An autobiographical film by Vancouver's Gwen Haworth, She's A Boy I Knew, nabbed two prizes at the Vancouver International Film Festival: the People's Choice Award for Most Popular Canadian Film and the Women in Film & Television Vancouver Artistic Merit Award.

The film had its world premiere at the festival, which ended on Friday with the awards ceremony. 

Haworth's film documents the director's transformation from male to female through archival footage and animation.

Vancouver filmmaker Carl Bessai won best Canadian feature for Normal, which chronicles the aftermath of a fatal accident on family members and survivors.

Montreal director Yung Chang captured best Canadian documentary with Up The Yangtze, which examines the displacement of cruise ship crew members and their families because of the Three Gorges Dam project.

Other winners included Persepolis for most popular international film and Garbage Warrior for most popular international documentary.

Persepolis is the screen adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel about her life as a young girl growing up during Iran's Islamic Revolution. 

Garbage Warrior by British filmmaker Oliver Hodge concerns eco-architect Michael Reynolds, who has been constructing houses out of garbage for three decades.

The Swedish film The Planet won the inaugural $25,000 Climate for Change Award. Three filmmakers visited 25 countries, compiling evidence of a planet in critical condition.

The jury described the film as galvanizing them "artistically and intellectually to the many dangers that face our world."

The festival, now in its 26th year, screened 350 films from more than 50 countries.