Four NFB Films to Compete at 2025 Quebec Film Fest
The National Film Board of Canada returns to the Quebec City Film Festival this year with four short films that capture all the vitality and diversity of animation at the NFB. Two of them will be screened in competition: The Girl Who Cried Pearls (La jeune fille qui pleurait des perles), from the Oscar-nominated duo of Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, and Martine Frossard’s Hypersensible (Hypersensitive), which was the only Canadian film in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Two other shorts, Hayat Najm’s Le bruit des choses qui brûlent (The Sounds of Things Ablaze) and Andrea Dorfman’s Hairy Legs (Poil aux jambes), will be shown out of competition. The festival will run from September 10 to 14, 2025.
Quick Facts
Official Competition
The Girl Who Cried Pearls (La jeune fille qui pleurait des perles) by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (NFB, 16 min)
Hypersensible (Hypersensitive) by Martine Frossard (NFB, 6 min 44 s)
Out of competition
Le bruit des choses qui brûlent (The Sounds of Things Ablaze) by Hayat Najm (NFB, 6 min 35 s)
Hairy Legs (Poil aux jambes) by Andrea Dorfman (NFB, 17 min)
https://www.canada.ca/en/national-film-board/news/2025/08/the-nfb-at-the-2025-quebec-city-film-festival–four-animated-films-selected-including-two-in-official-competition.html