The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) announced it has greenlit 16 more productions and co-productions between January and June 2023. The slate includes nine feature-length documentaries and seven animated shorts, which are now underway at studios across the country.
The animated works are:
Bread Will Walk
Director: Alex Boya
Producer: Jelena Popović | Animation & Interactive Studio | 100% NFB
In a world confronted by climate change and food shortages, a mysterious agrochemical corporation produces engineered synthetic bread — which accidentally turns the hungry into slow, non-violent, zombie-like creatures made of loaves of freshly baked bread.
Les gens dans l’armoire
(People in the Closet)
Director: Dahee Jeong
Co-producers: Dahee Jeong (Between the Pictures) and Christine Noël (NFB) | French Animation Studio
In a strange world of people who have clothes but no bodies, the arrival of a little girl made of flesh and blood shakes things up.
Imprint
Director: Duncan Major
Producer: Maral Mohammadian | Animation & Interactive Studio | 100% NFB
Imprint is an experimental animated short about creativity and loss. It’s inspired by the relationship between filmmaker Duncan Major and his friend and mentor, who passed away, leaving him a collection of rare printing presses.
Paradajz
Director: Matea Radic
Producer: Jelena Popović | Animation & Interactive Studio | 100% NFB
After 25 years, filmmaker Matea Radic returns to Sarajevo and tells a hopeful tale of survival and self-discovery that reinforces the importance of “home” when one is searching for paradise.
Parandeh
Director: Ehsan Gharib
Producer: Maral Mohammadian | Animation & Interactive Studio | 100% NFB
Parandeh is about the power of stillness. Its premise is simple and stands out in the blur of modern life. A bird is trapped in a cage. Only when it stops struggling does it find itself free.
Piluk
Directors: Elisapie Isaac and Marc Séguin
Producer: Marc Bertrand | French Animation Studio | 100% NFB
A poetic meditation on identity, attachment to the land and the power of art as a source of human and spiritual guidance. Piluk leaves her remote world to join another: the world of the South and the city.
Something Over There
Director: Arash Akhgari
Producer: Jelena Popović | Animation & Interactive Studio | 100% NFB
An endless parade of fragmented mass media and the audiences compulsively consuming them. A hypnotizing mix of collage, ink and paint becomes a space for introspection and reflects our viewing and reading habits.
For more information on these and other projects currently in the works across NFB studios, visit the NFB Production webpage.
