{"id":472292,"date":"2026-02-16T17:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472292\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:04:10","slug":"a-father-and-sons-search-for-the-line-where-the-snow-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472292\/","title":{"rendered":"A father and son\u2019s search for the line where the snow starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Why do you think I brought you here?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019\u00edch\u2019iy\u00fay Elx\u0331w\u00ed\u1e35n (or \u2018Twin Sisters\u2019) by the Indigenous Squamish people and today often called the Lions, the two set out to find the place where British Columbia\u2019s lush greenery ends and its white snow begins. The piece weaves footage from past climbs \u2013 which feature Rumi laughing, crying, complaining and questioning \u2013 with amir\u2019s pensive narration, including how climate change is driving the snow line ever higher. At once intimate and cinematic, the result is a powerful meditation on fatherhood and nature as connected by time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Why do you think I brought you here?\u2019 In Snow Line, the Vancouver-based filmmaker adam amir embarks on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-472292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}