The DOXA Short Documentary Award is an annual Canadian film award, presented to honour the best short documentary film screened at that year's DOXA Documentary Film Festival. The award frequently, but not always, presents an honorable mention in addition to the overall winner.
Unlike feature documentaries, for which DOXA presents the separate Colin Low Award for Canadian documentaries and Feature Documentary Award for international documentaries, a single award is presented for short documentaries inclusive of both Canadian and international films.
| Year | Film | Filmmaker(s) | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 18 kg | Kacper Czubak | [1] |
| 2014 | Homo Ciris | Jana Mináriková | [2] |
| The Governance of Love | Adela Kaczmarek | ||
| 2015 | Island and Flight | Dan Popa | [3] |
| I Thought I Told You to Shut Up!! | Charlie Tyrell | ||
| 2016 | 50 Feet from Syria | Skye Fitzgerald | [4] |
| La Laguna | Aaron Schock | ||
| 2017 | Vers la tendresse | Alice Diop | [5] |
| Fixed! | Cat Mills | ||
| 2018 | Crisanto Street | Paloma Martinez | [6] |
| Nuuca | Michelle Latimer | ||
| 2019 | Time Is Out of Joint | Victory Arroyo | [7] |
| Haven | Colin Askey | ||
| 2020 | Umbilical | Danski Tang | [8] |
| Huntsville Station | Jamie Meltzer, Chris Filippone | ||
| 2021 | Ain't No Time for Women (Y'a pas d'heure pour les femmes) | Sarra El Abed | [9] |
| 2022 | Galb’Echaouf | Abdessamad El Montassir | [10] |
| Spirit Emulsion | Siku Allooloo | ||
| 2023 | Tiny | Ritchie Hemphill, Ryan Haché | [11] |
| Zug Island | Nicolas Lachapelle | ||
| 2024 | Wouldn't Make It Any Other Way | Hao Zhou | [12] |
| A Short Film About a Chair | Ibrahim Handal |