The Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film, formerly also known as the NFB

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Award, is an annual film award, presented by the

Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a permane ...

to a film judged to be the best Canadian

short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

of the festival. As of 2017, the award is sponsored by

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and known as the "IWC Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film".

Winners

References

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