The latest winners of Toronto Women Film Festival

The Toronto Women Film Festival is committed to supporting, recognizing, and empowering women's voices in cinema. It celebrates and honors films by talented women filmmakers from around the world. In recent years, the festival has featured films by female directors at venues such as Carlton Cinema, Innis Town Hall at the University of Toronto, various art centers, and digitally through the annual women's catalogue of the Toronto Film magazine. The festival hosts a seasonal competition and holds live annual screening events every September.

Each season, the festival team nominates and selects films and artists for various sections of the seasonal competition. The focus is on female-driven stories and independent female directors, producers, writers, actresses, cinematographers, editors, and all female artists contributing to the cinematic language as women in film. The festival aims to discover, promote, screen, and award female filmmakers and stories about women in societies worldwide.

In recent years, the Toronto Women Festival has become one of the most popular festivals dedicated to female talent in the film industry. The jury and programmers are chosen from award-winning artists working in media from Canada, the United States, Austria, Germany, Japan, Iran, India, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and other countries worldwide. It is our pleasure to announce the latest seasonal winners of the festival.

Here are the winners:

Best Narrative Feature

At One Table

Director: Olena Tumanska

Best Narrative Short

The Stranger

Director: ORNELA KARAJ

Best Feature Documentary

IMMORTALS

Director: Maja Tschumi

Best Short Documentary

Esaro

Director: Magdalena Wolnik-Mierzwa

Best Experimental

Wind Rabbit

Director: January Marie Rogers

Best Comedy

jAImes

Director: Cathy Fiorillo

Best Science Fiction

To The End

Director: Ruiying Sun

Best Horror

The Balloon

Director: Stephanie Swift

Best Animation

Catherine

Director: Reagan Christie

Best Web/TV/Pilot

$HARE Pilot episode

Delia Mayer

Best Music Video

Something

Director: MIKY MIK

Best Student Film

MIST

Director: Xixi Li

Best Actress

Susana Oriot

Sunkiss

Best Cinematographer

Kire Godal

Maasai Eunoto

Best Scriptwriter

Nicola Denton

Ophelia's Got a Gun

Best Producer

Marion H von Loewenstern

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Best Director

Josie Andrews

Miriam

Best Composer

Andrew Yee

Tears

Best LGBTQ

#TwoMoms

Director: SATOKO NAGAMURA

Best Human Rights

Am I a killer?

Director: Simonka de Jong

Best Film About Women

We Lend a Hand: The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes

Director: Colin T Field

Best Environmental

Oceanbone

Director: Lani Cupchoy

Best First Time Filmmaker

Spark

Director: Aqtogai Rakhmatulla

Best thriller

Spider

Director: Layla Williams

Best Unproduced Script

The Waking

Audrey Wilson

Best Historical Film

A Road Out

Director: Karin Shapiro

Best Biographical Film

lucia moholy - bauhaus photographer

Director: Sigrid Faltin

Best Sport Film

Fight Like a Girl / Pelea Como una Chica

Director: Gözde Mimiko Türkkan

Best Youth Artist

Yishan Yang

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