The 14th edition of the Toronto Women Film festival recently announced its winners. The festival committee has been promoting, screening and recognizing talented female artists from all over the globe through its seasonal and annual program.
The festival also invites the award winners to vote as members of the jury for various categories of each edition. The competition is devoted to discovering the best female talents or films that deal with women in cinema.
Winners of the 14th edition:
Best Narrative Feature
How to Please a Woman
Director: Renée Webster
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Best Narrative Short
The Crying Boy
Director: Meredith Johnson
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Best Feature Documentary
The Vertical Border
Director: Sonja Wolf
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Best Short Documentary
Ukraine War, the eyes of refugees
Director: Olivia M. Pfaff
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Best Experimental
Women Minor Speculations
Director: Nicole Hewitt
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Best Horror
FROM BELOW
Director: Cindy Stenberg
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Best Animation
My Dear Son
Director: Lilian Fu
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Best Web/TV/Pilot
Charlotte Sucks: At Dating
Director: Melissa Karimzadeh
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Best Music Video
Dear Monster
Director: Karyn Lynn Bailey
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Best Student Film
Beetroot Soup
Director: Tom Weintraub Louk
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Best Actress
Maryfrances Careccia
Val (-e-ree)
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Best Female Cinematographer
Lucy Jones
Saoirse
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Best Female Scriptwriter
Writer: Jenn Fonteyn
Dove's Labyrinth
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Best Female Producer
Jolene Mendes, Cindy Lu and Vivian Johnson
Bienvenidos a Los Angeles
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Best Female Editor
Lindsay Armstrong
Woman of a Certain Sage
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Best Female Director
Lisa Arnold
Into The Spotlight
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Best Female Composer
MARI SAINIO
Four O'Clock Flowers
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Best LGBTQ
BeÈ™
Director: Ayla Çekin Satijn
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Best Human Rights
Gauri
Director: Kavitha LANKESH
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Best Poster
Kosta Lazarevski
Sugar People
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Best Film About Women
Four O'Clock Flowers
Director: Peter Callow
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Best Canadian Female Filmmaker
Director: Sydney Scotia
Jane
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Best Environmental
The Secrets of Adaptation
Director: Guyslaine Thalmann
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Best First-Time Female Filmmaker
Kumru KarataÅŸ
The Gulf
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Best Thriller
Les Clefs
Director: Lauren Klocker, Tahnee Nordegg
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Best Unproduced Script
Writer: Lisa Cole
FILTHY
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Best Historical Film
The Queen's Orphans
Director: Elza Cataldo
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Best Biographical Film
Kasturba Gandhi: Accidental Activist
Director: Cynthia Lukas
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Best Sport Film
Diary of a Tennis Player
Director: Aleksandra Svonja
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Best Youth Artist
Actress: Alisson Santiago
Y si Adelita
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