The seasonal and annual Toronto Women Film Festival is an international IMDb qualifying event and a screening platform devoted to the promotion and screening of female talents from all over the globe. Throughout the past years, the festival has screened its annual finalists at the Carlton Cinema and Innis Town Hall of the University of Toronto in parallel to TIFF in September of every year. The nominees of the seasonal competition are also offered online promotion and screening every season through the festival committee. The festival team recently announced the winners of the 19th edition which brings together female directors, producers, actresses, cinematographers and all artists contributing to the language of cinema as women in film. It is our pleasure to announce the latest winners of the seasonal competition.
Best Narrative Feature
Atikamekw Suns
Director: Chloé Leriche
Best Narrative Short
The MOTH
Director: Charlene Fisk
Best Feature Documentary
Bekoya of Fukushima: Three Women, Three Choices
Director: Mizue Furui
Best Short Documentary
The Miami Kids and The Maya
Director: Victoria Alonso Noujaim
Best Experimental
Double Exposure
Director: Sarah Pucill
Best Comedy
Brasslit
Director: Lucy Hilton-Jones
Best Science Fiction
The Rising
Director: Mila Perkins
Best Horror
The Closer You Get
Director: Mairin Hart
Best Animation
PURGA
Director: Gintarė Valevičiūtė Brazauskienė, Antanas Skučas
Best Web/TV/Pilot
Break a leg guys
Director: Verónica Mey
Best Music Video
If You Want Me To
Director: Janet Van Ham
Best Student Film
When the house turns
Director: Maria Ornaf
Best Actress
Charlotte Rothwell
Everything's Fine
Best Cinematographer
Gabi Kislat
Beneath Us
Best Scriptwriter
Elise Felber
You Are Going To Die Today
Best Producer
Wendy Wong & Nancie Foo
CURSE OF THE TOTEM /SUMPAHAN JERUNEI
Best Editor
Arielle Sherman
The Dinner Game
Best Director
Ilaria Borelli
The Goat
Best Composer
Yantra de Vilder
Desert Song
Best LGBTQ
A Girl Like Him
Director: Amy S Weber
Best Human Rights
Fight for Ukraine-12 Women's War
Director: Karen Kanes Floyd
Best Film About Women
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Director: Vladimir Bieinisowitsch
Best Environmental
Flight of the Swans
Director: Annabel Vine
Best First Time Filmmaker
Holding the Frontline
Director: Jess Donnelly
Best thriller
Leaving Yellowstone
Director: Kayla Arend
Best Unproduced Script
The Non-Sex Life of Piper and Matt
Corinne Louise Beenfield
Best Historical Film
Where My Memory Began
Director: Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda
Best Biographical Film
Ursula Hanes, an artistic reflexion
Director: Michèle Grimaud
Best Sport Film
Fatma
Director: Bethan Juliet Gilmartin
Best Youth Artist
Mia Maye
Dinosaurs are Dead