2024 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival

The 2024 edition of the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, the 36th edition in the event's history, was held from September 14 to 22, 2024 in Sudbury, Ontario.[1] The first titles in the program were announced on August 13, 2024,[2] with the full program announced on August 22.[3]

2024 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival
Opening filmThe Invisibles by Andrew Currie
Closing filmBookworm by Ant Timpson
LocationSudbury, Ontario, Canada
Founded1989
Festival dateSeptember 14–22, 2024
Websitecinefest.com
Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival
2025

In part as a response to a minor controversy earlier in the year, when the Sudbury Wolves limited ticket sales to North Bay residents during the 2023–24 OHL season playoff semifinals against the North Bay Battalion,[4] Cinéfest executive director Patrick O'Hearn announced that the festival was "putting a stop to this", and would offer a special $45 "North Bay Day" pass covering admission to the four North Bay-filmed titles in the festival lineup (Drive Back Home, We Forgot to Break Up, All the Lost Ones and Seeds).[5]

On September 7, the festival announced changes to the final schedule, pulling the previously announced Lucky Star and adding three other titles.[6]

Awards

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Award winners were announced on September 26.[7]

Award Film Filmmaker
Audience Choice, Feature Film The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte Cristo) Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de La Patellière
Audience Choice, Feature Film Runner-Up All Stirred Up! (Tous toqués!) Manon Briand
Audience Choice, Documentary Porcelain War Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev
Audience Choice, Documentary Runner Up Never Look Away Lucy Lawless
Audience Choice, Short Film Karatéka Florence Fauquet
Audience Choice, Short Film Runner Up Save Solace Matt Steeves
Outstanding Canadian Feature The Mother and the Bear Johnny Ma
Outstanding International Feature My Favourite Cake (Keyk-e mahboob-e man) Maryam Moqadam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Outstanding Female-Led Feature Film Bird Andrea Arnold
Cinema Indigenized Outstanding Talent Red Fever Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge
French-Language Feature Film Blue Sky Jo (La petite et le vieux) Patrice Sauvé
Inspiring Voices and Perspectives Black Box Diaries Shiori Itō
Outstanding Short Film Thirteenth Night Xiaowen Song
Outstanding Animated Short Film Tennis, Oranges Sean Pecknold
Outstanding Northern Ontario Short Film Ephemera Cici Clancy
CTV Best in Shorts, Open Category First Place
CTV Best in Shorts, Open Category Second Place The Stain MJ Dionne
CTV Best in Shorts, Northern Flicks Save Solace Matthew Steeves

Official selections

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Gala Presentations

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
1995 Ricardo Trogi Canada
Bob Trevino Likes It Tracie Laymon United States
Bookworm Ant Timpson New Zealand
The Count of Monte Cristo Le Comte de Monte Cristo Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de La Patellière France
Drive Back Home Michael Clowater Canada
The Invisibles Andrew Currie Canada
The Mother and the Bear Johnny Ma Canada, Chile
The Outrun Nora Fingscheidt United Kingdom, Germanh
Young Werther José Lourenço Canada

Special Presentations

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
40 Acres R. T. Thorne Canada
Anora Sean Baker United States
The Apprentice Ali Abbasi Canada, Denmark, Ireland, United States
Bird Andrea Arnold United Kingdom
Blue Sky Jo La petite et le vieux Patrice Sauvé Canada
Can I Get a Witness? Ann Marie Fleming Canada
Darkest Miriam Naomi Jaye Canada
Disco's Revenge Omar Majeed, Peter Mishara Canada
My Favourite Cake Keyk-e mahboob-e man Maryam Moqadam, Behtash Sanaeeha Iran, France, Sweden, Germany
Neon Dreaming Rêver en néon Marie-Claire Marcotte Canada
Never Look Away Lucy Lawless New Zealand
Rumours Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson Canada, Germany
Samia Yasemin Şamdereli Italy, Germany, Belgium
Shepherds Berger Sophie Deraspe Canada
Sisters and Neighbors! Nos belles-sœurs René Richard Cyr Canada
The Substance Coralie Fargeat United Kingdom, United States, France
Treasure Julia von Heinz Germany, France, Poland

Features Canada

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Ababooned Ababouiné André Forcier Canada
All Stirred Up! Tous toqués! Manon Briand Canada
All the Lost Ones Mackenzie Donaldson Canada
Bonjour Tristesse Durga Chew-Bose Canada, Germany
Dada Aaron Poole Canada
Die Alone Lowell Dean Canada
His Father's Son Meelad Moaphi Canada
Hotel Silence Hôtel Silence Léa Pool Canada
Hunting Daze Jour de chasse Annick Blanc Canada
Paying for It Sook-Yin Lee Canada
Sharp Corner Jason Buxton Canada, Ireland
Shook Amar Wala Canada
A Thousand Cuts Jake Horowitz Canada
Universal Language Une langue universelle Matthew Rankin Canada
We Forgot to Break Up Karen Knox Canada
Who by Fire Comme le feu Philippe Lesage Canada
You Are Not Alone Vous n'êtes pas seuls Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien Canada

Cana-Doc

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
7 Beats per Minute Yuqi Kang Canada
Curl Power Josephine Anderson Canada
The Hobby Simon Ennis Canada
Intercepted Oksana Karpovych Canada, France, Ukraine
Kina & Yuk Kina et Yuk Guillaume Maidatchevsky France, Canada, Italy

World Cinema

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Crossing Levan Akin Sweden, Denmark, France, Turkey, Georgia
A Different Man Aaron Schimberg United States
Flow Straume Gints Zilbalodis Latvia, France, Belgium
The Girl with the Needle Pigen med nålen Magnus von Horn Denmark, Poland, Sweden
Good One India Donaldson United States
In the Summers Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio United States, Mexico
Mamifera Liliana Torres Spain
Memoir of a Snail Adam Elliot Australia
Misericordia Miséricorde Alain Guiraudie France, Spain, Portugal
The Missile Ohjus Miia Tervo Finland, Estonia
My First Film Zia Anger United States
Reinas Klaudia Reynicke Switzerland, Peru
Rent Free Fernando Andrés United States
The Second Act Le Deuxième acte Quentin Dupieux France
To a Land Unknown Mahdi Fleifel United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestine
Victoria Must Go Victoria må dø Gunnbjörg Gunnarsdóttir Norway

World Doc

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Black Box Diaries Shiori Itō United States, United Kingdom, Japan
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found Raoul Peck France
Mediha Hasan Oswald United States, Iraq
Porcelain War Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev United States, Australia, Ukraine
Stories and Pictures Joanna Rudnick United States
Union Stephen Maing, Brett Story United States

In Full View: Crisis, Conflict, Conscience

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
A House Is Not a Disco Brian J. Smith United States
Who Do I Belong To Mé el Aïn Meryam Joobeur Tunisia, France, Canada, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

Cinema Indigenized (Nishnaabek Dbaajmawaat)

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Aberdeen Ryan Cooper, Eva Thomas Canada
Red Fever Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge Canada
Seeds Kaniehtiio Horn Canada

Cinema 9 Prime Time

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Home Free Avi Federgreen Canada
Morningside Ron Dias Canada

Short Circuit

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English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Anywhere Nooj Goji Evelyn Pakinewatik Canada
Le Charade Erika Totoro United States
Curveball Igor Petrov Canada
Deadpan Aidan Cheeatow Canada
The End of Love Yanwenjun Liu China
Ephemera Cici Clancy Canada
Karatéka Florence Fauquet France
The Painted Night Ben Bruhmuller Canada
Rapture Le Ravissement Camille Trudel Canada
Save Solace Matthew Steeves Canada
Simp Gabriel Carnick United States
Summer Love Virgile Ratelle Canada
Tennis, Oranges Sean Pecknold United States
Thirteenth Night Xiaowen Song China
Unclean Simon Chouinard Canada
Wifi Ted Sakowsky Canada
Zoé Rémi St-Michel Canada

CTV Best in Shorts

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The festival's dedicated competition for amateur short filmmakers from Northern Ontario.[8]

English title Original title Director(s) Community
Cupid's Assist Richard Barlow Sudbury
Ephemera Cici Clancy Sudbury
How to Eat a Rainbow Tom Reid Sudbury
Lucy's Birthday Liam Siebolt North Bay
The Painted Knight Ben Bruhmuller Sudbury
Save Solace Matthew Steeves Temagami
The Snipers Kelly Saxberg Thunder Bay
The Stain MJ Dionne Sudbury

References

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