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:20260423T204153Z 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 7 - Because We Are Girls\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30p m.\n\nBaljit Sangra\, 2019\n82 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles *\n\nA conservative Indo-Canadian family in small-town British C olumbia must come to terms with a devastating secret: three sisters were s exually abused by an older relative beginning in their childhood years. Af ter remaining silent for nearly two and a half decades\, the sisters final ly decide to come forward—not only to protect other young relatives\, bu t to set an example for their daughters as well.\n\nThis work deals with m ature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.\n\nThe documentary wil l be preceded by the short film The Unboxing of Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (Kathle en Jayme\, 2023\, 4 min)\n\n\nThursday May 14 - To Kill A Tiger\nNo ticket s required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nNisha Pahuja\, 20 22\n125 minutes\nOriginal Punjabi version\, French subtitles only\n\nOn th e night of a family wedding in a village in India\, Ranjit’s 13-year-old daughter is abducted and sexually assaulted by three men. Ranjit takes on the fight of his life when he demands the men be brought to justice. With tremendous access to all facets of this story\, To Kill a Tiger charts th e emotional journey of an ordinary man thrown into extraordinary circumsta nces—a father whose love for his daughter forces a social reckoning that will reverberate for years to come.\n\nThis work deals with mature subjec t matter. Viewer discretion is advised.\n\nThe documentary will be precede d by the short film Sandra Oh\, Inspiration (Karen Lam\, 2019\, 4 min)\n\n \nThursday May 21 - Becoming Labrador\nNo tickets required for this screen ing\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nRohan Fernando\, Tamara Segura &\; Justi n Simms\, 2018\n70 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles  \n\nIn the stark Labrador interior\, a growing number of Filipino workers have recently landed in Happy Valley-Goose Bay\, travelling 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 while dealing with the unexpected costs of living far from 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\n\n \;\nThursday May 28 - The Colour of Ink\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nBrian D. J ohnson\, 2022\n109 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles \ n\nInk is our primal medium. It has always been with us\, inscribing the e volution of humanity. The Colour of Ink uncovers the medium’s mystery an d power through the eyes of Jason Logan\, a visionary Toronto inkmaker. Wo rking with ingredients foraged in the wild—weeds\, berries\, bark\, flow ers\, rocks\, rust—he makes ink from just about anything. Jason sends cu stom-made inks to an eclectic range of artists around the world\, from a N ew Yorker cartoonist to a Japanese calligrapher. As the inks take on a lif e of their own\, his playful alchemy paints a story of colour that reconne cts 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 Paquette\, 2024\, 5 min\, in French only)\n\n\nThursday June 4 - Cure for Love\nNo t ickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nThe document ary will be preceded by the short film\n\n \;\nThursday June 11 - Daug hter of the Crater\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film\n\n \;\ nThursday June 18 - nîpawistamâsowin: We will stand up\nNo tickets requi red for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film\n\n \;\nThursday June 25 - Ghosts of the Se a\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nThe d ocumentary will be preceded by the short film\n\n \;\n*Hello Film take s a break for the summer\; stay tuned for our fall program!*\n \;\n\n& nbsp\;\nPAST SCREENINGS\nThursday March 26 - A Losing Game\nIn collaborati on with Apathy is Boring.\n\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nJenny C artwright\, 2025\n97 minutes\nOriginal French version\, English subtitles\ n\nA Losing Game follows three candidates in Quebec’s 2022 provincial el ection—each with one thing in common: no chance of winning. As their cam paigns unfold\, the film exposes the cracks in Quebec’s electoral system —from barriers faced by women and racialized candidates to flawed voting processes\, skewed campaign financing\, and the outsized influence of med ia and polls. With a sharp critical lens\, director Jenny Cartwright revea ls 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\nIn collaborat ion with the Rendez-vous de la francophonie and the International Festival of Films on Art.\n\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nChristine Cheva lerie-Lessard\, 2018\n75 minutes\nOriginal French version\, English subtit les\n\nFilmed from the point of view of its young subjects\, A Delicate Ba lance takes an introspective look at the lives of four dancers on the cusp of adolescence—that critical time in one’s life when childhood fantas ies begin to collide with the realities of being an adult. A tender and ca ptivating documentary in which students of the École supérieure de balle t du Québec candidly tell their stories and share their hopes and dreams. \n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Zab Maboungou (Carm ine Pierre-Dufour\, 2021\, 4 min)\n\n\nThursday March 12 - Afterwards\nIn co-presentation with Regroupement des maisons pour femmes victimes de viol ence conjugale and RIDM\n\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nRomane Ga rant Chartrand\, 2023\n24 minutes\nOriginal French version\, English subti tles\n\nInside a shelter\, participants in a talking circle share their ex periences of intimate partner violence as a way to regain their dignity an d strength to act. Powerfully empathetic\, Afterwards creates a space of s isterhood and solidarity—a chorus of voices breaking down the walls of s ilence.\n\nThe documentary will be followed by a podcast and a Q&\;A wi th the director *In French only*.\n\n\nThursday March 5 - The Nest\nTo res erve your seats\, click here\n\nChase Joynt and Julietta Singh\, 2025\n89 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nAt the 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 house\, she unc overs 140 years of forgotten matriarchs and political histories 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 poten tial.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Mary &\; My self (Sam Decoste\, 2013\, 6 min)\nThursday February 26 - Beyond Paper\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nOana Suteu Khintirian\, 2022\n131 minu tes\nOriginal French version\, French subtitles\n\n***The film contains se veral languages. The version of the film we will be showing has sequences subtitled exclusively in French. A version with English narration and Engl ish subtitles is available\, for free\, on our platform NFB.ca.\n\nAt a cr itical moment in the history of the written word\, as humanity’s archive s 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 he ritage\, as well as our collective memory. Blending the intellectual with the poetic\, she embarks on a personal quest with universal resonance\, na vigating the continuum between paper and digital—and reminding us that h uman knowledge is above all an affair of the soul and the spirit.\n\n\nThu rsday February 19 - Ninth Floor\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nMin a Shum\, 2015\n81 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\n It started quietly when a group of Black Caribbean students began to suspe ct their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive student upris ing Canada had ever known. Over four decades later\, Ninth Floor reopens t he file on the infamous Sir George Williams (now Concordia) protests in Mo ntreal—a watershed moment in Canadian race relations and one of the most contested episodes in the nation’s history.\n\nPreceded by the recent s hort film reXistence by Will Prosper (2025\, 9 min). Through striking Cana dian 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 discussion in English and French with author David A ustin\, a professor at John Abbott College and McGill. Topics will include what Black radicals envisioned in speaking of freedom and the internation alist ideals these revolutionaries inspired\, both then and now.\n\nThis e vent will also mark World Day of Social Justice (February 20).\n\n\nThursd ay February 12 - Love\, the last chapter\nTo reserve your seats\, click he re\n\nDominique Keller\, 2021\n78 minutes\nOriginal English version\, Fren ch subtitles\n\nInside a seniors’ facility\, director Dominique Keller f ollows three couples as they navigate the complexities of late-in-life rel ationships. Revealing the importance of intimate connections\, this observ ational film builds fully embodied portraits of each individual in all of their indelible humanity.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Anatomy (Patrick Bossé\, 2013\, 8 min)\nThursday February 5 - Pink Ribbons Inc.\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nLéa Pool\, 2011\n97 m inutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nPink Ribbons\, Inc. is a feature 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 pr eceded by the short film April Hubbard: Leading by Example (Monique LeBlan c\, 2025\, 4 min)\nThursday January 29 - In Full Voice\nTo reserve your se ats\, click here\n\nSaida Ouchaou-Ozarowski\, 2021\n52 minutes\nOriginal E nglish version\, French subtitles\n\nMuslim women are disconcerting\, intr iguing\, polarizing—and straitjacketed by conflations of ideas in front- page stories. While the media tend to portray them as submissive and silen ced\, filmmaker Saïda Ouchaou-Ozarowski has chosen to distance herself fr om that caricature\, with which she does not identify. She sat down with s ix Muslim Canadian women eager to talk about what shapes their identities. The resulting documentary\, In Full Voice\, offers an intimate perspectiv e 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 Qu estion Period (Ann Marie Fleming\, 2019\, 5 min)\n\n \;\nThursday Janu ary 22 - Anything For Fame\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nTyler Fu nk\, 2023\n84 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nIn t he ruthless “attention economy” of the Internet\, young influencers ga mble 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 ambitious—and reckless—new breed of content creator .\n\nThis work deals with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advi sed.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Social Me (Kat ia Café-Fébrissy\, 2015\, 23 min)\n\n\n\n \;\nThursday January 15 - Stolen Time\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nHelene Klodawsky\, 2023 \n85 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nA compelling call for justice\, Stolen Time follows charismatic elder rights lawyer Mel issa 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 unfolds\, families\, frontline caregivers and change-m akers chronicle an urgent crisis with ramifications—and inspiration—fo r us all.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Toe Heel T oe 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