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Whistler Film Festival

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2023
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Borsos Award for Best Canadian Feature

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Chloé Leriche
Atikamekw Suns
Manawan, 1977. The police find a car containing five Atikamekws, all deceased. The initial suspects, two white…

Best Director of a Borsos Competition Film

Chloé Leriche
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Chloé Leriche
Atikamekw Suns
Manawan, 1977. The police find a car containing five Atikamekws, all deceased. The initial suspects, two white…

Best Female Directed Feature

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Chloé Leriche
Atikamekw Suns
Manawan, 1977. The police find a car containing five Atikamekws, all deceased. The initial suspects, two white…

Best Performance in a Borsos Competition Film

Ensemble cast awarded
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Chloé Leriche
Atikamekw Suns
Manawan, 1977. The police find a car containing five Atikamekws, all deceased. The initial suspects, two white…

World Documentary Award

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Heath Affolter and 3 more
Altona
The untold story of the murder that shattered a community... And the one person who was able to rise above it.

Best Screenplay of a Borsos Competition Film

Jonas Chernick & Diana Frances
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Sean Garrity
The Burning Season
Alena and her husband spend a summer up at Luna Lake Resort. JB runs the place. He and Alena begin a dangerous and…

Best Cinematography in a Borsos Competition Film

André Turpin
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Monia Chokri
The Nature of Love
University professor Sophia has a comfortable life and a stable but unexciting marriage to Xavier. That is upended when…

Best Editing in a Borsos Competition Film

Robert Swartz
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Rebecca Snow
The Boy in the Woods
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern…

Best BC Director Award, Honourable Mention EDA Award for Best Female Directed Feature

Kim Albright
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Kim Albright
With Love and a Major Organ
In an alternate world where hearts are made of objects and suppressing emotions is self-care, a lonely woman rips out…

Honourable Mention Best BC Director Award

Laura Adkin
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Laura Adkin
Re: Uniting
When Rachel, played by Michelle Harrison, receives life-changing news, she secretly grapples with her mortality while…

Honourable mention for Best Mountain Culture Short Film

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Ryan Collins
People Like Us
People Like Us is a short film that explores queer identity in mountain towns and snow sports. Director Ryan Collins…

Best Mountain Culture Short Film

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Seth Gillis
Slides on the Mountain
“Slides on the Mountain” follows Talon (17) and Riki (15), two brothers from the Lil’wat Nation, as they decide to…

International ShortWork Award

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Morad Mostafa
I Promise You Paradise
Morad Mostafa’s I Promise You Paradise is a brilliant exercise in minimalism. Following a violent street fight that…

Canadian ShortWork Award

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Jasmin Mozaffari
Motherland
During 1979 at the height of the Iran Hostage crisis, Babak goes on a trip to meet his fiance's parents and ends up…

Canadian Shortwork Award

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Zoé Pelchat-Ouellet, Jean-François Sauvé
Atlantis
During an idyllic family vacation by the sea, Marie, the matriarch, develops an irrepressible urge to escape. As days go…

Canadian Shortwork Award

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Ava Maria Safai
ZIP
On her 16th birthday, singer-songwriter Melody awakens with a zipper sewn to her mouth. A story about the voiceless, who…

International ShortWork Award

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Rachel Sweeney
Fish Bowl
Dark slapstick comedy meets profound self-discovery in this short film about one woman’s autonomy over her own body

EDA Award for Best Female Directed Short

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Mackenzie Leigh
Healer
A young woman grapples with the untimely death of her sister, seeking solace in an imagined reality where they grew up…

EDA Award for Best Female Directed Short

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Lindsay McIntyre
The South Wind
In 1938, having left her Arctic home with her mother Kumaa’naaq, young Marguerite must negotiate the unspoken…

Student ShortWork Award

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Emma Eng
Black & Blue
Black and Blue follows a teen girl and her friends who chronicle their bruises in a point-based game as they compete to…

Honourable mentions

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Kasha Rae Malinowski
Gerald
Aware that he will die after he mates, Gerald, a young Butterscotch Beetle, swears off love and romance for as long as…

Honourable mentions

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Hugh Saint-Jacques, Ethan Shandro
Like The Wind
Like The Wind is a film anyone can resonate with as it explores a young girl trying to figuring out what the heck to do…
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