2021 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival

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| opening = All My Puny Sorrows by Michael McGowan

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| location = Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

| founded = 1989

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| date = September 18–26, 2021

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| chronology = Cinéfest

| main = Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival

| previous = 2020

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The 2021 edition of the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, the 33rd edition in the event's history, was held from September 18 to 26, 2021 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

The 2021 festival was presented under a hybrid model due to the COVID-19 pandemic with both in-person and online screenings.Colleen Romaniuk, [https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/08/27/cinfest-sudbury-unveils-its-2021-program-will-follow-a-hybrid-format.html "Cinéfest Sudbury unveils its 2021 program; will follow a hybrid format"]. Toronto Star, August 27, 2021. The festival also introduced a number of juried film awards, following several years of only presenting audience choice-based awards; the new awards program includes cash prizes for Outstanding Canadian Feature, Outstanding International Feature, Outstanding Female-Led Feature, Cinema Indigenized Outstanding Talent, French-Language Feature, Inspiring Voices and Perspectives Feature, Outstanding Short, Outstanding Emerging Canadian Short, and Outstanding Animated Short.[https://www.thesudburystar.com/entertainment/local-arts/sudburys-cinefest-unveils-new-awards-and-major-cash-prizes "Sudbury's Cinefest unveils new awards and major cash prizes"]. Sudbury Star, August 8, 2021.

Awards

Award ! Film ! Filmmaker
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Audience Choice, Feature Film	The Vinland Club (Le Club Vinland)	Benoît Pilon
Audience Choice, Feature Film Runner Up	Mass	Fran Kranz
Audience Choice, Documentary	Hell or Clean Water	Cody Westman
Audience Choice, Documentary Runner Up	Julia	Julie Cohen, Betsy West
Audience Choice, Short Film	The Robbery	Nika Belianina
Audience Choice, Short Film Runner Up	Jeep Boys	Alec Pronovost
Outstanding Canadian Feature	All My Puny Sorrows	Michael McGowanDonald Macdonald, [https://www.thesudburystar.com/entertainment/local-arts/sudbury-entertainment-briefs-new-novel-cinefest-awards "Sudbury entertainment briefs: New novel; Cinefest awards"]. Sudbury Star, October 3, 2021.
Outstanding International Feature	Official Competition (Competencia oficial)	Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn
Outstanding Female-Led Feature Film	Mothering Sunday	Eva Husson
Cinema Indigenized Outstanding Talent	Wildhood	Bretten Hannam
French-Language Feature Film	Underground (Souterrain)	Sophie Dupuis
rowspan=2\| Inspiring Voices and Perspectives	Dear Future Children	Franz Böhm
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy	Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Outstanding Short Film	Pipo and Blind Love (Pipo et l’amour aveugle)	Hugo Le Gourrierec
Outstanding Emerging Canadian Short Filmmaker	Talk	Trivelle Simpson
Outstanding Animated Short	Itchy the Camel: Rakes	Anders Beer, PH Dallair

Official selections

=Gala Presentations=

class="wikitable" width=100% !scope="col" width="32%"\| English title !scope="col" width="28%"\| Original title !scope="col" width="20%"\| Director(s) !scope="col" width="20%"\| Production country
colspan=2\| All My Puny Sorrows	Michael McGowan	Canada
colspan=2\| The Card Counter	Paul Schrader	United States
colspan=2\| The Desperate Hour	Phillip Noyce	Canada, United States
colspan=2\| The Electrical Life of Louis Wain	Will Sharpe	United Kingdom
colspan=2\| Falling for Figaro	Ben Lewin	Australia, United Kingdom
colspan=2\| Juniper	Matthew J. Saville	New Zealand
colspan=2\| Night Raiders	Danis Goulet	Canada, New Zealand
Official Competition	Competencia oficial	Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn	Spain, Argentina
One Second	一秒钟	Zhang Yimou	China
The Vinland Club	Le Club Vinland	Benoît Pilon	Canada

=Special Presentations=

class="wikitable" width=100% !scope="col" width="32%"\| English title !scope="col" width="28%"\| Original title !scope="col" width="20%"\| Director(s) !scope="col" width="20%"\| Production country
colspan=2\| Best Sellers	Lina Roessler	Canada, United States
colspan=2\| Charlotte	Eric Warin, Tahir Rana	Canada, France, Belgium
colspan=2\| Dear Future Children	Franz Böhm	Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Delicious	Délicieux	Éric Besnard	Belgium, France
Everything Went Fine	Tout s'est bien passé	François Ozon	France
colspan=2\| Jockey	Clint Bentley	United States
colspan=2\| Julia	Julie Cohen and Betsy West	United States
colspan=2\| Maria Chapdelaine	Sébastien Pilote	Canada
colspan=2\| The Middle Man	Bent Hamer	Canada, Denmark, Germany, Norway
colspan=2\| Mothering Sunday	Eva Husson	United Kingdom
colspan=2\| Ninjababy	Yngvild Sve Flikke	Norway
Paris, 13th District	Les Olympiades	Jacques Audiard	France
The Perfect Victim	La victime parfaite	Monic Néron, Émilie Perreault	Canada
colspan=2\| Petite Maman	Céline Sciamma	France
colspan=2\| Sam	Yan England	Canada
Underground	Souterrain	Sophie Dupuis	Canada
The Worst Person in the World	Verdens verste menneske	Joachim Trier	Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden

=Features Canada=

class="wikitable" width=100% !scope="col" width="32%"\| English title !scope="col" width="28%"\| Original title !scope="col" width="20%"\| Director(s) !scope="col" width="20%"\| Production country
colspan=2\| All-in Madonna	Arnold Lim	Canada
colspan=2\| The Boathouse	Hannah Cheesman	Canada
Drunken Birds	Les Oiseaux ivres	Ivan Grbovic	Canada, Mexico
Heirdoms	Soumissions	Emmanuel Tardif	Canada
colspan=2\| Learn to Swim	Thyrone Tommy	Canada
colspan=2\| Motherly	Craig David Wallace	Canada
The Noise of Engines	Le Bruit des moteurs	Philippe Grégoire	Canada
Old Buddies	Les Vieux chums	Claude Gagnon	Canada
colspan=2\| Quickening	Haya Waseem	Canada
colspan=2\| See for Me	Randall Okita	Canada
Shadowtown	Skuggahverfið	Karolina Lewicka, Jon Gustafsson	Canada, Iceland
colspan=2\| Tanglewood	Ben Bruhmuller	Canada
The White Fortress	Tabija	Igor Drljaca	Canada, Bosnia
Without Havana	Sin la Habana	Kaveh Nabatian	Canada
colspan=2\| Woman in Car	Vanya Rose	Canada

=Documentaries=

class="wikitable" width=100% !scope="col" width="32%"\| English title !scope="col" width="28%"\| Original title !scope="col" width="20%"\| Director(s) !scope="col" width="20%"\| Production country
colspan=2\| Albedo	Stephen A. Smith	Canada
colspan=2\| Artificial Immortality	Ann Shin	Canada
Big Giant Wave	Comme une vague	Marie-Julie Dallaire	Canada
colspan=2\| Flee	Jonas Poher Rasmussen	Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden
colspan=2\| The Gig Is Up	Shannon Walsh	Canada
colspan=2\| Hell or Clean Water	Cody Westman	Canada
colspan=2\| My Tree	Jason Sherman	Canada
colspan=2\| Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché	Celeste Bell, Paul Sng	United Kingdom
colspan=2\| Sisters With Transistors	Lisa Rovner	United States
colspan=2\| Someone Like Me	Steve J. Adams, Sean Horlor	Canada

=World Cinema=

class="wikitable" width=100% !scope="col" width="32%"\| English title !scope="col" width="28%"\| Original title !scope="col" width="20%"\| Director(s) !scope="col" width="20%"\| Production country
colspan=2\| Arthur Rambo	Laurent Cantet	France
The Big Hit	Un triomphe	Emmanuel Courcol	France
colspan=2\| Broken Diamonds	Peter Sattler	United States
Compartment No. 6	Hytti nro 6	Juho Kuosmanen	Finland, Estonia, Germany, Russia
A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon	Ça tourne à Saint-Pierre et Miquelon	Christian Monnier	France
colspan=2\| Ma Belle, My Beauty	Marion Hill	United States
colspan=2\| Memory Box	Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige	France, Lebanon, Canada, Qatar
colspan=2\| Nowhere Special	Uberto Pasolini	Italy, France
Wife of a Spy	スパイの妻, Supai no tsuma	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Japan

=Cinema Indigenized=

class="wikitable" width=100% !scope="col" width="32%"\| English title !scope="col" width="28%"\| Original title !scope="col" width="20%"\| Director(s) !scope="col" width="20%"\| Production country
colspan=2\| Bootlegger	Caroline Monnet	Canada
colspan=2\| One of Ours	Yasmine Mathurin	Canada
colspan=2\| Portraits from a Fire	Trevor Mack	Canada
colspan=2\| Run Woman Run	Zoe Leigh Hopkins	Canada
colspan=2\| Wildhood	Bretten Hannam	Canada
colspan=2\| Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace	Heather Hatch	Canada

=In Full View: Crisis, Conflict, Conscience=

class="wikitable" width=100%

!scope="col" width="32%"| English title

!scope="col" width="28%"| Original title

!scope="col" width="20%"| Director(s)

!scope="col" width="20%"| Production country

colspan=2| Mass

Fran Kranz

United States

colspan=2| Memoria

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Thailand, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, China

=Stir Crazy Frights and Fantasies=

class="wikitable" width=100% !scope="col" width="32%"\| English title !scope="col" width="28%"\| Original title !scope="col" width="20%"\| Director(s) !scope="col" width="20%"\| Production country
colspan=2\| Cyst	Tyler Russell	United States
colspan=2\| Friday the 13th	Sean S. Cunningham	United States
colspan=2\| Kicking Blood	Blaine Thurier	Canada
colspan=2\| Titane	Julia Ducournau	France

=Festival Favourites=

class="wikitable" width=100% !scope="col" width="32%"\| English title !scope="col" width="28%"\| Original title !scope="col" width="20%"\| Director(s) !scope="col" width="20%"\| Production country
colspan=2\| Brain Freeze	Julien Knafo	Canada
colspan=2\| Drunk Bus	John Carlucci, Brandon LaGanke	United States
colspan=2\| El Father Plays Himself	Mo Scarpelli	Venezuela, United Kingdom, Italy, United States
colspan=2\| Fanny: The Right to Rock	Bobbi Jo Hart	Canada
colspan=2\| Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy	Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers	Canada
colspan=2\| Listen	Ana Rocha de Sousa	Portugal

=Shorts=

class="wikitable" width=100% !scope="col" width="32%"\| English title !scope="col" width="28%"\| Original title !scope="col" width="20%"\| Director(s) !scope="col" width="20%"\| Production country
Bad Seeds	Mauvaises herbes	Claude Cloutier	Canada
colspan=2\| Bleach	Mattias Graham	Canada
colspan=2\| Evan's Drum	Ossie Michelin	Canada
colspan=2\| Frimas	Marianne Farley	Canada
The Frost	Le Froid	Natalia Duguay	Canada
colspan=2\| The Hangman at Home	Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot	Canada, Denmark, France
colspan=2\| Into Light	Sheona McDonald	Canada
colspan=2\| Itchy the Camel: Rakes	Anders Beer, PH Dallair	Canada
colspan=2\| Jeep Boys	Alec Pronovost	Canada
colspan=2\| Marked	Matthew Avery Berg	United States
Pipo and Blind Love	Pipo et l’amour aveugle	Hugo Le Gourrierec	France
colspan=2\| The Lost Seahorse	Benjamin Fieschi-Rose	Canada
colspan=2\| The Robbery	Nika Belianina	Canada
colspan=2\| Stereotype	Nahyun Beak, Dahyun Beak	South Korea, United States
colspan=2\| Talk	Trivelle Simpson	Canada
colspan=2\| Then Sings My Soul	Susan Rodgers	Canada
colspan=2\| An Uninvited Guest	Richard B. Pierre	Canada

References

Cinefest

Category:Culture of Greater Sudbury

Category:September 2021 in Canada