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Ottawa International Animation Festival Award Winners

A playlist by Albert Ohayon
28 films
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The Ottawa International Animated Film Festival will take place from September 25th to 29th 2019. Once again, many important NFB productions will be screened there. NFB films have won many awards at this prestigious event – one of the most important animation festivals in the world. Enjoy this rich playlist of some NFB shorts that have been honoured in Ottawa over the years.

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Ottawa International Animation Festival Award Winners

The Ottawa International Animated Film Festival will take place from September 25th to 29th 2019. Once again, many important NFB productions will be screened there. NFB films have won many awards at this prestigious event – one of the most important animation festivals in the world. Enjoy this rich playlist of some NFB shorts that have been honoured in Ottawa over the years.

Having viewed over 8,000 films, Albert Ohayon is our resident collections expert. He studied film production and journalism at Concordia University in Montreal and has been working at the National Film Board since 1984.

Playlist

  • Soif
    A woman plays out her existence on the screen of her life. Alcohol is the essence of her being. She imbibes her youth and becomes completely absorbed by the desire to satisfy her thirst. Moving from parties to binge drinking, pleasure to distress, joy to delirium, she lets herself be lulled by the undulating waves of bottles. She floats in the intoxicating liquid, sees her childhood re-emerge, and feels as if she is a tiny fish lost in an ocean of madness. Her craving for alcohol engenders a burning passion. Drinking becomes a fatal embrace... On the verge of drowning in the torrent of this insane obsession, will she find the strength to rise to the surface?

    Soif is a tragedy in five acts centered on a woman who must confront the fate of her existence. Michèle Cournoyer (The Hat) has created another hard-hitting film. She broaches a sensitive topic in her inimitable style, using black ink on paper to render dazzling metamorphoses.
  • Turbine

    Special Mention for Best Canadian Animation

  • Hedgehog's Home

    Honourable Mention- Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation

  • The Tesla World Light
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  • The Mountain of SGaana
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  • Blind Vaysha
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  • I Like Girls

    Nelvana Grand Prize for Independent Short Animation

  • Focus

    Honourable Mention for the Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation

  • Seth's Dominion
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  • Me and My Moulton
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  • The Clockmakers

    Honourable Mention for Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation 2013

  • MacPherson

    Honourable Mention for Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation 2012

  • Wild Life

    Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation 2011

  • Sunday

    Honourable Mention for Best Canadian Animation 2011

  • Lipsett Diaries

    Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation 2010

  • Sleeping Betty

    Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation & NFB Public Prize 2007

  • Madame Tutli-Putli

    Best Narrative Short Animation (under 35 minutes) 2007

  • Here and There

    Best Narrative Short Animation (under 35 minutes) 2006

  • Jeu

    Best Experimental / Abstract Animation (under 35 minutes) 2006

  • Ryan

    Grand Prize for Best Independent Short Film/Video

  • When the Day Breaks

    Frederic Back Award for Best Canadian Film

  • The Lump

    Gordon Bruce Award for Humour 1992

  • The Sweater

    Second Prize - Category: Films Longer than 3 minutes 1980

  • Every Child

    First Prize - Category: First Films 1980

  • Why Me

    Special Jury Award 1978

  • The Street
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  • Mindscape

    Special Jury Award 1976