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FESTIVAL SPFF2026

DAY 1 April 23, Thursday,

NORTH DELTA CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

NORTH DELTA CENTRE FOR THE ARTS Doors Open DAY 2 Friday, April 24 Small Stories, Big Questions

DAY 4 April 26, Sunday

CALENDAR

Indigenous Land Acknowledgement

We humbly acknowledge that we come together in gratitude and celebration on the timeless lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. In particular, Sher Pride and the Sundar Prize Film Festival honour the stewardship of the Semiahmoo, Musqueam, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, Qayqayt, and Tsawwassen nations, whose ancestral and unceded territories we are privileged to inhabit.

Official Greetings from the President of Sher Pride

On behalf of Sher Pride, it is my absolute honour to welcome you to the third annual Sundar Prize Film Festival—a celebration rooted in love, culture, courage, and community. As President of Sher Pride, I stand here with great pride in witnessing spaces like this, where our stories are not only told but also celebrated openly and unapologetically.

“Sundar" means beautiful, and I feel the Sundar Prize Film Festival has a beautiful heart, and tonight is a reminder that our community has always led with heart—through resilience, through joy, through resistance, and through collective care for one another. For many of us, especially 2SLGBTQIA+ folks, visibility and belonging are not given; they are built together, step by step, gathering by gathering.

This festival is more than film, music, dance, and art on screen. It is a declaration that our identities, our cultures, and our love are powerful. It is a space where intergenerational wisdom meets youth leadership, and where solidarity becomes action.

Sincerely,

Annie Ohana

Annie Ohana President of Sher Pride www.sherpride.ca

Greetings from the Co-Founders

Welcome to the 3rd Annual Sundar Prize Film Festival.

We are proud to welcome you to the 2026 festival, a celebration of powerful cinema, meaningful dialogue, and community connection. As co-founders and filmmakers, we believe in the power of film to inspire empathy, challenge perspectives, and spark social change. This year’s theme, “Home Is Complicated, So Are We,” reflects the many stories of identity, belonging, resilience, and transformation that shape this year’s programme.

We are also proud that the Sundar Prize Film Festival is presented by Sher Pride, the registered charity behind the festival, whose commitment to inclusion, human rights, and community care helps make this important work possible. Thank you to our filmmakers, sponsors, volunteers, partners, and audiences for being part of this journey. We are honoured to welcome you and hope these films stay with you long after the festival ends.

Warm regards,

Amar Sangha & Vinay Giridhar Co-Founders, Sundar Prize Film Festival

Meet the Team

Amar Sangha Co-Founder and Partnerships

Jagreet Dhadli Newsletter Coordinator

Bhavesh Chauhan Social Media Manager

Charlie Beerling Festival Photographer

Kat Dipper Festival Photographer

Darryl Frayne Website Coordinator

Vinay Giridhar Co-Founder & Creative Director

Joshna Hirani Community Engagement

Davinder Litt Festival Assistant

Imaan Shermin Hirji Youth Correspondent

Chhavi Disawar Social Media & Red Carpet

Jason Pillay Social Media & Red Carpet

Ian Frayne Festival Assistant

Sidartha Murjani Executive Director & Senior Programmer

Varnnitha Venugopal IT Support

Susan Ruzic Volunteer Manager

Cindy Bourguignon Festival Videographer

Amit Dhuga Moderator, Equpment Liason Manager

Rashi Sethi Festival Videographer

Sean Farnel Festival Consultant & Mentor

Greetings from the Executive Director & Senior Programmer

I am delighted to welcome you to the 3rd edition of the Sundar Prize Film Festival, this is an edition that marks our most ambitious year yet.

Our programming this year was designed to acknowledge the weight of current global events without being eclipsed by them. Throughout history, humanity has faced dark chapters, but our strength has always resided in our capacity to show up for one another.

Each block of films has been carefully curated to serve as a chapter in a larger narrative connected to our main theme Home is Complicated, So Are We. Leading us toward our final theme: Choosing Each Other. I encourage you to experience every block to see how this story unfolds.

None of this would be possible without the unwavering support of our Founders, the Sundar Prize Team, our volunteers, sponsors, community partners, filmmakers, and our host venues. Thank you for being part of this journey.

Much Gratitude,

Sidartha Murjani (he/him) Executive Director & Senior Programmer Sundar Prize Film Festival

Meet the Jury

Greg Chan KPU Professor Emeritus

Jane Diokpo Writer, Director

Akshay Sachdeva Pre-Screener and Youth Juror

Valerie Raghoebier Actor

Rashi Sethi Cinematographer

Rami Kahlon Actor, Writer, & Director

Swann Tsai Actor

Siddharth Ganesh Filmmaker

Nic Altobelli Producer, and Actor

Amit Dhuga Actor, Filmmaker

King Louie Palomo Director, Producer

Peter Lilly Filmmaker

Carolyn Mauricette Moderator, Writer & Critic

Charleen Phelps Director, Producer Actor

Sidartha Murjani Actor, Filmmaker

Shanthini Balasubramanian Writer, Director & Compositor

Susan Ruzic Educator, Social Justice Advisor

Amar Sangha Jury Advisor, Filmmaker

Vinay Giridhar Filmmaker, Editor

DAY 1

The Weight of Silence, The Power of Choice

April 23, North Delta Centre for the Arts

5:00 PM – Doors Open | Red Carpet & Photos

6:00 PM – Opening Remarks (30 min)

6:45 PM – Screening begins

8:45 PM

Opening Night

Love Train (Canada, 2025), Tiegan Monaghan – 3:55

Home Is A Feeling (Canada, 2025), Ryah SM King – 7:04

One Day This Kid (Canada, 2024), Alexander Farah – 17:25

Saints And Warriors (Canada, 2024), Patrick Shannon – 1:37:00

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What We Don’t Say Out Loud

Panel Moderated by Sidartha Murjani

Silence can be inherited, enforced, or chosen — but it always carries weight. This opening night conversation brings together filmmakers whose work explores what happens when personal truth collides with family expectations, colonial erasure, and unspoken histories. From intergenerational trauma to cultural survival and queer selfdiscovery, the panel examines how cinema becomes a space to voice what has long been suppressed — and what it costs to finally speak.

9:30 PM – Catered Reception

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DAY 2 BC Student & Youth Showcase

Small Stories, Big Questions

April 24, North Delta Centre for the Arts

Small moments often carry the biggest questions. This BC Student and Youth Showcase highlights emerging voices who grapple with identity, justice, belonging, and self-expression through deeply personal lenses. From animation to documentary to narrative shorts, these films reflect a generation learning how to speak — and choosing what matters most when they do.

1 PM – Shorts Block One, Screening begins

Grain (Canada, 2025), Ilana Zackon — 6:45

E for Effort, Never Excellence (Canada, 2025), Sarah Shahab — 15:23

Humanity Over Hate (United States, 2025), Zara P. Bharadwaj — 12:49

Through the Flow of Summer Snow (Canada, 2024), Sophia Santos

Fallen (United States, 2025), Angela Ruohan Yan — 4:09

Black Chador (Canada, 2025), Elyana Moradi — 7:16

Always Forever (Canada, 2025), Tibet Karayazgan — 15:50

Drafting (Malaysia, 2025), Janshin Soo — 2:25

Best Friends Notice of Deportation (Canada, 2025), Berenika Widera — 12:42

All That Lies Beneath (Canada, 2025), Ella McCleary — 9:40

Quenched (Canada, 2025), Ben Mark Hart Fieldhouse — 2:18

2:45 – 3:10 PM

How to Make Your First Film

Q & A Moderated By

Shanthini Balasubramanian

Designed for emerging filmmakers and first-time creators, this panel demystifies the process of making your first film — from idea to execution. Filmmakers discuss early challenges, creative decision-making, and practical lessons learned while navigating production with limited resources but unlimited ambition.

Who Are We Under Pressure?

April 24, North Delta Centre for the Arts SPONSORED BY

Pressure reveals character. This BC and Indigenous spotlight block explores responsibility, masculinity, land, legacy, and survival — asking who we become when systems fail us and when silence is no longer an option. From animation to narrative to documentary feature, these films examine the tension between personal accountability and collective history.

3:30 PM Screening begins

Knitty Gritty (United States, 2025), Hannah Mangione — 3:38

The 2400 (Canada, 2025), David Scott Titus — 5:00

Diamond Belly (Canada, 2025), Kyle D’Odorico — 10:00

A Cree Approach (Canada, 2025), Tristin Greyeyes — 1:10:00

5:00 – 5:30 PM

Between Silence and Responsibility

Panel Moderated By Debbie Courchene

When institutions fail, communities respond. This conversation explores Indigenous sovereignty, cultural resilience, and the burden of representation — examining how filmmakers navigate responsibility when telling stories rooted in lived experience and systemic pressure.

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DAY 2 Environmental Spotlight

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When Home Is On Fire

April 24, North Delta Centre for the Arts

When the land we call home is threatened, survival becomes an act of resistance. This environmental block brings together films that document crisis, accountability, and collective action — asking what responsibility we hold when climate change moves from abstraction to immediate reality.

5:45 PM Screening begins

Climate Crisis (Canada, 2024), Peter Cameron-Inglis — 4:11

Embers (Canada, 2025), Trixie Pacis — 24:16

The Fire in Our Hearts (Canada, 2026), Josias Tschanz — 1:27:20

7:45 – 8:15 PM

From Witness to Action

Panel Moderated By Sidartha Murjani

What does it mean to move beyond documenting crisis toward meaningful action? This panel brings filmmakers and community voices together to discuss the role of cinema in environmental advocacy, accountability, and mobilization — and how stories can help shift audiences from awareness to responsibility.

8:30 PM Catered Reception

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DAY 2 South Asian Spotlight

What We Don’t Say

April 24, North Delta Centre for the Arts SPONSORED BY

Silence can protect, conceal, or destroy. This South Asian spotlight block confronts shame, gender, power, and truth — examining what happens when deeply embedded cultural silences are challenged. These films explore the emotional and political cost of speaking up in communities where reputation and loyalty often outweigh justice.

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8:45 PM Screening begins

Shitcute (Canada, 2024), Ritisha Jhamb & Ry Fry — 4:51

Sanjeevani (Canada, 2025), Neetha John — 15:00

Calorie (Canada/India, 2025), Eisha Marjara – 1:47:00

10:45 – 11:30 PM

When Truth Demands a Cost

Panel Moderated By Mankiran Aujla

What happens when speaking the truth threatens family, faith, or community standing? This lateevening conversation examines the emotional stakes of accountability within close-knit communities, and how filmmakers navigate storytelling that confronts harm without erasing cultural complexity.

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DAY 3 Shorts Block Two

Becoming Someone

April 25, Landmark Cinemas Guildford

Becoming is rarely linear. This dynamic shorts block explores transformation — artistic, emotional, cultural, and political. From intimate identity journeys to surreal animation and bold narrative risks, these films capture the fragile and fearless moments that shape who we are becoming.

10:15 AM Screening begins

Pearl (Canada, 2025), Alice Shin — 13:48

Don't Think About the Pink Dolphins (Canada, 2025), Anthony Lee — 15:00

ripe (chín) (Vietnam/Canada, 2025), Solara Thanh Bình Đãng — 20:13

Art Connoisseur (Canada, 2025), Hugh Liu — 12:56

ENIGMA (Canada, 2025), Anya Kapustianyk — 4:58

Our Long Goodbye (Canada, 2025), Dave Beamish — 12:50

Praying For Love (United States, 2025), Sofia Tonin — 6:45

IF (India, 2025), Tathagata Ghosh — 25:41

Lateral (Canada, 2025), Loken Charon — 10:00

Sing to the Wind (Canada, 2025), Yaffa Aboudib Husseini – 11:17

Obscura (Canada, 2024), Arnold Lim — 20:00

1:00 – 1:15 PM

Who Are We Becoming?

Q & A Moderated By Amit Dhuga

This conversation reflects on creative evolution. Filmmakers discuss growth, risktaking, and how identity shapes artistic voice — particularly for emerging BC and international creators navigating shifting cultural landscapes.

DAY 3 Spotlight

What We Inherit

April 25, Landmark Cinemas Guildford

Inheritance is not always visible — it lives in our bodies, our beliefs, our relationships, and the stories we carry forward. This compelling Centerpiece Spotlight explores the emotional, cultural, and generational forces that shape who we are. From quiet rituals passed down through family, to the pressures of ambition and the weight of expectation, these films examine what we inherit — and what we choose to hold onto or let go. Blending tenderness, satire, and deeply personal storytelling, What We Inherit moves across cultures and generations, revealing how legacy can be both a source of connection and a burden to confront. At its heart, this block asks: What defines us — what we’re given, or what we choose to become?

1:15 PM Screening begins

Sheepskin (Canada, 2025), Ethan Wingrove — 5:00

Pan de Muerto (Canada, 2025), Renata Calderon – 7:00

NEPO BABY (Canada, 2025), Khánh Nguyen – 15:00

Bayaan (India, 2025), Bikas Ranjan Mishra — 1:58:00

3:30 – 4:00 PM

What We Inherit, What We Consume

Panel Discussion Moderated By Shanthini

Balasubramanian

This conversation examines generational inheritance — from trauma and cultural tradition to privilege and systemic power. How do the stories we grow up with shape the stories we tell? And how can filmmakers interrogate legacy without losing empathy?

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DAY 3 Shorts Block Three

Crossing the Line

April 25, Landmark Cinemas Guildford

Boundaries are meant to define us — until we decide to cross them. This daring shorts block examines moral thresholds, political unrest, personal rebellion, and emotional breaking points. From intimate character studies to urgent global narratives, these films ask: What happens when we reach the limit?

4:15 PM Screening begins

Animals (Canada, 2025), Michael Makaroff — 7:23

Walk and Talk (Canada, 2025), Inanna Cusi — 6:00

“Purgatory” (Canada, 2025), Nikki Shaffeeullah — 19:34

Sheepskin (Canada, 2025), Ethan Wingrove — 5:00

At The End (Canada, 2025), Lili Beaudoin & Isabelle Deluce 16:51

Trance (Canada, 2025), Aman Mann — 3:28

113 Words For You Today (China, Taiwan, United States, 2025), Bo Qing Tang & Lan Zeng 12:31

The Last Flight (Canada, 2025), Amy Tsai & Brian Cheung — 15:08

Vital (Canada/Iran, 2025), Amir Zargara 15:00

Ambush (Canada/Jordan, 2025), Yassmina Karajah 21:00

6:00 – 6:15 PM

What Happens When We Reach the Limit?

Q & A Moderated By Charleen Phelps

This conversation explores threshold moments — emotional, political, and ethical. When is a line crossed? And how do filmmakers portray rupture, resistance, and the aftermath of confrontation without simplifying complexity?

Love, Actually

April 25, Landmark Cinemas Guildford

6:45 PM – Screening begins

Egg Yolk Custard Bun (Canada, 2025), Soya Wu 2:00

It's Not You (Canada, 2025), Tristan Garcia Ramos 9:14

Ramen Boys (Canada, 2024), Jason Sakaki — 13:20

Blood Lines (Canada, Saskatchewan, 2025), Gail Maurice 1:29:41

8:45 – 9:30 PM

What Queer Intimacy Really Looks Like

Panel Moderated by Joshna Hirani

Moving beyond trope and tokenism, this panel examines how queer filmmakers portray intimacy with authenticity and nuance. What does tenderness look like on screen? How do filmmakers balance joy and struggle? And how can storytelling resist flattening queer experience into a single narrative?

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DAY 4 Spiritual, Health, and Wellness

After Everything

April 26, Landmark Cinemas Guildford

What remains after rupture, diagnosis, grief, or transformation? This contemplative block explores healing, faith, resilience, and the quiet courage required to begin again. Through animation, documentary, and a narrative feature, these films ask: what comes after everything changes?

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12:45 PM – Screening begins

Surface (Canada, 2025), Katherine Wong 2:00

A Ticket Home (Canada, 2025), Magill Moyes — 11:43

Light Through the Blindfold (Canada, 2025), Alireza Kazemipour 25:00

Et Maintenant? (What Now?) (Canada, 2025), Jocelyn Forgues 1:36:00

2:50 – 3:20 PM

What Comes After

Panel Discussion Moderated by Amit Dhuga

Healing is not linear. This panel brings together filmmakers and wellness advocates to discuss mental health, accessibility, and spiritual resilience in storytelling. How can cinema create space for vulnerability while empowering audiences to move forward?

DAY 4

Closing Block

Choosing Each Other

Sunday, April 26, 2026

Landmark Cinemas Guildford

Home is not always inherited — sometimes it is chosen. Our closing block celebrates solidarity, resistance, friendship, and community-building across borders and identities. These films remind us that belonging is an active practice. In a world shaped by division, choosing each other is both radical and necessary.

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3:30 PM – Screening begins

Following The Line (Taiwan, 2025), Jia-Yee Ong — 7:05

Red Light Rebel (Canada, 2025), Hannah Yang — 15:56

Burcu's Angels (Canada, 2025), Özgün Gündüz — 19:56

Mildlife (Canada, 2025), Cory Thibert — 1:25:00

5:30 – 6:30 PM

Community Is The Work

Panel Discussion by Dan Burritt (CBC Host)

Community is not an accessory to storytelling — it is the foundation. This closing conversation reflects on collaboration, collective care, and the responsibility filmmakers hold toward the communities they represent. How do we sustain movements beyond the screen?

2026 SPFF THE NOMINEES ARE...

Congratulations to all the nominees of the third annual Sundar Prize Film Festival, where cinema meets social change.

Blood Lines

DIR. GAIL MAURICE

CANADA, SASKATCHEWAN, 2025

An estranged Métis mother and daughter struggle to overcome their differences but their world comes crashing down when an alluring woman enters their lives.

Best Feature Film

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Bayaan

DIR. BIKAS RANJAN MISHRA INDIA, 2025

When a letter accusing a revered cult leader of abuse surfaces in a small Indian town, rookie detective Roohi is sent to investigate. Confronted by a wall of silence and blind devotion, she must navigate a closed community to uncover the truth no one dares to speak.

Et Maintenant?

(What Now?)

DIR. JOCELYN FORGUES

CANADA, 2025

When Vincent, a folk artist in his thirties, is diagnosed with tongue cancer, he initially laughs it off, convinced he can quickly move on with his life. Grueling treatments soon erode his independence, forcing him to rely on Renée, a chatty volunteer driver, and Mike, a blunt yet endearing home care nurse. As doubt replaces denial, an unexpected friendship forms, helping Vincent discover a deeper sense of meaning and connection.

KDocsFF Best Emerging Filmmaker Nominees

$1,000 CAD + Four Months Filmmaker Residency Program at KPU + Eco-Trophy

Özgün Gündüz Burcu’s Angels

Khánh Nguyễn NEPO

BC Performer’s Mastery Award Nominees

$500 CAD + ACTg Workshop valued at $750 + Eco-Trophy

Medha Gautham, Featured in three official selections at 2026 SPFF

Cory Thibert Director and lead actor of the feature film Mildlife

Andrew Woo Lead actor in Red Light Rebel

Photo: MENA Film Festival

Photo: IMDb

Neetha John Sanjeevani

BABY

One Day This Kid

DIR. ALEXANDER FARAH CANADA, 2025

Under the weight of his father’s expectations, Hamed confronts fear, desire, and shame in search of a self unknown. Inspired by David Wojnarowicz's renowned text, “One Day This Kid” is an exploration of silent struggle and unspoken tension as Hamed navigates an undefined future with his father.

Ambush

DIRECTED BY YASSMINA KARAJAH CANADA/JORDAN, 2025

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A pop-up techno club ambushes the streets of downtown Amman flooding a conservative neighborhood with heavy bass and unfamiliar faces. Jana arrives, newly sober, wrestling with intimacy. While across the street, Hasan watches from his family rooftop, anticipating a long-overdue encounter

Vital

DIR. AMIR ZARGARA CANADA/IRAN, 2025

A mother in Iran, considers selling her organs to save her daughter, while in the United States, a doctor faces ethical dilemmas to save his daughter, revealing the complexities of organ trade.

Light Through the Blindfold

DIR. ALIREZA KAZEMIPOUR CANADA, 2025

Maryam Salehizadeh, a visuallyimpaired Paralympian, facing a lifechanging surgery that may grant her the gift of sight.

$1,000 CAD + Eco-Trophy

Embers

DIR. TRIXIE PACIS CANADA, 2025

“Embers” premiered at the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival and has also played at the Whistler Film Festival and Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. It is a sequel to the film “Wild Aerial.”

Burcu’s Angels

DIR. ÖZGÜN GÜNDÜZL CANADA, 2025

For over 30 years, Burcu’s Angels was more than a store—it was a radical space of care. As the shop nears closure, this documentary blends archival fragments, poetic reflection, and community memory to honour a Turkish queer elder’s defiant presence— and the disappearing spaces that held generations of queer lives.

The Fire in Our Hearts

DIR. JOSIAS TSCHANZ CANADA, 2025

Best Feature Documentary

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Saints & Warriors

DIR. PATRICK SHANNON CANADA, 2025

Throughout the Haida basketball season, leaders of the Skidegate Saints fight to defend their All Native Basketball Championship title—while also battling for their land and waters against the government that stole it through the Indian Act.

A Cree Approach

DIR. TRISTIN GREYEYES CANADA, 2025

Tristin wants to understand why Cree was not her first language, unraveling the story of her late grandmother, Freda Ahenakew. A single mother of 12 and a high school dropout, Freda witnessed a generational divide in her family—half of her children learned Cree as their first language, while the rest grew up without it. Despite these challenges, Freda became a renowned Indigenous scholar, linguist, and advocate for the Cree language.

IF

DIR. TATHAGATA GHOSH INDIA, 2025

An arranged marriage tears a lesbian couple apart, but with a mother’s love, perhaps another future is possible.

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Ramen Boys

DIR. JASON SAKAKI CANADA, BC, 2024

Kevin finally takes a chance to connect with James, the lifeguard he's admired from afar, leading to an extremely expected first kiss and a summer of love and laughter.

One Day This Kid

DIR. ALEXANDER FARAH CANADA, 2024

Sing to the Wind

DIR. YAFFA ABOUDIB HUSSEINI CANADA, ONTARIO, 2025

Orphaned and displaced from their home in Gaza City, two brothers must find their way to a "safe zone" to survive. Forced to grow up much too fast, the boys confront pain and loss on their tragic path along the shoreline. "Sing to the Wind" is a short, 2D animated film that tells the story of perseverance through the eyes of a child, and the resilience of a people in the face.

Grain

DIR. ILANA ZACKON CANADA, MONTREAL, 2025

A young woman, trapped in the throes of a binge eating disorder, becomes a ravenous creature threatening to devour the town.

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Pearl

DIR. ALICE SHIN CANADA, BC, 2025

After losing his “pearl”, a grieving jeweller is given a final chance to make peace with his mortal desires through a chance encounter with a young lady.

Best Environmental Film

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Embers

DIR.

2025

The Fire in Our Hearts

DIR. JOSIAS TSCHANZ CANADA, 2025

TRIXIE PACIS CANADA,

Knitty Gritty

DIR. HANNAH MANGIONE

UNITED STATES, 2025

A girl finds comfort from an unlikely source when she loses her late Grandmother's knitting needles on the subway.

Best Student Film

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Praying for Love

DIR. SOFIA TONIN UNITED STATES, 2025

Linda, a female praying mantis, wants to find the one for her but runs into a snag when her cannibalistic tendencies keep prematurely ending her relationships. After one too many failed dates she’s about to give up when she realizes maybe she had been looking for love in the wrong place.

A Ticket Home

DIR. MAGILL MOYES CANADA, 2025

Appalled by the abuse and neglect suffered by hundreds of discarded Spanish hunting dogs, Tania Schmitt launched an initiative to unite them with loving Canadian families.

Best BC Feature Film

$2,000 CAD + $10,000 Gift Certificate by Keslow Camera + Eco-Trophy

The Fire in Our Hearts

DIR. JOSIAS TSCHANZ

CANADA, 2025

Mildlife

DIR. CORY THIBERT CANADA, BC, 2025

A drummer’s world is thrown off-beat when his girlfriend wants to leave their hometown of Victoria BC, just as he’s struggling to care for his parents who both live with cerebral palsy.

A Cree Approach

DIR. TRISTIN GREYEYES CANADA, 2025

Best BC Short Film

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NEPO BABY

DIR. KHÁNH NGUYỄN CANADA, BC, 2025

After a fight with her unsupportive dad, a Vietnamese actress wishes to trade anything for fame, and Buddha listens

Sanjeevani

DIR. NEETHA JOHN CANADA, BC, 2025

In a quiet Kerala home, in Southern India, a young woman grieving in silence crosses paths with a mysterious woman and through their brief connection, finds a small moment of strength she didn’t know she needed to change her life.

Red Light Rebel

DIR. HANNAH YANG CANADA, BC, 2025

A pastor stuck at a red light finds himself at a crossroads with God

BC Student Film Showcase Award

First Place - $1000 CAD + Eco-Trophy, $3000 Gift Certificate from Sparky's Film Rentals, Second Place - $750, Third Place - $500

Home Is a Feeling

DIR. RYAH SM KING CANADA, BC, 2025

A pink cat navigates a new city— but struggles when everything around her feels at odds with who she really is.

Pan de Muerto

DIR. RENATA CALDERON CANADA, BC, 2025

A young Mexican girl and her strict grandmother bond over the tradition of making Pan de Muerto for Mexico’s Day of the Dead.

Through the Flow of Summer Snow

DIR. SOPHIA SANTOS CANADA, BC, 2024

In breaking through the fever of adolescence, a young woman's ground becomes unsettled in the face of decaying relationships, her grandmother's cancer diagnosis & an encroaching spore invasion.

Best

Spiritual, Health & Wellness Film

Et Maintenant? (What Now?)

CANADA, 2025

$1,000 CAD + Eco-Trophy Light Through the Blindfold

Maryam Salehizadeh, a visuallyimpaired Paralympian, facing a lifechanging surgery that may grant her the gift of sight.

About the Sundar Prize Eco-Trophy

The prestigious Sundar Prize trophy, a masterwork crafted by Watson Design from Squamish, British Columbia, and designed by Sundar Prize Co-Founder Vinay Giridhar of Surrey, British Columbia epitomizes custom-made excellence. This trophy is made from eco-friendly, sustainable bamboo and symbolizes environmental responsibility and artistic innovation. Sher Pride takes immense pride in collaborating with a local boutique award design studio, championing creativity and craftsmanship in British Columbia.

DIR. ALIREZA KAZEMIPOUR CANADA, 2025

DIR. JOCELYN FORGUES