When Endless Cookie Offers A Touch of the Surreal

Now playing at select cinemas in Canada. Please check local listings (or see below)

Unlike similarly styled comedy sketches that were popular in its day, Endless Cookie is an animated film that’s basically a vignette of moments about two half-brothers. What this work delves into concerns what life is like between Seth Scriver (who is white and lives in Toronto) and Peter Scriver (who is Indigenous, from the Shamattawa First Nation in northern Canada). It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2025 and is certainly heartfelt. After it’s run at imagineNATIVE Film Festival, it’s now playing at select cinemas across Canada which started June 13th.

When compared to the shenanigans on what I recall from SCTV and The McKenzie Brothers, the situations are similar. And the approaches to making a subtle social commentary are dead on. While these live-action skits are certainly more of a parody of Canadian identity, this animated biography goes much further.

This film uses absurdist humour to address social and political issues related to indigenous experiences in Canada. It examines nearly everything viewers can find in other Indigenous works (and I’ve recently seen a lot) about incarceration rates, residential schools, and life on a reserve in an impactful and disarming way. Some critics may say its overkill and compare it to South park, but I feel that reminding is important.

I like to call this film scrappy, and when it has the feel of being very DIY–using a mix of hand-drawing, cartoon, collage, and some CGI–to bring this world alive, I had to chuckle. Nearly every character has a standout object to make them unique. Nearly every character is characterized to have some object stand out to make him or her unique. True to the title of this film, there’s a person who looks like a cookie! It helps add to this film’s surreal feel.

I don’t want to spoil too much about this film, as it’s a unique piece of Canadiana which also considers the impact of why family matters. As a result, I hope this work gets wider distribution so I can see it again (from home) and delve deeper into the themes this brilliant film explores.

4 Stars out of 5

Endless Cookie Movie Trailer

Confirmed List of Theatres Playing Endless Cookie

• Toronto (TIFF Bell Lightbox)

• Vancouver (Rio Theatre & VIFF Centre)

• Victoria (The Vic Theatre)

• Winnipeg (Cinematheque Theatre)

• Edmonton (Metro Cinema)

• Guelph (Bookshelf Cinema)

• Montreal (Cinema Moderne & Cinemathèque Québécoise

Author: Ed Sum

I'm a freelance videographer and entertainment journalist (Absolute Underground Magazine, Two Hungry Blokes, and Otaku no Culture) with a wide range of interests. From archaeology to popular culture to paranormal studies, there's no stone unturned. Digging for the past and embracing "The Future" is my mantra. View all posts by Ed Sum