A father and son’s search for the line where the snow starts

‘Why do you think I brought you here?’

In Snow Line, the Vancouver-based filmmaker adam amir embarks on an annual winter pilgrimage with his young son, Rumi Amir. Climbing twin mountains that overlook Vancouver, named Ch’ích’iyúy Elx̱wíḵn (or ‘Twin Sisters’) by the Indigenous Squamish people and today often called the Lions, the two set out to find the place where British Columbia’s lush greenery ends and its white snow begins. The........

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