NEW DELHI: Dys-, the Canadian film directed by Maude Michaud, won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film while the German ‘The Cold Heart’ (Das Kalte Herz) directed by Hannes Rall emerged with the Audience Award for Best Short Film at Ottawa’s Cellar Door Film Festival (CDFF).

‘Dys’- screened at the festival to an engaged audience with Montreal director Maude Michaud in attendance along with actor Alex Goldrich, make-up effects artist Sebastien Montpetit, and sound operator Maxime Boileau. The Cold Heart screened in Cellar Door’s short film programme “From the Basement of the World: So Cold and So Dark.”  

Cellar Door Film Festival was presented by the School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University and the SPARTA Film Challenge, as well as its Supporting Sponsors the Carleton University Alumni Association, GNA Heating and Cooling, The Haunted Walk of Ottawa, and Used Ottawa.

The Cellar Door Film Festival (CDFF) aims to be Ottawa's first showcase of speculative cinema (horror, sci-fi, and fantasy), while celebrating the creativity of the Ottawa film scene and spotlighting the city as a setting for the sinister and supernatural. CDFF encourages film culture, education, and production in Ottawa by promoting the creation, screening, and distribution of local, national and international films in the Nation’s capital.