Instagram Story Save

Congratulations to all winners 🏆 🎉
Winter/2026 Winners

🏆Best Producer
Kailey "Andy" Mclarty
KILLER THREADS

🏆Best Director
Wei Qiu
THE FAMILY

🏆Best Composer
Karine Pion
Héritières

🏆Best LGBTQ
Buttercream
Directors: Lauren Bennett, Ruby Busuttil

🏆Best Human Rights
My Lizochek
Director: Lyudmila Sadovnikova

🏆Best Film About Women
The Silent Treatment
Director: Caroline Strubbe

🏆Best Environmental
thayakam / motherland
Director: Amita Arudpragasam

🏆Best First Time Filmmaker
Behind the Glass
Director: Olga Dinnikova

🏆Best thriller
Mary Chris Max
Director: Tatiana Sokolova

🏆Best Unproduced Script
The Common Man
BOBETTE BUSTER

🏆Best Sport Film
Medicine Ball
Director: Leya Hale

🏆Best Youth Artist
Madeline Burgin
Giving Seance

#tiwff
#womenfilmfestivals
#womanincinema

Congratulations to all winners 🏆 🎉
Winter/2026 Winners:

🏆Best Narrative Feature
Clearing
Director: Magdalena Ewa Pieta

🏆Best Narrative Short
Diana the Huntress
Director: AYESHA FERNANDEZ

🏆Best Feature Documentary
Four Verses of the Same Song
Director: Valerie Magnuson

🏆Best Short Documentary
The Sky is Red and White
Director: Johanna Lecklin

🏆Best Experimental
First Breath
Director: Hyojung Kim

🏆Best Comedy
ONE-WAY TICKET
Director: Lorène THAUMASS

🏆Best Science Fiction
Alienated
Director: Tamara Hernandez

🏆Best Horror
You Know What You Are
Director: Rose Trimboli

🏆Best Animation
Cottage Cheese
Directors: Liina Luomajoki, Lena Metzger, Janina Müller, Alice Kunz

🏆Best Web/TV/Pilot
MILLENNIALS
Director: ludovica lirosi

🏆Best Music Video
No More War
Director: Nauzanin Knight

🏆Best Student Film
A Forever Kind of Thing
Director: Saylid Lopez

🏆Best Actress
Lívia Gaudencio
Where are you now?

🏆Best Cinematographer
Julia Maixer
Crianza

🏆Best Scriptwriter
Beulah
Anonymous Writer

**
Toronto International Women Film Festival

"Women's voices in cinema" is the seasonal program of the Toronto Women's Film Festival aimed at amplifying female perspectives, stories, and creators. It challenges traditional narratives by showcasing women's experiences, often through female directors, writers, and producers. The program uses film as a tool for social change and features a variety of diverse voices.

*Every season, the festival team nominates and selects films and artists for different sections of the seasonal competition, offering digital marketing, online promotions, and the chance to screen films in September through live events both in theatres and online. The festival focuses on stories driven by women and independent female directors, producers, writers, actresses, cinematographers, editors, and all female artists contributing to the cinematic language as women in film. Its goal is to discover, promote, screen, and award female filmmakers and stories about women in societies around the globe.

#tiwff
#womenfilmfestivals
#womenincinema

Congratulations to all the winners 🎉💐

🏆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

#tiwff
#womenfilmfestivals
#femalfilmmakers
#womenincinema
#canada🇨🇦

Congratulations to all the winners.🎉💐

🏆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
1993

#tiwff
#womenfilmfestivals
#femalfilmmakers
#womenincinema
#canada🇨🇦

23th edition of Toronto Women Film Festival.

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. 

#tiwff
#womenfilmfestival
#femalfilmmakers
#canada🇨🇦

Congratulations to all the winners 🎉🎊

🏆Best Producer

Marion H von Loewenstern
NEXT UP

🏆Best Director

Josie Andrews
Miriam

🏆Best Composer

Andrew Yee
Tears

🏆Best LGBTQ

#TomMoms
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
Sound Beyond Sight

#tiwff
#femalfilmmakers
#filmmakers
#filmfestivals

Congratulations to all 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

Share, Pilot episode
Director: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

#tiwff
#femalfilmmakers
#filmmakers
#Festival

✨️✨️
The latest winners of the Toronto Women's Film Festival
The Toronto Women's 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's 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.

#tiwff
#femalfilmmakers
#Festival

It is our pleasure to announce the latest seasonal winners of the competition through our site and Toronto Film magazine.
Congrats to all. 👏🎉

🏆Best thriller

The Postcards
Director: Jasmine McLaughlin

🏆Best Unproduced Script

THE PORTRAIT
Writer: Susan Eileen Jizba

🏆Best Historical Film

LONE STAR THREE
Director: Karen Stirgwolt

🏆Best Biographical Film

Three Sisters in a Sketchbook
Director: Romana Turina

🏆Best Sport Film

Cali Girls
Director: Jen Whalen

🏆Best Youth Artist

Polly Gallant-McLean
MONICA'S NEWS

🏆Honorable Mention Student Film

Ashlee Sung
The Price of Divinity

#tiwff
#womenfilmfestivals
#femalfilmmakers
#toronto

It is our pleasure to announce the latest seasonal winners of the competition through our site and Toronto Film magazine.
Congrats to all. 👏🎉

🏆Best Music Video

Turning Tables
Director: Luca Celine Müller

🏆Best Student Film

Dollhouse
Director: Keshet Gadish

🏆Best Actress

Cécile-Gex Charnay
Immeasurable

🏆Best Cinematographer

Petra Korner
The Mariana Trench

🏆Best Scriptwriter

LE TALLEC Anne
The wrong door

🏆Best Producers

Megan Follows-Penny Noble-Marie Dame
Stealing Sky

🏆Best Music

GIOCATTOLI
Lena Rastegaeva

 

🏆Best LGBTQ

Double Booking Part of the Scare BNB franchise
Director: Christin Baker

🏆Best Human Rights

The Echoes
Director: Gamze Tanrıvermiş

🏆Best Film About Women

Stay At Home, Mom
Director: Mary Zappulla

🏆Best Environmental

Where the Trees Grow
Director: Helle Løvstø Severinsen

🏆Best First-Time Filmmaker

And We Fly Through Days
Director: Janne Schmidt

#tiwff
#womenfilmmakers
#womenincinema
#toronto

It is our pleasure to announce the latest seasonal winners of the competition through our site and Toronto Film magazine.
Congrats to all. 👏🎉

🏆Best Narrative Feature & Best Director

Love, Danielle
Director: Marianna Palka

🏆Best Narrative Short

The Girl
Director: Mandy Kowalski

🏆Best Feature Documentary

Echoes from Borderland
Director: Lara Miléna Brose

🏆Best Short Documentary

Né à Belfond. Versteckt geboren
Director:  Aardvark Film Emporium

🏆Best Experimental

I,doll
Director: dasol jeon

🏆Honorable Mention Experimental Feature

If This Boy Died
Director: Anne-Li Ramirez van de Graaf

🏆Honorable Mention Experimental Short

a PUSH and a PULL
Directors: Kristin Alexander, Maggie M. Bailey

🏆Best Comedy

It ain't a hard question
Director: Gabriela Ivette Sandoval Torres

🏆Best Horror

Lifeboat
Director: Vanessa-Tatjana Beerli

🏆Best Animation

Raka
Director: Daneille Jacobs Joubert

🏆Best Web/TV/Pilot

Before Anyone Else
Director: Samantha Barrett

#tiwff
##womenfilmfestivals
#femalfilmmakers
#womenincinema