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:20260512T181411Z 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***\nThursday May 14 - To Kill A Tiger\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n \nNisha Pahuja\, 2022\n125 minutes\nOriginal Punjabi version\, French subt itles only\n\nOn the night of a family wedding in a village in India\, Ran jit’s 13-year-old daughter is abducted and sexually assaulted by three m en. Ranjit takes on the fight of his life when he demands the men be broug ht to justice. With tremendous access to all facets of this story\, To Kil l a Tiger charts the emotional journey of an ordinary man thrown into extr aordinary circumstances—a father whose love for his daughter forces a so cial reckoning that will reverberate for years to come.\n\nThis work deals with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.\n\nThe document ary will be preceded by the short film Sandra Oh\, Inspiration (Karen Lam\ , 2019\, 4 min)\n\n\nThursday May 21 - Becoming Labrador\nNo tickets requi red for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nRohan Fernando\, Tamara Segura &\; Justin Simms\, 2018\n70 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles \n\nIn the stark Labrador interior\, a growing number o f Filipino workers have recently landed in Happy Valley-Goose Bay\, travel ling halfway around the world for jobs they hope will offer their families new opportunities and a better life. Becoming Labrador follows a handful of those women and men as they make a place for themselves in Labrador whi le dealing with the unexpected costs of living far from their family.\n\nT he documentary will be preceded by the short film Have You Eaten? (Lina Li \, 2020\, 5 minutes\, in French only)\n\n\nThursday May 28 - The Colour of Ink\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nBr ian D. Johnson\, 2022\n109 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subt itles \n\nInk is our primal medium. It has always been with us\, inscribi ng the evolution of humanity. The Colour of Ink uncovers the medium’s my stery and power through the eyes of Jason Logan\, a visionary Toronto inkm aker. Working with ingredients foraged in the wild—weeds\, berries\, bar k\, flowers\, rocks\, rust—he makes ink from just about anything. Jason sends custom-made inks to an eclectic range of artists around the world\, from a New Yorker cartoonist to a Japanese calligrapher. As the inks take on a life of their own\, his playful alchemy paints a story of colour that reconnects us to the earth and returns us to a childlike sense of wonder. \n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Loca (Véronique Pa quette\, 2024\, 5 min\, in French only)\n\n\nThursday June 4 - Cure for Lo ve\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nFran cine Pelletier &\; Christina Willings\, 2008\n59 minutes\nOriginal Engl ish version\, French subtitles \n\nCure for Love is a full-length documen tary about a controversial evangelical movement that purports to convert g ay people into heterosexuals. The film brings us inside this unusual Chris tian subculture and follows the lives of several young people whose homose xuality is at odds with their religious beliefs.\n\nThe documentary will b e preceded by the short film I Am Skylar (Rachel Bower\, 2020\, 15 min)\n\ n \;\nThursday June 11 - Daughter of the Crater\nNo tickets required f or this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nNadine Beaudet et Danic Champ oux\, 2019\n75 minutes\nOriginal French version\, English subtitles \n\nA woman with a deep love of the land\, Yolande Simard Perrault sees her lif e as having been shaped by a planetary upheaval in Charlevoix\, Quebec\, m illions of years ago. As enduring as the Canadian Shield\, she’s a woman of strength and spirit\, a child of the crater left by the meteor’s imp act. This documentary portrays a determined woman who’s the reflection o f a land created on an immense scale. She was the creative and life partne r of filmmaker Pierre Perrault\, who gave up everything to be by her side. The film charts the influence of her unquenchable dreams and her contribu tion to the building of a people’s collective memory. In a stream of ima ges and words\, Simard Perrault recounts the splendours of the landscape a nd the people who shaped it. Generous and boundless\, she embarks on a que st for identity that nurtures and perpetuates the oeuvre of the man who br eathed new life into Quebec cinema.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Saturday (Jessica Hall\, 2025\, 12 min)\n\n\nThursday June 18 - nîpawistamâsowin: We will stand up\nNo tickets required for this s creening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nTasha Hubbard\, 2019\n98 minutes\nOrig inal English version\, French subtitles \n\nOn August 9\, 2016\, a young Cree man named Colten Boushie died from a gunshot to the back of his head after entering Gerald Stanley’s rural property with his friends. The jur y’s subsequent acquittal of Stanley captured international attention\, r aising questions about racism embedded within Canada’s legal system and propelling Colten’s family to national and international stages in their pursuit of justice. Sensitively directed by Tasha Hubbard\, nîpawistamâ sowin: We Will Stand Up weaves a profound narrative encompassing the filmm aker’s own adoption\, the stark history of colonialism on the Prairies\, and a vision of a future where Indigenous children can live safely on the ir homelands.\n\nThis work contains scenes of violence. Viewer discretion is advised.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Inkwo Fo r When The Starving Return (Amanda Strong\, 2024\, 18 min)\n\n\nThursday J une 25 - Ghosts of the Sea\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nVirginia Tangvald\, 2024\n97 minutes\nOriginal French &\; Norwegian version\, French subtitles only\n\n“There are three kin ds of people: the living\, the dead\, and those who go to sea.”  — A ristotle\nBorn at sea\, Virginia was just five years old when her father\, the famous Norwegian adventurer Peter Tangvald\, died in a shipwreck. Whe n her elder brother\, Thomas\, also disappeared mysteriously at sea\, Virg inia decided to start investigating. She explores the archives and memorie s of those who encountered this unconventional family\, and what she disco vers is staggering: two of Peter’s wives died under suspicious and poten tially criminal circumstances. In seeking to understand where she comes fr om and to uncover her family’s dark secrets\, Virginia creates a film th at challenges what she believed to be true and calls into question the idy llic image of the untethered sailor.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded b y the short film The Flying Sailor (Amanda Forbis &\; Wendy Tilby\, 202 2\, 7 min)\n\n\n*Hello Film takes a break for the summer\; stay tuned for our fall program!*\n \;\n\n \;\nPAST SCREENINGS\nThursday May 7 - Because We Are Girls\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nBaljit Sangra\, 2019\n82 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles *\n\nA conservative Indo-Canadian family in small-town B ritish Columbia must come to terms with a devastating secret: three sister s were sexually abused by an older relative beginning in their childhood y ears. After remaining silent for nearly two and a half decades\, the siste rs finally decide to come forward—not only to protect other young relati ves\, but to set an example for their daughters as well.\n\nThis work deal s with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.\n\nThe documen tary will be preceded by the short film The Unboxing of Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (Kathleen Jayme\, 2023\, 4 min)\n\n\nThursday March 26 - A Losing Game\nI n collaboration with Apathy is Boring.\n\nTo reserve your seats\, click he re\n\nJenny Cartwright\, 2025\n97 minutes\nOriginal French version\, Engli sh subtitles\n\nA Losing Game follows 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 ele ctoral system—from barriers faced by women and racialized candidates to flawed voting processes\, skewed campaign financing\, and the outsized inf luence of media and polls. With a sharp critical lens\, director Jenny Car twright reveals a system where the race is rigged from the start—and the real losers are the voters.\n\n\nThursday March 19 - A Delicate Balance\n In collaboration with the Rendez-vous de la francophonie and the Internati onal Festival of Films on Art.\n\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nCh ristine Chevalerie-Lessard\, 2018\n75 minutes\nOriginal French version\, E nglish subtitles\n\nFilmed from the point of view of its young subjects\, A Delicate Balance takes an introspective look at the lives of four dancer s on the cusp of adolescence—that critical time in one’s life when chi ldhood fantasies begin to collide with the realities of being an adult. A tender and captivating documentary in which students of the École supéri eure de ballet du Québec candidly tell their stories and share their hope s and dreams.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Zab Ma boungou (Carmine Pierre-Dufour\, 2021\, 4 min)\n\n\nThursday March 12 - Af terwards\nIn co-presentation with Regroupement des maisons pour femmes vic times 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 s hare their experiences of intimate partner violence as a way to regain the ir dignity and strength to act. Powerfully empathetic\, Afterwards creates a space of sisterhood and solidarity—a chorus of voices breaking down t he walls of silence.\n\nThe documentary will be followed by a podcast and a Q&\;A with the director *In French only*.\n\n\nThursday March 5 - The Nest\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nChase Joynt and Julietta Sing h\, 2025\n89 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nAt th e end of her mother’s life\, decolonial writer Julietta Singh returns to say goodbye to her childhood home. As she digs into the history of the ho use\, she uncovers 140 years of forgotten matriarchs and political histori es she never knew. In this genre-defying cross-community collaboration\, a single home is transformed from a place of siloed stories into a site of radical potential.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film M ary &\; Myself (Sam Decoste\, 2013\, 6 min)\nThursday February 26 - Bey ond Paper\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nOana Suteu Khintirian\, 2 022\n131 minutes\nOriginal French version\, French subtitles\n\n***The fil m contains several languages. The version of the film we will be showing h as sequences subtitled exclusively in French. A version with English narra tion and English subtitles is available\, for free\, on our platform NFB.c a.\n\nAt a critical moment in the history of the written word\, as humanit y’s archives migrate to the cloud\, one filmmaker goes on a journey arou nd the globe to better understand how she can preserve her own Romanian an d Armenian heritage\, as well as our collective memory. Blending the intel lectual with the poetic\, she embarks on a personal quest with universal r esonance\, navigating the continuum between paper and digital—and remind ing us that human knowledge is above all an affair of the soul and the spi rit.\n\n\nThursday February 19 - Ninth Floor\nTo reserve your seats\, clic k here\n\nMina Shum\, 2015\n81 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nIt started quietly when a group of Black Caribbean students b egan to suspect their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive student uprising Canada had ever known. Over four decades later\, Ninth Fl oor reopens the file on the infamous Sir George Williams (now Concordia) p rotests in Montreal—a watershed moment in Canadian race relations and on e of the most contested episodes in the 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 an d celebrates Black strength in Canada.\n\nThe screening\, co-presented by CinéCozry\, will be followed by a discussion in English and French with a uthor David Austin\, a professor at John Abbott College and McGill. Topics will include what Black radicals envisioned in speaking of freedom and th e internationalist ideals these revolutionaries inspired\, both then and n ow.\n\nThis event will also mark World Day of Social Justice (February 20) .\n\n\nThursday February 12 - Love\, the last chapter\nTo reserve your sea ts\, click here\n\nDominique Keller\, 2021\n78 minutes\nOriginal English v ersion\, French subtitles\n\nInside a seniors’ facility\, director Domin ique Keller follows three couples as they navigate the complexities of lat e-in-life relationships. Revealing the importance of intimate connections\ , this observational film builds fully embodied portraits of each individu al in all of their indelible humanity.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Anatomy (Patrick Bossé\, 2013\, 8 min)\nThursday Febru ary 5 - Pink Ribbons Inc.\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nLéa Pool \, 2011\n97 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nPink R ibbons\, Inc. is a feature documentary that shows how the devastating real ity of breast cancer\, which marketing experts have labeled a "dream cause \," has been hijacked by a shiny\, pink story of success.\n\nThe documenta ry will be preceded by the short film April Hubbard: Leading by Example (M onique LeBlanc\, 2025\, 4 min)\nThursday January 29 - In Full Voice\nTo re serve your seats\, click here\n\nSaida Ouchaou-Ozarowski\, 2021\n52 minute s\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nMuslim women are disconc erting\, intriguing\, polarizing—and straitjacketed by conflations of id eas in front-page stories. While the media tend to portray them as submiss ive and silenced\, filmmaker Saïda Ouchaou-Ozarowski has chosen to distan ce herself from that caricature\, with which she does not identify. She sa t down with six Muslim Canadian women eager to talk about what shapes thei r identities. The resulting documentary\, In Full Voice\, offers an intima te perspective on the journey of these 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 \;\n Thursday January 22 - Anything For Fame\nTo reserve your seats\, click her e\n\nTyler Funk\, 2023\n84 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subt itles\n\nIn the ruthless “attention economy” of the Internet\, young i nfluencers gamble everything for fame-‘n’-fortune. A startling and tim ely study of contemporary celebrity\, Anything for Fame ventures into the virtual Wild West to profile an ambitious—and reckless—new breed of co ntent creator.\n\nThis work deals with mature subject matter. Viewer discr etion is advised.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film So cial Me (Katia Café-Fébrissy\, 2015\, 23 min)\n\n\n\n \;\nThursday January 15 - Stolen Time\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nHelene Klo dawsky\, 2023\n85 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\n A compelling call for justice\, Stolen Time follows charismatic elder righ ts lawyer Melissa Miller as she takes on the corporate for-profit nursing- home industry—an industry notorious for its lack of transparency and acc ountability. As the legal battle unfolds\, families\, frontline caregivers and change-makers chronicle an urgent crisis with ramifications—and ins piration—for us all.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short fi lm Toe Heel Toe Heel (Gabrielle Cornellier\, 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