Grand Jury Prize / Best Overall Film
Who’s Waiting for You? — YUCA — Mexico
Best Canadian Student Film — Joint Winners
Freshwater — Olivia Wilyman — Canada
Shooting the Moon — Antonia Eve Novakovich — Canada
Best Experimental Film
Novyny (NEWS) — Sergii Bublyk — Ukraine
Best Hybrid Film
SAFE ZONE — Ahmad Alameldeen — Egypt / Italy / United States
Best Music Video
Addicted To It — Nigel Tierney & Federico Heller — Argentina / Ireland / United States
Best Visuals
No Trespassing — Maria Chatzimourati — Greece
Best Stop-Motion Film
Bluebird — Toby Duska, Damon Orcherton & Jack Hornecker — Canada
Best VR Film
1968 — Rose Bond — United States
Best Graphics
The Synthetic Age — Dimitris Armenakis — Greece
Best Song — Tie
En el cuarto de Nico — Julita Conde & Magaly — Argentina
Death Comes To My Side — Oliver Anderson — United States
Jury / Critics Award
Beast of the Seine — Jon Portman — United States
Neda Award for Psychological Depth in Animated Film
Sundays — Ashley Gerst — United States
Best Children’s Film
Woolly Woolly “The New Kid” — Emmanuel Linderer — Canada / France
Omnivision Design Prize
Sentinelle — Charles-Antoine Rathé — Canada
SPECIAL MENTIONS
Special Mention
The Frogspell — Ilona Cauchon, Anna Éberling & Layane Charara — Canada
Special Mention — Work in Progress
My Journey to University — Luigi Allemano — Canada
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Films & Filmmakers
1981 — Carolyn London, Andy London — United States
A Tale of Hollow Spring — Flore de Kermoysan, Aruzhan Makhmetova, Caroline Buzot, Domitille Lepeu — Canada
Addicted To It — Nigel Tierney, Federico Heller — Argentina / Ireland / United States
All This Death — Fadi Syriani — Lebanon
Antsy Antics — Maximus Ouellette — United States
Balance — Diego Sáenz, Laura Franco Santos — Mexico
Beast of the Seine — Jon Portman — United States
Beyond the Waves — Oliver Marsden, Karen Jackson — Australia
Bloom — Zachary Gladwin — United States
Bluebird — Toby Duska, Damon Orcherton, Jack Hornecker — Canada
Blur Theory — Terry Blade — Netherlands / United Kingdom / United States
Booba: 3D Puzzle — Leonid Rakhmanin — United Arab Emirates / United Kingdom
Cardboard Heart — Catalina Ferreira Martin — Colombia
ChikaBOOM! — c. Craig Patterson — United States
Chiki — Axel Herreman — Mexico
Christine Sinclair: Kind of a Big Deal — Eoin Duffy — Canada
CICADA CLOUDS — Dennis Tae Wook Kim — Canada
Companionship — Li Zhang — China
Cosmicat — Hyeonji Oh — Canada
Dance Is Everything — Bea Labikova — Canada
David Tao 〈Moonchild〉 — SWYY, ALX112 — Taiwan
“Death Comes To My Side” Music Video — Oliver Anderson — United States
Death’s Peak — Willy Fair — United Kingdom
Discover Your Light — Yongwei Chen — Taiwan
Dog & Pony Travel the World — Michael Annear — United States
Dolly Baby – Rhythm & Flesh — Bouchera Tahraoui — Canada
Double-Edged Dagger (Festival Cut) — Yunica Taboso — Canada
Drawn Together — Jessica Pan, Maya Sliwinski — Canada
Dunya — Mazen Khaled — United States
ELSEWHERE — Constantin Rytz — Switzerland
En el cuarto de Nico — Julita Conde, Magaly — Country not specified
Epic Yarn — Andrew Gordon — United States
EQUAL — Tom Bessoir — United States
EXIT — Victor Watier-Berthiaume, Jeremie Dagenais — Canada
Exit to Outer Space — Matt Bissett-Johnson — Australia
Fish — Yingdan Lai — China / United States
Fish Out Of Water — Corey Nikolaus — Canada
Flink’s Pigeon Problems — Susan Fitzer, Brian Pimental — United States
Footprints — Geoffrey Asch — United States
Forbidden Valentine — Owen Coughlan — Canada
Foxing: Kitsuné-tsuki — Takeru Shinozuka — Japan
Frances & Margo — Charlotte Lavoie Auspert, Derya Ozparlak — Canada
Freshwater — Olivia Wilyman — Canada
Gallien of Gruimor — Ophélie Duchesne — Canada
Grandma’s Alice Fairytales: Taiga’s King — Marina Ipatova — Russian Federation
Hexapod — Axel Kinnear — Canada
Home – Animated Short Film 2025 — Shusei Sasaya — Japan
Horny Jail — Ai Matsuno — Japan
HUGO AND THE STRAY — Sylvan Siyuan Zhao — United Kingdom
Illuminate — Max Hogg — United Kingdom
Immémoriale — Gwenaelle Du-Thumm — United States
In Pigeon’s Blood — Chaya Moshayev, Hod Adler — Israel / Uzbekistan
In The Back of Your Head — Pauline Aksay — Canada
INLE — Siying Yu — France
Iridescent — A.B. Osborne — United States
Juju attend le bus — Nicolas Roy — Canada
Just One Peek — Mulan Fu — United States
Last Gasp of Summer — Luna Clara Ronco — United Kingdom
Last Lines — Greg McLeod — United Kingdom
Lazuli — Milton Felipe Laforgia Honda, Beatriz Gonçalves da Cruz, Aline Pinheiro de Figueiredo — Brazil / Canada
Le monstre — Philippe Beauséjour — Canada
Leonard Cohen in the Eating Disorder Ward — Lucas Crawford — Canada
Lipstick — Éilis O’Neill — Ireland
Long-Term Extramarital Affair — Neely Goniodsky — United States
LOOK OUT! — Brian Carroll — United States
Looking for You — Christian Scharfenberg — Germany
Lost Track — “Luna” Sam McKee — United States
MagiMart — Abe Enoch — United States
Mariposa — Brook Vitovsky — United States
MENACE — Syama Pedersen — Canada
Misfolding — Soetkin Verstegen — Belgium
MISMATCH — Luna Lee — United States
MISSION ACCOMP*D — Yihe Tao, Dexter Chuang — United States
Mu — Jessica Ngo, Hoang-Hai Luu — Canada
Mumbling Sand — Yama Sihan Li — United States
Neko Neko Night — Fanélie Ollivier, Éline Bellon-Curutchet, Lorena Lopez Ospina, Yamato Ebina, Raisa Monroy Castro — Canada
Nenaboozhoo — Isaac Murdoch — Canada
NO — Ahmad Alameldeen — Egypt / Italy / United States
No Trespassing — Maria Chatzimourati — Greece
No Worries! — Chris Dicker — Ireland
NORA ノラ – Beat of A Romance / Cha Cha Cha — Serena Tripepi — Italy
Normal Human — Joo Ye-jin — South Korea
North of Harbord — Mateusz Garbulinski — Canada
Novyny (NEWS) — Sergii Bublyk — Ukraine
NSFW — Tom Kariv, Shacham Rubin — Romania
Ocher — Chee Ho — Canada / United States
Ode (An Acknowledgement of Sea Country) — Kirsten Hudson — Australia
One Last Answer — Tiger Cai — United States
Other I — Alina Popescu — France
Patch — Meg Cook — United States
Pearl — Alice Il Shin — Canada
Popped or Alive — Dani Fevola — United States
Qamajai — Yerkezhan (Kei) Sabitbekova — Germany
Railbound — Jonathan Perry — United States
Repel the Tiger — Ruiqi Wang — United States
Roaring Thunder — An Qi Li — China
ROCKS — Tom Gasek — United States
Run Koala Run — James Calvert — Australia
SAFE ZONE — Ahmad Alameldeen — Egypt / Italy / United States
Sapling — Connor Yarish — Canada
Sentinel / Sentinelle — Charles-Antoine Rathé — Canada
Shabadoo feat. Valentina Jazz — Cody Fordham — Australia
Shattered — Ana Luísa Vilaça Fernandes — Belgium / Portugal
She Found It In The Desert — Catherine Gubernick — Country not specified
SHEEPDOG — Amaris L’Heureux-Telfer — United States
Shkodra Elektronike – Stuhi (Official Music Video) — Chiara Feriani — Albania / Italy
Shooting the Moon — Antonia Eve Novakovich — Canada
Shop Talk — Stephen Patterson — United States
Space Gift — Mathys Motard — Canada
Spirit Jumper — spktra (Josh Fagin) — United States
Sticky Fingers — Melanie Mendoza, Andrea Esmaeil — United States
STRIVE — Dennis Augustian Francis — India
Sundays — Ashley Gerst — United States
Sunspark — Danny Bourque — United States
Tainos — Eduardo Schuldt — Dominican Republic / Peru
TAUT — Ilya Lorenz Barrett — Germany
The 12 Inch Pianist — Lucas Ansel — United States
The Adventures of Buff Chunky — Gaetano Frangella, Jamie Sutton — Canada
THE BELL — Michael Ferrara — United States
The Boy Who Cheated Death — Pipou Phuong Nguyen — France / Spain / Vietnam
The Boy Who Erased Kisses — Radostina Neykova, Fernando Galrito — Bulgaria / Portugal
The Cloud Herder — Aidan McAteer — Ireland
The Crested Ibis — Guisheng Zhao — China
The Dog on my Back — Esabella Strickland — Canada
The End of The End — Junar Kim — South Korea / United Kingdom
The Epic of Enkidu — Mike A Smith — United States
The Frogspell — Ilona Cauchon, Anna Éberling, Layane Charara — Canada
The Gramophone — Eduardo Stachow Figueiredo — Brazil
The Greedy Nightmare — Defei Kong — China
The Moon Stole My Stripes — Sarah Buckley — United States
The Synthetic Age — Dimitris Armenakis — Greece
The View — Angela Wu — United States
The Women of my Mother’s Wedding — Ananya Bashyam — India
To Have and To Hold — Julianne Martin — United States
Travelous — Samira Hoseini — Iran
Tulipomania: I’ve Been Told — Cheryl Gelover, Tom Murray — United States
Violet After The Storm — Bekky O’Neil — Canada
What Color Are Your Dreams? — Giorgi Papuashvili, Davit Papuashvili — Georgia
When We Meet — Jason Giglio — United States
Who’s Waiting for You? — YUCA — Mexico
Wiindigoo — Christian Tremblay — Canada
Winter Mountain — Lee Seung Hoon — South Korea
Wolverine and Little Thunder: An Eel Hunting Adventure — Alan Syliboy — Canada
Woolly Woolly “The New Kid” — Emmanuel Linderer — Canada / France
Woven Love — Odele B — United States
等等，什么？ — 黄信 — China
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1968 — Rose Bond — United States
Aluado VR — Cláudio Jordão — Portugal
Deepcore: When Cave Breath — Zhen Yu — China
Dinosaur: Evolution — Ken Musen & Howard Vu — United States
Dreaming Fields — Ao Huang — China
Fallax — Owen Hindley — Iceland
IF YOU SEE A CAT — Atsushi Wada — Japan
MIRAGE — Naima Karim — Bangladesh / Netherlands / Saudi Arabia
SUNFLOWER – Rondo for the Celestial — Chia-Hui Lu & Wen-Chieh Chang — Taiwan
The Time Before — Leo Metcalf — United Kingdom
Tunnel Visions — Gregory Ferris — Australia
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