Sebastiane Award is a prize delivered in September, since 2000, to a film or documentary screened during the San Sebastián International Film Festival that best reflects the values and reality of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people.
For Nonna Anna is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Luis De Filippis and released in 2017. The film stars Maya Henry as Chris, a young transgender woman caring for her ailing Italian grandmother Anna.
Proxima is a 2019 French drama film, directed by Alice Winocour.
Fausto is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by Andrea Bussmann and released in 2018. Set in Oaxaca, Mexico, the film blurs the lines between reality and fantasy by exploring the community's mythologies and folklore.
Inconvenient Indian is a 2020 Canadian documentary film, directed by Michelle Latimer. It is an adaptation of Thomas King's non-fiction book The Inconvenient Indian, focusing on narratives of indigenous peoples of Canada. King stars as the documentary's narrator, with Gail Maurice and other indigenous artists appearing.
Scarborough is a 2021 Canadian drama film, directed by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson. An adaptation of Catherine Hernandez's 2017 novel Scarborough, the film centres on the coming of age of Bing, Sylvie and Laura, three young children in a low-income neighbourhood in the Scarborough district of Toronto, as they learn the value of community, passion and resilience over the course of a school year through an after-school program led by childhood educator Ms. Hina.
Learn to Swim is a Canadian drama film written by Thyrone Tommy and Marni Van Dyk and directed by Tommy in his feature-length directorial debut. The film centres on a stormy romantic relationship between Dezi and Selma, two talented but troubled jazz musicians.
Ste. Anne is a Canadian experimental drama film, directed by Rhayne Vermette and released in 2021. The film stars Vermette as Renée, a Métis woman returning to her hometown in Manitoba for the first time in four years to reconnect with her family.
Still Night, Still Light is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sophie Goyette and released in 2016. The film stars Éliane Préfontaine as Éliane, a woman dealing with depression who temporarily abandons her life in Montreal and travels to Mexico City, where she stays at a home owned by Romes and takes a job teaching his son to play piano; Romes, meanwhile, is planning to accompany his ailing father Pablo on a trip to Asia which may be Pablo's last major dream in his life.
Framing Agnes is a 2022 Canadian documentary film, directed by Chase Joynt. An examination of transgender histories, the film centres on Joynt and a cast of transgender actors reenacting various case studies from Harold Garfinkel's work with transgender clients at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Queens of the Qing Dynasty is a Canadian experimental drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Ashley McKenzie. It premiered on February 15, 2022, as a part of the Encounters program at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival, and had its North American premiere in the Wavelengths program of the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was later released in Canada by Medium Density Fibreboard Films (MDFF) on March 3, 2023, and by Factory 25 in the United States on May 5.
The 47th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 8 to 18, 2022.
The 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival took place from 16 to 24 September 2022 in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain. The awards were announced on 24 September 2022, with The Kings of the World winning the Golden Shell.
Luis De Filippis is an Italian Canadian film director and screenwriter from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is most noted for her 2017 short film For Nonna Anna, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. The film went on to receive a Special Jury Prize at Sundance.
Until Branches Bend is a Canadian drama film, directed and written by Sophie Jarvis, and released in 2022. The film stars Grace Glowicki as Robin, a cannery worker who finds what she believes to be an invasive insect inside of a locally-grown peach, and must convince the community to take the threat seriously.
When Morning Comes is a 2022 Canadian-Jamaican drama film, written and directed by Kelly Fyffe-Marshall. The film centres on Jamal, a young boy in Jamaica who is processing his uncertain feelings about his mother Neesha's decision to send him to live in Canada with his grandmother following his father's death.
Rosie is a 2022 Canadian comedy-drama film, written, produced, and directed by Gail Maurice. Maurice's feature directorial debut and an expansion of her 2018 short film of the same name, the film centres on Rosie, a young First Nations girl who is sent to live with her aunt Frédérique in Montreal after her mother's death, and learns the value of rebuilding chosen family from Fred and her two-spirit friends Flo and Mo.
Seagrass is a 2023 Canadian drama film, written and directed by Meredith Hama-Brown. Hama-Brown's full-length feature debut, the film stars Ally Maki as Judith, a woman who is at a family retreat with her husband Steve and their children following the death of her mother, where she and Steve are coping with tensions in their marriage arising from their status as an interracial couple.
The Queen of My Dreams is a 2023 Canadian comedy drama film, written and directed by Fawzia Mirza. Mirza's full-length directorial debut, the film stars Amrit Kaur as Azra, a Pakistani Canadian woman who has had a strained relationship with her parents since coming out as lesbian, who undergoes an emotional journey after the sudden unexpected death of her father Hassan.
Hey, Viktor! is a 2023 Canadian mockumentary comedy film directed by Cody Lightning and written by Lightning and Samuel Miller.
