[1] He is most noted for his 2012 mid-length docudrama film East Hastings Pharmacy, which was the winner of the Colin Low Award at the 2013 DOXA Documentary Film Festival,[2] and his 2017 narrative feature film Fail to Appear, which was a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017 Bourges was originally from Paris, he moved to Canada as a teenager to play ice hockey; after failing to make the National Hockey League, he studied film at the University of British Columbia and York University.
[1] He remains based in Vancouver as a professor in the film program at UBC.
[3] He made a number of short films prior to East Hastings Pharmacy; the most noted of these, Woman Waiting, premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival,[4] and was screened at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival.
[6] It is also slated to screen at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival on 21 February 2023.
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