominique Keller\, 2021\n78 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nInside a seniors’ facility\, director Dominique Keller follows three couples as they navigate the complexities of late-in-life relationships. Revealing th e importance of intimate connections\, this observational film builds full y embodied portraits of each individual in all of their indelible humanity .\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Anatomy (Patrick B ossé\, 2013\, 8 min)\nThursday February 5 - Pink Ribbons Inc.\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nLéa Pool\, 2011\n97 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nPink Ribbons\, Inc. is a feature documentar y that shows how the devastating reality of breast cancer\, which marketin g experts have labeled a "dream cause\," has been hijacked by a shiny\, pi nk story of success.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film April Hubbard: Leading by Example (Monique LeBlanc\, 2025\, 4 min)\nThurs day January 29 - In Full Voice\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nSaid a Ouchaou-Ozarowski\, 2021\n52 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nMuslim women are disconcerting\, intriguing\, polarizing—an d straitjacketed by conflations of ideas in front-page stories. While the media tend to portray them as submissive and silenced\, filmmaker Saïda O uchaou-Ozarowski has chosen to distance herself from that caricature\, wit h which she does not identify. She sat down with six Muslim Canadian women eager to talk about what shapes their identities. The resulting documenta ry\, In Full Voice\, offers an intimate perspective on the journey of thes e women\, who have a common desire to share their visions of Islam.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Question Period (Ann Marie Fleming\, 2019\, 5 min)\n\n \;\nThursday January 22 - Anything For Fa me\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nTyler Funk\, 2023\n84 minutes\nO riginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nIn the ruthless “attention economy” of the Internet\, young influencers gamble everything for fame -‘n’-fortune. A startling and timely study of contemporary celebrity\, Anything for Fame ventures into the virtual Wild West to profile an ambit ious—and reckless—new breed of content creator.\n\nThis work deals wit h mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Social Me (Katia Café-Fébrissy\, 201 5\, 23 min)\n\n\n\n \;\nThursday January 15 - Stolen Time\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nHelene Klodawsky\, 2023\n85 minutes\nOriginal E nglish version\, French subtitles\n\nA compelling call for justice\, Stole n Time follows charismatic elder rights lawyer Melissa Miller as she takes on the corporate for-profit nursing-home industry—an industry notorious for its lack of transparency and accountability. As the legal battle unfo lds\, families\, frontline caregivers and change-makers chronicle an urgen t crisis with ramifications—and inspiration—for us all.\n\nThe documen tary will be preceded by the short film Toe Heel Toe Heel (Gabrielle Corne llier\, 2018\, 3 min)\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://events.nfb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/12 /HELLO-FILM_1136x640.png CATEGORIES:Free Event,Screenings LOCATION:NFB Alanis Obomsawin Theatre\, 1500 Balmoral Street\, Montreal\, Q uebec\, H3A 0H3\, Quebec\, Canada GEO:45.507553;-73.568328 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1500 Balmoral Street\, Mont real\, Quebec\, H3A 0H3\, Quebec\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=NFB A lanis Obomsawin Theatre:geo:45.507553,-73.568328 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR