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:20260612T170050Z 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 June 18 - nîpaw istamâsowin: We will stand up\nNo tickets required for this screening\; d oors open at 6:30pm.\n\nTasha Hubbard\, 2019\n98 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles \n\nOn August 9\, 2016\, a young Cree man nam ed Colten Boushie died from a gunshot to the back of his head after enteri ng Gerald Stanley’s rural property with his friends. The jury’s subseq uent acquittal of Stanley captured international attention\, raising quest ions about racism embedded within Canada’s legal system and propelling C olten’s family to national and international stages in their pursuit of justice. Sensitively directed by Tasha Hubbard\, nîpawistamâsowin: We Wi ll Stand Up weaves a profound narrative encompassing the filmmaker’s own adoption\, the stark history of colonialism on the Prairies\, and a visio n of a future where Indigenous children can live safely on their homelands .\n\nThis work contains scenes of violence. Viewer discretion is advised.\ n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Inkwo For When The S tarving Return (Amanda Strong\, 2024\, 18 min)\n\n\nThursday June 25 - Gho sts of the Sea\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:3 0pm.\n\nVirginia Tangvald\, 2024\n97 minutes\nOriginal French &\; Norwe gian version\, French subtitles only\n\n“There are three kinds of people : the living\, the dead\, and those who go to sea.”  — Aristotle\nBo rn at sea\, Virginia was just five years old when her father\, the famous Norwegian adventurer Peter Tangvald\, died in a shipwreck. When her elder brother\, Thomas\, also disappeared mysteriously at sea\, Virginia decided to start investigating. She explores the archives and memories of those w ho encountered this unconventional family\, and what she discovers is stag gering: two of Peter’s wives died under suspicious and potentially crimi nal circumstances. In seeking to understand where she comes from and to un cover her family’s dark secrets\, Virginia creates a film that challenge s what she believed to be true and calls into question the idyllic image o f the untethered sailor.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film The Flying Sailor (Amanda Forbis &\; Wendy Tilby\, 2022\, 7 min)\n \n\n*Hello Film takes a break for the summer\; stay tuned for our fall pro gram!*\n \;\nPAST SCREENINGS\nThursday June 11 - Daughter of the Crate r\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nNadin e Beaudet et Danic Champoux\, 2019\n75 minutes\nOriginal French version\, English subtitles \n\nA woman with a deep love of the land\, Yolande Sima rd Perrault sees her life as having been shaped by a planetary upheaval in Charlevoix\, Quebec\, millions of years ago. As enduring as the Canadian Shield\, she’s a woman of strength and spirit\, a child of the crater le ft by the meteor’s impact. This documentary portrays a determined woman who’s the reflection of a land created on an immense scale. She was the creative and life partner of filmmaker Pierre Perrault\, who gave up every thing to be by her side. The film charts the influence of her unquenchable dreams and her contribution to the building of a people’s collective me mory. In a stream of images and words\, Simard Perrault recounts the splen dours of the landscape and the people who shaped it. Generous and boundles s\, she embarks on a quest for identity that nurtures and perpetuates the oeuvre of the man who breathed new life into Quebec cinema.\n\nThe documen tary will be preceded by the short film Saturday (Jessica Hall\, 2025\, 12 min)\n\n\nThursday June 4 - Cure for Love\nNo tickets required for this s creening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nFrancine Pelletier &\; Christina Wi llings\, 2008\n59 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles \n \nCure for Love is a full-length documentary about a controversial evangel ical movement that purports to convert gay people into heterosexuals. The film brings us inside this unusual Christian subculture and follows the li ves of several young people whose homosexuality is at odds with their reli gious beliefs.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film I Am Skylar (Rachel Bower\, 2020\, 15 min)\nThursday May 28 - The Colour of Ink \nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nBrian D. Johnson\, 2022\n109 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitle s \n\nInk is our primal medium. It has always been with us\, inscribing t he evolution of humanity. The Colour of Ink uncovers the medium’s myster y and power through the eyes of Jason Logan\, a visionary Toronto inkmaker . Working with ingredients foraged in the wild—weeds\, berries\, bark\, flowers\, rocks\, rust—he makes ink from just about anything. Jason send s 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 rec onnects us to the earth and returns us to a childlike sense of wonder.\n\n The documentary will be preceded by the short film Loca (Véronique Paquet te\, 2024\, 5 min\, in French only)\n\n\nThursday May 21 - Becoming Labrad or\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nRoha n Fernando\, Tamara Segura &\; Justin Simms\, 2018\n70 minutes\nOrigin al English version\, French subtitles \n\nIn the stark Labrador interior\ , a growing number of Filipino workers have recently landed in Happy Valle y-Goose Bay\, travelling halfway around the world for jobs they hope will offer their families new opportunities and a better life. Becoming Labrado r follows a handful of those women and men as they make a place for themse lves in Labrador while dealing with the unexpected costs of living far fro m their family.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Have You Eaten? (Lina Li\, 2020\, 5 minutes\, in French only)\n\n\nThursday Ma y 14 - To Kill A Tiger\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors ope n at 6:30pm.\n\nNisha Pahuja\, 2022\n125 minutes\nOriginal Punjabi version \, French subtitles only\n\nOn the night of a family wedding in a village in India\, Ranjit’s 13-year-old daughter is abducted and sexually assaul ted by three men. Ranjit takes on the fight of his life when he demands th e men be brought to justice. With tremendous access to all facets of this story\, To Kill a Tiger charts the emotional journey of an ordinary man th rown into extraordinary circumstances—a father whose love for his daught er forces a social reckoning that will reverberate for years to come.\n\nT his work deals with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.\n \nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Sandra Oh\, Inspirati on (Karen Lam\, 2019\, 4 min)\n\n\nThursday May 7 - Because We Are Girls\n No tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nBaljit S angra\, 2019\n82 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles *\n\ nA conservative Indo-Canadian family in small-town British Columbia must c ome to terms with a devastating secret: three sisters were sexually abused by an older relative beginning in their childhood years. After remaining silent for nearly two and a half decades\, the sisters finally decide to c ome forward—not only to protect other young relatives\, but to set an ex ample for their daughters as well.\n\nThis work deals with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film The Unboxing of Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (Kathleen Jayme\, 202 3\, 4 min)\n\n\nThursday March 26 - A Losing Game\nIn collaboration with A pathy is Boring.\n\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nJenny Cartwright \, 2025\n97 minutes\nOriginal French version\, English subtitles\n\nA Losi ng Game follows three candidates in Quebec’s 2022 provincial election— each with one thing in common: no chance of winning. As their campaigns un fold\, the film exposes the cracks in Quebec’s electoral system—from b arriers faced by women and racialized candidates to flawed voting processe s\, skewed campaign financing\, and the outsized influence of media and po lls. With a sharp critical lens\, director Jenny Cartwright reveals a syst em where the race is rigged from the start—and the real losers are the v oters.\n\n\nThursday March 19 - A Delicate Balance\nIn collaboration with the Rendez-vous de la francophonie and the International Festival of Films on Art.\n\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nChristine Chevalerie-Les sard\, 2018\n75 minutes\nOriginal French version\, English subtitles\n\nFi lmed from the point of view of its young subjects\, A Delicate Balance tak es an introspective look at the lives of four dancers on the cusp of adole scence—that critical time in one’s life when childhood fantasies begin to collide with the realities of being an adult. A tender and captivating documentary in which students of the École supérieure de ballet du Qué bec candidly tell their stories and share their hopes and dreams.\n\nThe d ocumentary will be preceded by the short film Zab Maboungou (Carmine Pierr e-Dufour\, 2021\, 4 min)\n\n\nThursday March 12 - Afterwards\nIn co-presen tation with Regroupement des maisons pour femmes victimes de violence conj ugale and RIDM\n\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nRomane Garant Char trand\, 2023\n24 minutes\nOriginal French version\, English subtitles\n\nI nside a shelter\, participants in a talking circle share their experiences of intimate partner violence as a way to regain their dignity and strengt h to act. Powerfully empathetic\, Afterwards creates a space of sisterhood and solidarity—a chorus of voices breaking down the walls of silence.\n \nThe documentary will be followed by a podcast and a Q&\;A with the di rector *In French only*.\n\n\nThursday March 5 - The Nest\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nChase Joynt and Julietta Singh\, 2025\n89 minutes\n Original English version\, French subtitles\n\nAt the end of her mother’ s life\, decolonial writer Julietta Singh returns to say goodbye to her ch ildhood home. As she digs into the history of the house\, she uncovers 140 years of forgotten matriarchs and political histories she never knew. In this genre-defying cross-community collaboration\, a single home is transf ormed from a place of siloed stories into a site of radical potential.\n\n The documentary will be preceded by the short film Mary &\; Myself (Sam Decoste\, 2013\, 6 min)\nThursday February 26 - Beyond Paper\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nOana Suteu Khintirian\, 2022\n131 minutes\nOrig inal French version\, French subtitles\n\n***The film contains several lan guages. The version of the film we will be showing has sequences subtitled exclusively in French. A version with English narration and English subti tles is available\, for free\, on our platform NFB.ca.\n\nAt a critical mo ment in the history 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 poeti c\, she embarks on a personal quest with universal resonance\, navigating the continuum between paper and digital—and reminding us that human know ledge is above all an affair of the soul and the spirit.\n\n\nThursday Feb ruary 19 - Ninth Floor\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nMina Shum\, 2015\n81 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nIt starte d quietly when a group of Black Caribbean students began to suspect their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive student uprising Canad a had ever known. Over four decades later\, Ninth Floor reopens the file o n the infamous Sir George Williams (now Concordia) protests in Montreal— a watershed moment in Canadian race relations and one of the most conteste d episodes in the nation’s history.\n\nPreceded by the recent short film reXistence by Will Prosper (2025\, 9 min). Through striking Canadian arch ival footage\, the film exposes systemic violence and celebrates Black str ength in Canada.\n\nThe screening\, co-presented by CinéCozry\, will be f ollowed by a discussion in English and French with author David Austin\, a professor at John Abbott College and McGill. Topics will include what Bla ck radicals envisioned in speaking of freedom and the internationalist ide als these revolutionaries inspired\, both then and now.\n\nThis event will also mark World Day of Social Justice (February 20).\n\n\nThursday Februa ry 12 - Love\, the last chapter\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nDom inique Keller\, 2021\n78 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtit les\n\nInside a seniors’ facility\, director Dominique Keller follows th ree couples as they navigate the complexities of late-in-life relationship s. Revealing the importance of intimate connections\, this observational f ilm builds fully embodied portraits of each individual in all of their ind elible humanity.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Ana tomy (Patrick Bossé\, 2013\, 8 min)\nThursday February 5 - Pink Ribbons I nc.\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nLéa Pool\, 2011\n97 minutes\nO riginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nPink Ribbons\, Inc. is a fea ture documentary that shows how the devastating reality of breast cancer\, which marketing experts have labeled a "dream cause\," has been hijacked by a shiny\, pink story of success.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film April Hubbard: Leading by Example (Monique LeBlanc\, 2025\ , 4 min)\nThursday January 29 - In Full Voice\nTo reserve your seats\, cli ck here\n\nSaida Ouchaou-Ozarowski\, 2021\n52 minutes\nOriginal English ve rsion\, French subtitles\n\nMuslim women are disconcerting\, intriguing\, polarizing—and straitjacketed by conflations of ideas in front-page stor ies. While the media tend to portray them as submissive and silenced\, fil mmaker Saïda Ouchaou-Ozarowski has chosen to distance herself from that c aricature\, with which she does not identify. She sat down with six Muslim Canadian women eager to talk about what shapes their identities. The resu lting documentary\, In Full Voice\, offers an intimate perspective on the journey of these women\, who have a common desire to share their visions o f Islam.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Question Pe riod (Ann Marie Fleming\, 2019\, 5 min)\n\n \;\nThursday January 22 - Anything For Fame\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nTyler Funk\, 2023 \n84 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nIn the ruthle ss “attention economy” of the Internet\, young influencers gamble ever ything for fame-‘n’-fortune. A startling and timely study of contempor ary celebrity\, Anything for Fame ventures into the virtual Wild West to p rofile an ambitious—and reckless—new breed of content creator.\n\nThis work deals with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.\n\nT he documentary will be preceded by the short film Social Me (Katia Café- Fébrissy\, 2015\, 23 min)\n\n\n\n \;\nThursday January 15 - Stolen Ti me\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nHelene Klodawsky\, 2023\n85 minu tes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nA compelling call for justice\, Stolen Time follows charismatic elder rights lawyer Melissa Mill er as she takes on the corporate for-profit nursing-home industry—an ind ustry notorious for its lack of transparency and accountability. As the le gal battle unfolds\, families\, frontline caregivers and change-makers chr onicle an urgent crisis with ramifications—and inspiration—for us all. \n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film 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