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NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA

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Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land

Directed by Graeme Mathieson and Chris Flanagan, this captivating five-part anthology series follows some of Jamaica’s brightest reggae stars, who left their homeland behind to shine their light in an unlikely hub of Caribbean creativity: Toronto.

New Releases

Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land
2024 5 episodes
Fire-Jo-Ball
Audrey Nantel-Gagnon 2023 16 min
Our Maternal Home
Janine Windolph 2023 27 min
Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
Natalie Baird & Toby Gillies 2024 7 min
Malartic
Nicolas Paquet 2024 1 h 28 min
Hothouse
2003 - 2024 14 editions
Losing Blue
Leanne Allison 2023 16 min
Boat People
Kjell Boersma & Thao Lam 2023 9 min
Governor General's Performing Arts Awards
2008 - 2024 16 editions

Films for Pride

Passiflora
Fernand Bélanger & Dagmar Gueissaz-Teufel 1985 1 h 24 min
Out: Stories of Lesbian and Gay Youth (European Version)
David Adkin 1993 50 min
Escape to Canada
Albert Nerenberg 2005 1 h 21 min
Michel Marc Bouchard: Speaking Out
Martin Talbot 2023 5 min
k.d. lang: songs & silence
Laura O'Grady 2023 5 min
Unarchived
Hayley Gray & Elad Tzadok 2022 1 h 24 min
Into Light
Sheona McDonald 2021 19 min
Someone Like Me
Sean Horlor & Steve J. Adams 2021 1 h 19 min
In Full Voice
Saida Ouchaou-Ozarowski 2021 52 min
Sometimes I Wish I Was On a Desert Island
Eli Jean Tahchi 2020 10 min
Love in Quarantine
Millefiore Clarkes 2020 10 min
I Am Gay
Ajahnis Charley 2020 10 min

Residential Schools

Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair
Alanis Obomsawin 2021 29 min
Holy Angels
Jay Cardinal Villeneuve 2017 13 min
The Road Forward
Marie Clements 2017 1 h 41 min
Second Stories - It Had to Be Done
Tessa Desnomie 2008 22 min
Etlinisigu'niet (Bleed Down)
Jeff Barnaby 2015 5 min
Sisters & Brothers
Kent Monkman 2015 3 min
We Were Children

Tim Wolochatiuk 2012 1 h 22 min
We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice
Alanis Obomsawin 2016 2 h 42 min
The Amendment
Kevin Papatie 2007 4 min
Foster Child
Gil Cardinal 1987 43 min
Stories Are in Our Bones
Janine Windolph 2019 11 min
Freedom Road
2019 5 episodes

Indigenous Cinema

Discover the NFB’s rich online collection of Indigenous-made films.

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TRENDING NOW

Roy & Yvonne
Graeme Mathieson & Chris Flanagan 2024 15 min
Sisters & Brothers
Kent Monkman 2015 3 min
Listen
David New 2009 6 min
Now - The Peace
1945 21 min
Reel Injun
Neil Diamond , Catherine Bainbridge , … 2009 1 h 28 min
In the Shadow of Gold Mountain
Karen Cho 2004 43 min
Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada
Karen Cho 2012 1 h 27 min
Who Gets In?
Barry Greenwald 1989 52 min
Holy Angels
Jay Cardinal Villeneuve 2017 13 min
Incident at Restigouche
Alanis Obomsawin 1984 45 min
Turn of the Century
1964 28 min
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
Alanis Obomsawin 1993 1 h 59 min

NFB Blog

Spotlight on Canadian Musicians

Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land
2024 5 episodes
Then Sings My Soul
Susan Rodgers 2021 14 min
Audacious
Janice Zolf 2016 5 min
Inner Rush
Christopher Romeike 2012 6 min
The Song and the Sorrow
Millefiore Clarkes 2018 42 min
Buffy
John Walker 2010 6 min
Family Band
David Battistella 2008 7 min
My Prairie Home
Chelsea McMullan 2013 1 h 16 min
Bryan Adams: Bare Bones
David Battistella 2010 5 min
Kate and Anna McGarrigle
Caroline Leaf 1981 27 min
Men of the Deeps
John Walker 2003 51 min
Glenn Gould - Off the Record
Roman Kroitor & Wolf Koenig 1959 29 min

Transmission of Indigenous Knowledge

Voices Across the Water
Fritz Mueller 2022 1 h 24 min
Heartbeat of a Nation
Eric Janvier 2022 20 min
Evan's Drum
Ossie Michelin 2021 14 min
Nalujuk Night
Jennie Williams 2021 13 min
ƛaʔuukʷiatḥ Dugout Canoe
Steven Davies 2021 10 min
Travelling College
Ernest Benedict 1968 9 min
Red Path
Thérèse Ottawa 2015 15 min
Stories Are in Our Bones
Janine Windolph 2019 11 min
Freedom Road
2019 5 episodes
These Are My People...
Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell , Willie Dunn , … 1969 13 min
Gene Boy Came Home
Alanis Obomsawin 2007 24 min
That Old Game La Crosse
JL Whitecrow 2018 7 min

Indigenous-Made Animation Films

Arctic Song
Germaine Arnattaujuq , Neil Christopher , … 2021 6 min
The Mountain of SGaana
Christopher Auchter 2017 10 min
Three Thousand
Asinnajaq 2017 14 min
I Like Girls
Diane Obomsawin 2016 8 min
Maq and the Spirit of the Woods
Phyllis Grant 2006 8 min
Waseteg
Phyllis Grant 2010 6 min
Walk-in-the-Forest
Diane Obomsawin 2009 3 min
The Visit
Lisa Jackson 2009 3 min
Little Thunder
Nance Ackerman & Alan Syliboy 2009 2 min
Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics
Terril Calder 2021 19 min
Nunavut Animation Lab: Qalupalik
Ame Papatsie 2010 5 min
Nunavut Animation Lab: Lumaajuuq
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril 2010 7 min

NFB @ TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival)

Modern Goose
Karsten Wall 2022 22 min
4 North A
Jordan Canning & Howie Shia 2020 10 min
To Kill a Tiger
Nisha Pahuja 2022 2 h 5 min
The Flying Sailor
Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby 2022 7 min
Ever Deadly
Chelsea McMullan & Tanya Tagaq 2022 1 h 29 min
The Colour of Ink
Brian D. Johnson 2022 1 h 49 min
Le sujet
Patrick Bouchard 2018 10 min
Animal Behaviour
Alison Snowden & David Fine 2018 14 min
Now Is the Time
Christopher Auchter 2019 16 min
Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger
Alanis Obomsawin 2019 1 h 5 min
Highway to Heaven
Sandra Ignagni 2019 16 min
Threads
Torill Kove 2017 8 min

NFB Films @ Ottawa Festival-OIAF

Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics
Terril Calder 2021 19 min
The Flying Sailor
Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby 2022 7 min
Altötting
Andreas Hykade 2020 11 min
I, Barnabé
Jean-François Lévesque 2020 15 min
Thanadoula
Robin McKenna 2020 6 min
The Physics of Sorrow
Theodore Ushev 2019 27 min
Turbine
Alex Boya 2018 8 min
Hedgehog's Home
Eva Cvijanovic 2017 10 min
Manivald
Chintis Lundgren 2017 12 min
The Mountain of SGaana
Christopher Auchter 2017 10 min
Blind Vaysha
Theodore Ushev 2016 8 min
MacPherson
Martine Chartrand 2012 10 min

Representing Gender Equality and Diversity

Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again
Courtney Montour 2021 34 min
The Housewife
Cathy Bennett 1975 6 min
Into Light
Sheona McDonald 2021 19 min
The Company of Strangers
Cynthia Scott 1990 1 h 40 min
Beauty
Christina Willings 2018 23 min
Laila
Diane Beaudry 1980 10 min
I Am Skylar
Rachel Bower 2019 15 min
Abortion: Stories from North and South
Gail Singer 1984 54 min
5′2″ 80 000 LBS
Nathalie Trépanier 1999 51 min
Women on the March
Douglas Tunstell 1958 58 min
A Score for Women's Voices
Sophie Bissonnette 2002 1 h 26 min
Holding Our Ground
Anne Henderson 1988 50 min

Welcome to the
NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA

New – From Kingston to Kensington Market

Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land

New Releases

Films for Pride

Residential Schools

Curator's Perspective

OUT OF THE VAULT

Filmmaker In Focus | Jules Arita Koostachin

CLASSICS

Animated Milestones

Fire-Jo-Ball

Indigenous Cinema

TRENDING NOW

NFB Blog

Spotlight on Canadian Musicians

Transmission of Indigenous Knowledge

Indigenous-Made Animation Films

NFB @ TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival)

NFB Films @ Ottawa Festival-OIAF

Representing Gender Equality and Diversity

The Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards

Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying

Malartic

Hothouse

Directors

Explore

Welcome to theNATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA

­New – From Kingston to Kensington Market

Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land

New Releases

Films for Pride

Residential Schools

Curator's Perspective

OUT OF THE VAULT

Filmmaker In Focus | Jules Arita Koostachin

CLASSICS

Animated Milestones

Fire-Jo-Ball

Indigenous Cinema

TRENDING NOW

NFB Blog

Spotlight on Canadian Musicians

Transmission of Indigenous Knowledge

Indigenous-Made Animation Films

NFB @ TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival)

NFB Films @ Ottawa Festival-OIAF

Representing Gender Equality and Diversity

Our newsletters offer hand-picked selections of our finest projects. Terms

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The Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards

Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying

Malartic

Hothouse

Directors

Explore

Welcome to the
NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA

New – From Kingston to Kensington Market

Our newsletters offer hand-picked selections of our finest projects.
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