Flush takes Fantasia audience award

Flush Photo: Fantasia International Film Festival

Flush, Grégory Morin's tragicomic tale of a man trapped in a toilet whose circumstances get worse at every turn, has won the Fantasia audience award for 2025, it was announced today. In second place was Annapurna Sriram's Fucktoys, with third place going to Steve Pink's Terrestrial.

The festival team was proud to announce record-breaking ticket sales, and revealed that next year's event will be held between 16 July and 2 August.

Those winners in full:

Best International Feature

• Gold: Flush (Dir. Grégory Morin, France)
• Silver: Fucktoys (Dir. Annapurna Sriram, United States)
• Bronze (Tie): Terrestrial (Dir. Steve Pink, United States) And The Forbidden City (Dir. Gabriele Mainetti, Italy)

Best Asian Feature

• Gold: Burning (Dir. Radik Eshimov, Kyrgyzstan)
• Silver: Hi-Five (Dir. Kang Hyung-Chul, South Korea)
• Bronze: I Fell In Love With A Z-Grade Director In Brooklyn (Dir. Kenichi Ugana, Japan)

Best Animated Feature

• Gold: Death Does Not Exist (Dir. Félix Dufour-Lapperrière, Canada)
• Silver: I Am Frankelda (Dirs. Arturo Ambriz And Roy Ambriz, Mexico)
• Bronze: Mononoke The Movie: Chapter Ii - The Ashes Of Rage (Dirs. Kenji Nakamura And Kiyotaka Suzuki, Japan)

Best International Short

• Gold: Let's Settle This! (Dir. Jack Woon, New Zealand)
• Silver (Tie): Steak Dinner (Dir. Nathan Ginter, United States) And Skin (Dir. Urvashi Pathania, United States)
• Bronze: Check Please (Dir. Shane Chung, United States) And The Nightwalker (Dir. Mark Reyes, United States)

Best Asian Short

• Gold: Floor (Dir. Jo Ba-Reun, South Korea)
• Silver: The Last Ride (Dirs. Yashoda Parthasarthy And Vijesh Rajan, India)
• Bronze: Red Spider Lilies: The Ascension (Dir. Koji Shiraishi, Japan)

Best Animated Short

• Gold: Loca! (Dirs. Ion Miyamoto And Yuta Uchiya, Japan)
• Silver: Mamiko’s Poop (Dir. Yasuteru Ohno, Japan)
• Bronze: Beyond The Trail (Dir. Vab.Png, Japan) And Maybe Blue (Dir. Zhou Qian, China)

Best Canadian Feature

• Gold: The Undertone (Dir. Ian Tuason, Canada)
• Silver: Foreigner (Dir. Ava Maria Safai, Canada)
• Bronze: Buffet Infinity (Dir. Simon Glassman, Canada)

Best Canadian Short

• Gold: The Sphinx (Dir. Jesse Padveen, Canada)
• Silver: Shrimp Fried Rice (Dir. Dylan Pun, Canada)
• Bronze: Heirlooms (Dir. Dan Abramovici, Canada)

Best Québec Feature

• Gold: Messy Legends (Dirs. Kelly Kay Hurcomb And James Watts, Canada)
• Silver: Au Pied Du Mur (Dir. Alexandra Elkin, Canada)
• Bronze: Anna Kiri (Dir. Francis Bordeleau, Canada)

Best Québec Short

• Gold: Duchess 17 (Dir. Daly Sonesaksith, Canada)
• Silver: Steal My Life (Dir. Annie Wren, Canada)
• Bronze: Le Punk De Natashquan (Dir. Nicolas Lachapelle, Canada)

L’écran Fantastique Award

• I Am Frankelda (Dirs. Arturo Ambriz And Roy Ambriz, Mexico)