# 2020 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival

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.
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. The festival also programmed a smaller lineup than it had in recent years, with 55 feature films.

## Awards

| Award | Film | Filmmaker |
| Audience Choice, Live Screening | The Father | Florian Zeller |
| 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 | Ammonite | Francis Lee | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Girl | Girl | Chad Faust | Canada, United States |
| My Salinger Year | My Salinger Year | Philippe Falardeau | Canada |
| Nadia, Butterfly | Nadia, Butterfly | Pascal Plante | Canada |
| The Nest | The Nest | Sean Durkin | Canada, United Kingdom, United States |
| Nine Days | Nine Days | Edson Oda | United States |
| Percy | 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 | Akilla's Escape | Charles Officer | Canada |
| Another Round | Druk | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden |
| Body and Bones | Body and Bones | Melanie Oates | Canada |
| Falling | Falling | Viggo Mortensen | Canada, United Kingdom |
| The Father | The Father | Florian Zeller | France, United Kingdom |
| Games People Play | Seurapeli | Jenni Toivoniemi | Finland |
| I Am Greta | I Am Greta | Nathan Grossman | Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Germany |
| Laughter | Le Rire | Martin Laroche | Canada |
| Mogul Mowgli | Mogul Mowgli | Bassam Tariq | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Pack | Smecka | Tomas Polensky | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia |
| Spare Parts | Spare Parts | Andrew Thomas Hunt | Canada |
| Trickster | Trickster | Michelle Latimer | Canada |
| Undine | Undine | Christian Petzold | Germany, France |
| Wander | Wander | April Mullen | Canada, United States |

### Features Canada

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Bone Cage | Bone Cage | Taylor Olson | Canada |
| Events Transpiring Before, During and After a High School Basketball Game | Events Transpiring Before, During and After a High School Basketball Game | Ted Stenson | Canada |
| For the Sake of Vicious | For the Sake of Vicious | Gabriel Carrer, Reese Eveneshen | Canada |
| Happy Place | Happy Place | Helen Shaver | Canada |
| Hazy Little Thing | Hazy Little Thing | Sam Coyle | Canada |
| Our Own | Les Nôtres | Jeanne Leblanc | Canada |
| Québexit | Québexit | Joshua Demers | Canada |
| Queen of the Morning Calm | Queen of the Morning Calm | Gloria Ui Young Kim | Canada |
| Reservoir | Réservoir | Kim St-Pierre | Canada |
| Saint-Narcisse | Saint-Narcisse | Bruce La Bruce | Canada |
| The Winter Lake | The Winter Lake | Phil Sheerin | Canada, Ireland |

### Cana-Doc

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Eddy's Kingdom | Eddy's Kingdom | Greg Crompton | Canada |
| The Forbidden Reel | The Forbidden Reel | Ariel Nasr | Canada |
| Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story | 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 | The Arctics | Naomi Mark, Marty O'Brien | Canada |
| Call Me Human | Je m'appelle humain | Kim O'Bomsawin | Canada |
| Chaakapesh | Chaakapesh | Roger Frappier, Justin Kingsley | Canada |
| Parallel Minds | Parallel Minds | Benjamin Ross Hayden | Canada |

### World Cinema

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Abe | Abe | Fernando Grostein Andrade | Brazil, United States |
| Black Bear | Black Bear | Lawrence Michael Levine | United States |
| Call Mom! | Ring mamma! | Lisa Aschan | Sweden |
| Digger | Digger | Georgis Grigorakis | Greece |
| How to Be a Good Wife | La bonne épouse | Martin Provost | France |
| The Last Vermeer | 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 | The Human Factor | Dror Moreh | Israel, United States |
| The Truffle Hunters | 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 | Possessor | Brandon Cronenberg | Canada, United Kingdom |

### First Cut

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Perspective | 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 | Lucky Grandma | Sasie Sealy | United States |
| Radioactive | 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 | All-In Madonna | Arnold Lim | Canada |
| Anna | Anna | Dekel Berenson | United Kingdom |
| Audionomie | Audionomie | Maximillien Rolland | Canada |
| BKS | SDR | Alexa-Jeanne Dubé | Canada |
| Cayenne | Cayenne | Simon Gionet | Canada |
| Drifting | Drifting | Hanxiong Bo | China |
| Goodbye Golovin | Goodbye Golovin | Mathieu Grimard | Canada |
| The House Abandon | The House Abandon | Clint D'Souza | Canada |
| I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain | I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain | Sofia Banzhaf | Canada |
| Landgraves | Landgraves | Jean-François Leblanc | Canada |
| Red Balloon | Red Balloon | Avi Federgreen | Canada |
| Shooting Star | Comme une cométe | Ariane Louis-Seize | Canada |
| Single | Single | Ashley Eakin | United States |
| Sleeping Longing | Dormir désir | Virginie Nolin | Canada |
| Veil | Veil | Zahra Golafshani | Canada |
| Zoo | Zoo | Will Niava | Canada |