2020 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival

2020 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival
Opening filmPercy
Closing filmThe Father
LocationSudbury, Ontario, Canada
Founded1989
Festival dateSeptember 19–27, 2020
Websitecinefest.com
Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival
2019

The 2020 edition of the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, the 32nd edition in the event's history, was held from September 19 to 27, 2020 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.[1]

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, organizers announced that the 2020 Cinéfest would proceed with a mix of in-person and online screenings, similarly to the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.[2] The festival also programmed a smaller lineup than it had in recent years, with 55 feature films.[3]

Awards

Award Film Filmmaker Ref
Audience Choice, Live Screening The Father Florian Zeller [4]
Audience Choice, Virtual Platform The Last Vermeer Dan Friedkin
Audience Choice, Documentary Call Me Human (Je m'appelle humain) Kim O'Bomsawin
Audience Choice, Documentary Runner-Up Chaakapesh Roger Frappier, Justin Kingsley
Audience Choice, Short Film Cayenne Simon Gionet
Audience Choice, Short Film Runner-Up Zoo Will Niava

Official selections

Gala Presentations

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Ammonite Francis Lee United Kingdom, Australia
Girl Chad Faust Canada, United States
My Salinger Year Philippe Falardeau Canada
Nadia, Butterfly Pascal Plante Canada
The Nest Sean Durkin Canada, United Kingdom, United States
Nine Days Edson Oda United States
Percy Clark Johnson Canada, United States
The Rose Maker La fine fleur Pierre Pinaud France

Special Presentations

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Akilla's Escape Charles Officer Canada
Another Round Druk Thomas Vinterberg Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden
Body and Bones Melanie Oates Canada
Falling Viggo Mortensen Canada, United Kingdom
The Father Florian Zeller France, United Kingdom
Games People Play Seurapeli Jenni Toivoniemi Finland
I Am Greta Nathan Grossman Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Laughter Le Rire Martin Laroche Canada
Mogul Mowgli Bassam Tariq United Kingdom, United States
The Pack Smecka Tomas Polensky Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia
Spare Parts Andrew Thomas Hunt Canada
Trickster Michelle Latimer Canada
Undine Christian Petzold Germany, France
Wander April Mullen Canada, United States

Features Canada

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Bone Cage Taylor Olson Canada
Events Transpiring Before, During and After a High School Basketball Game Ted Stenson Canada
For the Sake of Vicious Gabriel Carrer, Reese Eveneshen Canada
Happy Place Helen Shaver Canada
Hazy Little Thing Sam Coyle Canada
Our Own Les Nôtres Jeanne Leblanc Canada
Québexit Joshua Demers Canada
Queen of the Morning Calm Gloria Ui Young Kim Canada
Reservoir Réservoir Kim St-Pierre Canada
Saint-Narcisse Bruce La Bruce Canada
The Winter Lake Phil Sheerin Canada, Ireland

Cana-Doc

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Eddy's Kingdom Greg Crompton Canada
The Forbidden Reel Ariel Nasr Canada
Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story Posy Dixon Canada, United Kingdom
Sisterhood Ainsi soient-elles Maxime Faure Canada

Cinema Indigenized

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
The Arctics Naomi Mark, Marty O'Brien Canada
Call Me Human Je m'appelle humain Kim O'Bomsawin Canada
Chaakapesh Roger Frappier, Justin Kingsley Canada
Parallel Minds Benjamin Ross Hayden Canada

World Cinema

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Abe Fernando Grostein Andrade Brazil, United States
Black Bear Lawrence Michael Levine United States
Call Mom! Ring mamma! Lisa Aschan Sweden
Digger Georgis Grigorakis Greece
How to Be a Good Wife La bonne épouse Martin Provost France
The Last Vermeer Dan Friedkin United States
My Dog Stupid Mon chien Stupide Yvan Attal France
Two of Us Deux Filippo Meneghetti France

World Doc

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
The Human Factor Dror Moreh Israel, United States
The Truffle Hunters Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw Greece, Italy, United States

Stir Crazy Late Night Frights

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Possessor Brandon Cronenberg Canada, United Kingdom

First Cut

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Perspective B. P. Paquette Canada

Audience Choices from Around the World

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Girl with No Mouth Peri: Ağzı Olmayan Kız Can Evrenol Turkey
Lucky Grandma Sasie Sealy United States
Radioactive Marjane Satrapi United Kingdom

Short Circuit

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
A Birthday Un jour de fête Philippe Arsenault Canada
A Broken Hearted Solstice Solstice d'un cœur brisé Fanny Lefort Canada
All-In Madonna Arnold Lim Canada
Anna Dekel Berenson United Kingdom
Audionomie Maximillien Rolland Canada
BKS SDR Alexa-Jeanne Dubé Canada
Cayenne Simon Gionet Canada
Drifting Hanxiong Bo China
Goodbye Golovin Mathieu Grimard Canada
The House Abandon Clint D'Souza Canada
I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain Sofia Banzhaf Canada
Landgraves Jean-François Leblanc Canada
Red Balloon Avi Federgreen Canada
Shooting Star Comme une cométe Ariane Louis-Seize Canada
Single Ashley Eakin United States
Sleeping Longing Dormir désir Virginie Nolin Canada
Veil Zahra Golafshani Canada
Zoo Will Niava Canada

References

  1. ^ "As tickets go on sale, Cinefest announces more films". Sudbury Star, August 29, 2020.
  2. ^ "2020 Cinéfest will be ‘hybrid’ in-person, virtual festival". Sudbury.com, June 26, 2020.
  3. ^ Molly Frommer, "Cinefest Sudbury announces most of its 2020 film lineup". CTV Northern Ontario, August 20, 2020.
  4. ^ "Cinefest Sudbury announces its 2020 award winners". Sudbury Star, October 11, 2020.