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.Wilson Chapman, "Cinefest Sudbury Announces Lineup for 2022 Festival". Variety, August 25, 2022. The lineup was announced on August 25.Mia Jensen, "Cinefest officials relish return to a normal film festival". Sudbury Star, August 25, 2022.
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,Heidi Ulrichsen, "Gallery: Cinéfest getting back to normal for 2022". Sudbury.com, August 25, 2022. although a selection of films was still offered for home viewing on a virtual platform.Molly Frommer, "Cinefest Sudbury reveals more details about next month's festival". CTV Northern Ontario, August 26, 2022. Organizers indicated that they received an all-time record number of film submissions for inclusion in the festival.
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.Etan Vlessing, "Tammy Frick Named CEO of Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television". The Hollywood Reporter, October 5, 2022.
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
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