2024 Festival Results & Awards

Grand Prize: Get Well Soon by Ian Pons Jewell

Best Canadian Short: Elle by Fatty Soprano, Aidan Quinn Grossman
Best Canadian Short: Table for Three by Joseph Chung
Best International Short: Get Well Soon by Ian Pons Jewell

Best Director (tie): Ian Pons Jewell for Get Well Soon
Best Director (tie): Brian Kazez for Baño María - Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso
Best Writer (tie): Ian Pons Jewell for Get Well Soon
Best Writer (tie): Aidan Quinn Grossman for Elle
Best Writer (tie): Joseph Chung for Table of Three
Best Cinematography (tie): Elle
Best Cinematography (tie): Baño María - Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso
Best Music Score: Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso for Baño María - Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso

Best Action / Adventure: Douglas DeVore for The Future Soon
Best Comedy: Douglas DeVore for The Future Soon
Best Suspense (tie): Kunyoung Cho for Indifference
Best Suspense (tie): Rikiya Mimuro for The Last Day
Best Documentary (tie): Hamish MacGregor for Black & Blue
Best Documentary (tie): Eva Kübar for Hilda Ha. Off The Grid
Best Drama (tie): Joseph Chung for Table for Three
Best Drama (tie): Fatty Soprano, Aidan Quinn Grossman for Elle
Best Experimental Film: Fatty Soprano, Aidan Quinn Grossman for Elle
Best Animated: Vicky Shunyi Xie for Celestial
Best Thriller / Horror (tie): Kunyoung Cho for Indifference
Best Thriller / Horror (tie): Rikiya Mimuro for The Last Day
Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy (tie): Ian Pons Jewell for Get Well Soon
Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy (tie): Joseph Chung for Table for Three
Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy (tie): Douglas DeVore for The Future Soon

2M/Solitudes by Damián Siqueiros
Abuse of Power by Aymeric Bolé
Angelina's Colourful Life by Inga Burrows
Any Last Words by Isaac Rathé
Baron Munchausen (Karl) by Ilya Noyabrev
Bear by Yili Ma
Beyond the Bridge by HImanshu, Manas Kathuria
Blocked by Aisha Alfa
Blood Brothers by Riley Anton Donavan
Brownie by Chantal Imerti
Chef Stories by Dave Cheung, Quin Cheung
Dear Child II by Devin Peters
Death Sentence by Arisa Nakane, Sorao Sakimura
Dragon's Breath by Melanie Easton
Ease of Blue by Wing Sum Kit
Egerton by Amy Gardner
End of Story by Adam Mackie
Exception by Rodrigue Hammal
Face to face by Sun bin Hwang
Fester by Studio Uproot
Flickering Away by Kodiak Reinson
Gone Before Your Eyes by Cara Yeates
Grimace by Paul James Thompson
Have I Swallowed Your Dreams by Clara Chan
He by Chunzi Zhang
Help Yourself by Hedvig Andersson
Here I Am by Bruno Lopez Aaragón
I Haven't Changed Address by Alexandre Roser
I,I miss by Yen-Hsun Liu
If You Say So by Yuri Yagihashi
Jan Beauboeuf: The Creative Spirit by Graham Holt
Legacy Voices 2: New Generation by Akil McKenzie
Maria's cookies by Humberto Palma Tecua
MCRU by Jason Wingham
Monsieur Gendron by Lazaro Guerra, Élyse Bergeron
My Roommate Ahriman by Nessa Aref
Natália by Róbert Slimák
Nix's Symphony by Karina Loerchner
Noces D'eau by Aurielle Jioya
Non Grata by Lennart Lemmens
Now or Never by Ruben Meier, Leonel Dietsche
One Happy Customer by Watts
Orden y Progreso by Elias Sacal Sacal Tuachi
Our Last Day As Kids by Dylan Scott Hryciuk
Polemos by Evgen Brooks
Queen of Hearts by Adam Chase
Reset Now by Ömer Pekyürek, Jonathan Strauch
Retrograde by Sandy Hunter
Riders on the Storm by Evgeniy Brooks
Room 27 by Sina Moazeni
Serious Buyers Only by Samuel D Larson
Sole Suspect by Maggie Castle
Somnambulistic by Alan Emslie
Talk To me by Jimmy Ming shum
Teah by Taf Diallo
The Assistant by Rebecca Nicole Davey
The Curse of Stigma by Derek Watson
The Gundel is for Everyone! by Péter Bergendy
The Hall Pass by Ken Pham
The Outlander by Outlanders VFX
Undone by Filip Terlecki
Unfamily by Siddharth Sharma, Paul Persic
What's left by Alexander Weber
What's Wrong Emma by Teo Frank
Why Did You Invite Me to Your Wedding by Gus Black, Kevin Atwater

A La Turca by Bahar Tas
A Lifetime Without You by Chris Carson
Against the Fate by Mila Paulman
An Epilogue to Hegemon by Shanele Soares
Asubha by Ruimin Zhao
At Night I Dream Of Our Sea by Nataliya Bek-Gergard
Bardo by Mishki Vaccaro
Blue Fish by Regina Avila Alamilla
Buddy Love by Kiefer O'Reilly
Cass Half Full by Brandon DeLany
Child by Ryan Anthony Kwok
Claus & Effect by Anne Marie Boidock
Dear Friend by Kyle Schmalenberg
Dear Friend, Where Have You Gone? by Nicholas Koscik
Detours Ahead by Esther Cheung
Dinner Party by Sabareesh Subramaniam
Direct Action by Tor Kristoffersen
Don't forget by Jeremy Stuart Thompson
Doom Rock by Yang Xu Zhang
Filter by Ruixi Zheng
Fly Away, Froggy Boy by Mia Lobo
Good Morning by James Raudabaugh
Hammerstone Meets Woofstock by Josh Holliday
Honor the Governor's Honor by Corey Bradberry
I am More by David Calderón
I'm Todor. I Mean, Bill. by Madison Leonard
Impressive Melody by Yu Zhan Jing and Tang Shen Mu
In the Presence of my Enemies by Abanoub Andraous
Jackie's Haven by Mimi Dejene
Keeper of the Night Sky by Karina Loerchner
Last Leg by Matthew Steacy
Lay By My Side by Sophie Boyer
Le Poids du Lieu by Caroline Hayeur and Sarah Bild
Love & Sugar by Thomas C. C Johnson
Max & Orion by Matthew Gillespie
Memory lane by Frederic Mosbeux
Never just Me by Manuel Danczul
Paint It! by Jenny Yi
Persistence of Vision by CS Coulter
Prisms of Self by Christian Michael Wiebe
PSI Cops: Murder House by Matt Scott
Punk’d Pooch by Aberdeen Wasley
Red by Yichi
Ritual by Adam Mcdonald
Shadow on the Terrace by Bo-Wei Ling
Showtime by Dante Black
Something… by Chiho Yatomi
Stairwell by John Thomas Gauthier
Teachers by Tihana Jana Vukic
Tennis, Oranges by Sean Pecknold
Terroir by Rory Wood
The Collectors by Robert Palmer
The Family Secret by TJ Cheslea
The Feast by Olivia (Autumn) Rennie
The Gateway Process by Maxwell Mihalis
The Pool by Teodora Vilotijevic
The Savior from Hell by Hemin Mehrshad
The Trade by David Kalinauskas
The Treasure on the 34th Street by Diogo de Nazaré
Three Seasons by Yuhan Yang
Tigre by Maria Victoria Sanchez
Timal Brothers by Marine Ottogalli
Trouble by Jonathan Shaw
When We Say Evaluation, it isn't the Same Thing by Gladys Rowe, Brandon Mitchell
White Tile by Yu Yi-Lin
Why I Can by Shota Inagaki
Windhorse by Robert Bazzocchi
Works Great On Girls by David Vassiliev
Xypnios: a New Man by Carlos Francisco Sanchez Carrillo

1:08 by Rick Walker
414 by Serena Wen, Zhen Yu Hue
A Better Friend by Jumic Emma Anderson
All I Need by Denise Peda
Ariel by C. A. MacFinn
Autotheist by Ryder Hartman
Back to Us by Jack Cox
Between Hands by Eddy Yang
Beyond Magnolia by Miguel Angel Trujillo Martinez
Bill's Excellent Adventure by Ray Hope
Birch Land by June Kukina
Blue by Yunpeng Lee
BO:OM by Kamil Galin
Bon Voyage by Jeffrey` K Ruoff
Boundary Mwisho : The Last Boundary by Hakim Zziwa
Chicken by Lucy McNulty, Emma Pollard
Conference of the Moths by Samhita Sunya
Cracked by Naomi McDougall Jones
Day 1 by Ana Montaño, Eduardo García
Delivery by Jaiden Reese, Dragan Andic
Delphinium by Melissa Puente, Patience Ray
Dert by Ali Zhetpis
Deuce by Alejandro Monroy
Disability in Focus by Allan Wasserman
Down The Line by Vinit Parmar
DUSK by Emanuel David
Elephant Warriors by Roberta Anne Staley
Enemy No More by Christopher Schultz
Entrenched by Todd Sullivan
Estela, Is It You? by Fabian Martin, Victor Martin
Everything will be fine by Kristy Espinoza and Yulma Garcia
Expecting by Shayne McGreal
Fast Forward by Ivan Gorbenko
Finding Belonging by Patty Wai Mon Chan
Fool's Game by Laurence Roberts
Format by Darik Maurice
Gin Rummy by Suzanne Baird
God Parasite by Dan Zia
Going Dutch by Jack Copland
Hardy by Laurie R. Poirier
Hats Off by Malka Martz-Oberlander
Him & Her by Simonee Chichester
Home by Kazumi Shimizu
I Dream of Whirling by Busra Coduroglu
If There's One Thing I Know by Maxwell couture
Jalopy by Sal Ardongde
Jamkhed by Jonathan Gaudreau
Just for a while by Hou Zongkun
Kite by Jerry Trieus
Masaka to Toronto by Walta Gabriel Busulwa
Mirror Mirror by Zach Price
Mountain Giant by Winona Liao
Northern Escape by Lucy Sanci, Alexis Korotash
On Air by Manya Elendari
Out of Play by Vincenzo Bertillo
Paral'elles by Graeme Campbell
Parkinson's and Dance: Dance Is For Every Body by Andrew Carroll
Porch Pirates by Tarek Jad, Dylan Best
Regular Day by Liam Yang
Remembering Chinese Bachelors by Daniel Chen
Sad by Hedvig H-S
Siren by Victoria Bilinski
Sky Sisters: The Justice System by Selah Rayne
Skylar's Comet by Bruce Thomas Miller
Sonata in D by Craig Urquhart
Strangers by Joe Scott
Take Away by Robert Sickels
The Ascension by Emilio Gatto
The Boy in the Cabinet beneath the Sink by Christopher Goutman
The British Man by Paula Rivera
The Christmas On Christmas by David & Me
The Clay Horse by Vishal Kumar Patil
The Coop by Chris Riedell, Nick Riedell
The Corleone Project by Alice Rosano
The Dating Game by Keith Murphy
The Dinner by CS Coulter
The Dog Days by Ryan Kurt Whiting
The Fast Runner by David Bercovici-Artieda
The Fishing Net by Anna Palinkas
The Internet of Everything by Yusuf Begg
The Last Take by Brian Foyster
The Pringle Mingle by Jenny Lee-Gilmore
The Top of the Stairs by Mitchell Consky, Kieran Turnbull
Three Days Gone: Based on the Life of Lucas Snow by Scott McCullough
Unforgettable You by Natalie Hua
Vampires At Night by Mark Anatoly Falko
Waiting for the Bell Ring by Zekai Tian
What To Say Anymore by Kimberly Hauser
When Last Seen by Donna Di Novelli
Where is Diana by Samy Chaffaï
While Some Must Sleep by Craig Urquhart
Who's Gonna Sleep First? by Carter Trey Smith
Yara by James Doherty
Yes by Randi Barros
You Are Special by Ilya Noyabrev

'98 Honda by Christian Banda
A Day in the (After) Life of Diane Staples by Katrina Reynolds
Aavarthanam by Satchith Sassi
Almost Over the Hill by Julia Creet
Anchor by Sandy Morris
Anima by PJ Barron
Between the Seams by Taryn Edgeworth
Beware: The Manhunter by Daniel Duguay, Adam Benish
Blackout by Shaun 'Cloud' Swain
Bloom-The Only Way Out Is Through by Agnese Marsilii
Broken Humanity by Danijela Korejzl
Case File AOD by M W Gordon
Charlie Charlie by Jebin Benny
Choose the Right by Maya Harb
Christian by Chuqiao Pan
Closed on Sunday by Anton Sinitsyn
Daisy by Madhav Kapoor
Data - The New Oil by Spencer Maurice
Delores by Sabrina Besla
Deserter by Anthony von Seck
Don't Drink and Drive: A Family Film by Diq Diamond
Errand by Nicholas Goodwin Hutchison
From My Third Floor Window by Shuchi Dwivedi
Garden State by Julie Langsam
Girl's Mirage by Telisha Petteway
Gorilla Tactics by Michael Long
Gregory Dennis - Passion & Purpose by Jeremy John Griffiths
Hallelujah by Jean Lucky Leroy
Helping Hands by Jacob Nussbaum
In the Name of Love by Xiao Lin
J'Accuse by Pascale Behrman
Kathak: The Dance of Storytellers by Pragati Kaushal
Kingdom by Nick Rose
Lay Me Down by Ren Kangas
Life Beyond Christine by Margaret Thanos
Lilly Visits the Hospital by Medina Dennie, Ocean Demuth, Zaiyah Dennie, Sol Demuth, Xstine Cook, Heather Cook
Lost by Andrew Gallerani
Lovely by Craig Urquhart
Luty by Viktoriia Shpachenko
Matterhorn by Anne Madeleine Mancosu
Midnight Son by Kevin John Gillese, Katie Hawkins
Miscast by Rodrigo Antonio Villaronga
Miss You Mom by Steve Sugarman
Moment of Happiness by Denzel Irawan
My Hidden Tree by Hanan Zeineldin
Nereid by Lori Zozzolotto
Never & Always by Natalie Turcotte
Nini by Zi Ying Lin
Nostros by Diego Fernando Gutiérrez G., Santiago Vargas A.
Not Surgery Hours by Tia Salisbury
Once Love by Mike Stinnett
Once up time Nordhes by Marvin Mbaloula
One Sidedness by Joyce Delaronde
Ordinary by Reva Bhardwaj
Pickleball: Death in the Kitchen by Paul Taft
Polymath by Joseph Vetrone
Prairie Ice Farmers by Ray Hope
Prohairesis by Rebecca Arends
Salt by Kelcey Edwards
Secret Garden by Yihui Hu
Selflesh by Rudy Keil
Sounds Like Fame by Robert D. Morais
Steve the Queen by Zachary Lurje
Stories of Repeal & Reunion by Ky Kim
Stuffy by Dan Nicholls
Sun At Noon by Taylor Nkiruka, Crystal Tsang
The Dead End Club by Ciaran Federico
The Donut Mob by Stephen Bushnik
The Feeling Part by Jesse Lowell Anholt
The Good Hench by A Braatz
The Legacy of Amelia by Steven Rohrer
The Lost Salmon by Amir Arab
The Measure of a Moment by Rachelle Hughes
The Method by Umeash Siva
The Night I Learned How to Dance by William Degardin
The Painted Dream by Ali Tahmasebi
The Principles of Greenology by Kevin Ang, Hannah Yang
The Puppet Show by Sam Pay
The Time I Met Myself by Alijah-Paul Ashley Jorgen Leiper
The Wild World of Frolf by Mitchell McCallson
The Worst Day Ever? by Keegan Connor Tracy
The Wreck of Harold Murphy by Erin Brandenburg
Their Last Friend by Steel Bey
Thirst by Chris Jackson
Tinn by Watanyu Wongchetta
Touch by Ben Cox
Triage by David Rendall
Tuck and Roll by Nnamdi Oguchi Anyaele
Unexpected Guests by Robyn Thomas
Unfinished by Azul Windcky
Vessel: Stories from the Edge of the World by Liam Bursey
Whispering To The Cloud by Po-Chun Liao
White Rabbit by Giulia Marrani
X-Mas Anonymous by Sammy Smedley

12 Angry Lesbians by Patrice Leung
201 by Sal Allarakhia
A Return to Eden by Broderick Rule
A Talk With The Creator by Lauren Pack
Anyone Need Coffee? by Jared Pockalny
Blood On the Tracks by Jennifer Mary Moran
Breaking Point by Eugene Chok
Caregivers by John Erle Mundle
Circle of Life by Amey Pedrelli
Coping Mechanism by Arlene Bishop
Dark sleepless nights by jean chalifoux
Dead Roses by Beata Pudło
Dennis a Can Do Kind of Guy by Suresh Nair
Departed Embrace by Ryan David Younes
Diabolika by Dexter Wilson
DIY by Naomi Eidinger
Going by Ryan Chiu
I Look For You by PJ Barron
iHostage by Rosemary Reid
Jesus With Wet Hair by Eric Luthi
Leaving by Catherine Tatham
Loving Grey by Maxwell Leopold Brown
Mouse Man by Michael Kontzamanis
Night Call by Randolph West
Pin Wheel by Steph Krawchuk, Carey Shaw
Repetition Compulsion by CS Coulter
Repudiation by Nader Mohandesi
Ring by Vittorio Zizzari
Southpaw by Max James Tayler Beckner
Stranger by Nathaniel Thomas
The Last Cupcake by Gisela Nadasy
The Root of it All by Kalyn Edworthy
The Safe by Yihui Hu
The Scalpel by Richard H Lyford
The Substitute by Wei Shan Chang
Transit by Sebastian Pircher, Claude Breton-Potvin
Twalette by James Liakos
Wolf Culture by Darik Maurice, Will Attwood

8 Ball by Rebecca Celeste
Beautiful Things by Thamiris Mendes
Call Back by Jade Kafieh
Clara by Cory Maddalena
Here After by Gilbert W. Taylor II
Inamorata by Kegan Doyle
Industrealization by CS Coulter
Jump Scares: The Movie by Peter Masterton
Soulsucker by Karl Strass-Hundal, Sam Cmelo
The Kill by Wangchao Guo
The Mirror by Nicholas Tremblay
When Crows Fly Mini Series Teaser Reel by Neil Schell