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The Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary, which recognizes the top Canadian feature as determined by audience poll and awards cash prizes totaling $50,000, courtesy of Rogers Group of Funds, to the top three Canadian features in that poll, was announced on May 8 at a special free encore screening at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. First place received ​the top prize of $25,000 CDN; second place received a $15,000 CDN prize; and third place was awarded $10,000 CDN.

1. Eternal Spring
2. Okay! (The ASD Band Film)
3. Unloved: Huronia’s Forgotten Children

Hot Docs Audience Awards
At the close of the Festival, it was determined that Eternal Spring also placed first in the overall audience poll, also winning the Hot Docs Audience Award. The top mid-length film in the audience poll was Sexual Healing and the top short film was Dad Can Dance. 

1. Eternal Spring
2. Okay! (The ASD Band Film)
3. Unloved: Huronia’s Forgotten Children
4. Beautiful Scars
5. Smell of Money
6. Navalny
7. Handle with Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew
8. Hunting in Packs
9. The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks
10. Batata
11. Returning Home
12. The Quiet Epidemic
13. Category: Woman
14. In the Eye of the Storm: The Political Odyssey of Yanis Varoufakis
15. How Saba Kept Singing
16. The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith
17. Dad Can Dance
18. Who We Will Have Been
19. Alis
20. Relative

Top Films by Program

• Artscapes: Beautiful Scars
• Canadian Spectrum: Eternal Spring
• Deep Dive: In the Eye of the Storm: The Political Odyssey of Yanis Varoufakis
• Hidden Histories: Unloved: Huronia’s Forgotten Children
• International Spectrum: Who We Will Have Been
• Made In Chile: Alis
• Markers: Skin
• Nightvision: Crows Are White
• Persister: Hunting in Packs
• Special Presentations: Smell of Money
• The Changing Face of Europe: Band
• World Showcase: Sexual Healing