42nd Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival - APRIL 13-27, 2023Audience Choice Awards

Special Presentations

Winner: Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Director: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson | USA

New American Visions

Documentary Feature

Winner: The Claw
Director: Philip Harder | USA

Fiction Feature

Winner: Hollywood Fringe
Director: Wyatt McDill, Megan Huber | USA

World Cinema

Documentary Feature

Winner: Playing With Sharks
Director: Sally Aitken | Australia

Fiction Feature

Winner: 14 Days, 12 Nights
Director: Jean-Philippe Duval | Canada

Asian Frontiers

Winner: Wuhan Wuhan
Director: Yung Chang | Canada, China

Cine Latino

Winner: Wishlist
Director: Álvaro Díaz Lorenzo | Spain

Images of Africa

Winner: Downstream to Kinshasa
Director: Dieudo Hamadi | Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Belgium

Midnight Sun

Winner: Tove
Director: Zaida Bergroth | Finland

Nextwave Global Features

Winner: Beans
Director: Tracey Deer | Canada, USA

Shorts – Fiction

Winner: BJ’s Mobile Gift Shop
Director: Jason Park | USA

Shorts – Documentary

Winner: Say His Name: Five Days FOR GEORGE FLOYD
Director: Cy Dodson | USA