Best Narrative Feature

THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Director: Puk Grasten

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Best Narrative Short

Le Ballon Bleu

Director: Katherine Griffin

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Honorable Mention Short

Maria Theresa gives Birth

Director: Nikol Cibulya

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Best Feature Documentary

The Old Woman and the Sea

Director: Vivien Pieper

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Best Short Documentary

Born in Prison

Director: Lucy Sherriff

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Best Experimental

NA CAILLEACHA - SEVEN VOICES

Director: Barbara Freeman

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Honorable Mention Experimental:

Our Mother       

Director: Kate Mckellar

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Best Comedy

Maddie’s Red Hot

Directors:  Maddie Sherston, Jeremy Cumpston

 

Best Science Fiction

Metamorphosis

Director: Ting Song

 

Best Horror

Vibrator Girl

Director: Kara Strait

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Best Animation

Txotxongiloa

Director: Sonia Estévez

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Best Web/TV/Pilot

Les Liaisons dangereuses: The lost letters

Director: Karine Ricard

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Best Music Video

Devil Said Roam

Directors: Megan Morrison, Tofik Aliev

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Best Student Film

Silent Is the Night

Director: Pernille Lund

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Best Actress

Kaiulani Lee

Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones

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Best Female Cinematographer

Beth Cloutier

A Name in Your Book

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Best Female Scriptwriter

Patricia V Davis

Lyvia's House

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Best Female Producer

Debra Kellner

ETERNAL SKY

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Best Female Editor

Libya Al-Emin

The Torture Within

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Best Female Director

Dorothée Van den Berghe

Aller Retour

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Best Composer

Rae Spoon

Quinn​

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Best LGBTQ

REQUIEM

Director: Emma Gilbertson

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Best Human Rights

A life in Silence

Director: Halimah Tariq

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Best Poster

Maria Theresa gives birth

Nikol Cibulya

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Best Film About Women

Holy Prostitution

Director: Mehdi Kazemi

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Best Canadian Female Filmmaker

Cracked: The Perplexing World of Egg Donation

Director: Rebecca Campbell

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Best Environmental

Blue Roots

Director: Gabriela Dominguez

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Best First-Time Female Filmmaker

Wake

Director: Rebecca Rose

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Best thriller

Interview With Ian

Director:  Janice Lauren Baker

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Best Unproduced Script

Zofia

Writer: Kathryn Mincer

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Best Historical Film

How Long Must We Wait

Director: Jaclyn O'Laughlin

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Best Biographical Film

THE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE VOLCANO

Director: Mar Navarro Llombart

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Best Sport Film

Femme Ocean

Director:  Annika Lioba von Schütz

 

Best Youth Artist

Milla Dubourdieu

Le Ballon Bleu (The Blue Balloon)