Opening film | Rose by Niels Arden Oplev |
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Closing film | Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person by Ariane Louis-Seize |
Location | Sudbury, Ontario, Canada |
Founded | 1989 |
Festival date | September 16–24, 2023 |
Website | cinefest |
The 2023 edition of the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, the 35th edition in the event's history, took place from September 16 to 24, 2023 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.[1]
The 2023 festival returned to a fully in-person model, following the partially-online hybrid festivals that took place from 2020 to 2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] Following reduced attendance during the pandemic, the 2023 festival saw such a renewed surge of audience interest that its website briefly crashed on the Thursday before the festival opening.[3]
Awards
Award winners were announced on September 28.[4]
Award | Film | Filmmaker |
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Audience Choice, Feature Film | The Old Oak | Ken Loach |
Audience Choice, Feature Film Runner-Up | Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'un chute) | Justine Triet |
Audience Choice, Documentary | Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe | Robert McCallum |
Audience Choice, Documentary Runner Up | Swan Song | Chelsea McMullan |
Audience Choice, Short Film | Death to the Bikini! (À mort le bikini!) | Justine Gauthier |
Audience Choice, Short Film Runner Up | Lingering Pieces | Jacqueline Lamb |
Outstanding Canadian Feature | Seagrass | Meredith Hama-Brown |
Outstanding International Feature | The Royal Hotel | Kitty Green |
Outstanding Female-Led Feature Film | Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Savvusanna sõsarad) | Anna Hints |
Cinema Indigenized Outstanding Talent | Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun | Banchi Hanuse |
French-Language Feature Film | Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant) | Ariane Louis-Seize |
Inspiring Voices and Perspectives | Close to You | Dominic Savage |
Outstanding Short Film | I Promise You Paradise (Paradis) | Morad Mostafa |
Outstanding Animated Short Film | Return to Hairy Hill (Retour à Hairy Hill) | Daniel Gies |
Outstanding Northern Ontario Short Film | Walter's Room | Austin Lindsay |
Official selections
Gala Presentations
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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The Boy in the Woods | Rebecca Snow | Canada | |
La Chimera | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, France, Switzerland | |
Close to You | Dominic Savage | Canada, United Kingdom | |
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant | Ariane Louis-Seize | Canada |
My Mother's Men | Les Hommes de ma mère | Anik Jean | Canada |
The Old Oak | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, France, Belgium | |
Swan Song | Chelsea McMullan | Canada | |
Sweetland | Christian Sparkes | Canada | |
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | Hettie Macdonald | United Kingdom |
Special Presentations
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'un chute | Justine Triet | France |
Days of Happiness | Les Jours heureux | Chloé Robichaud | Canada |
A Difficult Year | Une année difficile | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | France |
Fitting In | Molly McGlynn | Canada | |
The King Tide | Christian Sparkes | Canada | |
Monster | Kaibutsu | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan |
Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe | Robert McCallum | Canada | |
My Animal | Jacqueline Castel | Canada | |
One Summer | Le Temps d'un été | Louise Archambault | Canada |
Rose | Niels Arden Oplev | Denmark, France | |
Perfect Days | Wim Wenders | Japan, Germany | |
The Pot-au-Feu | La Passion de Dodin Bouffant | Tran Anh Hung | France |
The Promised Land | Bastarden | Nikolaj Arcel | Denmark |
The Royal Hotel | Kitty Green | Australia | |
Seven Veils | Atom Egoyan | Canada | |
The Teachers' Lounge | Das Lehrerzimmer | Ilker Çatak | Germany |
They Shot the Piano Player | Dispararon al pianista | Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal | Spain, France, Netherlands |
Warrior Strong | Shane Belcourt | Canada |
Features Canada
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Backspot | D. W. Waterson | Canada | |
Better Days | Joan Carr-Wiggin | Canada | |
Daniel's Gotta Die | Jeremy Lalonde | Canada | |
Echo to Delta | Écho à Delta | Patrick Boivin | Canada |
Hailey Rose | Sandi Somers | Canada | |
I Used to Be Funny | Ally Pankiw | Canada | |
I Will Not Starve | Non morirò di fame | Umberto Spinazzola | Canada, Italy |
Little Jesus | Petit Jésus | Julien Rigoulot | Canada, France |
Niagara | Guillaume Lambert | Canada | |
Orah | Lonzo Nzekwe | Canada | |
A Respectable Woman | Une femme respectable | Bernard Émond | Canada |
Richelieu | Pier-Philippe Chevigny | Canada | |
Rodeo | Rodéo | Joëlle Desjardins Paquette | Canada |
Seagrass | Meredith Hama-Brown | Canada | |
Suze | Dane Clark, Linsey Stewart | Canada | |
Who's Yer Father? | Jeremy Larter | Canada |
Documentaries
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Adaptation | Jake Thomas | Canada | |
Another Body | Sophie Compton, Reuben Hamlyn | United States | |
The Last Stop: Canada's Lost Locomotive | Kaio Kathriner | Canada | |
The Lebanese Burger Mafia | Omar Mouallem | Canada | |
On the Adamant | Sur l'Adamant | Nicolas Philibert | France, Japan |
Rule of Two Walls | David Gutnik | Ukraine | |
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood | Savvusanna sõsarad | Anna Hints | Estonia, France, Iceland |
Subterranean | Francois-Xavier "Fix" De Ruydts | Canada | |
Total Trust | Jialing Zhang | Germany, Netherlands | |
We Dare to Dream | Waad al-Kateab | United Kingdom |
World Cinema
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Aliens Abducted My Parents (And Now I Feel Kind of Left Out) | Jake Van Wagoner | United States | |
The Book of Solutions | Le Livre des solutions | Michel Gondry | France |
The Crossing | La Traversée | Florence Miailhe | France, Czech Republic, Germany |
Fallen Leaves | Kuolleet lehdet | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland, Germany |
Fathers and Mothers | Fædre & mødre | Paprika Steen | Denmark |
How to Have Sex | Molly Manning Walker | United Kingdom | |
Kidnapped | Rapito | Marco Bellocchio | Italy, France, Germany |
Minore | Konstantinos Koutsoliotas | United Kingdom, Greece | |
The Persian Version | Maryam Keshavarz | United States | |
Raging Grace | Paris Zarcilla | United Kingdom | |
Robot Dreams | Pablo Berger | Spain, France | |
Sleep | 잠 | Jason Yu | South Korea |
Sometimes I Think About Dying | Rachel Lambert | United States | |
Vincent Must Die | Vincent doit mourir | Stéphan Castang | France, Belgium |
In Full View: Crisis, Conflict, Conscience
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Irena's Vow | Louise Archambault | Canada | |
Praying for Armageddon | Tonje Hessen Schei, Michael Rowley | Norway | |
Red Rooms | Les Chambres rouges | Pascal Plante | Canada |
Cinema Indigenized (Nishnaabek Dbaajmawaat)
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun | Banchi Hanuse | Canada | |
Broken Angel | MaaShwaKan MaNiTo | Jules Arita Koostachin | Canada |
Café Daughter | Shelley Niro | Canada | |
Frybread Face and Me | Billy Luther | United States | |
Hey, Viktor! | Cody Lightning | Canada |
Cinema 9 Prime Time
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Daughter of the Sun | Ryan Ward | Canada | |
Leilani's Fortune | Loveleen Kaur | Canada | |
Satan Wants You | Sean Horlor, Steve J. Adams | Canada |
Late Night Frights
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Purgatory Jack | Brett M. Butler, Jason G. Butler | Canada |
Regular short film program
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Aves | Eli Snyder | United States | |
Awakening: The First Day | Jos Diaz Contreras, Santiago Carrasquilla | United States | |
Bang Bang | Piotr Skowronski | Canada | |
Boat People | Thao Lam, Kjell Boersma | Canada | |
Death to the Bikini! | À mort le bikini! | Justine Gauthier | Canada |
Echoes | Échos | Sophie B. Jacque | Canada |
The Girl with the Red Beret | Janet Perlman | Canada | |
Harvey | Janice Nadeau | Canada | |
Hello to Me in 100 Years | Wu-Ching Chang | Taiwan | |
I Promise You Paradise | Paradis | Morad Mostafa | France, Egypt, Qatar |
IF | Didier Charette | Canada | |
Invincible | Vincent René-Lortie | Canada | |
The Late Set | Bren Patrick Burke | Canada | |
Lingering Pieces | Jacqueline Lamb | Canada | |
Mrs. Iran's Husband | Marjan Khosravi | Iran | |
Our Males and Females | Ahmad Alyaseer | Jordan | |
Portrait of a Cowboy | Devon Wycoff | United States | |
Return to Hairy Hill | Retour à Hairy Hill | Daniel Gies | Canada |
The Riley Sisters | Julia Jackman | United Kingdom | |
Stripper | Anthony Sneed | Canada | |
Two Apples | Bahram Javahery | Canada | |
Until You Die | Jusqu’à ce que tu meures | Florence Lafond | Canada |
Walter's Room | Austin Lindsay | Canada | |
Yellow Dove Aftermath | Rony A. Abovitz | United States | |
Zeb's Spider | Sophie Jarvis | Canada |
CTV Best in Shorts
The festival's dedicated competition for amateur short filmmakers from Northeastern Ontario.[5]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Community |
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A Bunch of Junk | Ian Johnson | Lively | |
Go On and Bleed | J. Christian Hamilton | Sudbury | |
I Know I Can Fly | Matt Steeves | Temagami | |
Jerry Rigged | Derek Diorio | North Bay | |
L'Orbit | Thomas Walton | Timmins | |
My Authentic Self (A Journey with Art and Autism) | Stéphane Ostrander | Dowling | |
Walter’s Room | Austin Lindsay | North Bay | |
When Little Johnny Sleeps | Sabrina Wilson | Sudbury |
References
- ↑ Clement Goh, "Cinéfest Sudbury marks 35 years with focus on comedy and vampires". CBC Northern Ontario, August 23, 2023.
- ↑ "Cinéfest 2023 returning to fully in-person format". Sudbury.com, July 28, 2023.
- ↑ Jim Moodie, "Sudbury's Cinefest festival experiencing a surge of interest". Sudbury Star, September 15, 2023.
- ↑ "Cinéfest reveals 2023 award winners". Sudbury.com, September 28, 2023.
- ↑ "Northern Ont. filmmakers showcasing shorts at Cinéfest". Sudbury.com, September 14, 2023.
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