| Opening film | Ashgrove by Jeremy LaLonde |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Beautiful Minds (Presque) by Bernard Campan and Alexandre Jollien |
| Location | Sudbury, Ontario, Canada |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Festival date | September 17–25, 2022 |
| Website | cinefest |
The 2022 edition of the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, the 34th edition in the event's history, took place from September 17 to 25, 2022 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.[1] The lineup was announced on August 25.[2]
Similarly to the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, the event returned to primarily in-person screenings for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020,[3] although a selection of films was still offered for home viewing on a virtual platform.[4] Organizers indicated that they received an all-time record number of film submissions for inclusion in the festival.[3]
Awards
| Award | Film | Filmmaker |
|---|---|---|
| Audience Choice, Feature Film (Live Screening) | Bones of Crows | Marie Clements |
| Audience Choice, Feature Film (Virtual) | Norbourg | Maxime Giroux |
| Audience Choice, Documentary (Live Screening) | Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On | Madison Thomas |
| Audience Choice, Documentary (Virtual) | Okay!: The ASD Band Film | Mark Bone |
| Audience Choice, Short Film (Live Screening) | Spiral (Kierre) | Salla Sorri, Eva-Maria Koskinen |
| Audience Choice, Short Film (Virtual) | Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics | Terril Calder |
| Outstanding Canadian Feature | Riceboy Sleeps | Anthony Shim |
| Outstanding International Feature | Beautiful Minds (Presque) | Bernard Campan, Alexandre Jollien |
| Outstanding Female-Led Feature Film | Call Jane | Phyllis Nagy |
| Cinema Indigenized Outstanding Talent | Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On | Madison Thomas |
| French-Language Feature Film | Viking | Stéphane Lafleur |
| Inspiring Voices and Perspectives | To Kill a Tiger | Nisha Pahuja |
| Outstanding Short Film | Aska | Clara Milo |
| Outstanding Emerging Canadian Short Filmmaker | A Shore Away (L'Autre rive) | Gaëlle Graton |
| Outstanding Northern Ontario Short Film | Becoming Tom Thomson | Steve Belford |
Official selections
Gala Presentations
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice, Darling | Mary Nighy | Canada, United States | |
| Ashgrove | Jeremy LaLonde | Canada | |
| Beautiful Minds | Presque | Bernard Campan, Alexandre Jollien | France |
| Broker | 브로커 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | South Korea |
| Call Jane | Phyllis Nagy | United States | |
| North of Normal | Carly Stone | Canada | |
| The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile | Kathlyn Horan | United States | |
| The Swearing Jar | Lindsay Mackay | Canada | |
| Viking | Stéphane Lafleur | Canada | |
Special Presentations
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 752 Is Not a Number | Babak Payami | Canada | |
| Aftersun | Charlotte Wells | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Arlette | Mariloup Wolfe | Canada | |
| Black Ice | Hubert Davis | Canada | |
| Brother | Clement Virgo | Canada | |
| Confessions of a Hitman | Confessions | Luc Picard | Canada |
| Emily | Frances O'Connor | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Falcon Lake | Charlotte Le Bon | Canada, France | |
| Hunt | 헌트, Heonteu | Lee Jung-jae | South Korea |
| Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be | Le Petit Nicolas - Qu’est-ce qu’on attend pour être heureux ? | Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre | France |
| One Fine Morning | Un beau matin | Mia Hansen-Løve | France, Germany |
| Return to Seoul | Retour à Séoul | Davy Chou | France |
| Riceboy Sleeps | Anthony Shim | Canada | |
| Rosie | Gail Maurice | Canada | |
| Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | Sweden, Germany, France, United Kingdom, United States | |
| Until Branches Bend | Sophie Jarvis | Canada | |
| You Can Live Forever | Sarah Watts, Mark Slutsky | Canada | |
| You Will Remember Me | Tu te souviendras de moi | Éric Tessier | Canada |
Features Canada
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babysitter | Monia Chokri | Canada | |
| The Breach | Rodrigo Gudiño | ||
| The End of Sex | Sean Garrity | ||
| Happy FKN Sunshine | Derek Diorio | ||
| I Like Movies | Chandler Levack | ||
| In Broad Daylight | Au grand jour | Emmanuel Tardif | |
| Norbourg | Maxime Giroux | ||
| North of Albany | Au nord d'Albany | Marianne Farley | |
| Polaris | Kirsten Carthew | ||
| The Protector | Lenin M. Sivam | ||
| Relax, I'm from the Future | Luke Higginson | ||
| So Much Tenderness | Lina Rodriguez | ||
| Soft-Spoken Weepy Cult Child | Irina Lord | ||
| Something You Said Last Night | Luis De Filippis | ||
| Stay the Night | Renuka Jeyapalan | ||
| The Switch (La Switch) | Michel Kandinsky | ||
| Tenzin | Michael Leblanc, Josh Reichmann | ||
| That Kind of Summer | Un été comme ça | Denis Côté | |
| We're All in This Together | Katie Boland | ||
Documentaries
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ashgrove Experiment | Christopher Warre Smets | Canada | |
| Bernie Langille Wants to Know What Happened to Bernie Langille | Jackie Torrens | Canada | |
| A Bunch of Amateurs | Kim Hopkins | United Kingdom | |
| Doug and the Slugs and Me | Teresa Alfield | Canada | |
| Forest for the Trees | Rita Leistner | Canada | |
| Framing Agnes | Chase Joynt | Canada | |
| Love in the Time of Fentanyl | Colin Askey | Canada | |
| Million Dollar Pigeons | Gavin FitzGerald | Ireland | |
| Okay!: The ASD Band Film | Mark Bone | Canada | |
| Part of the Pack | Isabelle Groc, Mike McKinlay | Canada | |
| REVIVAL69: The Concert That Rocked the World | Ron Chapman | Canada | |
| Tiger 24 | Warren Pereira | United States | |
| To Kill a Tiger | Nisha Pahuja | Canada | |
World Cinema
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | Lukas Dhont | Belgium, Netherlands, France | |
| Echo | Mareike Wegener | Germany | |
| Final Cut | Coupez! | Michel Hazanavicius | France |
| A Fleeting Encounter | Une histoire provisoire | Romed Wyder | Luxembourg, Switzerland |
| Free Skate | Roope Olenius | Finland | |
| Grounds of Hope | À terre promise | Lionel Bernardin | France |
| Hard Shell, Soft Shell | Fragile | Emma Benestan | France |
| Holy Spider | Ali Abbasi | Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France | |
| Lost Illusions | Illusions perdues | Xavier Giannoli | France, Belgium |
| Metronom | Alexandru Belc | Romania, France | |
| Pacifiction | Tourment sur les îles | Albert Serra | France, Spain, Germany, Portugal |
| Peter von Kant | François Ozon | France | |
| Piggy | Cerdita | Carlota Pereda | Spain, France |
| Shadows | Carlo Lavagna | Italy | |
| Something in the Dirt | Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | United States | |
Cinema Indigenized
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bones of Crows | Marie Clements | Canada | |
| Ever Deadly | Chelsea McMullan, Tanya Tagaq | ||
| The Issue with Tissue | Michael Zelniker | ||
| The Klabona Keepers | Tamo Campos, Jasper Snow-Rosen | ||
| Stories of Decolonization: (De)Colonial Relations | Gladys Rowe, Teddy Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara | ||
Shorts
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex | Aisha Evelyna | Canada | |
| Anaconda | Joshua D. Amar | United States | |
| Aska | Clara Milo | Canada | |
| Beauty Queen | Myra Aquino | Philippines | |
| Becoming Tom Thomson | Steve Belford | Canada | |
| Belle River | Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau, Yannick Nolin | Canada | |
| Benevolent | Jared Marino | Canada | |
| The Benevolents | Les Bienveillants | Sarah Baril Gaudet | Canada |
| Best Wishes | Zhang Xiaoan | China | |
| The Big Red Bastard | Thomas Horvath | United States | |
| The Boy Who Couldn't Feel Pain | Eugen Merher | Germany | |
| Braided Together | Victoria Anderson-Gardner, Kyle Schmalenberg | Canada | |
| Bump | Maziyar Khatam | Canada | |
| Darkside | Spencer Zimmerman | Canada | |
| The Electricity in Me | Mat Sheldon | United Kingdom | |
| Eye for an Eye | Oeil pour oeil | Anthony Coveney | Canada |
| Familiar Stranger | Il Nonno che non c'è | Sara Furrer, Fabian Lütolf | Switzerland |
| Fictions | Alice Charlie Liu | Canada | |
| Fieldtrip | Soren Bendt, Paul Arion | United Kingdom | |
| First Semester of Second Grade | Chengqing Zhu | China | |
| Free Fall | Emmanuel Tenenbaum | France | |
| French Enough | Assez French | Alexis Normand | Canada |
| Gina | Kathryn Prescott | United States | |
| Grandmothers | Millefiore Clarkes | Canada | |
| A Great Big Terrible Dream | Maxine Lemieux | Canada | |
| Great Seeing You | Holly Pruner | Canada | |
| In the Dark | Bronson Allen | Canada | |
| An Invitation | Yeung Tung, Hao Zhao | China | |
| A Jesuit | Angus McMaster | Canada | |
| Killing Bagheera | Muschirf Shekh Zeyn | Syria | |
| Little Bird | Tee Schneider | Canada | |
| Living All of Life | Vivir todo la vida | Marlén Rios-Farjat | Mexico |
| Lockjaw | Tétanos | Alexandre Lefebvre | Canada |
| Menace | Joy Webster | Canada | |
| Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics | Terril Calder | Canada | |
| The Middle | Hannah Jovin, Adrian Morphy | Canada | |
| Moonshine | Sarah Dunlavey | Canada | |
| Mother of Invention | Holly Brace-Lavoie | Canada | |
| More Than Hair | Plus que des cheveux | Fitch Jean | Canada |
| N'xaxaitkw | Asia Youngman | Canada | |
| Nuisance Bear | Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden | Canada | |
| On Your Behalf | Ana Garcia Rico | United Kingdom | |
| Open House | Tom Sidi | United States | |
| Service | Palvelus | Mikko Makela | Finland |
| A Shore Away | L'Autre rive | Gaëlle Graton | Canada |
| Spiral | Kierre | Salla Sorri, Eva-Maria Koskinen | Finland |
| Tequila Sunset | Jinsul Song | United States | |
| There Are No Children Here | Shehrezade Mian | Canada | |
| What Flowers They Bloom | C. Hudson Hwang | Canada | |
| When She Was Good | Margarita Milne | United Kingdom | |
| Where the Grass Is Greener | Là où il fait bon vivre | Guillaume Massi-Hamel | Canada |
| White Rose | Rose blanche | Marilou Caravecchia-Pelletier | Canada |
References
- ↑ Wilson Chapman, "Cinefest Sudbury Announces Lineup for 2022 Festival". Variety, August 25, 2022.
- ↑ Mia Jensen, "Cinefest officials relish return to a normal film festival". Sudbury Star, August 25, 2022.
- 1 2 Heidi Ulrichsen, "Gallery: Cinéfest getting back to normal for 2022". Sudbury.com, August 25, 2022.
- ↑ Molly Frommer, "Cinefest Sudbury reveals more details about next month's festival". CTV Northern Ontario, August 26, 2022.
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