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🌎 Good news for international audiences! Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's Oscar-winning short, THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS, is now available to stream in even more countries! It's free on NFB.ca and the NFB Films app. #StreamCanadian #Oscars

Canadian animation shone brightly at the 98th Academy Awards. ✨ Watch Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski’s heartfelt acceptance speech for THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS, winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film & the 12th #NFB production to bring home the coveted statuette.

No gatekeeping here!🙅 We're proud to offer limitless access to award-winning animation for free without subscription, ads or strings attached... except on a few of the puppets in our films. 🙆🎬What are you watching on NFB.ca? #StreamCanadian

Congratulations to Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski’s THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS for winning the Best Animated Short Film #Oscar. The film was named the Best Canadian Short Film of #TIFF50 and one of Canada’s Top Ten films of 2025.

Light the way to spring.🔥🌼 Today marks Chaharshanbe Suri, #Iran’s annual fire festival. Explore these 4 Iranian-Canadian animated stories (and more perspectives from the Persian world) for free on our platforms → bit.ly/PersianPerspec… #StreamCanadian

@PaulHaysom Amazing! Congratulations!

My beautiful Grandma is 104-years-old today! Gardening, good cuppa tea & lots of laughs - that’s her secret. Happy Birthday 🇬🇧 ❤️ 🇨🇦

@thenfb 😄

Best Animated Short* 🤭

“Mr. Nobody Against Putin” won the #Oscar for best documentary feature. The film takes on the Russian leader’s propaganda and patriotism program for the nation’s youth after its invasion of Ukraine. bit.ly/4scfKAO

“Thank you the fantastic city of Montreal, thank you Canada!” The NFB, Colm Feore, and Patrick Watson get shout-outs in the acceptance speech for Best Animated Short that just went to THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS. #Oscars

Tonight, we cry tears of joy. 🥹 Congratulations to Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, and to everyone behind THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS, for bringing home the #Oscar for Best Animated Short! 🏆🇨🇦✨ Stream it for free → bit.ly/CriedPearlsNFB @TheAcademy #StreamCanadian #Oscars2026

@howatdk 🤞for Mr. Nobody Against Putin (but all feature docs were deserving).

INT. FEATURE: Sentimental Value DOC. FEATURE: Mr Nobody Against Putin ANIMATED FEATURE: KPop Demon Hunters CINEMATOGRAPHY: One Battle EDITING: One Battle COSTUME DESIGN: Frankenstein MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING: Frankenstein PRODUCTION DESIGN: Frankenstein

IT IS TIME. My final Oscar predictions, in one of the most difficult years to predict…in quite some time. So many of the biggest categories are up in the air. Here’s my swing at it:

Who would you have recommended to narrate the story? 💭 Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski walk into a bar... share how they decided who would carry the story of THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS. Stream this Oscar-nominated short for free → bit.ly/CriedPearlsNFB #StreamCanadian

We are hoping to attract reporter freelancers so we have coverage when folks are sick or on vacation. (Pro tip: most folks who get hired full time, were freelancers first.) Calling all B.C. freelance journalists squamishchief.com/local-news/cal… via @squamishchief

What fear do you want to rewire? 😓🔁🙂 Meet freediver-scientist Jessea Lu and watch her overcome the things holding her back in Yuqi Kang's 7 BEATS PER MINUTE → bit.ly/7BPM_nfb 🌊 An #NFB and Intuitive Pictures co-production. #StreamCanadian

Now streaming from @thenfb, The Nest explores layers of history that intersect within a Winnipeg Victorian manor. povmagazine.com/now-streaming-…

Hot Docs Announces New Members for Its Board of Directors povmagazine.com/hot-docs-annou…

What was your introduction to the National Film Board of Canada? 🎥🍁 For THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS co-director Chris Lavis, WHEN THE DAY BREAKS by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby was their introduction to modern #NFB animation. 🍋 🛁 #StreamCanadian on nfb.ca

C’est parti pour la Oscar Week ! Here we go—it’s Oscar Week! Best Animated Short Film #fyc 📿La jeune fille qui pleurait des perles (The Girl Who Cried Pearls) créé à l’#ONF par Chris Lavis et Maciek Szczerbowski. @thenfb @onf

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