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19th edition of Toronto Women Film Festival

Jan 16, 2024
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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

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Best Narrative Short

The MOTH

Director: Charlene Fisk

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Best Feature Documentary

Bekoya of Fukushima: Three Women, Three Choices

Director: Mizue Furui

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Best Short Documentary

The Miami Kids and The Maya

Director: Victoria Alonso Noujaim

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Best Experimental

Double Exposure

Director: Sarah Pucill

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Best Comedy

Brasslit

Director: Lucy Hilton-Jones

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Best Science Fiction

The Rising

Director: Mila Perkins

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Best Horror

The Closer You Get

Director: Mairin Hart

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Best Animation

PURGA

Director: Gintarė Valevičiūtė Brazauskienė, Antanas Skučas

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Best Web/TV/Pilot

Break a leg guys

Director: Verónica Mey

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Best Music Video

If You Want Me To

Director: Janet Van Ham

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Best Student Film

When the house turns

Director: Maria Ornaf

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Best Actress

Charlotte Rothwell

Everything's Fine

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Best Cinematographer

Gabi Kislat

Beneath Us

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Best Scriptwriter

Elise Felber

You Are Going To Die Today

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Best Producer

Wendy Wong & Nancie Foo

CURSE OF THE TOTEM /SUMPAHAN JERUNEI

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Best Editor

Arielle Sherman

The Dinner Game

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Best Director

Ilaria Borelli

The Goat

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Best Composer

Yantra de Vilder

Desert Song

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Best LGBTQ

A Girl Like Him

Director: Amy S Weber

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Best Human Rights

Fight for Ukraine-12 Women's War

Director: Karen Kanes Floyd

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Best Film About Women

72

Director: Vladimir Bieinisowitsch

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Best Environmental

Flight of the Swans

Director: Annabel Vine

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Best First Time Filmmaker

Holding the Frontline

Director: Jess Donnelly

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Best thriller

Leaving Yellowstone

Director: Kayla Arend

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Best Unproduced Script

The Non-Sex Life of Piper and Matt

Corinne Louise Beenfield

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Best Historical Film

Where My Memory Began

Director: ‪ Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda

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Best Biographical Film

Ursula Hanes, an artistic reflexion

Director: Michèle Grimaud

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Best Sport Film

Fatma

Director: Bethan Juliet Gilmartin

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Best Youth Artist

Mia Maye

Dinosaurs are Dead

 
 
 

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