2021 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival

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.

2021 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival
Opening filmAll My Puny Sorrows by Michael McGowan
LocationSudbury, Ontario, Canada
Founded1989
Festival dateSeptember 18–26, 2021
Websitecinefest.com
Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival

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

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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

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Gala Presentations

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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