Toronto International Film Festival has announced the winners of its 2025 awards, with Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet taking home the coveted People’s Choice Award.
First runner-up in the category was Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, with Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, directed by Rian Johnson, second runner-up.
In the International People’s Choice category, Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice beat competition from Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value) and Neeraj Ghaywan (Homebound), while the People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award was presented to Matt Johnson’s Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.
Meanwhile, Barry Avrich took home the People’s Choice Documentary Award for The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue.
With an eye on emerging filmmakers, Lucía Aleñar Iglesias was celebrated with the FIPRESCI Prize for Forastera, with the jury saying: “Spanish cinema, long shaped by the exuberance of Pedro Almodóvar, has found a new distinctive voice in Lucía Aleñar Iglesias.
“Forastera is a quietly assured debut, simple yet transformative, marking Aleñar Iglesias as a filmmaker the FIPRESCI jury would like to bet on.”
Other winners were In Search of the Sky (Vimukt), by Jitank Singh Gurjar, which scooped the NETPAC Award for the promotion of Asian Pacific Cinema, and Blue Heron, which bagged the Best Canadian Discovery Award for Sophy Romvari.
The full winners’ list is now available on the TIFF website.
