Several months after the film 's initial release , an event called the " Boring Awards " was organized in advance of the film 's first Toronto screening . Winners included Toronto mayor Rob Ford ( Least Boring Canadian ) , Prime Minister Stephen Harper ( Most Boring Canadian ) and Canada 's capital city of Ottawa ( Most Boring City in Canada ) . Nerenberg explained the process of determining the winners was not " rigidly scientific " : We open-nominated on Facebook , Twitter and on the web and about 17 cities were nominated . We narrowed the field down to five . Then we looked at substantiation . For example all the cities on the boring list are legendary in terms of boredom . There 's a film being made in Ottawa called '' The City that Fun Forgot . '' Abbotsford is defined in the Urban Dictionary as boredom . But Ottawa clinched mainly because the government there brags about how boring it is . As well , Ottawa must have a greater marketing and entertainment budget than any other city so it 's boringness is less excusable . FNC co-founder and artistic director Claude Chamberlan called '' Boredom '' a " must see " , while John Griffin , writing for the '' Montreal Gazette '' , called the documentary " hugely entertaining " . Award-winning writer and critic Anne Brodie calls the documentary " vastly entertaining " , with the caveat that the film is not a " real " study as much as a '' Reefer Madness '' kind of exercise : " Some academics are interviewed and medical facts are tossed around , which is all good , but at its heart this is just fun to watch . " David King , writing for '' Cinema Retro '' , agrees for the most part , contending the film misses the mark a little by giving equal weight to experts and " more anecdotal evidence on the effects of boredom , " and considers the film more infotainment than profound research . " In short , there are plenty of less interesting ways you could spend an hour than watching this film " , adding that the film is " never boring . " C.S. Strowbridge , writing for The Numbers , is of two minds about Nerenberg 's style , which " tends to be a little over-dramatic when talking about these subjects " , but otherwise " this is a truly fascinating documentary . We do get some answers to a few of the questions that are asked , but the questions that we do n't yet have answers to are just as intriguing . " '' Boredom '' was released on DVD on 27 November 2013 , and on all video on demand and digital platforms . The DVD includes such bonus features as a version of the film sped up 10 % , a three-minute featurette on the stages of boredom and a four-minute feature on a proposed artificial mountain in an area of the Netherlands to add interest to the region 's otherwise flat landscape
FNC
Festival du nouveau cinéma
Boredom (film)