An animated documentary about the relationship between an Indigenous and white pair of half-brothers has won the top prize at this year's Hot Docs Festival.
"Endless Cookie" took home the $50,000 audience award at a ceremony on Sunday.
Festival organizers described the film, directed by brothers Seth and Peter Scriver based on their own lives and families, Â as "a colourful collage of animated vignettes" that explore their "complex bond."
Other awards handed out at the festival in recent days include the $10,000 award for best ´ºÉ«Ö±²¥ feature documentary, which went to "Agatha's Almanac," directed by Amalie Atkins.
The film portrays a 90-year-old Mennonite woman's life alone on her ancestral farm in southern Manitoba, and jurors praise it as "poetic and playful, yet intensely political."Â
Meanwhile the $10,000 award for best international feature documentary went to "I, Poppy," Vivek Chaudhary's film about an Indian farmer's fight against corrupt officials.Â
This report by ´ºÉ«Ö±²¥was first published May 4, 2025.
