Hamilton, Ont.-born Lesley Loksi Chan’s Lloyd Wong, Unfinished has won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale).

The 29-minute documentary is produced by Vancouver’s bb house and written and directed by Chan (pictured). Luo Li, Phanuel Antwi and Chan are the film’s producers. The film had its world premiere at Berlinale.

Lloyd Wong, Unfinished follows the story of Lloyd Wong, a Chinese-Canadian artist who was documenting his experience living with AIDS in Toronto in the 1990s. Dying before he could finish his project, the film combines Wong’s decades-old footage with Chan’s research notes.

The Berlinale Shorts jury consisted of Russian-German composer and film music producer Dascha Dauenhauer, Danish festival programming veteran Jing Haase and Vietnamese filmmaker Phạm Ngọc Lân.

Lloyd Wong, Unfinished also won the Teddy Award for Best Short Film. The Teddy Award is an official, independently juried award that is presented to films which communicate queer themes on a broad social platform.

“The jury was deeply moved by this transmission of queer history through intergenerational artistic exchange, as its empathetic research uncovers a past that we are not yet done with, and that is not yet done with us,” said the jury in a statement.

Berlinale ran from Feb. 13 to 23.

Photo by Richard Hübner/Berlinale 2025