Toronto Women Film Festival is devoted to the promotion of female cinema. It is important to recognize talented female voices and female artists from all over the world and Toronto Women Film Festival has turned into a popular film festival and a fantastic platform which has dedicated itself to the promotion and screening of international female artists in cinema. Features, shorts and screenplays of all genres compete together in various sections of the seasonal festival. The winners of each category go through another round of programing for the annual festival which happens in Carlton Cinema of downtown Toronto every July. The finalists of annual festival are screened further in the annual competition. It is our pleasure to announce the winners of the latest seasonal edition of 2022.
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)
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