2026 Program Summary
Festival Pass
This $250 festival pass will get you access to all the screenings and events for the 2026 Sundar Prize Film Festival. You can also buy tickets for individual screening blocks below.
Select a date below for details and ticket information for over 50 films being screened across two locations during the third annual Sundar Prize Film Festival.
Opening Night Screening Block
The Weight of Silence, The Power of Choice
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2026
Venue: North Delta Centre for the Arts
Doors Open: 5:00 PM (light snacks)
Opening Remarks: 6:00 PM
Screening Starts: 6:45 PM
Post-Screening: Filmmaker Q&A (hosted by Sidartha, Senior Programmer and Executive Director of Sundar Prize Film Festival) + Reception
Films in Opening Night Block
Love Train
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Home Is a Feeling
(Canada, BC, 2025)
One Day This Kid
(Canada, 2024)
Saints & Warriors
(Canada, BC, 2024)
Friday Screening Block 1 (Shorts Block)
Small Stories, Big Questions
BC Student & Youth Showcase
Date: Friday, April 24, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM
Venue: North Delta Centre for the Arts
Total Runtime: 1:41:27
Number of Films: 11
Block Description:
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.
Films in Friday Block 1
Grain
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(Canada, Montreal, 2025)
E for Effort, Never Excellence
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Humanity Over Hate
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(United States, 2025)
Through the Flow of Summer Snow
(Canada, BC, 2024)
Fallen
(United States, 2025)
Black Chador
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Always Forever
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Drafting
(Malaysia, 2025)
Best Friends Notice of Deportation
(Canada, BC, 2025)
All That Lies Beneath
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Quenched
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(Canada, 2025)
Friday Screening Block 2
Who Are We Under Pressure?
BC / Indigenous Spotlight
Date: Friday, April 24, 2026
Time: 3:30 PM
Venue: North Delta Centre for the Arts
Total Runtime: 1:28:38
Number of Films: 4
Block Description:
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.
Films in Friday Block 2
Knitty Gritty
(United States, 2025)
The 2400
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Diamond Belly
(Canada, BC, 2025)
A Cree Approach
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Friday Screening Block 3
When Home Is on Fire
Environmental Spotlight
Date: Friday, April 24, 2026
Time: 5:45 PM
Venue: North Delta Centre for the Arts
Total Runtime: 1:55:47
Number of Films: 3
Block Description:
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.
Films in Friday Block 3
“Climate Crisis”
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(Canada, BC, 2024)
Embers
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(Canada, BC, 2025)
The Fire in Our Hearts
(Canada, BC, 2026)
Friday Screening Block 4
What We Don’t Say
South Asian Spotlight
Date: Friday, April 24, 2026
Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: North Delta Centre for the Arts
Total Runtime: 2:17:51
Number of Films: 3
Block Description:
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.
Films in Friday Block 4
Shit Cute
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Sanjeevani
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Bayaan
(India, 2025)
Saturday Screening Block 1
Becoming Someone
Shorts Block 2
Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026
Time: 10:15 AM
Venue: Landmark Cinemas Guildford
Total Runtime: 2:33:00
Number of Films: 11
Block Description:
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.
Films in Saturday Block 1
Pearl
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Don't Think About the Pink Dolphins
(Canada, BC, 2025)
ripe (chin)
(Vietnam/Canada, 2025)
Art Connoisseur
(Canada, BC, 2025)
ENIGMA
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Our Long Goodbye
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Praying For Love
(United States, 2025)
IF
(India, 2025)
Lateral
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Sing to the Wind
(Canada, Ontario, 2025)
Obscura
(Canada, BC, 2024)
Saturday Screening Block 2
What We Inherit
Shorts Block 2
Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026
Time: 1:15 PM
Venue: Landmark Cinemas Guildford
Total Runtime: 2:33:00
Number of Films: 3
Block Description:
Films in Saturday Block 2
Pan de Muerto
(Canada, BC, 2025)
NEPO BABY
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Calorie
(Canada/India, 2025)
Saturday Screening Block 3
Crossing the Line
Shorts Block 3
Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026
Time: 4:15 PM
Venue: Landmark Cinemas Guildford
Total Runtime: 2:01:00
Number of Films: 10
Block Description:
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?
Films in Saturday Block 3
Animals
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Walk and Talk
(Canada, BC, 2025)
“Purgatory”
(Canada, Ontario, 2025)
Sheepskin
(Canada, BC, 2025)
At The End
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(Canada, BC, 2025)
Trance
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(Canada, BC, 2025)
113 Words For You Today
(China, Taiwan, USA, 2025)
The Last Flight
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(Canada, BC, 2025)
Vital
(Canada/Iran, 2025)
Ambush
(Canada/Jordan, 2025)
Saturday Screening Block 4
Love, Actually
Queer Spotlight
Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026
Time: 6:45 PM
Venue: Landmark Cinemas Guildford
Total Runtime: 1:54:56
Number of Films: 4
Block Description:
Queer intimacy is layered, joyful, messy, political, tender, and deeply human. This evening spotlight celebrates stories that move beyond stereotype to explore vulnerability, chosen family, romance, survival, and self-definition. These films remind us that queer love is not a niche experience — it is expansive, ordinary, radical, and real.
Films in Saturday Block 4
Egg Yolk Custard Bun
(Canada, BC, 2025)
It's Not You
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(Canada, BC, 2025)
Ramen Boys
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(Canada, BC, 2024)
Blood Lines
(Canada, Saskatchewan, 2025)
Sunday Screening Block 1
After Everything
Spiritual, Health & Wellness Spotlight
Date: Sunday, April 26, 2026
Time: 12:45 PM
Venue: Landmark Cinemas Guildford
Total Runtime: 2:14:00
Number of Films: 4
Block Description:
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?
Films in Sunday Block 1
Surface
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(Canada, BC, 2025)
A Ticket Home
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(Canada, 2025)
Light Through the Blindfold
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Et Maintenant? (What Now?)
(Canada, Saskatchewan, 2025)
Sunday Screening Block 2
Choosing Each Other
Closing Block
Date: Sunday, April 26, 2026
Time: 3:30 PM
Venue: Landmark Cinemas Guildford
Total Runtime: 2:08:52
Number of Films: 4
Block Description:
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.
Films in Sunday Block 2
Following The Line
(Taiwan, 2025)
Red Light Rebel
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Burcu's Angels
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Mildlife
(Canada, BC, 2025)