FFFA: Endless Cookie

This film is also showing at our sister cinema, Lido Cinemas

Endless Cookie

VIC & NSW Premiere

"A raucous, deeply personal film that defies conventional documentary form…Scriver and Scriver turn chaos into art." – Variety

Seth Scriver travels to Shamattawa First Nation in northern Manitoba with a tape recorder, hoping to capture his half-brother Pete's stories. What follows is eight years of audio chaos: kids bursting in, neighbours stopping by, toilets flushing mid-sentence, and a house full of dogs providing constant commentary. Rather than edit out the mayhem, the brothers decide to transform the bedlam into a film.

A freewheeling animated documentary that plays like a fever dream rendered in a style reminiscent of underground comics and Adult Swim, Endless Cookie swings from the hilarious (beaver trap disasters, RCMP harassment, Sasquatch sightings and the daily absurdities of reserve life) to the heartening: a meditation on family, home, friendship and life as a mixed-race person in modern-day Canada.

A current Northern Ranger and health clinic maintenance worker, Pete narrates with wry humour and hard-earned wisdom, while Seth animates with an anarchic energy that refuses to sanitise or sentimentalise.

Endless Cookie honours Indigenous storytelling on Indigenous terms.

Festival Appearances & Awards
Sundance Film Festival 2025 – World Cinema Documentary Competition
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2025 – Winner, Rogers Audience Award
Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025 – Winner, Contrechamp Jury Award
imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival – Opening Film

Rating

Unclassified 18+

Duration

97 min

Country

Canada

Language

English

Cast

Seth Scriver, Pete Scriver, Kristin "Cookie" Scriver, Dezray "Dez" Scriver, Ada Scriver, Simone "Simminy" Scriver, Sterling Scriver, Sylvester Redhead, Peirsston Scriver

Director

Seth Scriver,Pete Scriver