2025 RECAP
2nd Annual Sundar Prize Film Festival
2026 Sundar Prize Winners
Best Feature Film – $2000
Bayaan
(India, 2025)
Best Short Film – $1000
One Day This Kid
(Canada, 2024)
Best Feature Documentary – $2000
Saints and Warriors
(Canada, BC, 2024)
Director: Patrick Shannon — 1:37:00 — Delta Premiere
Logline: 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.
3 Leo Awards (Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Cinematography for Feature Documentary), Hot Docs Top 5 Audience Award, CIFF Grand Jury Prize for Best Canadian Documentary, DOXA DGC Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Director
Best Short Documentary – $1000
Light Through the Blindfold
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Best Short Animation – $1000
Sing to the Wind
(Canada, Ontario, 2025)
Director: Yaffa Aboudib Husseini — 11:17 — BC Premiere
Logline: 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.
Best Environmental Film – $1000
The Fire in Our Hearts
(Canada, BC, 2026)
Director: Josias Tschanz — 1:27:20 — BC Premiere
Logline: As wildfires threaten a remote region of British Columbia, the Cheslatta Carrier Nation and Southside residents choose to stay and defend their land, transforming the crisis into a powerful blueprint for sovereignty, resilience, and collective survival.
Best 2SLGBTQ+ Film – $2000
IF
(India, 2025)
Best Student Film – $500
Praying For Love
(United States, 2025)
Best Youth Film (19 and under) – $500
Fallen
(United States, 2025)
Best British Columbia Feature Film – $2000
A Cree Approach
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Best British Columbia Short Film – $1000
Red Light Rebel
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Director: Hannah Yang — 15:56 — World Premiere
Logline: A pastor stuck at a red light finds himself at a crossroads with God.
BC Student Film Showcase Award
First Prize - $1000
Home Is a Feeling
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Director: Ryah SM King — 7:04 — World Premiere
Logline: A pink cat navigates a new city—but struggles when everything around her feels at odds with who she really is.
Second Prize – $750
Through the Flow of Summer Snow
Third Prize – $500
Pan de Muerto
Best Spiritual, Health & Wellness Film – $1000
Et Maintenant? (What Now?)
(Canada, Ontario, 2025)
KDocsFF Best Emerging Filmmaker Residency Award – $1000
Burcu's Angels
(Canada, BC, 2025)
Director: Özgün Gündüz — 19:56 — Surrey Premiere
Logline: 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.
BC Performer’s Mastery Award
