2023 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival

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| opening = Rose by Niels Arden Oplev

| closing = Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person by Ariane Louis-Seize

| location = Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

| founded = 1989

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| date = September 16–24, 2023

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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.Clement Goh, [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/cinefest-sudbury-35-lineup-announcement-1.6945291 "Cinéfest Sudbury marks 35 years with focus on comedy and vampires"]. CBC Northern Ontario, August 23, 2023.

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.[https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/cinefest-2023-returning-to-fully-in-person-format-7336619 "Cinéfest 2023 returning to fully in-person format"]. Sudbury.com, July 28, 2023. 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.Jim Moodie, [https://www.thesudburystar.com/entertainment/local-arts/sudburys-cinefest-festival-experiencing-a-surge-of-interest "Sudbury's Cinefest festival experiencing a surge of interest"]. Sudbury Star, September 15, 2023.

Awards

Award winners were announced on September 28.[https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/cinefest-reveals-2023-award-winners-7614520 "Cinéfest reveals 2023 award winners"]. Sudbury.com, September 28, 2023.

Award ! Film ! Filmmaker
class="wikitable"
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=

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 Boy in the Woods	Rebecca Snow	Canada
colspan=2\| La Chimera	Alice Rohrwacher	Italy, France, Switzerland
colspan=2\| 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
colspan=2\| The Old Oak	Ken Loach	United Kingdom, France, Belgium
colspan=2\| Swan Song	Chelsea McMullan	Canada
colspan=2\| Sweetland	Christian Sparkes	Canada
colspan=2\| The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry	Hettie Macdonald	United Kingdom

=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
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
colspan=2\| Fitting In	Molly McGlynn	Canada
colspan=2\| The King Tide	Christian Sparkes	Canada
Monster	Kaibutsu	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Japan
colspan=2\| Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe	Robert McCallum	Canada
colspan=2\| My Animal	Jacqueline Castel	Canada
One Summer	Le Temps d'un été	Louise Archambault	Canada
colspan=2\| Rose	Niels Arden Oplev	Denmark, France
colspan=2\| 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
colspan=2\| The Royal Hotel	Kitty Green	Australia
colspan=2\| 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
colspan=2\| Warrior Strong	Shane Belcourt	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\| Backspot	D. W. Waterson	Canada
colspan=2\| Better Days	Joan Carr-Wiggin	Canada
colspan=2\| Daniel's Gotta Die	Jeremy Lalonde	Canada
Echo to Delta	Écho à Delta	Patrick Boivin	Canada
colspan=2\| Hailey Rose	Sandi Somers	Canada
colspan=2\| 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
colspan=2\| Niagara	Guillaume Lambert	Canada
colspan=2\| Orah	Lonzo Nzekwe	Canada
A Respectable Woman	Une femme respectable	Bernard Émond	Canada
colspan=2\| Richelieu	Pier-Philippe Chevigny	Canada
Rodeo	Rodéo	Joëlle Desjardins Paquette	Canada
colspan=2\| Seagrass	Meredith Hama-Brown	Canada
colspan=2\| Suze	Dane Clark, Linsey Stewart	Canada
colspan=2\| Who's Yer Father?	Jeremy Larter	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\| Adaptation	Jake Thomas	Canada
colspan=2\| Another Body	Sophie Compton, Reuben Hamlyn	United States
colspan=2\| The Last Stop: Canada's Lost Locomotive	Kaio Kathriner	Canada
colspan=2\| The Lebanese Burger Mafia	Omar Mouallem	Canada
On the Adamant	Sur l'Adamant	Nicolas Philibert	France, Japan
colspan=2\| Rule of Two Walls	David Gutnik	Ukraine
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood	Savvusanna sõsarad	Anna Hints	Estonia, France, Iceland
colspan=2\| Subterranean	Francois-Xavier "Fix" De Ruydts	Canada
colspan=2\| Total Trust	Jialing Zhang	Germany, Netherlands
colspan=2\| We Dare to Dream	Waad al-Kateab	United Kingdom

=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\| Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda 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
colspan=2\| How to Have Sex	Molly Manning Walker	United Kingdom
Kidnapped	Rapito	Marco Bellocchio	Italy, France, Germany
colspan=2\| Minore	Konstantinos Koutsoliotas	United Kingdom, Greece
colspan=2\| The Persian Version	Maryam Keshavarz	United States
colspan=2\| Raging Grace	Paris Zarcilla	United Kingdom
colspan=2\| Robot Dreams	Pablo Berger	Spain, France
Sleep	잠	Jason Yu	South Korea
colspan=2\| 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=

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\| Irena's Vow	Louise Archambault	Canada
colspan=2\| Praying for Armageddon	Tonje Hessen Schei, Michael Rowley	Norway
Red Rooms	Les Chambres rouges	Pascal Plante	Canada

=Cinema Indigenized (Nishnaabek Dbaajmawaat)=

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\| Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun	Banchi Hanuse	Canada
Broken Angel	MaaShwaKan MaNiTo	Jules Arita Koostachin	Canada
colspan=2\| Café Daughter	Shelley Niro	Canada
colspan=2\| Frybread Face and Me	Billy Luther	United States
colspan=2\| Hey, Viktor!	Cody Lightning	Canada

=Cinema 9 Prime Time=

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\| Daughter of the Sun	Ryan Ward	Canada
colspan=2\| Leilani's Fortune	Loveleen Kaur	Canada
colspan=2\| Satan Wants You	Sean Horlor, Steve J. Adams	Canada

=Late Night Frights=

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| Purgatory Jack

Brett M. Butler, Jason G. Butler

Canada

=Regular short film program=

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\| Aves	Eli Snyder	United States
colspan=2\| Awakening: The First Day	Jos Diaz Contreras, Santiago Carrasquilla	United States
colspan=2\| Bang Bang	Piotr Skowronski	Canada
colspan=2\| Boat People	Thao Lam, Kjell Boersma	Canada
Death to the Bikini!	À mort le bikini!	Justine Gauthier	Canada
Echoes	Échos	Sophie B. Jacque	Canada
colspan=2\| The Girl with the Red Beret	Janet Perlman	Canada
colspan=2\| Harvey	Janice Nadeau	Canada
colspan=2\| Hello to Me in 100 Years	Wu-Ching Chang	Taiwan
I Promise You Paradise	Paradis	Morad Mostafa	France, Egypt, Qatar
colspan=2\| IF	Didier Charette	Canada
colspan=2\| Invincible	Vincent René-Lortie	Canada
colspan=2\| The Late Set	Bren Patrick Burke	Canada
colspan=2\| Lingering Pieces	Jacqueline Lamb	Canada
colspan=2\| Mrs. Iran's Husband	Marjan Khosravi	Iran
colspan=2\| Our Males and Females	Ahmad Alyaseer	Jordan
colspan=2\| Portrait of a Cowboy	Devon Wycoff	United States
Return to Hairy Hill	Retour à Hairy Hill	Daniel Gies	Canada
colspan=2\| The Riley Sisters	Julia Jackman	United Kingdom
colspan=2\| Stripper	Anthony Sneed	Canada
colspan=2\| Two Apples	Bahram Javahery	Canada
Until You Die	Jusqu’à ce que tu meures	Florence Lafond	Canada
colspan=2\| Walter's Room	Austin Lindsay	Canada
colspan=2\| Yellow Dove Aftermath	Rony A. Abovitz	United States
colspan=2\| Zeb's Spider	Sophie Jarvis	Canada

=CTV Best in Shorts=

The festival's dedicated competition for amateur short filmmakers from Northeastern Ontario.[https://www.sudbury.com/lifestyle/northern-ont-filmmakers-showcasing-shorts-at-cinefest-7546028 "Northern Ont. filmmakers showcasing shorts at Cinéfest"]. Sudbury.com, September 14, 2023.

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%"\| Community
colspan=2\| A Bunch of Junk	Ian Johnson	Lively
colspan=2\| Go On and Bleed	J. Christian Hamilton	Sudbury
colspan=2\| I Know I Can Fly	Matt Steeves	Temagami
colspan=2\| Jerry Rigged	Derek Diorio	North Bay
colspan=2\| L'Orbit	Thomas Walton	Timmins
colspan=2\| My Authentic Self (A Journey with Art and Autism)	Stéphane Ostrander	Dowling
colspan=2\| Walter’s Room	Austin Lindsay	North Bay
colspan=2\| When Little Johnny Sleeps	Sabrina Wilson	Sudbury

References

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