


Winners of 15th edition
Best Narrative Feature
THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Director: Puk Grasten
Best Narrative Short
Le Ballon Bleu
Director: Katherine Griffin
Honorable Mention Short
Maria Theresa gives Birth
Director: Nikol Cibulya
Best Feature Documentary
The Old Woman and the Sea
Director: Vivien Pieper
Best Short Documentary
Born in Prison
Director: Lucy Sherriff
Best Experimental
NA CAILLEACHA - SEVEN VOICES
Director: Barbara Freeman
Honorable Mention Experimental:
Our Mother
Director: Kate Mckellar
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
Best Animation
Txotxongiloa
Director: Sonia Estévez
Best Web/TV/Pilot
Les Liaisons dangereuses: The lost letters
Director: Karine Ricard
Best Music Video
Devil Said Roam
Directors: Megan Morrison, Tofik Aliev
Best Student Film
Silent Is the Night
Director: Pernille Lund
Best Actress
Kaiulani Lee
Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones
Best Female Cinematographer
Beth Cloutier
A Name in Your Book
Best Female Scriptwriter
Patricia V Davis
Lyvia's House
Best Female Producer
Debra Kellner
ETERNAL SKY
Best Female Editor
Libya Al-Emin
The Torture Within
Best Female Director
Dorothée Van den Berghe
Aller Retour
Best Composer
Rae Spoon
Quinn
Best LGBTQ
REQUIEM
Director: Emma Gilbertson
Best Human Rights
A life in Silence
Director: Halimah Tariq
Best Poster
Maria Theresa gives birth
Nikol Cibulya
Best Film About Women
Holy Prostitution
Director: Mehdi Kazemi
Best Canadian Female Filmmaker
Cracked: The Perplexing World of Egg Donation
Director: Rebecca Campbell
Best Environmental
Blue Roots
Director: Gabriela Dominguez
Best First-Time Female Filmmaker
Wake
Director: Rebecca Rose
Best thriller
Interview With Ian
Director: Janice Lauren Baker
Best Unproduced Script
Zofia
Writer: Kathryn Mincer
Best Historical Film
How Long Must We Wait
Director: Jaclyn O'Laughlin
Best Biographical Film
THE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE VOLCANO
Director: Mar Navarro Llombart
Best Sport Film
Femme Ocean
Director: Annika Lioba von Schütz
Best Youth Artist
Milla Dubourdieu
Le Ballon Bleu (The Blue Balloon)