The 2024 edition of the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, the 36th edition in the event's history, was held from September 14 to 22, 2024 in Sudbury, Ontario."‘Set Your Sights’: Cinéfest reveals 2024 festival image". Sudbury.com, August 6, 2024. The first titles in the program were announced on August 13, 2024,"Sudbury's Cinefest offers early look at its 2024 film lineup". North Bay Nugget, August 13, 2024. with the full program announced on August 22."Plenty to savour at this year's edition of Sudbury's International Film Festival". CBC Northern Ontario, August 22, 2024.
In part as a response to a minor controversy earlier in the year, when the Sudbury Wolves limited ticket sales to North Bay residents during the 2023–24 OHL season playoff semifinals against the North Bay Battalion,Chris Dawson, "Diehard Battalion fan angry about Wolves' ticket tactics for Game 3". Sudbury.com, April 10, 2024. Cinéfest executive director Patrick O'Hearn announced that the festival was "putting a stop to this", and would offer a special $45 "North Bay Day" pass covering admission to the four North Bay-filmed titles in the festival lineup (Drive Back Home, We Forgot to Break Up, All the Lost Ones and Seeds).Heidi Ulrichsen, "Forget hockey rivalry: Sudbury’s Cinéfest 2024 showing love for North Bay". Sudbury.com, August 22, 2024.
On September 7, the festival announced changes to the final schedule, pulling the previously announced Lucky Star and adding three other titles."Cinefest Sudbury adds three films to its roster, including Donald Trump drama". Sudbury Star, September 7, 2024.
Awards Award winners were announced on September 26."‘The Count of Monte-Cristo’ big winner at Cinéfest Sudbury". Sudbury.com, September 27, 2024.
Award Film Filmmaker Audience Choice, Feature Film The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte Cristo) Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de La Patellière Audience Choice, Feature Film Runner-Up All Stirred Up! (Tous toqués!) Manon Briand Audience Choice, Documentary Porcelain War Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev Audience Choice, Documentary Runner Up Never Look Away Lucy Lawless Audience Choice, Short Film Karatéka Florence Fauquet Audience Choice, Short Film Runner Up Save Solace Matt Steeves Outstanding Canadian Feature The Mother and the Bear Johnny Ma Outstanding International Feature My Favourite Cake (Keyk-e mahboob-e man) Maryam Moqadam, Behtash Sanaeeha Outstanding Female-Led Feature Film Bird Andrea Arnold Cinema Indigenized Outstanding Talent Red Fever Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge French-Language Feature Film Blue Sky Jo (La petite et le vieux) Patrice Sauvé Inspiring Voices and Perspectives Black Box Diaries Shiori Itō Outstanding Short Film Thirteenth Night Xiaowen Song Outstanding Animated Short Film Tennis, Oranges Sean Pecknold Outstanding Northern Ontario Short Film Ephemera Cici Clancy CTV Best in Shorts, Open Category First Place CTV Best in Shorts, Open Category Second Place The Stain MJ Dionne CTV Best in Shorts, Northern Flicks Save Solace Matt Steeves
Official selections Gala Presentations English title Original title Director(s) Production country 1995 Ricardo Trogi Canada Bob Trevino Likes It Tracie Laymon United States Bookworm Ant Timpson New Zealand The Count of Monte Cristo Le Comte de Monte Cristo Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de La Patellière France Drive Back Home Michael Clowater Canada The Invisibles Andrew Currie Canada The Mother and the Bear Johnny Ma Canada, Chile The Outrun Nora Fingscheidt United Kingdom, Germany Young Werther José Lourenço Canada
Special Presentations English title Original title Director(s) Production country 40 Acres R. T. Thorne Canada Anora Sean Baker United States The Apprentice Ali Abbasi Canada, Denmark, Ireland, United States Bird Andrea Arnold United Kingdom Blue Sky Jo La petite et le vieux Patrice Sauvé Canada Can I Get a Witness? Ann Marie Fleming Canada Darkest Miriam Naomi Jaye Canada Disco's Revenge Omar Majeed, Peter Mishara Canada My Favourite Cake Keyk-e mahboob-e man Maryam Moqadam, Behtash Sanaeeha Iran, France, Sweden, Germany Neon Dreaming Rêver en néon Marie-Claire Marcotte Canada Never Look Away Lucy Lawless New Zealand Rumours Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson Canada, Germany Samia Yasemin Şamdereli Italy, Germany, Belgium Shepherds Berger Sophie Deraspe Canada Sisters and Neighbors! Nos belles-sœurs René Richard Cyr Canada The Substance Coralie Fargeat United Kingdom, United States, France Treasure Julia von Heinz Germany, France, Poland
Features Canada English title Original title Director(s) Production country Ababooned Ababouiné André Forcier Canada All Stirred Up! Tous toqués! Manon Briand Canada All the Lost Ones Mackenzie Donaldson Canada Bonjour Tristesse Durga Chew-Bose Canada, Germany Dada Aaron Poole Canada Die Alone Lowell Dean Canada His Father's Son Meelad Moaphi Canada Hotel Silence Hôtel Silence Léa Pool Canada Hunting Daze Jour de chasse Annick Blanc Canada Paying for It Sook-Yin Lee Canada Sharp Corner Jason Buxton Canada, Ireland Shook Amar Wala Canada A Thousand Cuts Jake Horowitz Canada Universal Language Une langue universelle Matthew Rankin Canada We Forgot to Break Up Karen Knox Canada Who by Fire Comme le feu Philippe Lesage Canada You Are Not Alone Vous n'êtes pas seuls Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien Canada
Cana-Doc English title Original title Director(s) Production country 7 Beats per Minute Yuqi Kang Canada Curl Power Josephine Anderson Canada The Hobby Simon Ennis Canada Intercepted Oksana Karpovych Canada, France, Ukraine Kina & Yuk Kina et Yuk Guillaume Maidatchevsky France, Canada, Italy
World Cinema English title Original title Director(s) Production country Crossing Levan Akin Sweden, Denmark, France, Turkey, Georgia A Different Man Aaron Schimberg United States Flow Straume Gints Zilbalodis Latvia, France, Belgium The Girl with the Needle Pigen med nålen Magnus von Horn Denmark, Poland, Sweden Good One India Donaldson United States In the Summers Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio United States, Mexico Mamifera Liliana Torres Spain Memoir of a Snail Adam Elliot Australia Misericordia Miséricorde Alain Guiraudie France, Spain, Portugal The Missile Ohjus Miia Tervo Finland, Estonia My First Film Zia Anger United States Reinas Klaudia Reynicke Switzerland, Peru Rent Free Fernando Andrés United States The Second Act Le Deuxième acte Quentin Dupieux France To a Land Unknown Mahdi Fleifel United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestine Victoria Must Go Victoria må dø Gunnbjörg Gunnarsdóttir Norway
World Doc English title Original title Director(s) Production country Black Box Diaries Shiori Itō United States, United Kingdom, Japan Ernest Cole: Lost and Found Raoul Peck France Mediha Hasan Oswald United States, Iraq Porcelain War Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev United States, Australia, Ukraine Stories and Pictures Joanna Rudnick United States Union Stephen Maing, Brett Story United States
In Full View: Crisis, Conflict, Conscience English title Original title Director(s) Production country A House Is Not a Disco Brian J. Smith United States Who Do I Belong To Mé el Aïn Meryam Joobeur Tunisia, France, Canada, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
Cinema Indigenized (Nishnaabek Dbaajmawaat) English title Original title Director(s) Production country Aberdeen Ryan Cooper, Eva Thomas Canada Red Fever Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge Canada Seeds Kaniehtiio Horn Canada
Cinema 9 Prime Time English title Original title Director(s) Production country Home Free Avi Federgreen Canada Morningside Ron Dias Canada
Short Circuit English title Original title Director(s) Production country Anywhere Nooj Goji Evelyn Pakinewatik Canada Le Charade Erika Totoro United States Curveball Igor Petrov Canada Deadpan Aidan Cheeatow Canada The End of Love Yanwenjun Liu China Ephemera Cici Clancy Canada Karatéka Florence Fauquet France The Painted Night Ben Bruhmuller Canada Rapture Le Ravissement Camille Trudel Canada Save Solace Matt Steeves Canada Simp Gabriel Carnick United States Summer Love Virgile Ratelle Canada Tennis, Oranges Sean Pecknold United States Thirteenth Night Xiaowen Song China Unclean Simon Chouinard Canada Wifi Ted Sakowsky Canada Zoé Rémi St-Michel Canada
CTV Best in Shorts The festival's dedicated competition for amateur short filmmakers from Northern Ontario.Chelsea Papineau, "Film finalists announced for CTV Best in Shorts competition". CTV Northern Ontario, September 12, 2024.
English title Original title Director(s) Community Cupid's Assist Richard Barlow Sudbury Ephemera Cici Clancy Sudbury How to Eat a Rainbow Tom Reid Sudbury Lucy's Birthday Liam Siebolt North Bay The Painted Knight Ben Bruhmuller Sudbury Save Solace Matt Steeves Temagami The Snipers Kelly Saxberg Thunder Bay The Stain MJ Dionne Sudbury
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