# 2022 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival

The 2022 edition of the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, the 34th edition in the event's history, took place from September 17 to 25, 2022 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The lineup was announced on August 25.
Similarly to the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, the event returned to primarily in-person screenings for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, although a selection of films was still offered for home viewing on a virtual platform. Organizers indicated that they received an all-time record number of film submissions for inclusion in the festival.
It was the last edition of the festival to be held under executive director Tammy Frick, who was appointed chief executive officer of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television in October 2022.

## Awards

| Award | Film | Filmmaker |
| Audience Choice, Feature Film (Live Screening) | Bones of Crows | Marie Clements |
| Audience Choice, Feature Film (Virtual) | Norbourg | Maxime Giroux |
| Audience Choice, Documentary (Live Screening) | Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On | Madison Thomas |
| Audience Choice, Documentary (Virtual) | Okay!: The ASD Band Film | Mark Bone |
| Audience Choice, Short Film (Live Screening) | Spiral (Kierre) | Salla Sorri, Eva-Maria Koskinen |
| Audience Choice, Short Film (Virtual) | Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics | Terril Calder |
| Outstanding Canadian Feature | Riceboy Sleeps | Anthony Shim |
| Outstanding International Feature | Beautiful Minds (Presque) | Bernard Campan, Alexandre Jollien |
| Outstanding Female-Led Feature Film | Call Jane | Phyllis Nagy |
| Cinema Indigenized Outstanding Talent | Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On | Madison Thomas |
| French-Language Feature Film | Viking | Stéphane Lafleur |
| Inspiring Voices and Perspectives | To Kill a Tiger | Nisha Pahuja |
| Outstanding Short Film | Aska | Clara Milo |
| Outstanding Emerging Canadian Short Filmmaker | A Shore Away (L'Autre rive) | Gaëlle Graton |
| Outstanding Northern Ontario Short Film | Becoming Tom Thomson | Steve Belford |

## Official selections
### Gala Presentations

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Alice, Darling | Alice, Darling | Mary Nighy | Canada, United States |
| Ashgrove | Ashgrove | Jeremy LaLonde | Canada |
| Beautiful Minds | Presque | Bernard Campan, Alexandre Jollien | France |
| Broker | 브로커 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | South Korea |
| Call Jane | Call Jane | Phyllis Nagy | United States |
| North of Normal | North of Normal | Carly Stone | Canada |
| The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile | The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile | Kathlyn Horan | United States |
| The Swearing Jar | The Swearing Jar | Lindsay Mackay | Canada |
| Viking | Viking | Stéphane Lafleur | Canada |

### Special Presentations

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 752 Is Not a Number | 752 Is Not a Number | Babak Payami | Canada |
| Aftersun | Aftersun | Charlotte Wells | United Kingdom, United States |
| Arlette | Arlette | Mariloup Wolfe | Canada |
| Black Ice | Black Ice | Hubert Davis | Canada |
| Brother | Brother | Clement Virgo | Canada |
| Confessions of a Hitman | Confessions | Luc Picard | Canada |
| Emily | Emily | Frances O'Connor | United Kingdom, United States |
| Falcon Lake | Falcon Lake | Charlotte Le Bon | Canada, France |
| Hunt | 헌트, Heonteu | Lee Jung-jae | South Korea |
| Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be | Le Petit Nicolas - Qu’est-ce qu’on attend pour être heureux ? | Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre | France |
| One Fine Morning | Un beau matin | Mia Hansen-Løve | France, Germany |
| Return to Seoul | Retour à Séoul | Davy Chou | France |
| Riceboy Sleeps | Riceboy Sleeps | Anthony Shim | Canada |
| Rosie | Rosie | Gail Maurice | Canada |
| Triangle of Sadness | Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | Sweden, Germany, France, United Kingdom, United States |
| Until Branches Bend | Until Branches Bend | Sophie Jarvis | Canada |
| You Can Live Forever | You Can Live Forever | Sarah Watts, Mark Slutsky | Canada |
| You Will Remember Me | Tu te souviendras de moi | Éric Tessier | Canada |

### Features Canada

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Babysitter | Babysitter | Monia Chokri | Canada |
| The Breach | The Breach | Rodrigo Gudiño | Canada |
| The End of Sex | The End of Sex | Sean Garrity | Canada |
| Happy FKN Sunshine | Happy FKN Sunshine | Derek Diorio | Canada |
| I Like Movies | I Like Movies | Chandler Levack | Canada |
| In Broad Daylight | Au grand jour | Emmanuel Tardif | Canada |
| Norbourg | Norbourg | Maxime Giroux | Canada |
| North of Albany | Au nord d'Albany | Marianne Farley | Canada |
| Polaris | Polaris | Kirsten Carthew | Canada |
| The Protector | The Protector | Lenin M. Sivam | Canada |
| Relax, I'm from the Future | Relax, I'm from the Future | Luke Higginson | Canada |
| So Much Tenderness | So Much Tenderness | Lina Rodriguez | Canada |
| Soft-Spoken Weepy Cult Child | Soft-Spoken Weepy Cult Child | Irina Lord | Canada |
| Something You Said Last Night | Something You Said Last Night | Luis De Filippis | Canada |
| Stay the Night | Stay the Night | Renuka Jeyapalan | Canada |
| The Switch (La Switch) | The Switch (La Switch) | Michel Kandinsky | Canada |
| Tenzin | Tenzin | Michael Leblanc, Josh Reichmann | Canada |
| That Kind of Summer | Un été comme ça | Denis Côté | Canada |
| We're All in This Together | We're All in This Together | Katie Boland | Canada |

### Documentaries

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Ashgrove Experiment | The Ashgrove Experiment | Christopher Warre Smets | Canada |
| Bernie Langille Wants to Know What Happened to Bernie Langille | Bernie Langille Wants to Know What Happened to Bernie Langille | Jackie Torrens | Canada |
| A Bunch of Amateurs | A Bunch of Amateurs | Kim Hopkins | United Kingdom |
| Doug and the Slugs and Me | Doug and the Slugs and Me | Teresa Alfield | Canada |
| Forest for the Trees | Forest for the Trees | Rita Leistner | Canada |
| Framing Agnes | Framing Agnes | Chase Joynt | Canada |
| Love in the Time of Fentanyl | Love in the Time of Fentanyl | Colin Askey | Canada |
| Million Dollar Pigeons | Million Dollar Pigeons | Gavin FitzGerald | Ireland |
| Okay!: The ASD Band Film | Okay!: The ASD Band Film | Mark Bone | Canada |
| Part of the Pack | Part of the Pack | Isabelle Groc, Mike McKinlay | Canada |
| REVIVAL69: The Concert That Rocked the World | REVIVAL69: The Concert That Rocked the World | Ron Chapman | Canada |
| Tiger 24 | Tiger 24 | Warren Pereira | United States |
| To Kill a Tiger | To Kill a Tiger | Nisha Pahuja | Canada |

### World Cinema

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Close | Close | Lukas Dhont | Belgium, Netherlands, France |
| Echo | Echo | Mareike Wegener | Germany |
| Final Cut | Coupez! | Michel Hazanavicius | France |
| A Fleeting Encounter | Une histoire provisoire | Romed Wyder | Luxembourg, Switzerland |
| Free Skate | Free Skate | Roope Olenius | Finland |
| Grounds of Hope | À terre promise | Lionel Bernardin | France |
| Hard Shell, Soft Shell | Fragile | Emma Benestan | France |
| Holy Spider | Holy Spider | Ali Abbasi | Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France |
| Lost Illusions | Illusions perdues | Xavier Giannoli | France, Belgium |
| Metronom | Metronom | Alexandru Belc | Romania, France |
| Pacifiction | Tourment sur les îles | Albert Serra | France, Spain, Germany, Portugal |
| Peter von Kant | Peter von Kant | François Ozon | France |
| Piggy | Cerdita | Carlota Pereda | Spain, France |
| Shadows | Shadows | Carlo Lavagna | Italy |
| Something in the Dirt | Something in the Dirt | Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | United States |

### Cinema Indigenized

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Bones of Crows | Bones of Crows | Marie Clements | Canada |
| Ever Deadly | Ever Deadly | Chelsea McMullan, Tanya Tagaq | Canada |
| The Issue with Tissue | The Issue with Tissue | Michael Zelniker | Canada |
| The Klabona Keepers | The Klabona Keepers | Tamo Campos, Jasper Snow-Rosen | Canada |
| Stories of Decolonization: (De)Colonial Relations | Stories of Decolonization: (De)Colonial Relations | Gladys Rowe, Teddy Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara | Canada |

### Shorts

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Alex | Alex | Aisha Evelyna | Canada |
| Anaconda | Anaconda | Joshua D. Amar | United States |
| Aska | Aska | Clara Milo | Canada |
| Beauty Queen | Beauty Queen | Myra Aquino | Philippines |
| Becoming Tom Thomson | Becoming Tom Thomson | Steve Belford | Canada |
| Belle River | Belle River | Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau, Yannick Nolin | Canada |
| Benevolent | Benevolent | Jared Marino | Canada |
| The Benevolents | Les Bienveillants | Sarah Baril Gaudet | Canada |
| Best Wishes | Best Wishes | Zhang Xiaoan | China |
| The Big Red Bastard | The Big Red Bastard | Thomas Horvath | United States |
| The Boy Who Couldn't Feel Pain | The Boy Who Couldn't Feel Pain | Eugen Merher | Germany |
| Braided Together | Braided Together | Victoria Anderson-Gardner, Kyle Schmalenberg | Canada |
| Bump | Bump | Maziyar Khatam | Canada |
| Darkside | Darkside | Spencer Zimmerman | Canada |
| The Electricity in Me | The Electricity in Me | Mat Sheldon | United Kingdom |
| Eye for an Eye | Oeil pour oeil | Anthony Coveney | Canada |
| Familiar Stranger | Il Nonno che non c'è | Sara Furrer, Fabian Lütolf | Switzerland |
| Fictions | Fictions | Alice Charlie Liu | Canada |
| Fieldtrip | Fieldtrip | Soren Bendt, Paul Arion | United Kingdom |
| First Semester of Second Grade | First Semester of Second Grade | Chengqing Zhu | China |
| Free Fall | Free Fall | Emmanuel Tenenbaum | France |
| French Enough | Assez French | Alexis Normand | Canada |
| Gina | Gina | Kathryn Prescott | United States |
| Grandmothers | Grandmothers | Millefiore Clarkes | Canada |
| A Great Big Terrible Dream | A Great Big Terrible Dream | Maxine Lemieux | Canada |
| Great Seeing You | Great Seeing You | Holly Pruner | Canada |
| In the Dark | In the Dark | Bronson Allen | Canada |
| An Invitation | An Invitation | Yeung Tung, Hao Zhao | China |
| A Jesuit | A Jesuit | Angus McMaster | Canada |
| Killing Bagheera | Killing Bagheera | Muschirf Shekh Zeyn | Syria |
| Little Bird | Little Bird | Tee Schneider | Canada |
| Living All of Life | Vivir todo la vida | Marlén Rios-Farjat | Mexico |
| Lockjaw | Tétanos | Alexandre Lefebvre | Canada |
| Menace | Menace | Joy Webster | Canada |
| Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics | Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics | Terril Calder | Canada |
| The Middle | The Middle | Hannah Jovin, Adrian Morphy | Canada |
| Moonshine | Moonshine | Sarah Dunlavey | Canada |
| Mother of Invention | Mother of Invention | Holly Brace-Lavoie | Canada |
| More Than Hair | Plus que des cheveux | Fitch Jean | Canada |
| N'xaxaitkw | N'xaxaitkw | Asia Youngman | Canada |
| Nuisance Bear | Nuisance Bear | Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden | Canada |
| On Your Behalf | On Your Behalf | Ana Garcia Rico | United Kingdom |
| Open House | Open House | Tom Sidi | United States |
| Service | Palvelus | Mikko Makela | Finland |
| A Shore Away | L'Autre rive | Gaëlle Graton | Canada |
| Spiral | Kierre | Salla Sorri, Eva-Maria Koskinen | Finland |
| Tequila Sunset | Tequila Sunset | Jinsul Song | United States |
| There Are No Children Here | There Are No Children Here | Shehrezade Mian | Canada |
| What Flowers They Bloom | What Flowers They Bloom | C. Hudson Hwang | Canada |
| When She Was Good | When She Was Good | Margarita Milne | United Kingdom |
| Where the Grass Is Greener | Là où il fait bon vivre | Guillaume Massi-Hamel | Canada |
| White Rose | Rose blanche | Marilou Caravecchia-Pelletier | Canada |