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Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025

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National Film Board of Canada publicist. Interested in documentary and animation, news and the environment. Based in Vancouver, B.C. FlemishCat on Letterboxd & Peliplat.

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Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · Mar 19

🎬 7,000+ films, 86 years, 11 Oscar®-winning films, and counting.
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Pancouver @pancouver.bsky.social · 2d

We really recommend Brishkay Ahmed's stirring documentary, In the Room, if you get a chance to see it. The final screening at VIFF is at 3 p.m. today. Here's a Pancouver article about the film, which features five courageous Afghan-born women. pancouver.ca/viff-2025-br...

VIFF 2025: Brishkay Ahmed breaks through binary representation of Afghan women with honest conversations In the Room - Pancouver

Ahmed makes brilliant use of imagery, Afghan music and old movie scenes, file footage, photos, and close-ups.

pancouver.ca

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Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, I love The Martian!

Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 2d

#LastFourWatched = Canadian films at the Vancouver Int'l Film Festival this #LetterboxdFriday.
5️⃣ stars: docs by Jenn Strom (The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes) and Brishkay Ahmed (In the Room).
4️⃣ stars: Tasha Hubbard's drama Meadowlarks
0️⃣ stars because I am undecided about Clement Virgo's Steal Away.

Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 3d

📣 NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN 📽️

Director Lyana Patrick follows the Stellat’en and Saik’uz Nations fighting to restore their river in the face of environmental destruction caused by the Kenney Dam, built in 1950s B.C.

A Lantern Films/Experimental Forest Films/NFB co-production.

Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 6d

📢 “Our mandate speaks to Canadians and Canadian identity through documentary and animation—and, yes, it's the time to keep our elbows up:" #NFB commissioner Suzanne Guèvremont in an exclusive West Coast interview with @createastir.ca
www.createastir.ca/articles/nfb...

National Film Board doubles down on defining what it means to be Canadian for an “elbows up” era — Stir

Attending VIFF, NFB chair Suzanne Guèvremont has a new strategic plan that strives to reach out to the next generation

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Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 8d

✏️ "[Brishkay] Ahmed changes how we frame conversations about Afghanistan"- @georgiastraight.bsky.social
www.straight.com/movies/revie...
#VIFF2025 #NFB
cc @viffest.bsky.social

Review: Vancouver director Brishkay Ahmed's In The Room gets heavy

In The Room delves into the aftermath of what August 15, 2021 meant to Afghans.

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Joseph Planta @joeplanta.bsky.social · 9d

I talk to the filmmaker Brishkay Ahmed about her new documentary In the Room, having its premiere at @viffest.bsky.social next week: thecommentary.ca/ontheline/23...

Brishkay Ahmed | thecommentary.ca

The filmmaker Brishkay Ahmed discusses his new documentary In the Room, debuting at the Vancouver International Film Festival (07, 10 October 2025), with Joseph Planta.

thecommentary.ca

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Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 9d

In the Room by Brishkay Ahmed. 😉

Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 9d

Four documentaries among my #LastFourWatched!
The Riefenstahl film stands head and shoulders above the rest of them, incl. the Hildegard Knef and George Orwell films, in my humble opinion. Saw the last two at #VIFF2025 in Vancouver, B.C.
Happy #LetterboxdFriday!

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POV Magazine @povmagazine.bsky.social · 12d

The Vancouver International Film Festival kicks off Oct. 2! Here are 10 documentary highlights, plus a chance to see #TheGreatNorth at @viffest.bsky.social #VIFF2025 povmagazine.com/viff-comes-o...

VIFF Comes on Strong: 10 Docs to See in Vancouver - POV Magazine

Documentary highlights at the 2025 Vancouver International Film Festival include The Great North, The Art of Adventure, Everest Dark, and Cover-up.

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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 13d

Tina Ouellette has joined the NFB team. Read more about the announcement:

www.createastir.ca/articles/tin...

National Film Board names Tina Ouellette executive producer of Western Documentary Unit — Stir

Film veteran steps into the role as Shirley Vercruysse begins her retirement after an 11-year term

www.createastir.ca

Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 13d

A Day In the Life of Vancouver filmmaker Brishkay Ahmed, whose new documentary IN THE ROOM premieres Oct 7 @viffest.bsky.social and Oct 19 at @reelworldfilm.bsky.social Toronto.

vancouverguardian.com/vancouver-ar...

“A Day in the Life” with: Vancouver Filmmaker Brishkay Ahmed

Brishkay Ahmed is a Canadian filmmaker and playwright whose work illuminates women’s experiences through both film and stage.

vancouverguardian.com

Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 16d

I watched Nirvanna…. too this week. In Calgary. 😀

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Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 16d

I loved Midsommar! 😱

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Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 16d

Ooooh, was this your first time watching Saltburn?

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Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 16d

📽️ My #LastFourWatched were all seen on the silver screen at the Calgary Int'l Film Festival.
2️⃣ docs: LOVE, HAROLD and LOVE+WAR
2️⃣ world premieres: LOVE, HAROLD and CALORIE
3️⃣ Canadian productions: LOVE, HAROLD, CALORIE and NIRVANNA...
4️⃣ great films! 🤩
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! #CIFF2025

Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 16d

🎉 Trailer drop! 😀

POV Magazine @povmagazine.bsky.social · 19d

Ahead of its premiere at @viffest.bsky.social, watch the first trailer for IN THE ROOM, Brishkay Ahmed's NFB doc about the resilience of Afghan women fighting for change. povmagazine.com/in-the-room-...

In the Room Trailer: New Doc Spotlights Resilience of Afghan Women - POV Magazine

Watch the first trailer for In the Room, director Brishkay Ahmed's documentary about the resilience of Afghan women who fight for equality.

povmagazine.com

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Toronto Spark @torontospark.bsky.social · 17d

Julietta Singh and Chase Joynt re-embody lost feminist histories in The Nest. The Toronto Queer Film Festival will screen this innovative NFB documentary at CineCycle on Oct. 11. @katjadebock.bsky.social Learn more @torontospark.bsky.social: torontospark.ca/julietta-sin...

Julietta Singh and Chase Joynt re-embody lost feminist histories in The Nest - Toronto Spark

The Toronto Queer Film Festival will screen The Nest on October 11 at CineCycle.

torontospark.ca

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Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 17d

One of the first interviews for Brishkay Ahmed's new NFB production, IN THE ROOM is now up!

📽️ Oct 7 + 10 VIFF Vancouver
📽️ Oct 19 ReelWorld Toronto

📻 Talking in the Rain podcast:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 18d

🎉Thank you, CIFF Calgary, for hosting the world premiere of Alan Zweig's new feature documentary LOVE, HAROLD last weekend.

LOVE, HAROLD is a A 52 Media Inc. and National Film Board of Canada (NFB) co-production.

➡️ Next screening: Windsor Int'l Film Festival, Oct 28!
#CIFF2025

Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 19d

JEAN-MARC VALLÉE DGC DISCOVERY AWARD
▪️ Trevor Solway – Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man

BEST PICTURE EDITING – DOCUMENTARY
▪️ Pauline Decroix – The Nest

All nominees → www.dgc.ca/en/national/...

Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 19d

✨ 𝐃𝐆𝐂 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 ✨

👏 Congratulations to the NFB film nominees at the Directors Guild of Canada - National Awards!

ALLAN KING AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN DOCUMENTARY
▪️ Laurie Townshend – A Mother Apart (OYA Media Group/NFB)
▪️ Christopher Auchter – The Stand

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Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 20d

🤭 #Duolingo

Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 20d

🎉 Thank you, CIFF Calgary, for a wonderful world premiere of our short doc UNFOLDING FAITH, directed by Calgary's Elyse Bouvier. #CIFF2025

CIFF Calgary promo image of UNFOLDING FAITH.

NFB producer Marie-France Guerrette, writer/director Elyse Bouvier and editor Sarah Taylor.

Katja De Bock 🔛 #VIFF2025 @katjadebock.bsky.social · 23d

Arrived at Calgary Int’l Film Festival. #CIFF2025