Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Canadian Documentary


The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Canadian Documentary Film is an annual award, presented by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle to the film judged by its members as the best Canadian documentary film of the year. It is separate from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Documentary, presented to international documentary films.

Winners and nominees

YearFilmDirector
2012The World Before HerNisha Pahuja
2012The End of TimePeter Mettler
2012Stories We TellSarah Polley
2013My Prairie HomeChelsea McMullan
2013Oil Sands KaraokeCharles Wilkinson
2013WatermarkJennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky
2014The Price We PayHarold Crooks
2014Everything Will BeJulia Kwan
2014'Grant Baldwin
2015Charles Wilkinson
2015Fractured LandFiona Rayher, Damien Gillis
2015How to Change the WorldJerry Rothwell
2015HurtAlan Zweig
2016The Prison in Twelve LandscapesBrett Story
2016After the Last RiverVictoria Lean
2016We Can't Make the Same Mistake TwiceAlanis Obomsawin
2017Maison du BonheurSofia Bohdanowicz
2017In the WavesJacquelyn Mills
2017A Skin So Soft Denis Côté
2017Unarmed VersesCharles Officer
2018Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky
2018The Museum of Forgotten TriumphsBojan Bodružić
2018What Is Democracy?Astra Taylor
2019Tasha Hubbard'
2019Because We Are GirlsBaljit Sangra
2019Danny''Lewis Bennett, Aaron Zeghers