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."As tickets go on sale, Cinefest announces more films". Sudbury Star, August 29, 2020.
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."2020 Cinéfest will be ‘hybrid’ in-person, virtual festival". Sudbury.com, June 26, 2020. The festival also programmed a smaller lineup than it had in recent years, with 55 feature films.Molly Frommer, "Cinefest Sudbury announces most of its 2020 film lineup". CTV Northern Ontario, August 20, 2020.
Awards Award Film Filmmaker Ref Audience Choice, Live Screening The Father Florian Zeller "Cinefest Sudbury announces its 2020 award winners". Sudbury Star, October 11, 2020. 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
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