Women in film at the Toronto Women Film Festival

The Toronto Women Film Festival is dedicated to supporting, recognizing, and empowering women's voices in cinema. It celebrates and honors films created by talented women filmmakers from across the globe. In recent years, the festival has showcased films by female directors at venues like 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 conducts a seasonal competition, and hosts live annual screening events.

Every season, the festival team nominates and selects films and artists for different sections of the seasonal competition. The focus is on female-driven narratives 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 selected from award-winning artists in media from Canada, the United States, Austria, Germany, Japan, Iran, India, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and other countries worldwide. We are pleased to announce the latest seasonal winners of the festival.

Best Narrative Feature

Do Us Part

Director: Clare Preuss

Best Narrative Short

Teddy

Director: Nini Bull Robsahm

Best Feature Documentary

BETWEEN FLESH AND METAL

Director: Noëlie GIRAUD

Best Short Documentary

North Node

Directors: Tatjana Green, Nicole VanStone

Best Experimental

Kankantri (the silk cotton tree)

Director: Gabri Christa

Best Comedy

Motor City Casting

Director: Janet Torreano Pound

Best Horror

People, People, People!

Director: Emily Steele

Best Animation

Dies Irae

Director: Victoria Basadre

Best Web/TV/Pilot

Heal avec Delphine

Director: Delphine Breyne

Best Music Video

Snow Ballad

Director: Kathleen Stevenson

Best Student Film

An Everyday Occurrence

Director: Virginia Porter Hepp

Best Actress

Olwen Fouéré

THE RECKONING OF ERIN MORRIGAN

Best Scriptwriter

Samantha Shaber

PEEPING MAUREEN

Best Producer

Zhanna Tedeeva-Kalinina & Alexandra Voronkova

1993

Best Editor

Maria Todorov – Topouzov

What now?

Best Director

Nikki Lyn Neurohr

Baggage Claim

Best Composer

Hollie Mann

My Fighter

Best LGBTQ

AMANTES

Director: Caroline Fournier

Best Human Rights

Gaza's Silent Threat

Director: Maria Fernanda Lauret

Best Film About Women

Myocardium

Director: José Manuel Carrasco

Best Environmental

The Birds Who Lived Home - Where Did You All Go?

Director: Hwayong KIM

Best First Time Filmmaker

You Gotta Be Kidding

Director: Tamami Kusaka

Best thriller

Infestation

Director: Yana Sar

Best Unproduced Script

The Two Halves of the Sun

Natacha Pierre

Best Historical Film

Follow, If I Can

Directors: Julia Keesler, Cameron Strittmatter

Best Biographical Film

Headshots – Anja Niedringhaus, photographer

Director: Sonya Winterberg

Best Sport Film

PINK POWER

Director: Chiara Kempers

Best Youth Artist

Maggie Lou

The Daughter's choice