‘Endless Cookie’ Review: Colorful Anecdotes About Indigenous Canadian Life Amuse in Wacky Animated Doc

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Carlos Aguilar Elongated noses, like wrinkly pickles or deflated balloons, protrude from the faces of the comically offbeat characters in the zany, rambling and historically relevant animated documentary “Endless Cookie” from animator Seth Scriver, a white man, and his half-brother Peter, who is an Indigenous person from the Shamattawa First Nations in northern Canada.

Pete’s memories, which illustrate the intricacies of Indigenous life in Canada, are the foundation of this personal family scrapbook of a film.

As Pete recalls events that happened to him, to people around him or to relatives, the intimate reminiscences meet the macro, touching on the impact of residential schools, land claims by greedy companies and the disproportionate incarceration of First Nations individuals.

On occasion, he speaks a few words or phrases in the Cree language and addresses the spirituality of his people. “Endless Cookie” simultaneously chronicles the making of the project itself, which took nine years to complete, from receiving government funds to the different stages and challenges of recording Pete’s anecdotes at the crowded home in isolated and frozen Shamattawa (there’s only one store in town) that he shares with nearly a dozen family members and 10 dogs (one of them depicted as a bizarre, four-legged interpretation of Mr.