Bookworm wins international Fantasia Audience Award

Bookworm Photo: courtesy of Photon Films

This year's Fantasia international Film Festival came to a close on Sunday night after a bumper year, with record attendance and more sold out screenings than at any time since before the Covid pandemic began. Full details of its Audience Awards have now been released, with Ant Timpson's Bookworm, starring Nell Fisher and Elijah Wood, named Best international Feature.

Next year's festival will be held between 17 July and 3 August.

Those awards in full:

Best International Feature

• Gold: Bookworm (Dir. Ant Timpson, New Zealand)
• Silver: The Count Of Monte Cristo (Dir. Mathieu Delaporte and Alexandre De La Patelière, France)
• Bronze: Rats! (Dir. Maxwell Navelansky and Carl Fry, US)

Best Asian Feature

• Gold: A Samurai In Time (Dir. Junichi Yasuda, Japan)
• Silver: Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In (Dir. Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
• Bronze: Penalty Loop (Dir. Shinji Araki, Japan)

Best Animated Feature

• Gold: Ghost Cat Anzu (Dir. Yōko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita, Japan)
• Silver: The Missing (Dir. Carl Joseph Papa, The Philippines)
• Bronze: Mononoke The Movie: Phantom In The Rain (Dir. Kenji Nakamura, Japan)

Best International Short

• Gold: Faces (Dir. Blake Simon, US)
• Silver: The Streetlight (Dir. Sophia Parella, US)
• Bronze: Les Yeux D’olga (Dir. Sarah Carlot Jaber, Belgium)

Best Asian Short

• Gold: Memory (Dir. Jang Hawon, South Korea)
• Silver: Wanna Die Wanna Kill (Dir. Jeong Jaehee, South Korea)
• Bronze: Night Fishing (Dir. Byoung-Gon Moon, South Korea)

Best Animated Short

• Gold: Ruthless Blade (Dir. Bo Zhang, China)
• Silver: Lantern Blade, Episode 3 (Dir. Ziki Zhu, China)
• Bronze: Tie - Les Bêtes (Dir. Michael Berry, US) And Giant Fish (Dir. Si Seunghyun, South Korea)

Best Canadian Feature

• Gold: Self Driver (Dir. Michael Pierro)
• Silver: The Silent Planet (Dir. Jeffrey St. Jules)
• Bronze: Scared Shitless (Dir. Vivieno Caldinelli)

Best Canadian Short

• Gold: The Shitty Ride - (Dir. Cole Doran)
• Silver: Dirty Bad Wrong (Dir. Erica Orofino)
• Bronze: Bath Bomb (Dir. Colin G Cooper)

Best Québec Feature

• Gold: Kidnapping Inc. (Dir. Bruno Mourral)
• Silver: Jour De Chasse (Dir. Annick Blanc)
• Bronze: Ababouiné (Dir. André Forcier)

Best Québec Short

• Gold: The Image Seller (Dir. Donovan Richard)
• Silver: Mourir En Silence (Dir. Émile Lavoie)
• Bronze: Tie - Réinsertion (Dir. Youssef Harouj) And Bring Back Guillaume (Dir. Kevin De Laval)

Best Documentary Feature

• Gold: Voïvod: We Are Connected (Dir. Felipe Belalcazar, Canada)