The Burning Season is a 2023 Canadian drama film, directed by Sean Garrity.
[1] The film stars Sara Canning, Jonas Chernick, Joe Pingue and Tanisha Thammavongsa.
JB is the owner of a lake resort whose wedding to Poppy is disrupted by the revelation that he has been having a seven-year affair with Alena, a woman who has been coming to the resort for seven years for summer vacations with her husband Tom, and then depicts the affair in reverse chronological order.
[2] The film ends with a jump back to the one previous time Elena visited the resort, as a teenager with her parents.
[4] At Whistler, Chernick and Diana Frances won the award for Best Screenplay in a Borsos Competition film.