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👀 Check out what @alexboya_ cooked up! Fresh off its festival tour, BREAD WILL WALK is now free to consume on #NFB → bit.ly/4hjQSEt 🍞🧟‍♂️ Can love defy appetite? #StreamCanadian

BREAD WILL WALK | Trailer - watch now!

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Animation can be scary! 👻 Get into the #Halloween spirit with these five films you can stream for free on #NFB → nfb.ca/animation #StreamCanadian

5 Spooky Animated Films to Watch this Fall

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Some ideas are born in the dead of night. 🌔 In this interview with actor Jay Baruchel, @alexboya_ reveals how his latest animated short, BREAD WILL WALK, rose from a dream. 🥖 Watch it for free on #NFB, and our full interview on YouTube → youtu.be/E8JLAGbHwDw

BREAD WILL WALK Interview | Alex Boya on flipping canons

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What's your favourite scary movie? 📞🔪 Ours is BREAD WILL WALK! 🍞 Enjoy these mock-up posters by director @alexboya_ and stream it for free on NFB → bit.ly/4hjQSEt #StreamCanadian #Spooktober
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Like well-kneaded dough, Jay Baruchel rose to the challenge of voicing all 10 characters in @alexboya_'s masterfully baked BREAD WILL WALK. 🥖 Stream this new animated short film for free on #NFB, and catch our full interview on YouTube → youtu.be/E8JLAGbHwDw #StreamCanadian

BREAD WILL WALK Interview | Jay Baruchel's "planet-sized ego"

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POV Magazine@POVmagazineOct 16
Now streaming from @thenfb, Min Sook Lee examines her family's past in the powerful THERE ARE NO WORDS povmagazine.com/now-streamin…

Now Streaming: There Are No Words Mines a Family's Painful History - POV Magazine

Now streaming from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), There Are No Words sees Min Sook Lee examine a personal story that's long haunted her.

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Using the letterpress and craft materials she passed down to him, Duncan Major created IMPRINT as a heartfelt tribute to his mentor, Tara Bryan. 🔡💞 Stream it for free on #NFB → bit.ly/4vvArsF #StreamCanadian #Inktober

IMPRINT | Streaming for free on NFB

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🎬 Award-winning filmmaker Min Sook Lee turns a critical eye on her father, a former South Korean intelligence officer, to confront the silences surrounding her mother’s suicide in THERE ARE NO WORDS, now streaming for free on #NFB → bit.ly/NFBNoWords #StreamCanadian

THERE ARE NO WORDS | Now streaming for free on NFB

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Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrewOct 13
1/2 - Today's Oscar-qualified short is ‘Bread Will Walk,’ Alex Boya’s surreal satire about a sister protecting her bread-transformed brother from a hungry mob. The hand-drawn NFB production unfolds in one impressive continuous shot. cartoonbrew.com/awards/cbrea…
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Did you grow up in a family business? 🥡 Sylvia Mok discusses legacy and second homes with peers from #Halifax’s tight-knit Chinese community in RESTAURANT KIDS. 🥠 Watch now for free → bit.ly/REdefined #StreamCanadian

RESTAURANT KIDS | When I started working...

💚 Produced as part of REDEFINED, a TIFF and NFB initiative supporting emerging Canadian and Indigenous filmmakers aged 30 and under.

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@TIFF_NETOct 9
“What is this fantastic country up north?” 🇨🇦 Guillermo del Toro shares his love of Canadian cinema and explains how it all began. Wishing the honorary Canadian a very happy birthday today 🎂
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Director Matthew Rankin talks LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BRIAN MULRONEY with @filmhounds → bit.ly/3UdqHX4 #VIFF2026 #StreamCanadian
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OCN Distribution
@ocndistroOct 6
Digging THE STUNT DRIVER in theaters? Check out @thenfb's even crazier, even more unbelievable documentary about it, THE DEVIL AT YOUR HEELS, available on @cipictures's Blu-ray. 🏎️Order link in comments🏎️
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Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx
@CraigBairdOct 3
Without a doubt, one of the best documentaries ever made. I watch it at least once or twice a year. And it is FREE to watch on the NFB site and app. Can't wait to watch The Stunt Driver!
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@thenfbOct 3
45 years ago, the #NFB captured Ken “The Mad Canadian” Carter’s quest to jump the St. Lawrence in a rocket car in THE DEVIL AT YOUR HEELS.🚗💨 Now, the story returns in THE STUNT DRIVER. We caught up with Ed Helms, who plays engineer Dick Keller, on the #TIFF26 red carpet.

THE DEVIL AT YOUR HEELS remake, The Stunt Driver, at TIFF red carpet

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YVArcade@yvarcadeOct 4
'First Comes Love: Nakabingwit' @thenfb courts various Filipino-Canadian romances 🇵🇭 at @VIFFest tmblr.co/ZhuNXyk34HsVqu00 #VIFF2026
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🧡 7 films for 7 teachings.🧡 Afro-Anishnabe filmmaker and actress Adeline Bird shares the lesson of HONESTY in Gil Cardinal's FOSTER CHILD; a doc available in English, French and Cree on NFB. 👣 Watch the full discussion on our YouTube channel → bit.ly/4uMvBXb

7 Ways of Seeing: Honesty in FOSTER CHILD

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Behind the scenes with two silver screen greats—Buster Keaton and Gerald Potterton—as they troubleshoot a scene for “The Railrodder” and muse on the acting skills of MGM's Louis B. Mayer in BUSTER KEATON RIDES AGAIN → bit.ly/4xLq1G9 🚂 💨 #streamcanadian

BUSTER KEATON RIDES AGAIN | Troubleshooting a scene

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45 years ago, the #NFB captured Ken “The Mad Canadian” Carter’s quest to jump the St. Lawrence in a rocket car in THE DEVIL AT YOUR HEELS.🚗💨 Now, the story returns in THE STUNT DRIVER. We caught up with Ed Helms, who plays engineer Dick Keller, on the #TIFF26 red carpet.

THE DEVIL AT YOUR HEELS remake, The Stunt Driver, at TIFF red carpet

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Do you remember the rest of the song? 🪰🎶 Head over to #NFB to sing along with Burl Ives as he recounts the gastronomic misadventures an of old lady who swallowed a fly → bit.ly/4iLhtvg #StreamCanadian

KNOW AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY | Watch for free on NFB!

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@TIFF_NETSep 30
“I’ll never change the way I work.” 🧡 Alanis Obomsawin reflected on her experiences and why it is so important to her to amplify Indigenous voices through her documentary work.
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