The annual festival and the IMDb qualifying seasonal competition is an innovative event with annual live screenings and networking events through Cinema du Parc and seasonal promotions through MIFF magazine/Channel to thousands of artists and media professionals.
The annual and the seasonal competition of the MIFF has turned into one of the most popular emerging international festivals in the past few years. The festival committee is devoted to the promotion, discovery, recognition and screening of independent films of all genres from all over the world in its seasonal and annual programs through online and the cinema.
With thousands of entries every year, the programming team nominates about hundred projects for each seasonal competition and the winners are forwarded to the annual programming team for the annual screenings of the festival at the Cinema du Parc of Montreal and through MIFF magazine/Channel. The finalists are screened in the cinema every year. All the seasonal nominees are also invited to screen their projects through MIFF platform. Arsalan Baraheni, the artistic director of Montreal Independent Film Festival brings together various distributors, critics, filmmakers and artists from various countries to join the festival and the festival team consists of artists from all over the globe.
Montreal Independent Film Festival is honored to announce the winners and Honorable Mentions of the Winter/2024 in various sections of the competition. It is our pleasure to announce the latest winners of the fest.
Here are the winners of the Winter2024 seasonal competition of MIFF:
Best Narrative Feature
Director: Ivan Jovic
Best Narrative Short
Go For Grandma
Director: Sabrina Doyle
Best Feature Documentary
Sitting in the Fire
Director: ALEC GOLDBERG, BOSON WANG
Honorable Mention Documentary
Director: Pablo Durana
Best Short Documentary
People & Wolves
Director: Rachel Tilseth
Best Independent Film
Atikamekw Suns
Director: Chloé Leriche
Best Short Horror
La Croix (The Cross)
Director: Joris Fleurot
Short Comedy of the season
Director Mason Sperling
Best Short Animation
Godspeed
Director: Ben Bjelajac
Best Short Sci-Fi
Rehearsal
Director: Allan Shen
Best Web/Series
Behind the Scenes
Director: Marvin Zana
Best Short Experimental
How Can You Be Born
Directors: Gabriella Keren Sternfeld, Ori Shemer
Best Environmental
Salmon Secrets
Director: Jeremy MATHIEU
Best Female Director
Lost in Wonderland
Director: Daniela Amavia
Best Short Human Rights
Beyond Babi Yar
Director: Eli Adler
Best First-Time Filmmaker
RORQUAL
Director: Hugo Hebbe
Best Student Film
Maifeld
Director: Nele Johann
Best Short LGBTQ
The Last Take
Director: Brian Foyster
Honorable Mention LGBTQ
Frag
Director: Christopher Frentzel
Best Music Video
Vaja - People Are People
Director: Vaja
Best Thriller
Haunting Trophies
Director: László Illés
Canadian Indie of the season
The Liberation Men
Directors: Terry Jansen & Danny Crossman
Director of the season
Bring Him To Me
Director: Luke Ian Sparke
Cinematographer of the season
Jeetendra Pidikiti
The Final Chapter
Best Actor
Armand Assante
Don Q
Best Actress
Nina Frosi
Eulalia
Honorable Mention Actor
James Dickey
Fighting the Fire
Best Editor of the season
Petro Tzymbal
Life To the Limit
Best Composer of the season
Die Hexen
Trouble
Best Youth Artist of the season
On the paths awakened
Director: Axel DAHAN
Best Unproduced Short Script
You Are Going To Die Today
Writer: Elise Felber
Honorable Mention Short Script
The Claddagh Ring
Writer: Adam Kelly Morton
Best Unproduced Feature Script
Writer: Fiore DeRosa
Best Unproduced Feature Script
12 Hours
Writer: Jodi J Morneau
