2020 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film FestivalOpening film | Percy |
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Closing film | The Father |
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Location | Sudbury, Ontario, Canada |
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Founded | 1989 |
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Festival date | September 19–27, 2020 |
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Website | cinefest.com |
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Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival |
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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 slightly 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
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
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
World Cinema
World Doc
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
- ^ "As tickets go on sale, Cinefest announces more films". Sudbury Star, August 29, 2020.
- ^ "2020 Cinéfest will be ‘hybrid’ in-person, virtual festival". Sudbury.com, June 26, 2020.
- ^ Molly Frommer, "Cinefest Sudbury announces most of its 2020 film lineup". CTV Northern Ontario, August 20, 2020.
- ^ "Cinefest Sudbury announces its 2020 award winners". Sudbury Star, October 11, 2020.