The Winnipeg Real to Reel Film Festival says that thousands of people attended the movie festival last week.

Paul Boge, the festival's founder, says the festival had a record-breaking 5,875 attendees.

The most popular film was Andrew Wall's Volendam: A Refugee Story. The documentary about Mennonites fleeing Russia had three showings with a total of 1,182 attendees throughout the week. Boge says the film had the highest attendance of anything the festival had ever shown before.

Volendam: A Refugee Story won Best Documentary at the festival and A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood won Best Feature.