2022 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival Explained
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]
It was the last edition of the festival to be held under executive director Tammy Frick, who was appointed chief executive officer of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television in October 2022.[5]
Awards
| Award | Film | Filmmaker |
|---|
| Audience Choice, Feature Film (Live Screening) | Bones of Crows | Marie Clements |
| Audience Choice, Feature Film (Virtual) | Norbourg | |
| Audience Choice, Documentary (Live Screening) | | |
| Audience Choice, Documentary (Virtual) | | Mark Bone |
| Audience Choice, Short Film (Live Screening) | Spiral (Kierre) | Salla Sorri, Eva-Maria Koskinen |
| Audience Choice, Short Film (Virtual) | | 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 | | 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
Special Presentations
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|
| 752 Is Not a Number | | Canada |
| Aftersun | Charlotte Wells | United Kingdom, United States |
| Arlette | | Canada |
| Black Ice | | Canada |
| Brother | | Canada |
| Confessions of a Hitman | Confessions | | Canada |
| Emily | | United Kingdom, United States |
| Falcon Lake | | Canada, France |
| Hunt | 헌트, Heonteu | | South Korea |
| | Le Petit Nicolas - Qu’est-ce qu’on attend pour être heureux ? | Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre | France |
| One Fine Morning | Un beau matin | | France, Germany |
| Return to Seoul | Retour à Séoul | | France |
| Riceboy Sleeps | | Canada |
| Rosie | | Canada |
| Triangle of Sadness | | Sweden, Germany, France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Until Branches Bend | | Canada |
| You Can Live Forever | Sarah Watts, Mark Slutsky | Canada |
| You Will Remember Me | Tu te souviendras de moi | | Canada | |
Features Canada
Documentaries
World Cinema
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|
| Close | | Belgium, Netherlands, France |
| Echo | Mareike Wegener | Germany |
| Final Cut | Coupez! | | France |
| A Fleeting Encounter | Une histoire provisoire | | 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 | | Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France |
| Lost Illusions | Illusions perdues | | France, Belgium |
| Metronom | Alexandru Belc | Romania, France |
| Pacifiction | Tourment sur les îles | | France, Spain, Germany, Portugal |
| Peter von Kant | | France |
| Piggy | Cerdita | | Spain, France |
| Shadows | Carlo Lavagna | Italy |
| Something in the Dirt | | United States | |
Cinema Indigenized
Shorts
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|
| Alex | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 |
| | | Canada |
| The Middle | Hannah Jovin, Adrian Morphy | Canada |
| Moonshine | Sarah Dunlavey | Canada |
| Mother of Invention | | Canada |
| More Than Hair | Plus que des cheveux | Fitch Jean | Canada |
| N'xaxaitkw | | 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 | |
Notes and 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.
- 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.
- Etan Vlessing, "Tammy Frick Named CEO of Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television". The Hollywood Reporter, October 5, 2022.
