{"id":7055569,"date":"2026-09-03T06:53:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animation\/new-theodore-ushev-and-michele-lemieux-shorts-lead-nfbs-16-film-slate\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T06:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:53:50","slug":"new-theodore-ushev-and-michele-lemieux-shorts-lead-nfbs-16-film-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7055569","title":{"rendered":"New Theodore Ushev and Mich\u00e8le Lemieux Shorts Lead NFB&#8217;s 16 Film Slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a class=\"colorbox colorbox-insert-image\" data-colorbox-gallery=\"gallery-all\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awn.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/original\/public\/image\/featured\/onf_logo_noir-black-1280.jpg?itok=NKBfzJrr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"caption image-inline-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.awn.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_medium\/public\/image\/featured\/onf_logo_noir-black-1280.jpg?itok=BM7JLRVh\" style=\"float:left; height:242px; width:400px\"\/> <\/a> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awn.com\/tag\/national-film-board-canada\"><strong>National Film Board of Canada<\/strong><\/a> has greenlit 16 productions and co-productions over the past year, among them three new animated shorts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awn.com\/tag\/theodore-ushev\"><strong>Theodore Ushev<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s <em>Les Villes Inconnues des M\u00e8res Disparues<\/em>, Mich\u00e8le Lemieux&#8217;s <em>Polka<\/em>, made on the NFB&#8217;s Alexe\u00efeff-Parker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awn.com\/tag\/pinscreen\"><strong>pinscreen<\/strong><\/a>, and Mochi Lin&#8217;s <em>Hostel la Vista<\/em>. The slate of films, all now in production, includes feature-length documentaries, mid-length works, animated shorts and innovative digital series that explore contemporary Canadian realities through distinct and original creative voices.<\/p>\n<p>The three animated shorts, all 100 percent NFB productions:<\/p>\n<p><em>Les Villes Inconnues des M\u00e8res Disparues<\/em>, directed by Ushev, the Oscar-nominated animator behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awn.com\/animationworld\/theodore-ushev-physics-sorrow-my-animated-time-capsule\"><strong><em>The Physics of Sorrow<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. In a world where cities are named after the first mothers who settled there, a young adopted girl writes a postcard to her birth mother and entrusts it to a postman, who sets out on an epic journey to find her. M\u00e9lanie Boudreau Blanchard and Christine No\u00ebl produce for the French Animation Unit.<\/p>\n<p><em>Polka<\/em>, directed by Lemieux and created on the NFB&#8217;s pinscreen, a unique device containing 240,000 pins, in special sleeves to allow calibrated movement through a screen that Alexandre Alexe\u00efeff pioneered and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awn.com\/news\/legendary-nfb-pinscreen-animator-jacques-drouin-dies-78\"><strong>Jacques Drouin passed on to Lemieux<\/strong><\/a>, who used it on <em>Here and the Great Elsewhere<\/em> in 2012. The short invites the viewer into the raw materials of a painted work and prompts a reflection on its physicality. Boudreau Blanchard and No\u00ebl produce for the French Animation Unit.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hostel la Vista<\/em>, directed by Lin, in which a decrepit Mile End hostel in Montreal becomes a microcosm of modern-day alienation, connection, courage and survival. Maral Mohammadian produces for the English Animation Unit.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary slate:<\/p>\n<p>Feature-length: <em>The Crossing<\/em> (director Aisling Chin-Yee; producers Nabil Mehchi and Frank Fiorito of Noble Television, Sami Tesfazghi of Rane Films and Rob Vroom of the NFB; co-production), which follows two young men who flee persecution in Ghana and, after harrowing journeys across continents, cross into Canada on foot through a deadly winter storm; <em>Prairie Chicken<\/em> (director Sinakson Trevor Solway; producer Coty Savard, Western Documentary Unit), which searches out the cultural roots of the Prairie Chicken Dance in the heart of Blackfoot Country; <em>The Whale Effect<\/em> (director Duncan McDowall; producer Rob Vroom, Eastern Documentary Unit), which reframes whales as agents in the living systems we depend on; and <em>You Don&#8217;t Know Dick<\/em> (director Adam Lordon; producer Liz Cowie, Eastern Documentary Unit), which re-examines the story and legacy of Richard Hatfield, New Brunswick&#8217;s longest-serving premier, from the rural Bible Belt to Studio 54 and a pot scandal involving Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n<p>Mid-length: <em>Demain Depuis Diane<\/em> (director Ariel St-Louis Lamoureux; producer Melanie Bri\u00e8re, French Documentary Unit), about a Yellowknife woman who raised $1.5 million recycling copper from a mine nearing closure and now has to convince other mining companies to back her cause; <em>Garolou<\/em> (director Louise Lalonde; producer Christine Aub\u00e9, French Documentary Unit), a portrait of what the NFB calls &#8220;the legendary group that revolutionized Canadian music,&#8221; told by one of its own members; and <em>Making Lemonade<\/em> (director Connie Edwards; producer Coty Savard, Western Documentary Unit), in which Fred Keating shares what he is thinking and feeling as he travels through the stages of cognitive decline alongside his family.<\/p>\n<p>Shorts and series: <em>The Garden Where the Flowers Grew<\/em> (director Michelle Mason; producer Teri Snelgrove, Western Documentary Unit), on the difference between retribution, healing and justice; <em>God in a Roadside Ditch<\/em> (director Karsten Wall; producer Alicia Smith, Central Documentary Unit), a 15-minute stylized nature film on the short life of the adult mayfly in Manitoba&#8217;s Interlake region and how light pollution and climate change affect it; <em>Nooshafarin<\/em> (director Leila Khalilzadeh; producer Rob Vroom, Eastern Documentary Unit), in which the Iranian-Canadian singer and actress shares her story of artistry in exile; <em>A Place to Call Home<\/em> (director Kat\u0142\u0131\u0328\u0300\u0105 Lafferty; producer Chehala Leonard, Western Documentary Unit), on the housing crisis in the Northwest Territories through the stories of Indigenous women in N&#8217;dilo; <em>Snow King: From Olympian to Narco<\/em> (director Chelsea McMullan; producers Sean O&#8217;Neill of Visitor Media and Sherien Barsoum of the NFB; co-production), a three-part series tracing Ryan Wedding&#8217;s path from snowboarding prodigy to the FBI&#8217;s 10 Most Wanted list; and <em>Sundance Harvest<\/em> (director A\u00efcha Diop; producers Niki Little, Kate Vollum and Hannah Donegan, Central Documentary Unit), which follows 29-year-old urban\/rural farmer Cheyenne Sundance&#8217;s search for a permanent solution to land access.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: National Film Board of Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-signature\">\n<div class=\"user-picture\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awn.com\/users\/dan-sarto\" title=\"View user profile.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.awn.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/userthumbnail_tiny\/public\/pictures\/picture-283-172447260.jpg?itok=ZqZK0slV\" width=\"45\" height=\"45\" alt=\"Dan Sarto's picture\" title=\"Dan Sarto's picture\"\/><\/a>  <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awn.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#7511141b3514021b5b161a184a0600171f10160148250017191c061d10075047453c1b04001c070c\">Dan Sarto<\/a> is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Film Board of Canada has greenlit 16 productions and co-productions over the past year, among them three new animated shorts: Theodore Ushev&#8216;s Les Villes Inconnues des M\u00e8res Disparues, Mich\u00e8le Lemieux&#8217;s Polka, made on the NFB&#8217;s Alexe\u00efeff-Parker pinscreen, and Mochi Lin&#8217;s Hostel la Vista. 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