2025 Festival Results & Awards

Grand Prize (tie): Where the Rain Stops by Dojin Kim
Grand Prize (tie): Ten Poem Project: Auntie by Nakoa Taggart

Best Canadian Short: Pizza Hunt by Thomas Lorber, Naomi Frenette
Best International Short (tie): Where the Rain Stops by Dojin Kim
Best International Short (tie): Ten Poem Project: Auntie by Nakoa Taggart

Best Director (tie): Reinier Smit for Hannah
Best Director (tie): Nakoa Taggart for Ten Poem Project: Auntie
Best Director (tie): Dojin Kim for Where the Rain Stops
Best Writer (tie): Lucia Fella Pellegrino, Auguste Kociuba for I'll Try to Explain it
Best Writer (tie): Dojin Kim for Where the Rain Stops
Best Cinematography (tie): Duncan Cole for Good People
Best Cinematography (tie): Gabriel Vazquez for Ten Poem Project: Auntie
Best Music Score (tie): Jiho Jeon for Where the Rain Stops
Best Music Score (tie): Ten Poem Project: Auntie

Best Action / Adventure: Pizza Hunt by Thomas Lorber, Naomi Frenette
Best Comedy (tie): Pizza Hunt by Thomas Lorber, Naomi Frenette
Best Comedy (tie): Escape Artist by Sergine Dumais
Best Suspense / Crime (tie): Good People by Fernando Hart
Best Suspense / Crime (tie): Hannah by Reinier Smit
Best Suspense / Crime (tie): Chut by Thibaud Lagardère
Best Documentary (tie): Ten Poem Project: Auntie by Nakoa Taggart
Best Documentary (tie): I'll Try to Explain it by Lucia Fella Pellegrino
Best Drama (tie): Friends by Mr. Socket
Best Drama (tie): Good People by Fernando Hart
Best Drama (tie): Hannah by Reinier Smit
Best Experimental Film: Ten Poem Project: Auntie by Nakoa Taggart
Best Animation (tie): Where the Rain Stops by Dojin Kim
Best Animation (tie): Denmark by Robert Petrie
Best Thriller / Horror (tie): Pizza Hunt by Thomas Lorber, Naomi Frenette
Best Thriller / Horror (tie): Good People by Fernando Hart
Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy: Where the Rain Stops by Dojin Kim

10th Life by Ellie Kraemer
A Little Story About Forever by Max Romey
A Memory Owed by Martin Hemingway-Moseley
Abize by Luc Junior Segur
After the Bomb by Heather Brumley
Backstage by Gabe Zack
Beneath the Tranquil Lake by Tsai Chen Chuang
Boomerang Atomic by Rachid Bouchareb
Bottom Of The Bottle by Gabriel Lima
Bound by Masha Ellsworth
Chrysalis by Rachel Macindoe Baker
Colour Me Blue by Saeed Vahidi
Dilemma by Trevan Jay Hiatt
Double by Piotr Skowronski
Dynamics by Teo Baehler
Eggsecution by Japhet Velazquez
Eye Wall by Maria Shaposhnikova
Firecrow by Markham Samuels
First Rites by Findlay Ironside
Flic Flac by Monique Motut-Firth
From the Ground Up by Ray Bourhis
Giant Horse by Harrison Monte
His Wife by Liat Kaplan
How to Play Zombie Tag by Nicolas Leclerc
How We Hamsters Die by Phoebe Burdick, Mio Gribskov
I Write, You Draw by Liam Cooper
I'm Sorry. I Love you. by Jennifer Fletcher
Intercrossing Paths by Emmanuelle de Riedmatten
It Lurks In The Lamplight by Carrara Stern
Jahaan - The Last Gift by Rahul Dayanand Shetty
Lacrimosa by Ram Sipoti
Landing On Ice by Jane Leung
Longing Bayshore by Bobby Pan, Orion Zhang
Love Has No Borders by David McClendon
Making Beauty by Tammy Salzl
Marter by Christian Alsan
North Node by Tatjana Green, Nicole VanStone
One Click by Dallas Soonias
One Last River to Cross by Alexander Bezeau
Our Brightest Nights by Callie Haverda
Pfaff Motorsports - All in by Nathan Kelly
Pink Elephants in the Room by Wakako Sakae
Pumpkin Head by Christopher Berry
Push & Pull by Wen Wen Lu
Quantum to Fish to Human to AI to War to Comedy & Back by Bink van Vollenhoven
Ratols & Ransom by Ali Habib
Rock, Plastic, Salmon by Josh "Bones" Murphy
Rotten by Abby Kolman
Saint Jude by Marc Fortunato
Seif by Mohamed Abdelfattah Elshenawy
She is Guilty by Mr.Socket
Spark by Rylie Prentice
Stay In The Car by Calvin Ghaznavi
Stride & Shine! by Xinyi Tian
Ten Years Between Us by Emily Chen
The Application by Joey Brooks
The Art Side of the Moon by Kim Jean Ingles
The Canary by Camilo Silva
The Golden Fish by Lili Frongillo, Emma Baumer
The Point by Cole Beaulne
The Rigo Case by Matthias Bollwerk
The Whistle by Greg Franklin
The Wind by Peter Liu
Viran by İrem Haykir
You Call it Madness, but I Call it Love by Snow Li

A Piece Of My Childhood by Luyue Chen
All Work And No Play by André Marinez
Almost Free by Sabrina Ferguen
Appalheads by Scott Faris
Becoming the Butterfly by Olivia-Autumn Rennie
Bhangra Baby by Rajvir Shahi, Kirandeep Karnati
Bicycle by Paul Furminger
Catchin' Z by Natalie Constance Baumann
Change by Fikayo Odunayo
Crutch by Gayatri Everitt Bajpai
Delulu by Athan Tom Sklavos
Eyes Behind The Window by Golriz Abbaspour
Feast by Aron Rudner-Stokell
Fracture by Alex Fynn
Freedom by Scott C. Jones
Garden of Peace by Tess Cacciatore
Generation Well by Jack Serra
Gubbi by Ali Naqi, Harsha Patil
Home by Shania Rachel Mathews
In the Shade by Amy Force
It is Waiting For You by Shaobo Chen
Jackpot by Adam Robert Lawson
January 2211 by Nader Soliman
Justin's Addiction Story: No Family is Immune by Jacob Surette
Like Son by Cameron Nash
Mary Mother of God by Johannes Fröhlich
Ocean of Sounds by Jackson Kingsley
On The Line by Anastasia Itkina
Ourselves by Pablo Gasca Gollás
P for Patriarchy by Elaf Khan
Paint Me Invisible by Amanda Xiao
Persistence of Vision by John Paul Marsonet
Robert by Gina Hole Lazarowich
Shaping Our Future by Steve Sxwithultxw
Short Cut, Long Claws by Kaytlyn Turner
Simple Machine by Sara Hendren
Simulating Space by Dave Croyle
Sliding by Ronald Lee
Snow Day! by Kiara Lin
So Happy For You by Katrina Reynolds
Sound of the Doldrums by Richard Lukacs
Spring is Passing by Aharon Jinjihashvili, Marshall Murphy
Strolling Down Brighton Pier by Kenny McCracken
Stuck by Peter Titus
TAZ (The Band) by Ken Kosowick
The Color of Regret by Yiguo Song
The Date is at 9 by Carlos Ospina
The Dinner Party by Lourdes Miere
The Game Camera by Emily Railsback
The Keepers by Milton Muller
The Madness by Daniele Catini
The Milk Bar by Campbell Gruiters
The Shape of Cedar by Miles Gordon
The Truth Fairy by Amalia Williamson
The Wild Sheriff by Sarah Houle
They Used To Call Me by Chenxi Li
Three Vendors of Ipanema by Jonathan S. Lee
Wild Sleepover by Jenny Story

5:28 AM by Anton Sinitsyn
A Messy Blend by David Morris Erba
A Nice Lady by Jessica Weber Kass
A Soul’s Prepare by Po Yan Karena Yu
A.A - The Alex & Ariel Story by Richesse Kabongo
Alice Is Fine by Vivien Endicott Douglas
All Things Serve The Earth by J Lyons
Arkany G by Daniel Kichenassamy
before transforming we exist by Rae Phoenix Grant Duff, Chantal Dobles Gering
Black Gate by Gabriel Harb
Bloodhound by Isabella Sleeth
Blossom by Liang Zhang
Brace Face Betty by Maryna Boiko
Bun Maska, Chai by Anand Swaminathan Iyer
Cain & Lilith by Chandler Robinson
Caught in the Frame by Shaobo Chen
Chopsticks by Josephine Ryu
Cinecyle: Work to rule by Kezia Djungu-Sungu, Amina Elmeghalawi
Count Down by Zongrui Li
Crown Jewel in Ashes: Jasper One Year After the Fire by Lisa Laura MacGregor
Dear Cancer by Neetha John
Fine by Kris Von Kleist
Finesse by Abdul Mohaimen, Steven Dimitropoulos
Fire and Oak by Washington Laws
Footsteps Forward by Michael Rukavina
Fried Fish & Plantain by Paul Daniel Torres
Gael Force by Tara Hegarty
Gaucho by Maarten Colenbrander
Guardian by Brandon DeLany
Haus by Anthony Arcuri
How's That Working For You? by Brian Reilly
I Will Be Better Tomorrow by Akansha Sareen, Ashish Ranglani
Impossible Choices by Andrew Litten
In The Window by Joe Samaniego
INBTWN by Nic Altobelli
Intrigues by Wei -Kai Lin
Jena by Marisabelle Grech, Richard Starkey
Kill Kill Love by Gurinder Singh
Kungfu Dancing by Jamie Luk
Last Line by Shion Koreeda
Mayfly by Sean Thrawn O'Neil
Metal Candy by Gina Suzanne Renzi
Moose Jaw Funeral Home by Tamara Khoury
Mymba’i – Permission to the Guardians of the Forest by Marcos Faria
No Idea by Kel Kitagawa
Oli (Light) by Richa Khandelwal Bhat
Paradise by Jai Mession
Pop-up by Alper Şimşek
Purely - Fernando also known as Geggello by Gabriele Bianchini
Resilience by Josh Lenner
Revenge Body by Polly Pierce
Rotten by Telly Bitsakakis
Scar by Ying Zhang
Shifting Lines by Heather Bayer
Sing to the Wind by Yaffa Aboudib Husseini
Solace by Max Matteus Zimmermann
Something on Your Mind by Aubrey Stewart
Strip Mall by Andrew Appelle
Submerged by Leigh Truant
The Banality of Evil by Oscar Vega
The Captive by Jason Plett
The Family Photo by John Norris Ray, Maria Victoria Sanchez
The Invisibles by Julia Beney
The Last Wish by Ilya Noyabrev
The Letter by Tsimur Nedzvedz
The Phrogger by Oscar Wolfgang
The Price Tag by Brysen Mann
The Red Eye by Jackie Taylor
The Surgical Treatment by David Gray
The True Mirror: Melisa by Atahan Cakir, Tugba Ozasir
Tinker Teleports by "Rocket" Moulinie
Tthebatthie: The People at the Head of the Rapids by Ryan David Lee Dickie
Undelivered by David Lester
Unfair by Amir Emadian
We Should Really Do This Again Sometime by Stephanie Coffey
We Were Here by Mary Fairhurst Breen
What a Beautiful Day by Cherise Keown
Where's Roxy? by Vaia Zaganas
Whispers by Olesia Karpenko

1 in 5, A documentary by Paul Gatto
55 Years Apart by Catherine Dulude
A Long Way from the Ziggurat by Jack Waters
AI’s Silent Omissions by Nozomu Kubota
All Cats Are Grey In The Dark by Shannon Denise Evans
American Cokehound by Cooper Lynn
Apple Pie by Sean Thrawn O'Neil
Bullies in the Sky by Taylor Brown
Cameron was a Red Wings fan by Gabriel Veenendaal
Cats Cradle by Allyson Lorraine Glenn
Check Engine by Jesus Ortiz
Christine by Nyah Gazda
Darling Angel by Zaahira Joseph
Dear Abuelo by Valentina Amigo Contreras
Death Race Twenty-Five: No Doubt by Alexander Tita, Samuel Ree
Desire by Mandy Magnan
Desperate Measures by Julia Dietrich
Eden by Lester Lubuguin
Empty Pages by Karen Kaeja
FANI: Afro-Mineiro Festival in Itapecerica by Natália Tavares
Fender by Jy Prishkulnik, Sophie Anne Miller
Fiona's Day IS Off by Jo Cattell
For Vaani by Pragati Kaushal
Fractured by John Santiago
Gentleman's Laughter Club by Rachel LeJeune
Ghee by Romi Banerjee
Grandma's Praying by Matthew Jin
Hellbound Taxi by Brendan Fell
Hellvette by Amiel Peter Matthews
I'm Glad I'm Not You by Aidan Timm
In the Middle by David Ullendorff, Felix Chamberlain
Janet's Island by Dodine Grimaldi
Land of Giants: Baffin Island by Sunny Stroeer
Lost Memories by Mike Wong
Love by Olaf Steven Jacobson Sahuaya
Mantle Peace by Aidan Gibson
Motionless Yet Awake by Abir Afzal
My Fighter by Thomas Murgatroyd
Nepo Baby by Khanh Nguyen
Now What? by Kevin Eade, Lanette Raquel Ware-Bushfield
Once Upon a Time... by Lara Ana Borojevic, Ana Sofia Alaman
Perils of Otranto by Tanzeil Moustapha
Pierre West by Henrik Larsson, Jakob Arevärn
Piranha Pit by Estefania Hageman, Ned Kelly
Punchinello by Chip Wong
Rental Return by Martin Slayne
Rhythm Family by Lougé Delcy
Scammed by Juanita Deely
Scenes from an Italian Marriage by Paul Almeida
See You, 13:14 by Hiu Ching Claudia Tam
Silver Surfers of the South Shore by Greg Kedward
Simple Acts Of Kindness by Gareth Rockliffe
Storm of the Millennium by Gabriel Cole, Aidan Billard Dooley
Subject 44 by Kendra Schmidt
Suicide Prevention by Hunter Scott Amos
Thanks For Listening - A Grimerica Story by Teace Synder
The Allure by Josh Wood
The Apology by Matt LeMay Crystal Martin
The Arborist by Michael A Wright
The Beauty of Flowers by Gianluca Busani
The Broad Mind by Richard Row
The Burden by Suresh Cedrick Pereira
The Closet by Olivia Jean Hamilton
The Hermit by Leopoldo Vieytes, Isadora Vieytes
The Missus Downstairs - Groomzilla by Mary Walsh
The Night Mayor by Jason Naylor
The Onset by Thevin Gamage
The Road Out by Michael Heaton
The Test by Kyzen L.T. Del Aguia
The true face by Qiao Mei Tan
Tony D'Souza by Felipe Giaj-Levra
Up Close by Lukas Hassel
Veins are Rivers Too by Miles Gordon
We're All Haunted Here by Zac Pinto Lobo
What We Owe to Ourselves by Christarn Thorg
When the World Stopped Moving by Henry Ahn, Jonny Shoshani
Yellow by Ashley King

A Little Human Spark by Bill Dwyer
All the World's a Stage: Secrets of Shakespeare by Jerry Wilson
Arachnophobic by Christos Hristov
Broken Bonds by Raïssa Sintcheu
Buddy Check for Jesse: Helping Coaches Support Youth Mental Health by Michael Anthony
Bygones by Angel McCoughtry
Cannibal Giant by Adam Palmer
Chosen by Christopher Wipf
Cry Baby Cry by Esther Carrieann Caszo
Cuban Cassava by Marcos Colón
Driver's Licence by Lynette Piper, Karla Weber
Emergence by Gurdeep Sandhu
Even a Dead Star Can Be a Lighthouse by Maria Ångerman
Exhausted by Virginie Billaut
Foreign Exchange by Quinn O'Connor
Going to Water by Kelly Wilson
Hover City by Stephen Angelo Puiia
In search of emptiness by Jānis Vidovskis
Influenced by James Conway Burns
Jackhammer by Craig Cauchi
Lila Hates Dogs by Siana Marquis-Bilquard, Sylvia Xu, Julianna La Rosa
Listening with Fire by Kimberly Danek Pinkson
Lorraine by Allison Basha, David Gosine
Making a wish by Ziwei Chen
Midnight Snack by Sandra Foisy
Midnight Station by Wence Maillat
Mr. Possibility by Matt Snell
Ms Mary by Jacqueline Lamb
My Dear Departed Johnny by Paul Ciancone
Neon Life by Lin Yan Rong
Never Dream of Dying by Wayne Wing Ho Lai
New York Times Co. v Sullivan by Yanjia Yang
Nothing Before You Were Here. by Daichi Yanai
Our Long Goodbye by Dave Beamish
Phantom Frequency by Bruno Sereno, Mariana Martínez Sierra
Sea to Land by Michelle Tremblay
The Eulogy. by Grace Chin
The Interview by Asadollah Gholamali
The Last Scene by Ziyue Zena Su
The Portrait of Anthony LaRosa by Ava Chyung, Grace Chen
The Ugly Resistor by James Parente
Tides of Grief by Joel Hennessy
VIS by Adi Lewis
Wake by Eva Phillips

A Phone Call From Zoey by Rangga Kusmalendra
Age of Anxiety by Dominique Rochon
Bajo La Arena by Aitor Aguilera Lozano
Best Friends Notice of Deportation by Berenika Widera
Black Soil by Polina Brazhnikova
Bridged by Natalie Burnelle
Cooked by Darcy Birtwistle
Deep by Cait Yoffie
Everything's Coming Up Roses by Matthew Risk
Helping Hands by James Skinner
Lana Tong: A Tailormade Tour by Sing Jantzen Tse
Monstre by Noah Koivisto
More Than Words by Jie Zhu
Moth by Youngju Ahn
Neighbourhood Watch by Naomi Clasohm
Nice to Meet You Again by kunyi zhang
Off/Guard by Bruce Wabbit
Omotenashi by Akiko Matsumoto, Roku Jingwen Long
Phases by Kainat Javed
Rose by Philippe Turcotte
T-Shirts & Cakes by Jehad Hallaq
The (Lost) Party of Things by Marina Spreafico
The Long Way Back by Stephanie "Will" Wilson, Steve Tanguy
The Orange Flower by Selah Rayne
The Pale Green Room by Joslyn Rogers
The Pink Balloon by Brooke Friendly
Toxic Love by Barbara L Hamilton
Unveiling by Eugene Kim
Way to Fly by Robert Hicks