We have been featuring David Cronenberg’s thriller “Easter Promises” on Screenhead for quite some time now. So, this next piece is somewhat of a good news for us. The thriller pic has been chosen as the best film by audience at the recently concluded Toronto International Film Festival.

Starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts, the Focus feature explores the underbelly of a notorious Russian mob family in London when a midwife goes looking for the truth after a teenager dies in childbirth.

Other winners for the event include “Cochochi,” the tale of two Raramuri boys and their efforts to find a lost horse, from first time directors Israel Cardenas and Laura Amelia Guzman, which won the Diesel Discovery award. Anahi Berneri’s second feature, “Encarnacion,” a tale of the price of emancipation in Argentina starring Silvia Perez, won the Artistic Innovation Award.

Lastly, the Best Canadian feature commendation went to Guy Maddin’s “My Winnipeg,” while the best first Canuck feature nod went to “Continental, un film sans fusil (Continental, A Film Without Guns),” from Stephane LaFleur, and Christopher Chan Fui Chong’s “Pool.”