2022 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival

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| name = 2022 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival

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| opening = Ashgrove by Jeremy LaLonde

| closing = Beautiful Minds (Presque) by Bernard Campan and Alexandre Jollien

| location = Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

| founded = 1989

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| date = September 17–25, 2022

| website = {{URL|cinefest.com}}

| chronology = Cinéfest

| main = Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival

| previous = 2021

| next = 2023

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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, [https://variety.com/2022/film/news/cinefest-sudbury-2022-lineup-1235350609/ "Cinefest Sudbury Announces Lineup for 2022 Festival"]. Variety, August 25, 2022. The lineup was announced on August 25.Mia Jensen, [https://www.thesudburystar.com/entertainment/local-arts/cinefest-officials-relish-return-to-a-normal-film-festival "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, [https://www.sudbury.com/lifestyle/gallery-cinefest-getting-back-to-normal-for-2022-5740277 "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, [https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/cinefest-sudbury-reveals-more-details-about-next-month-s-festival-1.6042709 "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, [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/tammy-frick-named-ceo-of-academy-of-canadian-cinema-television-1235232165/ "Tammy Frick Named CEO of Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television"]. The Hollywood Reporter, October 5, 2022.

Awards

Award ! Film ! Filmmaker
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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=

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\| Alice, Darling	Mary Nighy	Canada, United States
colspan=2\| Ashgrove	Jeremy LaLonde	Canada
Beautiful Minds	Presque	Bernard Campan, Alexandre Jollien	France
Broker	브로커	Hirokazu Kore-eda	South Korea
colspan=2\| Call Jane	Phyllis Nagy	United States
colspan=2\| North of Normal	Carly Stone	Canada
colspan=2\| The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile	Kathlyn Horan	United States
colspan=2\| The Swearing Jar	Lindsay Mackay	Canada
colspan=2\| Viking	Stéphane Lafleur	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\| 752 Is Not a Number	Babak Payami	Canada
colspan=2\| Aftersun	Charlotte Wells	United Kingdom, United States
colspan=2\| Arlette	Mariloup Wolfe	Canada
colspan=2\| Black Ice	Hubert Davis	Canada
colspan=2\| Brother	Clement Virgo	Canada
Confessions of a Hitman	Confessions	Luc Picard	Canada
colspan=2\| Emily	Frances O'Connor	United Kingdom, United States
colspan=2\| 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
colspan=2\| Riceboy Sleeps	Anthony Shim	Canada
colspan=2\| Rosie	Gail Maurice	Canada
colspan=2\| Triangle of Sadness	Ruben Östlund	Sweden, Germany, France, United Kingdom, United States
colspan=2\| Until Branches Bend	Sophie Jarvis	Canada
colspan=2\| You Can Live Forever	Sarah Watts, Mark Slutsky	Canada
You Will Remember Me	Tu te souviendras de moi	Éric Tessier	Canada

=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\| Babysitter	Monia Chokri	rowspan=19\| Canada
colspan=2\| The Breach	Rodrigo Gudiño
colspan=2\| The End of Sex	Sean Garrity
colspan=2\| Happy FKN Sunshine	Derek Diorio
colspan=2\| I Like Movies	Chandler Levack
In Broad Daylight	Au grand jour	Emmanuel Tardif
colspan=2\| Norbourg	Maxime Giroux
North of Albany	Au nord d'Albany	Marianne Farley
colspan=2\| Polaris	Kirsten Carthew
colspan=2\| The Protector	Lenin M. Sivam
colspan=2\| Relax, I'm from the Future	Luke Higginson
colspan=2\| So Much Tenderness	Lina Rodriguez
colspan=2\| Soft-Spoken Weepy Cult Child	Irina Lord
colspan=2\| Something You Said Last Night	Luis De Filippis
colspan=2\| Stay the Night	Renuka Jeyapalan
colspan=2\| The Switch (La Switch)	Michel Kandinsky
colspan=2\| Tenzin	Michael Leblanc, Josh Reichmann
That Kind of Summer	Un été comme ça	Denis Côté
colspan=2\| We're All in This Together	Katie Boland

=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\| The Ashgrove Experiment	Christopher Warre Smets	Canada
colspan=2\| Bernie Langille Wants to Know What Happened to Bernie Langille	Jackie Torrens	Canada
colspan=2\| A Bunch of Amateurs	Kim Hopkins	United Kingdom
colspan=2\| Doug and the Slugs and Me	Teresa Alfield	Canada
colspan=2\| Forest for the Trees	Rita Leistner	Canada
colspan=2\| Framing Agnes	Chase Joynt	Canada
colspan=2\| Love in the Time of Fentanyl	Colin Askey	Canada
colspan=2\| Million Dollar Pigeons	Gavin FitzGerald	Ireland
colspan=2\| Okay!: The ASD Band Film	Mark Bone	Canada
colspan=2\| Part of the Pack	Isabelle Groc, Mike McKinlay	Canada
colspan=2\| REVIVAL69: The Concert That Rocked the World	Ron Chapman	Canada
colspan=2\| Tiger 24	Warren Pereira	United States
colspan=2\| To Kill a Tiger	Nisha Pahuja	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\| Close	Lukas Dhont	Belgium, Netherlands, France
colspan=2\| Echo	Mareike Wegener	Germany
Final Cut	Coupez!	Michel Hazanavicius	France
A Fleeting Encounter	Une histoire provisoire	Romed Wyder	Luxembourg, Switzerland
colspan=2\| Free Skate	Roope Olenius	Finland
Grounds of Hope	À terre promise	Lionel Bernardin	France
Hard Shell, Soft Shell	Fragile	Emma Benestan	France
colspan=2\| Holy Spider	Ali Abbasi	Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France
Lost Illusions	Illusions perdues	Xavier Giannoli	France, Belgium
colspan=2\| Metronom	Alexandru Belc	Romania, France
Pacifiction	Tourment sur les îles	Albert Serra	France, Spain, Germany, Portugal
colspan=2\| Peter von Kant	François Ozon	France
Piggy	Cerdita	Carlota Pereda	Spain, France
colspan=2\| Shadows	Carlo Lavagna	Italy
colspan=2\| Something in the Dirt	Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead	United States

=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\| Bones of Crows	Marie Clements	rowspan=5\| Canada
colspan=2\| Ever Deadly	Chelsea McMullan, Tanya Tagaq
colspan=2\| The Issue with Tissue	Michael Zelniker
colspan=2\| The Klabona Keepers	Tamo Campos, Jasper Snow-Rosen
colspan=2\| Stories of Decolonization: (De)Colonial Relations	Gladys Rowe, Teddy Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara

=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
colspan=2\| Alex	Aisha Evelyna	Canada
colspan=2\| Anaconda	Joshua D. Amar	United States
colspan=2\| Aska	Clara Milo	Canada
colspan=2\| Beauty Queen	Myra Aquino	Philippines
colspan=2\| Becoming Tom Thomson	Steve Belford	Canada
colspan=2\| Belle River	Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau, Yannick Nolin	Canada
colspan=2\| Benevolent	Jared Marino	Canada
The Benevolents	Les Bienveillants	Sarah Baril Gaudet	Canada
colspan=2\| Best Wishes	Zhang Xiaoan	China
colspan=2\| The Big Red Bastard	Thomas Horvath	United States
colspan=2\| The Boy Who Couldn't Feel Pain	Eugen Merher	Germany
colspan=2\| Braided Together	Victoria Anderson-Gardner, Kyle Schmalenberg	Canada
colspan=2\| Bump	Maziyar Khatam	Canada
colspan=2\| Darkside	Spencer Zimmerman	Canada
colspan=2\| 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
colspan=2\| Fictions	Alice Charlie Liu	Canada
colspan=2\| Fieldtrip	Soren Bendt, Paul Arion	United Kingdom
colspan=2\| First Semester of Second Grade	Chengqing Zhu	China
colspan=2\| Free Fall	Emmanuel Tenenbaum	France
French Enough	Assez French	Alexis Normand	Canada
colspan=2\| Gina	Kathryn Prescott	United States
colspan=2\| Grandmothers	Millefiore Clarkes	Canada
colspan=2\| A Great Big Terrible Dream	Maxine Lemieux	Canada
colspan=2\| Great Seeing You	Holly Pruner	Canada
colspan=2\| In the Dark	Bronson Allen	Canada
colspan=2\| An Invitation	Yeung Tung, Hao Zhao	China
colspan=2\| A Jesuit	Angus McMaster	Canada
colspan=2\| Killing Bagheera	Muschirf Shekh Zeyn	Syria
colspan=2\| Little Bird	Tee Schneider	Canada
Living All of Life	Vivir todo la vida	Marlén Rios-Farjat	Mexico
Lockjaw	Tétanos	Alexandre Lefebvre	Canada
colspan=2\| Menace	Joy Webster	Canada
colspan=2\| Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics	Terril Calder	Canada
colspan=2\| The Middle	Hannah Jovin, Adrian Morphy	Canada
colspan=2\| Moonshine	Sarah Dunlavey	Canada
colspan=2\| Mother of Invention	Holly Brace-Lavoie	Canada
More Than Hair	Plus que des cheveux	Fitch Jean	Canada
colspan=2\| N'xaxaitkw	Asia Youngman	Canada
colspan=2\| Nuisance Bear	Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden	Canada
colspan=2\| On Your Behalf	Ana Garcia Rico	United Kingdom
colspan=2\| 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
colspan=2\| Tequila Sunset	Jinsul Song	United States
colspan=2\| There Are No Children Here	Shehrezade Mian	Canada
colspan=2\| What Flowers They Bloom	C. Hudson Hwang	Canada
colspan=2\| 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

References

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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\| Bones of Crows	Marie Clements	rowspan=5\| Canada
colspan=2\| Ever Deadly	Chelsea McMullan, Tanya Tagaq
colspan=2\| The Issue with Tissue	Michael Zelniker
colspan=2\| The Klabona Keepers	Tamo Campos, Jasper Snow-Rosen
colspan=2\| Stories of Decolonization: (De)Colonial Relations	Gladys Rowe, Teddy Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara