Whistler Film Festival

Whistler Film Festival

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"Blue Rodeo: Lost Together" and "The Beginning" win Audience Awards at Canada's Whistler Film Festival
The Whistler Film Festival (Canada) awarded the 2024 Audience Awards to Dale Heslip’s "Blue Rodeo: Lost Together" (feature) and Cristóbal Ruiz’s "The Beginning" (short). Both films resonated deeply wi…
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"Really Happy Someday" Wins Top Prize at Whistler Film Festival in Canada
The Whistler Film Festival in Canada awarded $188,500 across 15 categories, including the Borsos Award for Best Canadian Feature, won by "Really Happy Someday" by J Steven. The festival showcased 118…
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Whistler Film Festival Awards Milton Ng in 2024 Power Pitch Competition
At the 2024 Whistler Film Festival in Canada, Milton Ng won the prestigious Power Pitch competition for his project "New Diamond Restaurant," receiving a $36,000 prize package. The competition showcas…
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Morgan Taylor Campbell Wins Inaugural Northern Star Award at Whistler Film Festival
The Whistler Film Festival (Canada) launched its Northern Star Award, honoring Canadian talent. The inaugural recipient, Morgan Taylor Campbell, was recognized for her performance in Queen of the Unde…
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Whistler Film Festival 2024 Achieves Gender Parity with 46% Female and Non-Binary Directors
The 2024 Whistler Film Festival (WFF) in Canada, from December 4-8, celebrates gender parity, with 46% of its films directed by women and non-binary filmmakers. Notable films, mentorship programs, and…
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Explore the Films of the 2024 Whistler Film Festival on Vurchel
Vurchel.com now features the full selection of films from the 2024 Whistler Film Festival. Explore and track your favorite titles using Vurchel's notification feature to stay updated on streaming avai…
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Whistler Film Festival's Content Summit 2024 to Host Tatiana Maslany, Cobie Smulders
The Whistler Film Festival’s Content Summit, Dec. 4-7 in Whistler, Canada, will feature panels, workshops, and talks, including the Signature Series with Tatiana Maslany and Cobie Smulders. Industry n…
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Whistler Film Festival 2024 announces lineup of over 100 films in Canada
The Whistler Film Festival (WFF) in Canada has announced its 2024 lineup, featuring over 100 films, including Oscar contenders and world premieres. Running from December 4-8 in Whistler, BC, the event…
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Whistler Film Festival 2024 Names Ireland as Country of Focus
The Whistler Film Festival (WFF) 2024 has named Ireland as its Country of Focus, launching the Emerald Lens initiative to spotlight Irish cinema and foster co-productions with Canada. Highlights inclu…
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Whistler Film Festival Announces Industry Experts for 2024 Content Summit in Canada
The Whistler Film Festival, held in British Columbia, has announced the first group of industry professionals attending the 2024 Content Summit, which runs from December 4 to 7. The event will feature…
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The 25th Whistler Film Festival took place in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, from December 3 to 7, 2025. Akashi won five awards, while Our Kind of Chaos received the Audience Award. Park Chan-Wook received the Career Achievement Award. Kevin Ang’s After Party received the Screen BC Short Film Award for a project presented in the pitch competition.

Adverse Possession

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Norman Yi Li

Adverse Possession Three renovicted millennials break into a vacant mansion for shelter. They soon realize…

Agatha’s Almanac

Amalie Atkins

Agatha’s Almanac Frail as she is, 90-year-old Agatha has chosen to remain alone on the old family farm in…

Airtime

Griffin Elsley, Alex Clapin

Airtime Airtime explores the intersection of winter sports, flight and freedom in the mountains.…

Akashi

Mayumi Yoshida

Akashi When Kana, a Japanese artist living in Vancouver, returns to Tokyo for her grandmother’s…

Ancestral Beasts

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Tim Riedel

Ancestral Beasts A troubled Métis woman commits to finally facing the figurative demons in her past only…

Animals

Michael Makaroff

Animals The story is a coming-of-age centred on Lucas (Jett Klyne - Doctor Strange, Boy in the…

Arco

Ugo Bienvenu

Arco In 2075, a ten year old girl, Iris, witnesses Arco, a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit,…

At the Place of Ghosts

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Bretten Hannam

At the Place of Ghosts Siblings Mise'l and Antle, who were close as children, but trauma from their upbringing…

Awaiting the Lightning Bolt

Marco Russo

Awaiting the Lightning Bolt Renato, an eccentric Renaissance inventor, dares the impossible: capturing a lightning…

Beauty In a Fall

Nat Segal

Beauty In a Fall From a young age Julianna didn’t feel like she belonged. However, upon finding the weird…

Because Today is Saturday

Alice Eça Guimarães

Because Today is Saturday It's Saturday, and a woman struggles with the difficulty of reconciling her home life and…

Beyond Silence

Marnie Blok

Beyond Silence Two women, two generations, same trauma. One has been silent for over thirty years, the…

Bitter Fruit

Kristin Duffy

Bitter Fruit The older Clem gets, the more friends and family encourage her to try fruit. But when she…

Black Chador

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Elyana Moradi

Black Chador Black Chador follows a diasporic Persian woman as she navigates identity and faith, using…

Bloody Joke!

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Patrik Polak

Bloody Joke!Kara, a mute girl with aspirations of becoming a comedian like her idol Bruno, gets a job…

Blu's

Rejesh PK

Blu's Growing up freely in harmony with nature, witnessing her beautiful environment being…

Blue For You

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Sebastian Ortiz Wilkins

Blue For You A haunting meditation on obsession and fantasy, Blue For You follows Consuelo, a…

Brief Somebodies

Andy Reid

Brief Somebodies While rehearsing a sexual assault scene, a pair of actors form a connection they'll be…

Broca

Poppi Fella Pellegrino

Broca Using poetry, interviews with psychologists and survivors, and corporeal imagery, Broca…

Caribou Country

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Luke Gleeson

Caribou Country Amid the vast, untamed beauty of northern British Columbia, Wədzįh Nəne’ (Caribou…

Christopher & the Bug

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Vanessa Esteves, Kevin Micallef

Christopher & the Bug Christopher and the Bug is a heartwarming short film about a reclusive owl whose…

Clout

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Jordan Murphy Doidge

Clout Clout is a coming-of-age story about Oskar a 12-year-old boy who desperately seeks…

Cowboys and Hindus

Tejal Desai

Cowboys and Hindus A depressed, affluent, middle aged Hindu woman ventures to a rugged Texas cattle ranch.…

Dadda

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Aimee Hoffman

Dadda Amidst his wife's flourishing career, a once hotshot director turned stay-at-home dad,…

Dinner Rush

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Milton Ng

Dinner Rush On the night of his championship hockey game, Aaron is forced to return home for his…

Echo

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Megan Peta Hill, Roxanne Fernandes

Echo A young woman’s delicate balance of control and safety is fractured when an unexpected…

Embers

Trixie Pacis

Embers On July 24, 2024, a wildfire tore through Jasper National Park, Canada, reducing…

Fireweed

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Grace Esplen

Fireweed A young girl struggling with growing up is visited by one of her Gitsxan ancestors in her…

For Dawn

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Setareh Saleh

For Dawn Amid rising tensions in Iran, three teenage girls risk everything to advocate for freedom…

Forward

Nic Collar

Forward Forward is a documentary that celebrates the power of adaptive adventure through the…

Gale

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Sean Kim

Gale When her village is inadvertently destroyed by an ever-earnest gentle giant, Gran, the…

Hand

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Jennifer Winterbothamv

Hand A heart-broken college student ignores a grotesque infection as she develops an obsession…

Headcase

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Spencer Zimmerman

Headcase In her reach for fame, Karen, a wannabe influencer, finds herself having to lurk in the…

Home Is The Ocean

Livia Vonaesch

Home Is The Ocean In the infinity of the sea, far from the comfort zone, a Swiss family of eight has found…

I Fall to Pieces

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Jessica Landry

I Fall to Pieces When a young woman's limbs begin to mysteriously (and pretty inconveniently) fall off one…

I'm Still Me

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Samantha Lopez Mendez

I'm Still Me Renata is a young transgender woman living alone in her house. During a phone call with…

If You Give a Chad a Spot

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Finn McCager

If You Give a Chad a Spot A woman must face the creatinous consequences of her husband’s carelessness.

Influencers

Kurtis David Harder

Influencers In the sun-soaked luxury of a French countryside retreat, CW and her girlfriend Diane…

Isunngannguaq

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Saima Romito-Kalluk

Isunngannguaq It is springtime in Nunavut. A young girl has the power to turn into a long-tailed…

Jay Kelly

Noah Baumbach

Jay Kelly When Jay Kelly is honoured with a lifetime achievement award, he sets off on a trip…

Keeper

Osgood Perkins

Keeper From visionary director Osgood Perkins (Longlegs, The Monkey) comes Keeper, a haunting…

Kepme'k

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Adryan Jones

Kepme'k A construction worker reconnects with his Mi’kmaq roots when he is guided to a sacred…

Lamo Auru - Old Forest, New Lines

Ross Vernon McDonald, Nick Ogden

Lamo Auru - Old Forest, New Lines This is a story of exploration and discovery; where going somewhere with one goal is…

Land of Cold

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Hervé Demers

Land of Cold Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa have chosen to start their lives over north of the…

Legend of Fry-Roti: Rise of the Dough

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Sabrina Saleha

Legend of Fry-Roti: Rise of the Dough A Navajo/Bengali niece kneads to find dough-mestic harmony when her aunties burst into a…

Let Me Chase This Dream

Cristóbal Ruiz

Let Me Chase This Dream After suffering a traumatic brain injury, Canadian surf photographer Bryanna Bradley…

Lifeline

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Morgan Pinnock

Lifeline Lifeline follows Canadian artist Peter von Tiesenhausen, who garnered international…

Little Lorraine

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Andy Hines

Little Lorraine 1986 — Little Lorraine, a rugged fishing town on the edge of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.…

Little Monsters

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Pablo Léridon

Little Monsters When visually impaired Erwan has to share a ride with wheelchair-user David, war is…

Menopause: Coming in Hot

Kate Green

Menopause: Coming in Hot What if you were told you were about to develop a condition that could make you bald,…

Mile End Kicks

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Chandler Levack

Mile End Kicks It’s the summer of 2011, and Grace Pine, a restless twenty-something music critic, heads…

Mollo - The Art Of Holding On

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Thibaut Lampe

Mollo - The Art Of Holding On Mollo is an introspective story about Michelle, a climber who pursues a dream imagined…

Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising

Shane Belcourt

Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising In 1974, a group of young Anishinaabe activists took over Anicinabe Park in Kenora,…

Nika & Madison

Eva Thomas

Nika & Madison When two childhood friends reunite for a quiet weekend back home, their world shatters in…

No Other Choice

Park Chan-wook

No Other Choice When paper expert Yoo Man-soo is abruptly laid off, he loses the perfect life he’s worked…

On The Line

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Anastasia Itkina

On The Line In a city meant to offer her safety and new beginnings, a newcomer’s search for work…

One But Many

Janna Giacoppo

One But Many One But Many plunges audiences into the escalating global crisis of human-wildlife…

One Step Ahead

Anthony Bonello

One Step Ahead Back to the Mountains One Step Ahead follows Norwegian skier Bernt Marius as he…

Our Kind of Chaos

Clayton Larsen, Ryan Stutt

Our Kind of Chaos In the early 1990s, snowboarding was viewed as a passing fad and a major nuisance at ski…

Peruvian Ascents

Vince Lapointe

Peruvian Ascents As intergalactically infamous mountaineers Cam and Vinny battle crumbly ice, deadly…