2025 CUFF.Docs Awards

Announcing the CUFF.Docs 2025 award winners!

Audience Awards

Best Documentary Feature – MODERN WHORE Directed by Nicole Bazuin
Runner-Up – THE LIBRARIANS Directed by Kim A. Snyder
Best Documentary Short – MONSTER SLAYER Directed by Catie Skipp

Jury Awards

Best Documentary Feature - MODERN WHORE Directed by Nicole Bazuin

"This ribald yet remarkable film features unflinching carnal knowledge presented with a playful yet provocative cinematic air, providing revealing and intimate testimonials and delightfully goofy vignettes that go well beyond the titillating to plunge into the peculiarities and profundities of prostitution. The CUFF.Docs 2025 Jury congratulates Nicole Bazuin for their risqué, revealing MODERN WHORE." – Jury Statement

2025 Jurors

Katherine Berger - Festival Co-Director & Programmer Sydney Underground Film Festival
Katherine Berger is the founder, curator, and organiser of the Sydney Underground Film Festival, which celebrates its 20th edition in 2026. She loves championing the under-appreciated, the too-strange, and the gloriously unhinged. Katherine is also a filmmaker and has made several films, including two indie features in the Yukon Territory.


Jason Gorber - Film Critic, Programmer
Jason Gorber is a film journalist, programmer and member of the Toronto Film Critics Association, the Critics Choice Association and OFCS. He Editor-In-Chief/Chief Critic at That Shelf, is the Director of Film Programming at the Blue Mountain Film + Media Festival, CBC Radio Metro Morning's Film Correspondent, and regularly contributes to POV Magazine, Paste Magazine, A.V. Club, RogerEbert.com.

Alex Rogalski - Programmer
Alex Rogalski is the Senior Canadian Programmer for Hot Docs. Past programming work includes the Toronto International Film Festival, Victoria Film Festival, Calgary International Film Festival, Gimme Some Truth, and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. He is the former Executive Director of PAVED Arts and New Media and resides in Treaty 6 territory in Saskatoon.