HotDocs announces Rogers Award Winner and Top 20 Audience Favourites

Toronto/CMEDIA: Top 20 Audience Favourites & Rogers Award Winners have been announced by the HotDocs 2025.

Endless Cookie was announced on May 4 as the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary at a free encore screening at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.

Recognized as the Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary, the top Canadian feature is determined by audience poll and carries a cash prize of CAD 50,000 received by D: Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver of Endless Cookie, courtesy of Rogers

Hot Docs Audience Awards

At the close of the Festival, it was determined that Come See Me in the Good Light (D: Ryan White) also placed first in the overall audience poll, winning the Hot Docs Audience Award. The top mid-length film in the audience poll was Aisha’s Story (D: Elizabeth Vibert) and the top short film was La Mayordomía (D: Martin Edralin).

1. Come See Me in the Good Light (D: Ryan White | P: Jessica Hargrave, Ryan White, Tig Notaro, Stef Willen)
2. Endless Cookie (D: Seth Scriver, Peter Scriverr | P: Daniel Bekerman, Chris Yurkovich, Alex Ordanis, Jason Ryle, Seth Scriver)
3. Antidote (D: James Jones | P: James Jones)
4. Coexistence, My Ass! (D: Amber Fares | P: Rachel Leah Jones, Amber Fares, Valérie Montmartin)
5. Saints and Warriors (D: Patrick Shannon | P: Michael Grand)
6. 2000 Meters to Andriivka (D: Mstyslav Chernov | P: Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath)
7. Mr. Nobody Against Putin (D: David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin (co-director) | P: Helle Faber)
8. Selena y Los Dinos (D: Isabel Castro | P: Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, J. Daniel Torres, David Blackman, Simran Singh)
9. Cutting Through Rocks (اوزاک یوللار) (D: Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni | P: Mohammadreza Eyni, Sara Khaki)
10. Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance (D: Noam Gonick | P: Justine Pimlott)
11. Deaf President Now! (D: Nyle DiMarco, Davis Guggenheim | P: Nyle DiMarco, Davis Guggenheim, Amanda Rohlke, Jonathan King, Michael Harte)
12. Facing War (D: Tommy Gulliksen n | P: Anne Marte Blindheim, Danielle Turkov Wilson)
13. The Nest (D: Chase Joynt, Julietta Singh | P: Alicia Smith, Justine Pimlott)
14. Writing Hawa (D: Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori (co-director) | P: Christian Popp, Hasse van Nunen, Renko Douze)
15. The Gardener and the Dictator (D: Hui Wang | P: Jun Zhang, Hui Wang)
16. Holloway (D: Sophie Compton, Daisy-May Hudson | P: Alice Hughes, Polly Creed, Sophie Compton, Tarquin Ramsay)
17. The Last Ambassador (D: Natalie Halla | P: Peter Drössler, Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber, Natalie Halla)
18. The Track (D: Ryan Sidhoo | P: Ryan Sidhoo)
19. Spreadsheet Champions (D: Kristina Kraskov | P: Anna Charalambous, Charlotte Wheaton, Nick Batzias)
20. Aisha’s Story (D: Elizabeth Vibert, Chen Wang (co-director) | P: Elizabeth Vibert, Salam Barakat Guenette)