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Inkwo for When the Starving Return
Amanda Strong |2024 | 19 min. Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from an unburied swarm of terrifying creatures.
How to Make your First Film in Three Months
Inside HotHouse 15 | Director:Simon Girard | 2025 | Part 1 (11 min), Part 2 (17 min) and Part 3 (11 min). Six emerging animators face sleepless nights, setbacks, and breakthroughs during their time at the NFB's coveted three-month creative...
The Muse (soon in the programming choices)
Wanda Nolan |2025 | 18 min. A road trip across Newfoundland with photographer Ting Ting Chen and her muse, Robert Tilley, as they explore memory, identity and the power of creative connections.
Bread Will Walk (soon in the programming choices)
Alex Boya | 2025 | 11 min. A devoted sister races to save her brother, a bread-turned zombie. A mob of hungry living pursues, mouths agape. Streets twist into mazes, reason crumbles. Can love defy appetite?
HotHouse 15
Abbey Collings, Mégan Dupont, Katie Finn, Mitchell Keys, Max Ma, Aerin Wu | 2025 | 6 X 1 min. Working out of Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City, they were given only 12 weeks to each create a one-minute film on the theme “People...
Ninan Auassat, We, The Children
Kim O'Bomsawin | 2024 | 93 min. A powerful film shot from “a child’s eye-view” without the voices of adults, this documentary reveals the dreams of a new generation poised to take flight.
Themes
- Celebrate French, in March
- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (March 21)
- International Women’s Day Suggestions
- National Indigenous History Month
- PRIDE Celebrations
- TD Summer Reading Club (NFB film selection)
- Art, Music, Literature
- Animated films
- Resilience and Life Journeys
- Teen Zone
- Climate Change
- Truth and Reconciliation
- Youth
- Short documentaries (for discussions or compilations)