BC Spotlight

This poignant, thought-provoking film is set in the future, when we’ve solved the environmental crisis--at a significant cost. It follows a mother and daughter on their different life journeys; the two storylines converge for a powerful conclusion.

Liz Cairns makes a mesmerizing feature debut that sees a young woman suffering from mysterious food allergies join a remote island community practicing alternative healing methods. She soon realizes that not everything is as it seems.

Ari Kinarthy, a composer with spinal muscular atrophy, embarks on an ambitious goal: to create music that will memorialize his life. Intimate, honest and inspiring, Ari eloquently narrates his story and shares his artistic process in this captivating doc.

Jerome Yoo’s gorgeous, brilliantly structured first feature is a lyrical and gut-wrenching portrait of a grieving Korean immigrant family adjusting to a new life in a small Canadian town in the 1990s.

The inventor of the California Roll, chef Hidekazu Tojo helped bring sushi to mainstream popularity through his renowned Vancouver restaurant, Tojo's. The Chef & the Daruma is a mouthwatering film touching on immigration, identity, and reinvention.

When a socialite visits her nanny’s remote reserve, she discovers her Cree ancestry and delves into her new-found spiritual traditions to save herself and her newborn baby from her husband’s psychotic, and purity-obsessed racism.

Bold and deeply personal, Inay investigates the emotional and psychological repercussions of Canada's Live-In Caregiver Program, which attracted Filipino women migrant workers who left their children to care for strangers out of economic necessity.

This uplifting documentary follows a curling team from Maple Ridge as they navigate the uncertainties of their teenage years and strive to become Canadian Junior Curling Champions with coaching from three of their moms, who are former Olympians.

Former gambler Lucky has settled down with a mortgage, a wife and daughters. After falling for a tax scam, he goes all in at the card table. Gillian McKercher helms a tense and gripping narrative about Asian-Canadian familial bonds, deceit and sacrifice.

This short experimental feature applies minimalist dramatic techniques to a fraying millennial relationship with rich, fulsome cinematography and a sophisticated sound mix to explore the destabilising dichotomy between our interior and external selves.

This rousing doc explores a 1985 dispute over clearcut logging on Haida Gwaii. Taking us from canny retrospective commentary to the thick of the action, director Chris Auchter employs animation and a wealth of archival footage to riveting effect.