DGC Award for Best Short Film

The DGC Award for Best Short Film is an annual Canadian award, presented by the Directors Guild of Canada to honour the year's best Canadian short films.

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Film	Director	Ref
2010
	Quiet at Dawn	Rob Blackie	[1]
	The Familiar	Kody Zimmermann
	Remote	Marc Roussel
	Serum 1831	Anand Kanna
2011
	Taxi Libre	Kaveh Nabatian
	Little Larry	Jill Carter	[2]
	She Said Lenny	Jim Donovan
	The Waking	John Stead
2012
	Patch Town	Craig Goodwill
	Dave vs. Death	Patrick Hagarty
	The Seder	Justin Kelly
	Training Wheels	Ravi Steve
2013
	The Sound of Willie Nelson's Guitar	Chris Cinnamon
	Frost	Jeremy Ball	[3]
	How to Keep Your Day Job	Sean Frewer
	The Sweetest Hippopotamus	Marc Roussel
2014
	The Golden Ticket	Patrick Hagarty	[4]
	Out	Jeremy LaLonde	[5]
	The Portal	Jonathan Williams
	Whispers of Life	Florian Halbedl
2015
	Made in Bali	Michael Pohorly	[6]
	The Day Santa Didn't Come	Ryan Keller	[7]
	The Underground	Michelle Latimer
	Vox	Stephen Reynolds
2016
	Portal to Hell!	Vivieno Caldinelli	[8]
	Big Little Girl	Viki Posidis	[9]
	Friends Like Us	Craig David Wallace
	The Offer	Winnifred Jong
2017
	Gatekeeper	Yung Chang
	Tuesday, 10:08am	Jane Tattersall, Thomas Pepper
	Motherland	Jason Hreno	[10]
	Victory Square	Jacquie Gould
2018
	Post No Bills	Robin Hays	[11]
	The Beep Test (La Course navette)	Maxime Aubert	[12]
	Escape (Évasion)	Anjali Nayar
	Shadow Nettes	Phillip Barker
2019
	I Beat Up My Rapist	Katrina Saville	[13]
	Hot Flash	Thea Hollatz	[14]
	Kitty's Naughty Knickers	Caitlyn Sponheimer
	The Story of Pema	Martin Buzora
	With Me	Weyni Mengesha

2020s

Year	Film	Director	Ref
2020
	Sing Me a Lullaby	Tiffany Hsiung
	Jesse Jams	Trevor Anderson	[15]
	A Simple Fucking Gesture	Jesse Shamata
	Take Me to Prom	Andrew Moir
	Teething	Glen Matthews
2021
	Ingredients	Hannah Michielsen	[16]
	Georgeena	Weyni Mengesha	[17]
	Moon (Lune)	Zoé Pelchat
	On Falling	Josephine Anderson
	You Will Still Be Here Tomorrow	Michael Hanley
2022
	Send the Rain	Hayley Gray	[18]
	Him & Her	Simonee Chichester	[19]
	Lover Boy's Little Dream	Ritvick Mehra
	Moore's Void	Brad Bangsboll
	Omi	Kelly Fyffe-Marshall
	Patty vs. Patty	Chris Strikes
2023
	SmokeBreak	Lisa Robertson	[20]
	Aftercare	Anubha Momin	[21]
	For Her	Mostafa Keshvari
	Redlights	Eva Thomas
	T-Minus	Emily Lerer
	Woman Meets Girl	Murry Peeters
2024
	I Was Here	Alyson Richards	[22]
	Bloodline	Richard Rotter	[23]
	Cash Cows	Shubham Chhabra
	Cold	Liz Whitmere
	EarthWorm	Phillip Barker
2025
	Dish Pit	Anna Hopkins	[24]
	Hatch	Alireza Kazemipour, Panta Mosleh
	Headcase	Spencer Zimmerman
	On a Sunday at Eleven	Alicia K. Harris
	Who Loves the Sun	Arshia Shakiba

References

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3. Pat Mullen, "'Still Mine', 'Mama' Lead Directors' Guild of Canada Nominations". Cinemablographer, July 11, 2013.
4. "The Directors Guild of Canada Honours the Best in the Business at the 13th Annual DGC Awards". Canada NewsWire , October 25, 2014.
5. "2014 Directors Guild of Canada Awards nominees announced". Directors Guild of Canada, June 19, 2014.
6. Jordan Pinto, "Book of Negroes, Mommy win top prizes at DGC Awards". Playback , October 25, 2015.
7. Pat Mullen, "'The Calling' Leads Directors Guild of Canada Nominations". Cinemablographer, June 18, 2015.
8. Regan Reid, "Hyena Road, Vikings win at DGC Awards". Playback , October 24, 2016.
9. Regan Reid, "DGC names nominees for 2016 awards". Playback , June 22, 2016.
10. Greg David, "2017 Directors Guild of Canada awards nominees announced". TV, eh?, June 26, 2017.
11. Connie Thiessen, "The Shape of Water, Alias Grace win big at DGC Awards". Broadcast Dialogue, October 22, 2018.
12. Connie Thiessen, "Vic Sarin to receive 2018 DGC Lifetime Achievement Award". Broadcast Dialogue, September 20, 2018.
13. "Director's Guild of Canada names best homegrown films and TV shows". Q , October 28, 2019.
14. Connie Thiessen, "Jasmin Mozaffari’s Firecrackers leads DGC Award nominations". Broadcast Dialogue, September 12, 2019.
15. "Directors Guild of Canada reveals feature, doc and short film nods". RealScreen , September 22, 2020.
16. Nick Krewen, "Directors Guild of Canada reveals feature, doc and short film winners". Playback , October 25, 2021.
17. Kelly Townsend, "All My Puny Sorrows leads film nominees for 2021 DGC Awards". Playback , September 24, 2021.
18. Angelica Babiera, "David Cronenberg, Charles Officer among DGC award winners". Playback , November 7, 2022.
19. Etan Vlessing, "DGC Awards: ‘Nightmare Alley,’ ‘Crimes of the Future,’ ‘Night Raiders’ Lead Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter , September 23, 2022.
20. Connie Thiessen, "‘Women Talking’ leads winners at 22nd annual DGC Awards". Broadcast Dialogue, October 22, 2023.
21. Taimur Sikander Mirza, "Women Talking leads film nominees for 2023 DGC Awards". Playback , September 20, 2023.
22. Connie Thiessen, "23rd annual DGC Awards announced". Broadcast Dialogue, October 28, 2024.
23. Connie Thiessen, "Sweet Angel Baby leads DGC Awards’ film nominations". Broadcast Dialogue, September 20, 2024.
24. Connie Thiessen, "DGC unveils film, doc nominees; Discovery Award short list". Broadcast Dialogue, September 22, 2025.