Winners – October 2025

Best International Narrative Short / Own room | certificate
Best Documentary Short / Take it Easy, Joey | certificate
Best Canadian Narrative Short / Emergence | certificate
Best Student Short Film / NOUN | certificate
Best Mobile Film / What We Carried | certificate
Best Experimental Short / Fired-Up from Vito Žuraj | certificate
Best Short Covid19 Film / HEALING FROM HOME | certificate
Best Animated Short / OFFLINE – A Short Film | certificate
Best Comedy in Short / The Sausage | certificate
Best Thriller in Short / Obsidian | certificate
Best Sci-fi in Short / BIORESET | certificate
Best Horror in Short / Eden | certificate
Best Music Video / Dear God | certificate
Best Actor in Short / Anthony Jhade (Where Love Once Was) | certificate
Best Actress in Short / Alessandra Greco (There is Always Tomorrow) | certificate
Best Female Directing in Short / Embers | certificate
Best Male Directing in Short / Unfair – Short Film | certificate
Best Short First Time Filmmaker / Emma | certificate
Best Student Short / Ginger | certificate
Best Script in Short / LORD’S SIGNAL | certificate
Best Unproduced Short Script / PTSD: Amygdala | certificate
Best Original Score in Short / Cosmic Rhapsody : A Symphony for our Planet | certificate
Best Cinematography in Short / A Beautiful Resistance | certificate
Best Short on Social Justice / Best Friends Notice of Deportation | certificate
Best Short LGBTQ’S Film / Gogo | certificate
Best Short Women’s Issue Film / Don’t Be Rude | certificate
Best Environmentalist Short Film / Aquaphoria (before the waters rise) | certificate
Best Costume Design in Short / Who Am I | certificate
Best Make Up in Short / The Late Visitor | certificate
Best Short Kid/Family / Mimi’s Day | certificate
Best Micro Short / Your Forevor Lover | certificate
Best Trailer / What They Say About Carmen | certificate
Best Web Series/TV Pilot / Abstory – Etienne Boulay [SHORT] | certificate
Best International Feature Film / THE MUSLIM | certificate
Best International Documentary / Beyond The Horizon | certificate
Best Canadian Feature Film / Me, My Mom and a Whistle | certificate
Best Canadian Documentary / Before the Road Splits | certificate
Best feature Human Right’s Film / The Elephant Tree | certificate
Best Directing in a Feature Film / 40 days | certificate
Best First time Feature Filmmaker / April X | certificate
Best Actor in Feature Film / Morgan Freeman (Gunner) | certificate
Best Actress in Feature Film / Hae Sun Hong (Welcome to Vegas) | certificate
Best Costume Design in Feature / Letters to God | certificate
Best Make Up in Feature / Welcome to The Moon | certificate
Best Script for a feature film / Filibusta | certificate
Best Cinematography in Feature Film / Gunner | certificate
Best Unproduced script for a long feature film / MALUM-PART ONE The Seven Seals | certificate
Best Male Director in a Feature Film / Welcome to The Moon | certificate
Best Female Director in a Feature Film / Welcome to Vegas | certificate
Best Original Score in a Long Feature / At the Edge | certificate

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About Cift

Toronto Independent Festival of Cift is a seasonal celebration of the best of short and long feature films in contemporary cinema. The festival aims to bring the most acclaimed Internationally produced short and long films of the year to Toronto’s screens in an effort to present a comprehensive cross-section of talents and showcase the depth and diversity of cinema.

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