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Ottawa International Animation Festival Award Winners

A playlist by Albert Ohayon
28 films
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The Ottawa International Animated Film Festival will take place from September 25th to 29th 2019. Once again, many important NFB productions will be screened there. NFB films have won many awards at this prestigious event – one of the most important animation festivals in the world. Enjoy this rich playlist of some NFB shorts that have been honoured in Ottawa over the years.

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Ottawa International Animation Festival Award Winners

The Ottawa International Animated Film Festival will take place from September 25th to 29th 2019. Once again, many important NFB productions will be screened there. NFB films have won many awards at this prestigious event – one of the most important animation festivals in the world. Enjoy this rich playlist of some NFB shorts that have been honoured in Ottawa over the years.

Having viewed over 8,000 films, Albert Ohayon is our resident collections expert. He studied film production and journalism at Concordia University in Montreal and has been working at the National Film Board since 1984.

Playlist

  • Soif
    Soif
    Michèle Cournoyer 2014 8 min

    A woman plays out her existence on the screen of her life. Alcohol is the essence of her being. She imbibes her youth and becomes completely absorbed by the desire to satisfy her thirst. Moving from parties to binge drinking, pleasure to distress, joy to delirium, she lets herself be lulled by the undulating waves of bottles. She floats in the intoxicating liquid, sees her childhood re-emerge, and feels as if she is a tiny fish lost in an ocean of madness. Her craving for alcohol engenders a burning passion. Drinking becomes a fatal embrace... On the verge of drowning in the torrent of this insane obsession, will she find the strength to rise to the surface?

    Soif is a tragedy in five acts centered on a woman who must confront the fate of her existence. Michèle Cournoyer (The Hat) has created another hard-hitting film. She broaches a sensitive topic in her inimitable style, using black ink on paper to render dazzling metamorphoses.

  • Turbine
    Turbine
    Alex Boya 2018 8 min

    Special Mention for Best Canadian Animation

  • Manivald
    Manivald
    Chintis Lundgren 2017 12 min

    Best Script

  • Hedgehog's Home
    Hedgehog's Home
    Eva Cvijanovic 2017 10 min

    Honourable Mention- Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation

  • The Tesla World Light
    The Tesla World Light
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    Matthew Rankin 2017 8 min

    Best Animation Technique and Media Prize

  • The Mountain of SGaana
    The Mountain of SGaana
    Christopher Auchter 2017 10 min

    Best Animated Film or Series for Young Audiences - Ages 6-12

  • Blind Vaysha
    Blind Vaysha
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    Theodore Ushev 2016 8 min

    Cartoon Network Award for Best Narrative Short Animation and Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation

  • I Like Girls
    I Like Girls
    Diane Obomsawin 2016 8 min

    Nelvana Grand Prize for Independent Short Animation

  • Focus
    Focus
    Alex Boya 2014 1 min

    Honourable Mention for the Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation

  • Seth's Dominion
    Seth's Dominion
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    Luc Chamberland 2014 42 min

    Grand Prize for Best Animated Feature

  • Me and My Moulton
    Me and My Moulton
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    Torill Kove 2014 13 min

    Honourable Mention for Best Narrative Short

  • The Clockmakers
    The Clockmakers
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    Renaud Hallée 2013 4 min

    Honourable Mention for Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation 2013

  • MacPherson
    MacPherson
    Martine Chartrand 2012 10 min

    Honourable Mention for Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation 2012

  • Wild Life
    Wild Life
    Amanda Forbis  &  Wendy Tilby 2011 13 min

    Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation 2011

  • Sunday
    Sunday
    Patrick Doyon 2011 9 min

    Honourable Mention for Best Canadian Animation 2011

  • Lipsett Diaries
    Lipsett Diaries
    Theodore Ushev 2010 14 min

    Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation 2010

  • Sleeping Betty
    Sleeping Betty
    Claude Cloutier 2007 9 min

    Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation & NFB Public Prize 2007

  • Madame Tutli-Putli
    Madame Tutli-Putli
    Chris Lavis  &  Maciek Szczerbowski 2007 17 min

    Best Narrative Short Animation (under 35 minutes) 2007

  • Here and There
    Here and There
    Diane Obomsawin 2006 9 min

    Best Narrative Short Animation (under 35 minutes) 2006

  • Jeu
    Jeu
    Georges Schwizgebel 2006 3 min

    Best Experimental / Abstract Animation (under 35 minutes) 2006

  • Ryan
    Ryan
    Chris Landreth 2004 13 min

    Grand Prize for Best Independent Short Film/Video

  • When the Day Breaks
    When the Day Breaks
    Wendy Tilby  &  Amanda Forbis 1999 9 min

    Frederic Back Award for Best Canadian Film

  • The Lump
    The Lump
    John Weldon 1991 7 min

    Gordon Bruce Award for Humour 1992

  • The Sweater
    The Sweater
    Sheldon Cohen 1980 10 min

    Second Prize - Category: Films Longer than 3 minutes 1980

  • Every Child
    Every Child
    Eugene Fedorenko 1979 6 min

    First Prize - Category: First Films 1980

  • Why Me
    Why Me
    Janet Perlman  &  Derek Lamb 1978 9 min

    Special Jury Award 1978

  • The Street
    The Street
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    Caroline Leaf 1976 10 min

    Grand Prize of the Festival 1976

  • Mindscape
    Mindscape
    Jacques Drouin 1976 7 min

    Special Jury Award 1976