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The National Film Board Animation Collection

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The National Film Board Animation Collection includes the following titles:

A Sea Turtle Story - imageA Sea Turtle Story

A moving and exquisite stop-motion animated film that chronicles the life of a sea turtle.

National Film Board of Canada | 2012 | 10 minutes
Balakrishna - imageBalakrishna

When an extraordinary new resident – Balakrishna, an Indian elephant – arrived in the town of East River, Nova Scotia, in 1967, no one was more in awe of the creature than young Winton Cook, who became inseparable from his mammoth new friend.

National Film Board of Canada | 2019 | 15 minutes
Bam - imageBam

A modern animated adaptation of the myth of Hercules: where does rage come from? Psychological? Environmental? Or something altogether more primordial?

National Film Board of Canada | 2015 | 7 minutes
Blood Manifesto - imageBlood Manifesto

A disturbing personal meditation on the shedding blood for one's ideals.

National Film Board of Canada | 2014 | 2 minutes
Blossom - imageBlossom

The immigrant experience lovingly told through animation.

National Film Board of Canada | 2010 | 6 minutes
Bone Mother - imageBone Mother

Who dares to disturb the devil’s grandmother and enter her slumbering house of bones? Who is foolish enough to betray this immortal nature-spirit?

National Film Board of Canada | 2018 | 8 minutes | 7-12, PS
Bully Dance - imageBully Dance

A non-verbal film with a strong message about bullies.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 10 minutes | 5-12, College, Adult
CMYK - imageCMYK

An unrestrained animated riot of color and energy built on a multitude of CMYK symbols, the codes used in four-color process printing.

National Film Board of Canada | 2011 | 7 minutes
Carface (Autos Portraits) - imageCarface (Autos Portraits)

A biting animated satire of our Big Oil-based civilization.

National Film Board of Canada | 2015 | 5 minutes
Coda - imageCoda

Using advanced digital technologies, this short animation offers a new vision of dance in cinema.

National Film Board of Canada | 2014 | 11 minutes

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