The 2021 edition of the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, the 33rd edition in the event's history, was held from September 18 to 26, 2021 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
| Opening film | All My Puny Sorrows by Michael McGowan |
|---|---|
| Location | Sudbury, Ontario, Canada |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Festival date | September 18–26, 2021 |
| Website | cinefest |
The 2021 festival was presented under a hybrid model due to the COVID-19 pandemic with both in-person and online screenings.[1] The festival also introduced a number of juried film awards, following several years of only presenting audience choice-based awards; the new awards program includes cash prizes for Outstanding Canadian Feature, Outstanding International Feature, Outstanding Female-Led Feature, Cinema Indigenized Outstanding Talent, French-Language Feature, Inspiring Voices and Perspectives Feature, Outstanding Short, Outstanding Emerging Canadian Short, and Outstanding Animated Short.[2]
Awards
edit| Award | Film | Filmmaker |
|---|---|---|
| Audience Choice, Feature Film | The Vinland Club (Le Club Vinland) | Benoît Pilon |
| Audience Choice, Feature Film Runner Up | Mass | Fran Kranz |
| Audience Choice, Documentary | Hell or Clean Water | Cody Westman |
| Audience Choice, Documentary Runner Up | Julia | Julie Cohen, Betsy West |
| Audience Choice, Short Film | The Robbery | Nika Belianina |
| Audience Choice, Short Film Runner Up | Jeep Boys | Alec Pronovost |
| Outstanding Canadian Feature | All My Puny Sorrows | Michael McGowan[3] |
| Outstanding International Feature | Official Competition (Competencia oficial) | Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn[3] |
| Outstanding Female-Led Feature Film | Mothering Sunday | Eva Husson[3] |
| Cinema Indigenized Outstanding Talent | Wildhood | Bretten Hannam[3] |
| French-Language Feature Film | Underground (Souterrain) | Sophie Dupuis[3] |
| Inspiring Voices and Perspectives | Dear Future Children | Franz Böhm[3] |
| Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers[3] | |
| Outstanding Short Film | Pipo and Blind Love (Pipo et l’amour aveugle) | Hugo Le Gourrierec[3] |
| Outstanding Emerging Canadian Short Filmmaker | Talk | Trivelle Simpson[3] |
| Outstanding Animated Short | Itchy the Camel: Rakes | Anders Beer, PH Dallair[3] |
Official selections
editGala Presentations
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| All My Puny Sorrows | Michael McGowan | Canada | |
| The Card Counter | Paul Schrader | United States | |
| The Desperate Hour | Phillip Noyce | Canada, United States | |
| The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Will Sharpe | United Kingdom | |
| Falling for Figaro | Ben Lewin | Australia, United Kingdom | |
| Juniper | Matthew J. Saville | New Zealand | |
| Night Raiders | Danis Goulet | Canada, New Zealand | |
| Official Competition | Competencia oficial | Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn | Spain, Argentina |
| One Second | 一秒钟 | Zhang Yimou | China |
| The Vinland Club | Le Club Vinland | Benoît Pilon | Canada |
Special Presentations
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Sellers | Lina Roessler | Canada, United States | |
| Charlotte | Eric Warin, Tahir Rana | Canada, France, Belgium | |
| Dear Future Children | Franz Böhm | Germany, United Kingdom, Austria | |
| Delicious | Délicieux | Éric Besnard | Belgium, France |
| Everything Went Fine | Tout s'est bien passé | François Ozon | France |
| Jockey | Clint Bentley | United States | |
| Julia | Julie Cohen and Betsy West | United States | |
| Maria Chapdelaine | Sébastien Pilote | Canada | |
| The Middle Man | Bent Hamer | Canada, Denmark, Germany, Norway | |
| Mothering Sunday | Eva Husson | United Kingdom | |
| Ninjababy | Yngvild Sve Flikke | Norway | |
| Paris, 13th District | Les Olympiades | Jacques Audiard | France |
| The Perfect Victim | La victime parfaite | Monic Néron, Émilie Perreault | Canada |
| Petite Maman | Céline Sciamma | France | |
| Sam | Yan England | Canada | |
| Underground | Souterrain | Sophie Dupuis | Canada |
| The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | Joachim Trier | Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden |
Features Canada
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-in Madonna | Arnold Lim | Canada | |
| The Boathouse | Hannah Cheesman | Canada | |
| Drunken Birds | Les Oiseaux ivres | Ivan Grbovic | Canada, Mexico |
| Heirdoms | Soumissions | Emmanuel Tardif | Canada |
| Learn to Swim | Thyrone Tommy | Canada | |
| Motherly | Craig David Wallace | Canada | |
| The Noise of Engines | Le Bruit des moteurs | Philippe Grégoire | Canada |
| Old Buddies | Les Vieux chums | Claude Gagnon | Canada |
| Quickening | Haya Waseem | Canada | |
| See for Me | Randall Okita | Canada | |
| Shadowtown | Skuggahverfið | Karolina Lewicka, Jon Einarsson Gustafsson | Canada, Iceland |
| Tanglewood | Ben Bruhmuller | Canada | |
| The White Fortress | Tabija | Igor Drljaca | Canada, Bosnia |
| Without Havana | Sin la Habana | Kaveh Nabatian | Canada |
| Woman in Car | Vanya Rose | Canada | |
Documentaries
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albedo | Stephen A. Smith | Canada | |
| Artificial Immortality | Ann Shin | Canada | |
| Big Giant Wave | Comme une vague | Marie-Julie Dallaire | Canada |
| Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden | |
| The Gig Is Up | Shannon Walsh | Canada | |
| Hell or Clean Water | Cody Westman | Canada | |
| My Tree | Jason Sherman | Canada | |
| Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché | Celeste Bell, Paul Sng | United Kingdom | |
| Sisters With Transistors | Lisa Rovner | United States | |
| Someone Like Me | Steve J. Adams, Sean Horlor | Canada | |
World Cinema
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Rambo | Laurent Cantet | France | |
| The Big Hit | Un triomphe | Emmanuel Courcol | France |
| Broken Diamonds | Peter Sattler | United States | |
| Compartment No. 6 | Hytti nro 6 | Juho Kuosmanen | Finland, Estonia, Germany, Russia |
| A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon | Ça tourne à Saint-Pierre et Miquelon | Christian Monnier | France |
| Ma Belle, My Beauty | Marion Hill | United States | |
| Memory Box | Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige | France, Lebanon, Canada, Qatar | |
| Nowhere Special | Uberto Pasolini | Italy, France | |
| Wife of a Spy | スパイの妻, Supai no tsuma | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan |
Cinema Indigenized
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bootlegger | Caroline Monnet | Canada | |
| One of Ours | Yasmine Mathurin | Canada | |
| Portraits from a Fire | Trevor Mack | Canada | |
| Run Woman Run | Zoe Leigh Hopkins | Canada | |
| Wildhood | Bretten Hannam | Canada | |
| Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace | Heather Hatch | Canada | |
In Full View: Crisis, Conflict, Conscience
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mass | Fran Kranz | United States | |
| Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, China | |
Stir Crazy Frights and Fantasies
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyst | Tyler Russell | United States | |
| Friday the 13th | Sean S. Cunningham | United States | |
| Kicking Blood | Blaine Thurier | Canada | |
| Titane | Julia Ducournau | France | |
Festival Favourites
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brain Freeze | Julien Knafo | Canada | |
| Drunk Bus | John Carlucci, Brandon LaGanke | United States | |
| El Father Plays Himself | Mo Scarpelli | Venezuela, United Kingdom, Italy, United States | |
| Fanny: The Right to Rock | Bobbi Jo Hart | Canada | |
| Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers | Canada | |
| Listen | Ana Rocha de Sousa | Portugal | |
Shorts
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bad Seeds | Mauvaises herbes | Claude Cloutier | Canada |
| Bleach | Mattias Graham | Canada | |
| Evan's Drum | Ossie Michelin | Canada | |
| Frimas | Marianne Farley | Canada | |
| The Frost | Le Froid | Natalia Duguay | Canada |
| The Hangman at Home | Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot | Canada, Denmark, France | |
| Into Light | Sheona McDonald | Canada | |
| Itchy the Camel: Rakes | Anders Beer, PH Dallair | Canada | |
| Jeep Boys | Alec Pronovost | Canada | |
| Marked | Matthew Avery Berg | United States | |
| Pipo and Blind Love | Pipo et l’amour aveugle | Hugo Le Gourrierec | France |
| The Lost Seahorse | Benjamin Fieschi-Rose | Canada | |
| The Robbery | Nika Belianina | Canada | |
| Stereotype | Nahyun Beak, Dahyun Beak | South Korea, United States | |
| Talk | Trivelle Simpson | Canada | |
| Then Sings My Soul | Susan Rodgers | Canada | |
| An Uninvited Guest | Richard B. Pierre | Canada | |
References
edit- ^ Colleen Romaniuk, "Cinéfest Sudbury unveils its 2021 program; will follow a hybrid format". Toronto Star, August 27, 2021.
- ^ "Sudbury's Cinefest unveils new awards and major cash prizes". Sudbury Star, August 8, 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Donald Macdonald, "Sudbury entertainment briefs: New novel; Cinefest awards". Sudbury Star, October 3, 2021.