Film Days Audience Choice Awards

2025

TEENAGE WASTELAND (Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, 2025, USA, 100 minutes)

Honorable Mention:

AIN'T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND (Ilana Trachtman, 2024, USA 89 minutes)
CALICO REBELLION (Victoria Kupchinetsky, 2024, USA, 70 minutes)
COVER-UP (Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, 2025, USA, 117 minutes)

2024

Feature Winner: THE DAY ICELAND STOOD STILL (Pamela Hogan, 2023, Iceland, USA, 70 minutes)

Feature Honorable Mention:

PERFECT DAYS (Wim Wenders, 2023, Japan, 124 minutes)
CHECKPOINT ZOO (Joshua Zeman, 2024, Ukraine, USA, 103 minutes)

Best Short: 13 DRIVER'S LICENSES (Ryoya Terao, 2022, Germany, USA, 27 minutes)

Honorable Mention for Best Short:

BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY (Andrew Nadkarni, 2023, USA, 25 minutes)
TOXIC ART (Jason Whalen, 2023, USA, 16 minutes)

2023

THE NETTLE DRESS (Dylan Howitt, 2023, United Kingdom, 68 minutes)

2022

DEVIL PUT THE COAL IN THE GROUND (Lucas Sabean and Peter Hutchison, 2021, USA) and THE AUTOMAT (Lisa Hurwitz, 2021, USA)

2021

FIRST WE EAT (Suzanne Crocker)

Honorable Mention:

MAU (Benjamin Bergmann and Jono Bergmann, 2021, Austria)
STORM LAKE (Jerry Risius and Beth Levison, 2021, USA)

2020

DRIVING WHILE BLACK: RACE, SPACE and MOBILITY IN AMERICA (Gretchen Sorin and Ric Burns, 2020, 120 minutes), HAIDA MODERN, and DIANA KENNEDY: NOTHING FANCY (Elizabeth Carroll, 2019, 75 Minutes)

2019

Winner: CAPERNAUM (Nadine Labaki, 2018, Lebanon, 126 minutes)

Honorable Mentions:

HONEYLAND (Tamara Kotevska and Lyubomir Stefanov, 2019, Macedonia, 87 minutes)
TONI MORRISON:THE PIECES I AM (Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, 2019, USA, 120 minutes)

2018

BAGAGES (Paul Tom and Mélissa Lefebvre, 2018, Canada, 52 minutes)

2017

ROSENWALD (Aviva Kempner, 2015, USA, 100 minutes) and THE EAGLE HUNTRESS (Otto Bell, 2016, UK, Mongolia, USA, subtitled, 87 minutes)