Betty Youson Award for Best Canadian Short Documentary

The Betty Youson Award for Best Canadian Short Documentary is a Canadian award, presented annually by the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival to honour a film judged as the best Canadian short documentary film in that year's festival program. The award comes with a $3,000 prize from festival sponsors John and Betty Youson.

The award was presented for the first time in 2018. Prior to that year, a single award for Best Short Documentary Film, inclusive of both Canadian and international films, was presented. Concurrently with the creation of the Betty Youson Award, a separate award for international short films was also created.

The jury have also usually given an honorable mention in addition to the overall winner.

Winners

Year	Film	Filmmaker(s)	Ref
2018	Prince's Tale	Jamie Miller	[1]
	Vika	Christian Borys, Marta Iwanek
2019	Kora: A Circle Life	Tenzin Sedon	[2]
	Mothers Of	Ross Lai
2020	êmîcêtôcêt: Many Bloodlines	Theola Ross	[3]
	In the Shadow of the Pines	Anne Koizumi
2021	Ain't No Time for Women	Sarra El Abed	[4]
	The Hairdresser	Lorraine Price
2022	Perfecting the Art of Longing	Kitra Cahana	[5]
	The Benevolents (Les Bienvaillants)	Sarah Baril Gaudet
2023	Last Respects	Megan Durnford	[6]
2024	Am I the Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen?	Eisha Marjara	[7]
	The Sparkle (L'Artifice)	Isabelle Grignon-Francke
2025	Delta Dawn	Asia Youngman	[8]