Friends sit at Aqsa Parvez's grave in a scene from In the Name of the Family, which won the award for best Canadian feature. The documentary looks at the story of the teen from Mississauga, Ont., whose father and brother were charged in what some accounts described as a so-called 'honour killing.' (Shelley Saywell)

A Toronto filmmaker's investigation of the killing of young women in so-called "honour killings" in North America has won the best Canadian feature award at the Hot Docs Film Festival.

In The Name of the Family, by Shelley Saywell, looks at the story of Aqsa Parvez, a Mississauga, Ont., girl whose father was charged with her killing, as well as other young Muslim women struggling with their families.

"We were all moved by the young teenage Muslim women struggling to figure out their own identities, caught between two opposing worlds, to whom it gave voice," the jury said in its citation.

"It is an effective and intense contribution to an important discussion that needs to be explored further. We look forward to hearing more voices of young Muslim men as well."

One of the Nazi cameramen appears on the left side of the frame in a scene from A Film Unfinished. (Yael Hersonski)

Saywell wins $15,000.

Israeli director Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished, a visual essay that deconstructs an unfinished Nazi propaganda film, won the $10,000 best international feature award.

The film is based on a forgotten Nazi-made film about Jewish life in the Warsaw Ghetto and serves to show how film can be used to perpetuate lies.

Another big favourite of the documentary film festival, whose awards were handed out Friday, was 65 Red Roses, the film about a New Westminster, B.C., girl's struggle to survive with cystic fibrosis. Eva Markvoort lost her battle with disease last month.

The film was named a top-10 audience favourite and won the Don Haig Award for Toronto's Philip Lyall and Vancouver's Nimisha Mukerji. The prize is presented annually to an emerging Canadian documentary filmmaker.

Other winning films:

• Leave Them Laughing: about a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease, directed by John Zaritsky of Vancouver, the special jury prize for a Canadian feature.
• The Oath: about a former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden by Laura Poitras of the U.S., special jury prize for an international feature.
• I Shot My Love: by Tomer Haymann of Germany, best mid-length documentary.
• Tussilago: by Jonas Odell of Sweden, best short documentary.
• Marwencol: by Jeff Malberg of the U.S., HBO documentary films emerging artist award.
• Ayanie Mohamed of Toronto, Lindalee Tracey Award for an emerging Canadian filmmaker.

The festival presented the 2010 Hot Docs outstanding achievement award to British filmmaker Kim Longinotto whose films often highlight the plight of women. A retrospective of Longinotto's work, which includes Runaway, Rough Aunties and The Day I Will Never Forget was screened during this year's festival.