Awards
People's Choice Awards presented by Rogers
A long-standing tradition at TIFF, the People’s Choice Awards are marking their 48th year. The People’s Choice Award is an Oscars bellwether with a rich history; past winners include Chariots of Fire, The Princess Bride, Slumdog Millionaire; and most recently, Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck. All feature films and series in TIFF’s Official Selection are eligible. The winners of the People’s Choice Awards will be announced on Sunday, September 14, 2025. The four audience-voted awards are the People’s Choice Award, the People’s Choice Documentary Award, the People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award and, new this year, the International People’s Choice Award.
Second runner-up
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Platform Award
Named after Jia Zhang-Ke’s groundbreaking film, Platform spotlights films with high artistic merit and strong directorial vision. All films in the Platform programme are eligible for this award, which will be selected by an international jury. The winning filmmaker will receive a $20,000 CAD cash prize.
To The Victory! is the unanimous choice for this year’s Platform Award amongst a very strong selection. Bringing cinematic language to its roots and, at the same time, masterfully playing with audience expectations, this film dismantles convention to reveal deeply resonant universal emotions. Director Valentyn Vasyanovych has choreographed a mise-en-scène rendered with masterful precision, arriving at the kind of refined simplicity that can only be achieved with artistic maturity and bold vision. He has deftly used comedy to address a very complicated and complex situation into a work that is both audacious and profoundly beautiful. Ultimately, the film returns us to the very essence of cinema — reminding us why we are compelled to tell stories on film, and why we continue to do so.
Hen, dir. György Pálfi | Germany/Greece/Hungary
The jury also wishes to recognize the extraordinary artistry of director György Pálfi, whose work exemplifies boldness, intelligence, and creative ingenuity. Blending cinematic genres in an inventive and seamless manner, Hen demonstrates remarkable precision in its camera movement and shot composition, resulting in an exceptionally effective narrative. György’s unwavering commitment to exploring humanity through the perspective of the hen yields a singularly original vision — a work of stunning originality, unlike anything else in contemporary cinema.
Carlos Marqués-Marcet is a writer, director and editor from Barcelona. He has co-written and directed the films 10.000KM (2014), Anchor and Hope (2017), The Days to Come (2019) and his latest film They Will Be Dust, winner of the Platform Award at TIFF ’24. He has also been directing for several projects for platforms such as HBO and Atresmedia.
Photography: Lluis Tudela
Marianne Jean-Baptiste is an Oscar-nominated actor, writer, composer, and director. Known for her acclaimed performance in Secrets & Lies (1996), she recently reunited with Mike Leigh for Hard Truths (TIFF ’24), earning major critic awards. Television credits include Without a Trace, Surface, Soundtrack, Homecoming, Blindspot, and Broadchurch. Film credits include Rumble Through the Dark, Boxing Day, In Fabric, Training Day, RoboCop, and 28 Days.
Chloé Robichaud is a Québec-based filmmaker and screenwriter who first gained recognition with Herd Leader (Canada’s Top Ten, TIFF ’12) and Sarah Prefers to Run (TIFF ’13). Further work showcased at the Festival includes Boundaries (TIFF ’16), Days of Happiness (TIFF ’23), and Delphine (TIFF ’19), which won the Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film. Her latest feature, Two Women, received the 2025 Special Jury Award at Sundance.
Photography: Alexis GR
Best Canadian Feature Film Award
TIFF continues to celebrate the unique craft and storytelling within Canadian cinema with the Best Canadian Feature Film Award. All Canadian feature films in Official Selection — excluding first or second features — will be considered for the award. The winning filmmaker will receive a $10,000 CAD cash prize.
Best Canadian Feature Film Award:
Thirty-five films in 10 days gives you some perspective on the cinematic zeitgeist in our country. As a jury, we were particularly impressed by the wonderful variety, breadth, and strength of storytelling in the indigenous films supported by the Indigenous Screen Office. This was a powerful indicator of the future of cinema in this country, and we look forward to seeing more in the future.
Wrong Husband directed by Zacharias Kunuk and co-written by Kunuk and Carol Kunnuk, is a love story from thousands of years ago that blends the epic and intimate and immerses viewers in a mesmerizing and unique cinematic experience. The supernatural is ever-present and matter of fact alongside exquisite details of the daily rhythms of ancient Inuit life. The humour, gentleness and stoicism in the characters’ interactions is deeply moving, and the landscape is both a sublime setting and a character in itself. This is a beautiful and not unexpected achievement from a master storyteller.
Honorable mention:
There Are No Words, dir. Min Sook Lee | Canada
An Honourable Mention goes to There Are No Words, written and directed by veteran documentarian Min Sook Lee. This film is a profound and devastating story of unspeakable loss; the shifting shape and mingling of individual and collective memory; the sometimes brutal immigrant experience; and how past violent personal and political realities can continue to define the identity of a family.
Best Canadian Discovery Award
The Best Canadian Discovery Award celebrates works of emerging filmmakers who contribute to enriching the Canadian film landscape. All Canadian first or second feature films in Official Selection are eligible for this award. The winning filmmaker will receive a $10,000 CAD cash prize.
Best Canadian Discovery Award:
Blue Heron, written and directed by Sophy Romvari, is a film centered on a family struggling with a troubling personal crisis, where all elements — script, direction, cinematography, performance and editing — unite to powerfully transcend the sum of their parts. The complexity of story, perspective and emotion is conveyed with understated simplicity — nothing is superfluous — and the transitions between real and imagined, past and present, are seamless, as well as heartbreaking. Blue Heron is a stunning and assured feature debut about love, grief, memory, and the yearning to go back to the moment before everything changed.
Honorable mention:
100 Sunset, dir. Kunsang Kyirong | Canada
We as a jury were struck by the remarkable world-building in 100 Sunset, Kunsang Kyirong’s directorial debut. She invites us into the apartment complex that is home to members of the Tibetan immigrant community in Toronto, where we experience the gossip, rivalries, and intrigues through the eyes of an observant young thief who rarely speaks but seems to register everything. The growing friendship between the thief and a newly arrived young wife is a study in seeing and being seen, and the interplay of an old DV camera perspective takes us along on their journey of expanding horizons.
Jennifer Baichwal has been directing and producing documentaries for nearly three decades. Among other films, installations and lens-based projects, she has made 10 feature documentaries which have played all over the world and won awards nationally and internationally.
R.T. Thorne is a prolific triple threat director, screenwriter and producer. His work in television has garnered multiple Canadian Screen Awards and an Emmy nomination. His critically acclaimed debut feature 40 Acres, starring Danielle Deadwyler, premiered at TIFF ’24 and was named to Canada’s Top Ten. 40 Acres was released theatrically across Canada and the US in the summer of 2025.
Sophie Jarvis is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker whose feature debut Until Branches Bend (TIFF ’22, SXSW ’23, Locarno ‘23) won the Prix de Soleure at the Solothurner Filmtage, the Netflix Breakthrough Award at the Athena Film Festival, and Best BC Film at VIFF. It also received a CSA nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 2023.
Photography: Brian Van Wyk
Short Cuts Awards
Films in the Short Cuts programme are eligible for three jury-selected Short Cuts Awards: Best International Short Film, Best Canadian Short Film, and new this year, Best Animated Short Film. These awards provide each winner with a bursary of $10,000 CAD to help them continue achieving success in their careers.
2025 Short Cuts Award:
Best Canadian Short Film
dirs. Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
Short Cuts Award for Best International Film:
This film sparked one of the most interesting conversations around the jury table. Talk Me is bold in its portrayal of intimacy and the universal longing for connection. The characters fit so naturally into the film’s unique, evocative world that everything feels normal very quickly. Its cinematography is beautiful, delicate yet deliberate, each frame carefully crafted to draw us deeper into the story. By allowing the visuals to lead, the film creates an immersive experience of vulnerability and honesty. For its courage, craft, and sensitivity, the jury presents the Short Cuts Award for Best International Short Film to Joecar Hanna’s Talk Me.
Honorable Mention for Short Cuts Award Best International Film:
Agapito, dirs. Arvin Belarmino & Kyla Danelle Romero | Philippines
For its formal precision, command of a delicate tone, poetic awareness of space and movement, and deeply personal reflections on family, the jury is thrilled to present an Honourable Mention to Arvin Belarmino and Kyla Danelle Romero’s remarkable Agapito. The jury also wants to acknowledge the brilliantly nuanced and committed performances of the film’s young cast.
Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Film:
In addition to highlighting the film’s daring technical achievement and sumptuous artistic direction, the jury also wants to recognize a fable about greed and the capacity of artists to create a fantastic world by the power of their narrative voice. The Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film goes to Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski for The Girl Who Cried Pearls.
Honorable Mention for Short Cuts Award Best Canadian Film:
A Soft Touch, dir. Heather Young | Canada
A Soft Touch really pierced our hearts. It finds a way to transform routine, everyday moments into a quietly devastating portrait of neglect and resilience. With searing precision and simplicity, the film illuminates how easily older folks can be overlooked, and in doing so, demands our attention, empathy, and accountability. The jury awards an Honourable Mention to Heather Young’s A Soft Touch.
Short Cuts Award for Best Animated Short Film:
This wordless journey into the bond between two siblings becomes a transcendent meditation on the mysteries of time and memory, love and loss, connection and transformation. Animated with lush, cosmic beauty and vibrating with tenderness and insight, the film plunges its viewer into deep, deep feeling. For its overwhelming artistry, luminous spirit, and soul-expanding sense of mystery, the jury presents the Short Cuts Award for Best Animated Short Film to Agnès Patron’s To the Woods. The jury also wants to note the film’s jaw-dropping sound design and the work of composer Pierre Oberkampf, whose score ranks among the best film music of recent years.
Ashley Iris Gill is a rising cinematographer whose intimate, emotive style shapes acclaimed works like the Canadian Screen Award winner Black Community Mixtapes, Sundance’s Thriving, and Scaring Women At Night (TIFF Short Cuts ’22). She has collaborated with many brands including Nike, Mercedes, and BMO, while also passionately advocating for BIPOC and 2SLGBTQ+ communities in film.
Connor Jessup is a Canadian actor, writer, and director, best known for his leading roles in Netflix’s Locke & Key, ABC’s American Crime, and the independent film Closet Monster (Best Canadian Feature Film, TIFF ’15). As a filmmaker, Jessup’s short films have screened at the Festival as well as the Berlinale, Clermont-Ferrand, Palm Springs, FNC, and many other festivals.
Marcel Jean has been the Artistic Director of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival since 2012 and the Executive Director of the Cinémathèque québécoise since 2015. He is the author of several books on animation and Canadian cinema, and from 1999 to 2005 he was an executive producer at the NFB French program animation studio.
NETPAC Award
Presented by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Pacific Cinema, the NETPAC Award recognizes films specifically from the Asian and Pacific regions. The jury consists of three international community members selected by TIFF and NETPAC, who award the prize to the best Asian film by a first- or second-time feature director.
For offering an indelible tale of tolerance, desperation and faith, conveyed through a unique lens of realism and poetics, elevated by striking performances. In Search of The Sky (Vimukt) is a truly independent achievement by Indian filmmaker Jitank Singh Gurjar. The film transports the audience to rural central India, where an impoverished elderly couple contends with their cognitively challenged adult son and the villagers who threaten their existence. A beacon of hope comes in the form of the Maha Kumbh Mela, a pilgrimage to the world’s largest spiritual gathering where they seek renewal and new possibilities of life.
Born in Laos, Keoprasith Souvannavong is a French journalist based in Paris. He has worked since 1993 for Radio France Internationale, for which he has covered various international film festivals. He also acted in the feature film The Scent of Green Papaya, which received the Caméra d’Or award at the Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for an Academy Awards.
Dina Iordanova is professor of global cinema, an expert in transnational film festivals. She is the author of Film Festivals in East Asia, has been a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong and Beijing Film Academy, has given masterclasses and served on juries of festivals across Asia, including Busan International Film Festival, and Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.
Helen Lee is a Seoul-born, Toronto-based filmmaker. Her TIFF-premiered films include: Tenderness (2024); Hers At Last (2018); The Art of Woo (2001); Subrosa (2000); Prey (1995); My Niagara (1992, Special Jury Citation); and Sally’s Beauty Spot (1990, Honourable Mention, Best Canadian Short).
FIPRESCI Prize
The FIPRESCI Prize is presented by an international jury selected by the International Federation of Film Critics. Founded in 1925, the Federation is an organization of professional film critics and film journalists for the promotion and development of film culture and the safeguarding of professional interests. The Federation awards the prize at international film festivals and film festivals of particular importance to promote film art and to encourage new and young cinema.
Spanish cinema, long shaped by the exuberance of Pedro Almodóvar, has found a new distinctive voice in Lucía Aleñar Iglesias. Set on sun-drenched Mallorca, Forastera follows 16-year-old Cata, whose carefree family holiday is brought to a halt by the death of her grandmother. In her grief, the teenager takes on the older woman’s persona — wearing her clothes, adopting her gestures and silences. Aleñar Iglesias directs with restraint and precision, finding power in understatement. Performances from newcomer Zoe Stein and veteran Lluís Homar anchor the film’s dreamlike rhythms. What might sound slight becomes luminous: a meditation on an adolescent’s first encounter with death, and a ghost story about how the past lingers in the present. Forastera is a quietly assured debut, simple yet transformative, marking Aleñar Iglesias as a filmmaker the FIPRESCI jury would like to bet on.
Andy Hazel is a film journalist based in Melbourne, Australia where he is also the senior editorial producer at The Saturday Paper. Andy is a regular contributor to IndieWire, Guardian Australia, The Curb, and A Rabbit's Foot. He is also a voting member of the Golden Globes and host of Twin Peaks The Return: A Season Three Podcast.
Francisco Ferreira is a journalist and film critic born in Lisbon. His collaborations have appeared in a number of books, texts published by film festival catalogues, and international film magazines such as Cahiers du Cinéma (France), Film Comment (USA), Cinema Scope (Canada), and Caiman Cuadernos de Cine (Spain). He has been working as a film critic for Portuguese press since 1998.
A film journalist since 1982 and member of the French Union of Film Critics, Jean-Philippe Guerand has contributed to French publications such as Première, Le Film Français, TéléCinéObs, and L’Avant-Scène Cinéma. Host of the blog Persona Grata, he has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Cyril Collard, James Dean, Jacques Tati, Bernard Blier, and Jean Rochefort.
Justine Smith is the screen editor at Cult MTL and the programmer of the Underground Section at the Fantasia International Film Festival. She’s written for BFI, Little White Lies, Vinegar Syndrome, and Ebert Voices. She is currently working on her first book.
Katharina Dockhorn studied history and cultural studies at Humboldt University in Berlin. Since 1993, she has been working as a freelance journalist for television stations, daily newspapers, monthly magazines, and trade papers. Her areas of expertise include film policy and the film industry. She was one of the founding members of the Professional Association of German Media Journalists, of which she is a board member.
Past Award Recipients
- People’s Choice Awards
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearThe Life of ChuckMike FlanaganUSA2024American FictionCord JeffersonUSA2023The FabelmansSteven SpielbergUSA2022BelfastKenneth BranaghUnited Kingdom2021NomadlandChloé ZhaoUSA2020Jojo RabbitTaika WaititiUSA2019Green BookPeter FarrellyUSA2018Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriMartin McDonaghUSA2017La La LandDamien ChazelleUSA2016RoomLenny AbrahamsonIreland / Canada2015The Imitation GameMorten TyldumUSA / United Kingdom201412 Years a SlaveSteve McQueenUSA2013Silver Linings PlaybookDavid O. RussellUSA2012Where Do We Go Now?Nadine LabakiFrance / Lebanon / Italy / Egypt2011The King’s SpeechTom HooperUnited Kingdom / Australia2010Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by SapphireLee DanielsUSA2009Slumdog MillionaireDanny BoyleUnited Kingdom2008Eastern PromisesDavid CronenbergCanada / UK2007BellaAlejandro Gómez MonteverdeUSA2006TsotsiGavin HoodUnited Kingdom / South Africa2005Hotel RwandaTerry GeorgeUnited Kingdom / South Africa / Italy2004ZatoichiTakeshi KitanoJapan2003Whale RiderNiki CaroNew Zealand / Germany2002AmélieJean-Pierre JeunetFrance2001Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonAng LeeTaiwan2000American BeautySam MendesUSA1999Life is BeautifulRoberto BenigniItaly1998The Hanging GardenThom FitzgeraldCanada1997ShineScott HicksAustralia / United Kingdom1996Antonia's LineMarleen GorrisNetherlands / Belgium / United Kingdom1995PriestAntonia BirdUnited Kingdom1994The SnapperStephen FrearsUnited Kingdom1993Strictly BallroomBaz LuhrmannAustralia1992The Fisher KingTerry GilliamUSA1991Cyrano de BergeracJean-Paul RappeneauFrance1990Roger & MeMichael MooreUSA1989Women on the Verge of a Nervous BreakdownPedro AlmodóvarSpain1988The Princess BrideRob ReinerUSA1987Le Déclin de l'empire américainDenys ArcandCanada1986The Official StoryLuis PuenzoArgentina1985Places in the HeartRobert BentonUSA1984The Big ChillLawrence KasdanUSA1983TempestPaul MazurskyUSA1982Chariots of FireHugh HudsonyUnited Kingdom1981Bad TimingNicolas RoegUnited Kingdom1980Best BoyIra WohlUSA1979GirlfriendsClaudia WeillUSA1978
- People’s Choice Documentary Award
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearThe Tragically Hip: No Dress RehearsalMike DownieCanada2024Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make BelieveRobert McCallumCanada2023Black IceHubert DavisCanada2022The RescueE. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy ChinUSA, United Kingdom2021Inconvenient IndianMichelle LatimerCanada2020The CaveFeras FayyadSyria, Denmark, Germany, USA, Qatar2019Free SoloE. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy ChinUSA2018Faces PlacesAgnès Varda and JRFrance2017I Am Not Your NegroRaoul PeckUSA2016Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for FreedomEvgeny AfineevskyUkraine/USA/United Kingdom2015Beats of the AntonovHajooj KukaSudan/South Africa2014The SquareJehane NoujaimEgypt/USA2013ArtifactBartholomew CubbinsUSA2012The Island PresidentJon ShenkUSA2011Force of Nature: The David Suzuki MovieSturla GunnarssonCanada2010The Topp TwinsLeanne PooleyNew Zealand2009
- People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearThe SubstanceCoralie FargeatUnited Kingdom, USA, France2024Dicks: The MusicalLarry CharlesUSA2023Weird: The Al Yankovic StoryEric AppelUSA2022TitaneJulia DucournauFrance2021Shadow In The CloudRoseanne LiangUSA, New Zealand2020The PlatformGalder Gaztelu-UrrutiaSpain2019The Man Who Feels No Pain (Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota)Vasan BalaIndia2018BodiedJoseph KahnUSA2017Free FireBen WheatleyUnited Kingdom2016HardcoreIlya NaishullerRussia/USA2015What We Do in The ShadowsTaika Waititi, Jemaine ClementUSA/New Zealand2014Why Don't You Play In Hell?Sion SonoJapan2013Seven PsychopathsMartin McDonaghUSA/United Kingdom2012The RaidGareth EvansIndonesia2011Stake LandJim MickleUSA2010The Loved OnesSean ByrneAustralia2009
- Platform Prize
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearThey Will Be DustCarlos Marqués-MarcetSpain, Italy, Switzerland2024Dear JassiTarsem Singh DhandwarIndia2023Riceboy SleepsAnthony ShimCanada2022YuniKamila AndiniSingapore, France, Indonesia, Australia2021Award not presented, due to the reduced program in light of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.--2020Martin EdenPietro MarcelloItaly, France2019Cities of Last ThingsWi Ding HoTaiwan, China, USA, France2018Sweet CountryWarwick ThorntonAustralia2017JackiePablo LarraínUnited Kingdom2016HurtAlan ZweigCanada2015
- Best Canadian Feature Film
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearShepherdsSophie DeraspeCanada2024SoloSophie DupuisCanada2023AntigoneSophie DeraspeCanada2019The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles)Sébastien PiloteCanada2018Les AffamésRobin AubertCanada2017Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeauMathieu Denis, Simon LavoieCanada2016Closet MonsterStephen DunnCanada2015Félix et MeiraMaxime GirouxCanada2014When Jews Were FunnyAlan ZweigCanada2013Laurence AnywaysXavier DolanCanada / France2012Monsieur LazharPhilippe FalardeauCanada2011Cairo TimeRuba NaddaCanada2009Lost SongRodrigue JeanCanada2008My WinnipegGuy MaddinCanada2007Manufactured LandscapesJennifer BaichwalCanada2006C.R.A.Z.Y.Jean-Marc ValléeCanada2005It's All Gone Pete TongMichael DowseCanada2004Les Invasions barbaresDenys ArcandCanada2003SpiderDavid CronenbergCanada2002Atanarjuat: The Fast RunnerZacharias KunukCanada2001WaydowntownGary BurnsCanada2000The Five SensesJeremy PodeswaCanada1999NôRobert LepageCanada1998The Hanging Garden The Sweet HereafterThom Fitzgerald, Atom EgoyanCanada1997Long Day’s Journey Into The NightDavid WellingtonCanada1996Live BaitBruce SweeneyCanada1995ExoticaAtom EgoyanCanada1994Kanehsatake: 270 Years of ResistanceAlanis ObomsawinCanada1993Requiem pour un beau sans-coeurRobert MorinCanada1992The AdjusterAtom EgoyanCanada1991
- Best Canadian Discovery Award
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearUniversal LanguageMatthew RankinCanada2024
- Short Cuts Award for Best International Short Film
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearDeck 5BMalin Ingrid JohanssonSweden2024
- Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearAre You Scared To Be Yourself Because You Think That You Might Fail?Bec PecautCanada2024MotherlandJasmin MozaffariCanada2023SimoAziz ZorombaCanada2022Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice / AngakusajaujuqZacharias KunukCanada2021Benjamin, Benny, BenPaul ShkordoffCanada2020DelphineChloé RobichaudCanada2019BrotherhoodMeryam JoobeurCanada2018Pre-DrinkMarc-Antoine LemireCanada2017MutantsAlexandre DostieCanada2016OverpassPatrice LalibertéCanada2015The Weatherman and The ShadowboxerRandall OkitaCanada2014NoahWalter Woodman, Patrick CederbergCanada2013Keep a Modest HeadDeco DawsonCanada2012Doubles With Slight PepperIan HarnarineCanada2011Les Fleurs de l'âgeVincent BironCanada2010Danse MacabrePedro PiresCanada2009Block BChris Chong Chan FuiMalaysia/Canada2008PoolChris Chong Chan FuiCanada2007Les JoursMaxime GirouxCanada2006Big GirlRenuka JeyapalanCanada2005Man Feel PainDylan Akio SmithCanada2004AspirationConstant MentzasCanada2003Blue SkiesAnn Marie FlemingCanada2002Film(dzama)Deco DawsonCanada2001Le ChapeauMichèle CournoyerCanada2000DéchargePatrick DemersCanada1999When Ponds Freeze OverMary LewisCanada1998Cotton CandyRoshell BissettCanada1997Letters From HomeMike HoolboomCanada1996ReconstructionLaurence GreenCanada1995Frank's CockMike HoolboomCanada1994Save My Lost Nigga' SoulClement VirgoCanada1993Les Sauf-conduitsManon BriandCanada1992The Making of "Monsters"John GreysonCanada1991ShaggieJanis ColeCanada1990Stealing ImagesAlan ZweigCanada1989
- NETPAC
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearThe Last of The Sea WomenSue KimUSA2024A MatchJayant Digambar SomalkarIndia2023Sweet AsJub ClercAustralia2022Costa Brava, LebanonMounia AklLebanon, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Qatar2021Gaza mon amourTarzan Nasser and Arab NasserPalestine, France, Germany, Portugal, Qatar20201982Oualid MouanessUSA, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar2019The Third WifeAsh MayfairVietnam2018The Great Buddha+Huang Hsin-YaoTaiwan2017In BetweenMaysaloun HamoudIsrael/France2016The Whispering StarSion SonoJapan2015Margarita, with a StrawShonali BoseIndia2014QissaAnup SinghGermany/India/Netherlands/France2013The Land of HopeSion SonoJapan2012
- International Critics’ Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) Dedicated to Emerging Filmmakers
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearMother MotherK'naan WarsameSomalia2024SeagrassMeredith Hama-BrownCanada2023A Gaza WeekendBasil KhalilPalestine, United Kingdom2022Anatolian LeopardEmre KayişTurkey, Germany, Poland, Denmark2021BeginningDea KulumbegashviliGeorgia, France2020MurmurHeather YoungCanada2019Float Like a ButterflyCarmel WintersIreland2018AvaSadaf ForoughiIran/Canada/Qatar2017Kati KatiMbithi MasyaKenya/Germany2016Eva NováMarko SkopSlovakia2015May Allah Bless France!Abd Al MalikFrance2014The Amazing CatfishClaudia Sainte-LuceMexico2013All The Wrong ReasonsGia MilaniCanada2013Call GirlMikael MarcimainSweden/Ireland/Norway/Finland2012Detroit UnleadedRola NashefUSA2012AvalonAxel PetersénSweden2011Beautiful BoyShawn KuUSA2010The Man Beyond The BridgeLaxmikant ShetgaonkarIndia2009LymelifeDerick MartiniUSA2008HungerSteve McQueenUnited Kingdom2008La ZonaRodrigo PláSpain/Mexico2007CochochiIsrael Càrdenas, Laura Amelia GuzmànMexico/United Kingdom/Canada2007Death of a PresidentGabriel RangeUnited Kingdom2006RepriseJoachim TrierNorway2006Look Both WaysSarah WattAustralia2005OmaghPete TravisIreland/United Kingdom2004Rhinoceros EyesAaron WoodleyUSA2003The Magdalene SistersPeter MullanUnited Kingdom/Ireland2002Chicken Rice WarCheeKSingapore2001George Washington 101 ReykjavãkDavid Gordon Green, Baltasar KormákurUSA/Iceland/Norway/ Denmark/France2000Goat On Fire And Smiling FishKevin JordanUSA1999
Retired Awards
- Short Cuts Share Her Journey Award
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearShé (Snake)Renee ZhanUnited Kingdom2023NaniticCarol NguyenCanada2022ASTELRamata-Toulaye SyFrance, Senegal2021Sing Me a LullabyTiffany HsiungCanada2020
- Changemaker Award
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearWe Grown NowMinhal BaigUSA2023Something You Said Last NightLuis De FilippisCanada, Switzerland2022ScarboroughShasha Nakhai, Rich WilliamsonCanada2021Black BodiesKelly Fyffe-MarshallCanada2020
- Short Cuts Award for Best Short Film
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearElectraDaria KashcheevaCzech Republic, France, Slovakia2023Snow in SeptemberLkhagvadulam Purev-OchirFrance, Mongolia2022Displaced / Pa VendSamir KarahodaAlbania2021DustinNaïla GuiguetFrance2020All Cats Are Grey in the DarkLasse LinderSwitzerland2019The FieldSandhya SuriFrance, United Kingdom, India2018The Burden (Min Börda)Niki Lindroth von BahrSweden2017ImagoRaymund Ribay GutierrezPhilippines2016Maman(s)Maïmouna DoucouréFrance2015A Single BodySotiris DounoukosAustralia/France2014
- Amplify Voices Award presented by Canada Goose for Best Canadian Film
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearTo Kill a TigerNisha PahujaCanada2022Ste. AnneRhayne VermetteCanada2021Inconvenient IndianMichelle LatimerCanada2020
- Amplify Voices Award presented by Canada Goose for BIPOC Filmmakers
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearLeonor Will Never DieMartika Ramirez EscobarPhilippines2022While We WatchedVinay ShuklaUnited Kingdom2022The Gravedigger's WifeKhadar Ayderus AhmedFrance, Somalia, Germany, Finland2021A Night of Knowing NothingPayal KapadiaIndia, France2021The DiscipleChaitanya TamhaneMarathi, Hindi, English, Bengali2020Night of the Kings/La Nuit des RoisPhilippe LacôteCôte d'Ivoire, France, Canada, Senegal2020
- Best Canadian First Feature Film
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearThe Twentieth CenturyMatthew RankinCanada2019Roads in February (Les routes en février)Katherine JerkovicCanada2018Luk' Luk'lWayne WapeemukwaCanada2017Old Stone (Lao shi)Johnny MaCanada / China2016Sleeping GiantAndrew CividinoCanada2015Bang Bang BabyJeffrey St. JulesCanada2014Asphalt WatchesShayne Ehman, Seth ScriverCanada2013Antiviral
BlackbirdBrandon Cronenberg
Jason BuxtonCanada2012Edwin Boyd: Citizen GangsterNathan MorlandoCanada2011The High Cost of LivingDeborah ChowCanada2010The Wild HuntAlexandre FranchiCanada2009Before TomorrowMarie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Piujuq IvaluCanada2008Continental, un film sans fusilStéphane LafleurCanada2007Sur la trace d'Igor RizziNöel MitraniCanada2006The Life and Hard Times of Guy TerrificoLouise Archambault, Michael MabbottCanada2005La Peau blancheDaniel RobyCanada2004Love, Sex and Eating the BonesSudz SutherlandCanada2003Marion BridgeWiebke von CarolsfeldCanada2002InertiaSean GarrityCanada2001La moitié gauche du frigoPhilippe FalardeauCanada2000Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the ‘70s GenerationCatherine AnnauCanada1999Last NightDon McKellarCanada1998CubeVincenzo NataliCanada1997 - Excellence in Canadian Production
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearHDarrell WasykCanada1990RoadkillBruce McDonaldCanada1989The Outside Chance Of Maximilian GlickAllan GoldsteinCanada1988Family ViewingAtom EgoyanCanada1987Le Déclin de l'empire américainDenys ArcandCanada1986Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. BanksDonald BrittainCanada1985La Femme de l'hôtelLéa PoolCanada1984
- International Critics’ Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) – Special Presentation
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearHow to Build a GirlCoky GiedroycUnited Kingdom2019SkinGuy NattivUSA2018The Motive (El Autor)Manuel Martín CuencaSpain2017I Am Not Madame BovaryFeng XiaogangChina2016DesiertoJonás CuarónMexico/France2015Time Out of MindOren MovermanUSA2014The First ManGianni AmelioFrance/Algeria/Italy2011L'amour fouPierre ThorettonFrance2010IdaPawel PawlikowskiPoland2013Dans la maisonFrançois OzonFrance2012DisgraceSteve JacobsAustralia2008HadewijchBruno DumontFrance2009
- Artistic Innovation
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearEncarnaciónAnahí BerneriArgentina2007
- Cultural Innovation
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TitleDirectorCountry of ProductionYearTakva: A Man's Fear of GodÖzer KiziltanTurkey/Germany2006