Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best International Short Film

The Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best International Short Film is an annual film award, presented by the Toronto International Film Festival to a film judged to be the best short film by an international filmmaker at the festival. The award was presented for the first time in 2014.

Winners

Year	Film	Director	Ref
2014	A Single Body	Sotiris Dounoukos	[1]
2015	Maman(s)	Maïmouna Doucouré	[2]
2016	Imago	Raymund Ribay Gutierrez	[3]
2017	The Burden (Min börda)	Niki Lindroth von Bahr	[4]
	A Gentle Night	Qiu Yang
2018	The Field	Sandhya Suri	[5]
	Fuck You	Anette Sidor
	This Magnificent Cake! (Ce magnifique gâteau !)	Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels
2019	All Cats Are Grey in the Dark (Nachts sind alle Katzen grau)	Lasse Linder	[6]
	The Nap	Federico Luis Tachella
2020	Dustin	Naïla Guiguet	[7]
2021	Displaced (Pa Vend)	Samir Karahoda	[8]
	Trumpets in the Sky	Rakan Mayasi
2022	Snow in September (9-р Сарын Цас)	Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir	[9]
	Airhostess-737	Thanasis Neofotistos
2023	Electra	Daria Kashcheeva	[10]
2024	Deck 5B (Däck 5B)	Malin Ingrid Johansson	[11]
	Quota (Quotum)	Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, Marieke Blaauw
2025	Talk Me	Joecar Hanna	[12]
	Agapito	Arvin Belarmino, Kyla Danelle Romero

References

1. Steve Pond (September 14, 2014). "'The Imitation Game' Wins Toronto Audience Award". The Wrap .
2. Kristopher Tapley (September 20, 2015). "'Room' Wins Toronto Film Festival's People's Choice Award". Variety .
3. Joey Nolfi (September 18, 2016). "TIFF People's Choice Award cements La La Land's place in Oscar race". Entertainment Weekly .
4. Norman Wilner, "TIFF 2017: And The Winners Are…". Now , September 17. 2017.
5. Jeremy Kay, "'Green Book' boosts awards season prospects with TIFF audience award win". Screen Daily , September 16, 2018.
6. Etan Vlessing, "Toronto: Taika Waititi's 'Jojo Rabbit' Wins Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter , September 15, 2019.
7. Etan Vlessing, "Toronto: Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Wins Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter , September 20, 2020.
8. Steve Pond, "‘Belfast’ Wins Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award". TheWrap , September 18, 2021.
9. Christian Zilko, "‘The Fabelmans’ Wins TIFF 2022 People’s Choice Award". IndieWire , September 18, 2022.
10. Christian Zilko, "American Fiction’ Wins People’s Choice Award at 2023 TIFF (Complete Winners List)". IndieWire , September 17, 2023.
11. Harrison Richlin, "Who Will Win the TIFF People’s Choice Award? Live Updates from the Ceremony". IndieWire , September 15, 2024.
12. Erbland, Kate (14 September 2025). "The Toronto International Film Festival 2025 Awards Are Being Announced Now (Updating)". IndieWire .