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The National Film Board Animation Collection

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The National Film Board Animation Collection includes the following titles:

Jutra - imageJutra

An ingenious animated documentary about Claude Jutra, the director of Mon Oncle Antoine.

National Film Board of Canada | 2014 | 13 minutes
Mary & Myself - imageMary & Myself

Honors the thousands of girls and women from who were forced into sexual slavery as "comfort women" by the Japanese army during World War II.

National Film Board of Canada | 2014 | 7 minutes
Muybridge's Strings - imageMuybridge's Strings

An animated meditation on the theme of time, contrasting the worlds of 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge who successfully photographed consecutive phases in the movement of a galloping horse, and a mother who, watching her daughter grow up, realizes she is slipping away from her.

National Film Board of Canada | 2011 | 13 minutes
My Little Underground - imageMy Little Underground

A sombre, haunting autobiographical story that follows a young girl's bus ride home in winter.

National Film Board of Canada | 2012 | 7 minutes
Mystery of the Secret Room - imageMystery of the Secret Room

A spellbinding voyage between the real and the imaginary by 10-year-old Grace, who uses her creative superpowers to navigate the emotional landscape of her mother's depression.

National Film Board of Canada | 2016 | 6 minutes
Nadine - imageNadine

A shy adolescent with an overflowing imagination meets the most beautiful girl in the world...

National Film Board of Canada | 2017 | 5 minutes
No Fish Where to Go - imageNo Fish Where to Go

A friendship unites two little girls from opposing clans in a village where tensions are mounting.

National Film Board of Canada | 2014 | 12 minutes
Oscar - imageOscar

A touching portrait combining animated sequences and archival footage of virtuoso pianist Oscar Peterson.

National Film Board of Canada | 2016 | 12 minutes
Pilots on the Way Home - imagePilots on the Way Home

A satirical meditation on male-female relations, told via three airplane pilots, inexplicably find themselves stranded in the middle of a desert.

National Film Board of Canada | 2014 | 16 minutes
Reflection - imageReflection

An exploration of the urban environment through surfaces, reflections, color, and light.

National Film Board of Canada | 2012 | 5 minutes

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