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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 [[Greater Sudbury|Sudbury]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]].<ref>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"]. [[CBCS-FM|CBC Northern Ontario]], August 23, 2023.</ref> The 2023 festival |
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 [[Greater Sudbury|Sudbury]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]].<ref>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"]. [[CBCS-FM|CBC Northern Ontario]], August 23, 2023.</ref> |
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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.<ref>[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.</ref> 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.<ref>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.</ref> |
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Award winners were announced on September 28.<ref>[https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/cinefest-reveals-2023-award-winners-7614520 "Cinéfest reveals 2023 award winners"]. ''[[Sudbury.com]]'', September 28, 2023.</ref> |
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| Audience Choice, Feature Film || || |
| Audience Choice, Feature Film || ''[[The Old Oak]]'' || [[Ken Loach]] |
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| Audience Choice, Feature Film Runner-Up || ''[[Anatomy of a Fall]] (Anatomie d'un chute)'' || [[Justine Triet]] |
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| Audience Choice, Documentary || ''[[Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe]]'' || [[Robert McCallum (director)|Robert McCallum]] |
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| Audience Choice, Documentary Runner Up || ''[[Swan Song (2023 film)|Swan Song]]'' || [[Chelsea McMullan]] |
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| Audience Choice, Short Film || ''[[Death to the Bikini!]] (À mort le bikini!)'' || Justine Gauthier |
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| Outstanding Canadian Feature || ''[[Seagrass (film)|Seagrass]]'' || [[Meredith Hama-Brown]] |
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| Outstanding International Feature || ''[[The Royal Hotel (film)|The Royal Hotel]]'' || [[Kitty Green]] |
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| Inspiring Voices and Perspectives || || |
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| Cinema Indigenized Outstanding Talent || ''[[Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun]]'' || [[Banchi Hanuse]] |
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| French-Language Feature Film || ''[[Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person]] (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant)'' || [[Ariane Louis-Seize]] |
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| Outstanding Emerging Canadian Short Filmmaker || || |
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| Inspiring Voices and Perspectives || ''[[Close to You (2023 film)|Close to You]]'' || [[Dominic Savage]] |
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| Outstanding Short Film || ''I Promise You Paradise (Paradis)'' || Morad Mostafa |
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| Outstanding Animated Short Film || ''[[Return to Hairy Hill]] (Retour à Hairy Hill)'' || Daniel Gies |
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==Official selections== |
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| ''[[A Difficult Year]]'' || ''Une année difficile'' || [[Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache]] || France |
| ''[[A Difficult Year]]'' || ''Une année difficile'' || [[Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache]] || France |
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| colspan=2| ''[[Fitting In]]'' || [[Molly McGlynn]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''[[The King Tide]]'' || [[Christian Sparkes]] || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[The King Tide]]'' || [[Christian Sparkes]] || Canada |
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| ''[[Monster (2023 film)|Monster]]'' || ''Kaibutsu'' || [[Hirokazu Kore-eda]] || Japan |
| ''[[Monster (2023 film)|Monster]]'' || ''Kaibutsu'' || [[Hirokazu Kore-eda]] || Japan |
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| colspan=2| ''[[Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe]]'' || Robert McCallum || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe]]'' || [[Robert McCallum (director)|Robert McCallum]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''[[My Animal (film)|My Animal]]'' || [[Jacqueline Castel]] || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[My Animal (film)|My Animal]]'' || [[Jacqueline Castel]] || Canada |
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| ''[[The Promised Land (2023 film)|The Promised Land]]'' || ''Bastarden'' || [[Nikolaj Arcel]] || Denmark |
| ''[[The Promised Land (2023 film)|The Promised Land]]'' || ''Bastarden'' || [[Nikolaj Arcel]] || Denmark |
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| colspan=2| ''[[The Royal Hotel (film)|The Royal Hotel]]'' || [[Kitty Green]] || Australia |
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| colspan=2| ''[[Seven Veils (film)|Seven Veils]]'' || [[Atom Egoyan]] || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Seven Veils (film)|Seven Veils]]'' || [[Atom Egoyan]] || Canada |
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| ''[[The Teachers' Lounge]]'' || ''Das Lehrerzimmer'' || Ilker Çatak || Germany |
| ''[[The Teachers' Lounge]]'' || ''Das Lehrerzimmer'' || Ilker Çatak || Germany |
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| ''They Shot the Piano Player'' || ''Dispararon |
| ''[[They Shot the Piano Player]]'' || ''Dispararon al pianista'' || [[Fernando Trueba]], [[Javier Mariscal]] || Spain, France, Netherlands |
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| colspan=2| ''[[Warrior Strong]]'' || [[Shane Belcourt]] || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Warrior Strong]]'' || [[Shane Belcourt]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''[[Backspot]]'' || [[D. W. Waterson]] || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Backspot]]'' || [[D. W. Waterson]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''Better Days'' || Joan Carr-Wiggin || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Better Days (2023 film)|Better Days]]'' || [[Joan Carr-Wiggin]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''[[Daniel's Gotta Die]]'' || [[Jeremy Lalonde]] || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Daniel's Gotta Die]]'' || [[Jeremy Lalonde]] || Canada |
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| ''Echo to Delta'' || ''Écho à Delta'' || [[Patrick Boivin]] || Canada |
| ''[[Echo to Delta]]'' || ''Écho à Delta'' || [[Patrick Boivin]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''Hailey Rose'' || Sandi Somers || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Hailey Rose]]'' || Sandi Somers || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''[[I Used to Be Funny]]'' || Ally Pankiw || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[I Used to Be Funny]]'' || [[Ally Pankiw]] || Canada |
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| ''I Will Not Starve'' || ''Non morirò di fame'' || Umberto Spinazzola || Canada, Italy |
| ''[[I Will Not Starve]]'' || ''Non morirò di fame'' || Umberto Spinazzola || Canada, Italy |
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| ''Little Jesus'' || ''Petit Jésus'' || Julien Rigoulot || Canada, France |
| ''[[Little Jesus]]'' || ''Petit Jésus'' || Julien Rigoulot || Canada, France |
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| colspan=2| ''[[Niagara (2022 film)|Niagara]]'' || [[Guillaume Lambert]] || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Niagara (2022 film)|Niagara]]'' || [[Guillaume Lambert]] || Canada |
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| ''[[A Respectable Woman (film)|A Respectable Woman]]'' || ''Une femme respectable'' || [[Bernard Émond]] || Canada |
| ''[[A Respectable Woman (film)|A Respectable Woman]]'' || ''Une femme respectable'' || [[Bernard Émond]] || Canada |
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| ''[[Rodeo (2022 Canadian film)|Rodeo]]'' || ''Rodéo'' || [[Joëlle Desjardins Paquette]] || Canada |
| ''[[Rodeo (2022 Canadian film)|Rodeo]]'' || ''Rodéo'' || [[Joëlle Desjardins Paquette]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''[[Seagrass (film)|Seagrass]]'' || [[Meredith Hama-Brown]] || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Seagrass (film)|Seagrass]]'' || [[Meredith Hama-Brown]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''Suze'' || Dane Clark, Linsey Stewart || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Suze (film)|Suze]]'' || [[Dane Clark (filmmaker)|Dane Clark]], [[Linsey Stewart]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''Who's Yer Father?'' || Jeremy Larter || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Who's Yer Father?]]'' || [[Jeremy Larter]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''The Last Stop: Canada's Lost Locomotive'' || Kaio Kathriner || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''The Last Stop: Canada's Lost Locomotive'' || Kaio Kathriner || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''The Lebanese Burger Mafia'' || Omar Mouallem || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''The Lebanese Burger Mafia'' || [[Omar Mouallem]] || Canada |
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| ''[[On the Adamant]]'' || ''Sur l'Adamant'' || [[Nicolas Philibert]] || France, Japan |
| ''[[On the Adamant]]'' || ''Sur l'Adamant'' || [[Nicolas Philibert]] || France, Japan |
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| colspan=2| ''[[Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out]]'' || Jake Van Wagoner || United States |
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| ''[[The Book of Solutions]]'' || ''Le Livre des solutions'' || [[Michel Gondry]] || France |
| ''[[The Book of Solutions]]'' || ''Le Livre des solutions'' || [[Michel Gondry]] || France |
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| colspan=2| ''[[Sometimes I Think About Dying]]'' || Rachel Lambert || United States |
| colspan=2| ''[[Sometimes I Think About Dying]]'' || Rachel Lambert || United States |
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| ''Vincent Must Die'' || ''Vincent doit mourir'' || Stéphan Castang || France, Belgium |
| ''[[Vincent Must Die]]'' || ''Vincent doit mourir'' || Stéphan Castang || France, Belgium |
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| colspan=2| ''Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun'' || [[Banchi Hanuse]] || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun]]'' || [[Banchi Hanuse]] || Canada |
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| ''[[Broken Angel (2022 film)|Broken Angel]]'' || ''MaaShwaKan MaNiTo'' || Jules Arita Koostachin || Canada |
| ''[[Broken Angel (2022 film)|Broken Angel]]'' || ''MaaShwaKan MaNiTo'' || [[Jules Arita Koostachin]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''[[Café Daughter]]'' || [[Shelley Niro]] || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Café Daughter]]'' || [[Shelley Niro]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''[[Frybread Face and Me]]'' || [[Billy Luther]] || United States |
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| colspan=2| ''[[Hey, Viktor!]]'' || [[Cody Lightning]] || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Hey, Viktor!]]'' || [[Cody Lightning]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''Daughter of the Sun'' || [[Ryan Ward (actor)|Ryan Ward]] || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Daughter of the Sun (2023 film)|Daughter of the Sun]]'' || [[Ryan Ward (actor)|Ryan Ward]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''[[Leilani's Fortune]]'' || Loveleen Kaur || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Leilani's Fortune]]'' || Loveleen Kaur || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''Bang Bang'' || Piotr Skowronski || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''Bang Bang'' || Piotr Skowronski || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''Boat People'' || Kjell Boersma || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''Boat People'' || [[Thao Lam]], [[Kjell Boersma]] || Canada |
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| ''Death to the Bikini!'' || ''À mort le bikini!'' || Justine Gauthier || Canada |
| ''[[Death to the Bikini!]]'' || ''À mort le bikini!'' || Justine Gauthier || Canada |
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| ''Echoes'' || ''Échos'' || Sophie B. Jacque || Canada |
| ''Echoes'' || ''Échos'' || Sophie B. Jacque || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''The Girl with the Red Beret'' || [[Janet Perlman]] || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''The Girl with the Red Beret'' || [[Janet Perlman]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''Harvey'' || [[Janice Nadeau]] || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Harvey (2023 film)|Harvey]]'' || [[Janice Nadeau]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''Hello to Me in 100 Years'' || Wu-Ching Chang || Taiwan |
| colspan=2| ''Hello to Me in 100 Years'' || Wu-Ching Chang || Taiwan |
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| colspan=2| ''IF'' || Didier Charette || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''IF'' || Didier Charette || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''Invincible'' || Vincent René-Lortie || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''[[Invincible (2022 film)|Invincible]]'' || [[Vincent René-Lortie]] || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''The Late Set'' || Bren Patrick Burke || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''The Late Set'' || Bren Patrick Burke || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''Mrs. Iran's Husband'' || Marjan Khosravi || Iran |
| colspan=2| ''Mrs. Iran's Husband'' || Marjan Khosravi || Iran |
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| colspan=2| ''Our Males and Females'' || Ahmad Alyaseer || Jordan |
| colspan=2| ''[[Our Males and Females]]'' || [[Ahmad Alyaseer]] || Jordan |
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| colspan=2| ''Portrait of a Cowboy'' || Devon Wycoff || United States |
| colspan=2| ''Portrait of a Cowboy'' || Devon Wycoff || United States |
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| ''Return to Hairy Hill'' || ''Retour à Hairy Hill'' || Daniel Gies || Canada |
| ''[[Return to Hairy Hill]]'' || ''Retour à Hairy Hill'' || Daniel Gies || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''The Riley Sisters'' || Julia Jackman || United Kingdom |
| colspan=2| ''The Riley Sisters'' || Julia Jackman || United Kingdom |
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| colspan=2| ''Two Apples'' || Bahram Javahery || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''Two Apples'' || Bahram Javahery || Canada |
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| ''Until You Die'' || ''Jusqu’à ce que tu meures'' || Florence Lafond || Canada |
| ''[[Until You Die]]'' || ''Jusqu’à ce que tu meures'' || Florence Lafond || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''Walter's Room'' || Austin Lindsay || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''Walter's Room'' || Austin Lindsay || Canada |
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| colspan=2| ''Zeb's Spider'' || [[Sophie Jarvis]] || Canada |
| colspan=2| ''Zeb's Spider'' || [[Sophie Jarvis]] || Canada |
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The festival's dedicated competition for amateur short filmmakers from Northeastern Ontario.<ref>[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.</ref> |
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| colspan=2| ''A Bunch of Junk'' || Ian Johnson || [[Lively, Ontario|Lively]] |
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| colspan=2| ''Go On and Bleed'' || J. Christian Hamilton || Sudbury |
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| colspan=2| ''I Know I Can Fly'' || Matt Steeves || [[Temagami]] |
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| colspan=2| ''Jerry Rigged'' || [[Derek Diorio]] || [[North Bay, Ontario|North Bay]] |
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| colspan=2| ''L'Orbit'' || Thomas Walton || [[Timmins]] |
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| colspan=2| ''My Authentic Self (A Journey with Art and Autism)'' || Stéphane Ostrander || [[Dowling, Ontario|Dowling]] |
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| colspan=2| ''Walter’s Room'' || Austin Lindsay || North Bay |
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| colspan=2| ''When Little Johnny Sleeps'' || Sabrina Wilson || Sudbury |
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Opening film | Rose by Niels Arden Oplev |
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Closing film | Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person by Ariane Louis-Seize |
Location | Sudbury, Ontario, Canada |
Founded | 1989 |
Festival date | September 16–24, 2023 |
Website | cinefest |
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.[1]
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.[2] 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.[3]
Awards
Award winners were announced on September 28.[4]
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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
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The Boy in the Woods | Rebecca Snow | Canada | |
La Chimera | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, France, Switzerland | |
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 |
The Old Oak | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, France, Belgium | |
Swan Song | Chelsea McMullan | Canada | |
Sweetland | Christian Sparkes | Canada | |
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | Hettie Macdonald | United Kingdom |
Special Presentations
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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 |
Fitting In | Molly McGlynn | Canada | |
The King Tide | Christian Sparkes | Canada | |
Monster | Kaibutsu | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan |
Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe | Robert McCallum | Canada | |
My Animal | Jacqueline Castel | Canada | |
One Summer | Le Temps d'un été | Louise Archambault | Canada |
Rose | Niels Arden Oplev | Denmark, France | |
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 |
The Royal Hotel | Kitty Green | Australia | |
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 |
Warrior Strong | Shane Belcourt | Canada |
Features Canada
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Backspot | D. W. Waterson | Canada | |
Better Days | Joan Carr-Wiggin | Canada | |
Daniel's Gotta Die | Jeremy Lalonde | Canada | |
Echo to Delta | Écho à Delta | Patrick Boivin | Canada |
Hailey Rose | Sandi Somers | Canada | |
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 |
Niagara | Guillaume Lambert | Canada | |
Orah | Lonzo Nzekwe | Canada | |
A Respectable Woman | Une femme respectable | Bernard Émond | Canada |
Richelieu | Pier-Philippe Chevigny | Canada | |
Rodeo | Rodéo | Joëlle Desjardins Paquette | Canada |
Seagrass | Meredith Hama-Brown | Canada | |
Suze | Dane Clark, Linsey Stewart | Canada | |
Who's Yer Father? | Jeremy Larter | Canada |
Documentaries
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Adaptation | Jake Thomas | Canada | |
Another Body | Sophie Compton, Reuben Hamlyn | United States | |
The Last Stop: Canada's Lost Locomotive | Kaio Kathriner | Canada | |
The Lebanese Burger Mafia | Omar Mouallem | Canada | |
On the Adamant | Sur l'Adamant | Nicolas Philibert | France, Japan |
Rule of Two Walls | David Gutnik | Ukraine | |
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood | Savvusanna sõsarad | Anna Hints | Estonia, France, Iceland |
Subterranean | Francois-Xavier "Fix" De Ruydts | Canada | |
Total Trust | Jialing Zhang | Germany, Netherlands | |
We Dare to Dream | Waad al-Kateab | United Kingdom |
World Cinema
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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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 |
How to Have Sex | Molly Manning Walker | United Kingdom | |
Kidnapped | Rapito | Marco Bellocchio | Italy, France, Germany |
Minore | Konstantinos Koutsoliotas | United Kingdom, Greece | |
The Persian Version | Maryam Keshavarz | United States | |
Raging Grace | Paris Zarcilla | United Kingdom | |
Robot Dreams | Pablo Berger | Spain, France | |
Sleep | 잠 | Jason Yu | South Korea |
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
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Irena's Vow | Louise Archambault | Canada | |
Praying for Armageddon | Tonje Hessen Schei, Michael Rowley | Norway | |
Red Rooms | Les Chambres rouges | Pascal Plante | Canada |
Cinema Indigenized (Nishnaabek Dbaajmawaat)
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun | Banchi Hanuse | Canada | |
Broken Angel | MaaShwaKan MaNiTo | Jules Arita Koostachin | Canada |
Café Daughter | Shelley Niro | Canada | |
Frybread Face and Me | Billy Luther | United States | |
Hey, Viktor! | Cody Lightning | Canada |
Cinema 9 Prime Time
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Daughter of the Sun | Ryan Ward | Canada | |
Leilani's Fortune | Loveleen Kaur | Canada | |
Satan Wants You | Sean Horlor, Steve J. Adams | Canada |
Late Night Frights
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
---|---|---|---|
Purgatory Jack | Brett M. Butler, Jason G. Butler | Canada |
Regular short film program
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
---|---|---|---|
Aves | Eli Snyder | United States | |
Awakening: The First Day | Jos Diaz Contreras, Santiago Carrasquilla | United States | |
Bang Bang | Piotr Skowronski | Canada | |
Boat People | Thao Lam, Kjell Boersma | Canada | |
Death to the Bikini! | À mort le bikini! | Justine Gauthier | Canada |
Echoes | Échos | Sophie B. Jacque | Canada |
The Girl with the Red Beret | Janet Perlman | Canada | |
Harvey | Janice Nadeau | Canada | |
Hello to Me in 100 Years | Wu-Ching Chang | Taiwan | |
I Promise You Paradise | Paradis | Morad Mostafa | France, Egypt, Qatar |
IF | Didier Charette | Canada | |
Invincible | Vincent René-Lortie | Canada | |
The Late Set | Bren Patrick Burke | Canada | |
Lingering Pieces | Jacqueline Lamb | Canada | |
Mrs. Iran's Husband | Marjan Khosravi | Iran | |
Our Males and Females | Ahmad Alyaseer | Jordan | |
Portrait of a Cowboy | Devon Wycoff | United States | |
Return to Hairy Hill | Retour à Hairy Hill | Daniel Gies | Canada |
The Riley Sisters | Julia Jackman | United Kingdom | |
Stripper | Anthony Sneed | Canada | |
Two Apples | Bahram Javahery | Canada | |
Until You Die | Jusqu’à ce que tu meures | Florence Lafond | Canada |
Walter's Room | Austin Lindsay | Canada | |
Yellow Dove Aftermath | Rony A. Abovitz | United States | |
Zeb's Spider | Sophie Jarvis | Canada |
CTV Best in Shorts
The festival's dedicated competition for amateur short filmmakers from Northeastern Ontario.[5]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Community |
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A Bunch of Junk | Ian Johnson | Lively | |
Go On and Bleed | J. Christian Hamilton | Sudbury | |
I Know I Can Fly | Matt Steeves | Temagami | |
Jerry Rigged | Derek Diorio | North Bay | |
L'Orbit | Thomas Walton | Timmins | |
My Authentic Self (A Journey with Art and Autism) | Stéphane Ostrander | Dowling | |
Walter’s Room | Austin Lindsay | North Bay | |
When Little Johnny Sleeps | Sabrina Wilson | Sudbury |
References
- ^ Clement Goh, "Cinéfest Sudbury marks 35 years with focus on comedy and vampires". CBC Northern Ontario, August 23, 2023.
- ^ "Cinéfest 2023 returning to fully in-person format". Sudbury.com, July 28, 2023.
- ^ Jim Moodie, "Sudbury's Cinefest festival experiencing a surge of interest". Sudbury Star, September 15, 2023.
- ^ "Cinéfest reveals 2023 award winners". Sudbury.com, September 28, 2023.
- ^ "Northern Ont. filmmakers showcasing shorts at Cinéfest". Sudbury.com, September 14, 2023.