HotDocs announces Rogers Award Winner and Top 20 Audience Favourites

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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

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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)