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:20260722T153951Z URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/hello-film-free-screenings-at-the-nfb-2/ SUMMARY:Hello film! | Free screenings at the NFB DESCRIPTION:*Hello Film screenings are officially over*\nStay tuned for our next free screenings by subscribing to our platforms!\n \;\nPAST SCRE ENINGS\nFree films\, first-come\, first-wowed!\nGems from the NFB collecti on\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 pr esenting free public screenings at the NFB’s Alanis Obomsawin Theatre in the heart of the Quartier des Spectacles. Reserve your seats below. See y ou there!\n\nAll screenings begin at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30).\n\nAcces sible to persons with reduced mobility.\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\nThursday June 18 - nîpawistamâsowin: We will stand up\nNo tickets re quired for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nTasha Hubbard\, 2019\ n98 minutes\nOriginal 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 jury’s subsequent acquittal of Stanley captured internatio nal attention\, raising questions about racism embedded within Canada’s legal system and propelling Colten’s family to national and internationa l stages in their pursuit of justice. Sensitively directed by Tasha Hubbar d\, nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up weaves a profound narrative encom passing the filmmaker’s own adoption\, the stark history of colonialism on the Prairies\, and a vision of a future where Indigenous children can l ive safely on their homelands.\n\nThis work contains scenes of violence. V iewer discretion is advised.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the sh ort film Inkwo For When The Starving Return (Amanda Strong\, 2024\, 18 min )\n\n\nThursday June 11 - Daughter of the Crater\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nNadine Beaudet et Danic Champoux \, 2019\n75 minutes\nOriginal French version\, English subtitles \n\nA wo man with a deep love of the land\, Yolande Simard Perrault sees her life a s having been shaped by a planetary upheaval in Charlevoix\, Quebec\, mill ions 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 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 o f filmmaker Pierre Perrault\, who gave up everything to be by her side. Th e film charts the influence of her unquenchable dreams and her contributio n to the building of a people’s collective memory. In a stream of images and words\, Simard Perrault recounts the splendours of the landscape and the people who shaped it. Generous and boundless\, she embarks on a quest for identity that nurtures and perpetuates the oeuvre of the man who breat hed new life into Quebec cinema.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by th e short film Saturday (Jessica Hall\, 2025\, 12 min)\n\n\nThursday June 4 - Cure for Love\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6: 30pm.\n\nFrancine Pelletier &\; Christina Willings\, 2008\n59 minutes\n Original English version\, French subtitles \n\nCure for Love is a full-l ength documentary about a controversial evangelical movement that purports to convert gay people into heterosexuals. The film brings us inside this unusual Christian subculture and follows the lives of several young people whose homosexuality is at odds with their religious beliefs.\n\nThe docum entary 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 t his screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nBrian D. Johnson\, 2022\n109 minu tes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles \n\nInk is our primal me dium. It has always been with us\, inscribing the evolution of humanity. T he Colour of Ink uncovers the medium’s mystery and power through the eye s 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 sends custom-made inks to an ec lectic 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 pl ayful 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 pre ceded by the short film Loca (Véronique Paquette\, 2024\, 5 min\, in Fren ch only)\n\n\nThursday May 21 - Becoming Labrador\nNo tickets required 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 of Filip ino workers have recently landed in Happy Valley-Goose Bay\, travelling ha lfway around the world for jobs they hope will offer their families new op portunities and a better life. Becoming Labrador follows a handful of thos e women and men as they make a place for themselves in Labrador while deal ing with the unexpected costs of living far from their family.\n\nThe docu mentary will be preceded by the short film Have You Eaten? (Lina Li\, 2020 \, 5 minutes\, in French only)\n\n\nThursday May 14 - To Kill A Tiger\nNo tickets required for this screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nNisha Pahuj a\, 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-ye ar-old daughter is abducted and sexually assaulted by three men. Ranjit ta kes 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 cha rts the emotional journey of an ordinary man thrown into extraordinary cir cumstances—a father whose love for his daughter forces a social reckonin g that will reverberate for years to come.\n\nThis work deals with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.\n\nThe documentary will be p receded by the short film Sandra Oh\, Inspiration (Karen Lam\, 2019\, 4 mi n)\n\n\nThursday May 7 - Because We Are Girls\nNo tickets required for thi s screening\; doors open at 6:30pm.\n\nBaljit Sangra\, 2019\n82 minutes\nO riginal English version\, French subtitles *\n\nA conservative Indo-Canadi an family in small-town British Columbia must come to terms with a devasta ting secret: three sisters were sexually abused by an older relative begin ning in their childhood years. After remaining silent for nearly two and a half decades\, the sisters finally decide to come forward—not only to p rotect other young relatives\, but to set an example for their daughters a s well.\n\nThis work deals with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion i s advised.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film The Unbox ing of Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (Kathleen Jayme\, 2023\, 4 min)\n\n\nThursday Ma rch 26 - A Losing Game\nIn collaboration with Apathy is Boring.\n\nTo rese rve your seats\, click here\n\nJenny Cartwright\, 2025\n97 minutes\nOrigin al French version\, English subtitles\n\nA Losing Game follows three candi dates in Quebec’s 2022 provincial election—each with one thing in comm on: no chance of winning. As their campaigns 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 financi ng\, and the outsized influence of media and polls. With a sharp critical lens\, director Jenny Cartwright 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\nIn collaboration with the Rendez-vous de la franc ophonie and the International Festival of Films on Art.\n\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nChristine Chevalerie-Lessard\, 2018\n75 minutes\nOr iginal French version\, English subtitles\n\nFilmed from the point of view of its young subjects\, A Delicate Balance takes an introspective look at the lives of four dancers on the cusp of adolescence—that critical time in one’s life when childhood fantasies begin to collide with the realit ies of being an adult. A tender and captivating documentary in which stude nts of the École supérieure de ballet du Québec candidly tell their sto ries and share their hopes and dreams.\n\nThe documentary will be preceded by the short film Zab Maboungou (Carmine Pierre-Dufour\, 2021\, 4 min)\n\ n\nThursday March 12 - Afterwards\nIn co-presentation with Regroupement de s maisons pour femmes victimes de violence conjugale and RIDM\n\nTo reserv e your seats\, click here\n\nRomane Garant Chartrand\, 2023\n24 minutes\nO riginal French version\, English subtitles\n\nInside a shelter\, participa nts in a talking circle share their experiences of intimate partner violen ce as a way to regain their dignity and strength to act. Powerfully empath etic\, Afterwards creates a space of sisterhood and solidarity—a chorus of voices breaking down the walls of silence.\n\nThe documentary will be f ollowed 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\nChas e 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 i nto the history of the house\, she uncovers 140 years of forgotten matriar chs and political histories she never knew. In this genre-defying cross-co mmunity collaboration\, a single home is transformed from a place of siloe d stories into a site of radical potential.\n\nThe documentary will be pre ceded by the short film Mary &\; Myself (Sam Decoste\, 2013\, 6 min)\nT hursday February 26 - Beyond Paper\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\n Oana Suteu Khintirian\, 2022\n131 minutes\nOriginal French version\, Frenc h subtitles\n\n***The film contains several languages. The version of the film we will be showing has sequences subtitled exclusively in French. A v ersion with English narration and English subtitles is available\, for fre e\, on our platform NFB.ca.\n\nAt a critical moment in the history of the written word\, as humanity’s archives migrate to the cloud\, one filmmak er goes on a journey around the globe to better understand how she can pre serve her own Romanian and Armenian heritage\, as well as our collective m emory. Blending the intellectual with the poetic\, she embarks on a person al quest with universal resonance\, navigating the continuum between paper and digital—and reminding us that human knowledge is above all an affai r of the soul and the spirit.\n\n\nThursday February 19 - Ninth Floor\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nMina Shum\, 2015\n81 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nIt started quietly when a group of B lack Caribbean students began to suspect their professor of racism. It end ed in the most explosive student uprising Canada had ever known. Over four decades later\, Ninth Floor reopens the file on the infamous Sir George W illiams (now Concordia) protests in Montreal—a watershed moment in Canad ian race relations and one 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 exp oses systemic violence and celebrates Black strength in Canada.\n\nThe scr eening\, co-presented by CinéCozry\, will be followed by a discussion in English and French with author David Austin\, a professor at John Abbott C ollege and McGill. Topics will include what Black radicals envisioned in s peaking of freedom and the internationalist ideals these revolutionaries i nspired\, both then and now.\n\nThis event will also mark World Day of Soc ial Justice (February 20).\n\n\nThursday February 12 - Love\, the last cha pter\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nDominique Keller\, 2021\n78 mi nutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\nInside a seniors’ facility\, director Dominique Keller follows three couples as they navigat e the complexities of late-in-life relationships. Revealing the importance of intimate connections\, this observational film builds fully embodied p ortraits of each individual in all of their indelible humanity.\n\nThe doc umentary 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 minutes\nOriginal English version\, F rench subtitles\n\nPink Ribbons\, Inc. is a feature documentary that shows how the devastating reality of breast cancer\, which marketing experts ha ve 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 Hubba rd: Leading by Example (Monique LeBlanc\, 2025\, 4 min)\nThursday January 29 - In Full Voice\nTo reserve your seats\, click here\n\nSaida Ouchaou-Oz arowski\, 2021\n52 minutes\nOriginal English version\, French subtitles\n\ nMuslim women are disconcerting\, intriguing\, polarizing—and straitjack eted by conflations of ideas in front-page stories. While the media tend t o portray them as submissive and silenced\, filmmaker Saïda Ouchaou-Ozaro wski has chosen to distance herself from that caricature\, with which she does not identify. She sat down with six Muslim Canadian women eager to ta lk about what shapes their identities. The resulting documentary\, In Full Voice\, offers an intimate perspective on the journey of these women\, wh o 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\, 2 019\, 5 min)\n\n \;\nThursday January 22 - Anything For Fame\nTo reser ve your seats\, click here\n\nTyler Funk\, 2023\n84 minutes\nOriginal Engl ish version\, French subtitles\n\nIn the ruthless “attention economy” of the Internet\, young influencers gamble everything for fame-‘n’-for tune. A startling and timely study of contemporary celebrity\, Anything fo r Fame ventures into the virtual Wild West to profile an ambitious—and r eckless—new breed of content creator.\n\nThis work deals with mature sub ject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.\n\nThe documentary will be prec eded by the short film Social Me (Katia 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 versi on\, French subtitles\n\nA compelling call for justice\, Stolen Time follo ws charismatic elder rights lawyer Melissa Miller as she takes on the corp orate for-profit nursing-home industry—an industry notorious for its lac k of transparency and accountability. As the legal battle unfolds\, famili es\, frontline caregivers and change-makers chronicle an urgent crisis wit h 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