# 2024 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival

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. The first titles in the program were announced on August 13, 2024, with the full program announced on August 22.
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, 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).
On September 7, the festival announced changes to the final schedule, pulling the previously announced Lucky Star and adding three other titles.

## Awards

Award winners were announced on September 26.
| 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 | Ephemera | Cici Clancy |
| 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 | 1995 | Ricardo Trogi | Canada |
| Bob Trevino Likes It | Bob Trevino Likes It | Tracie Laymon | United States |
| Bookworm | 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 | Drive Back Home | Michael Clowater | Canada |
| The Invisibles | The Invisibles | Andrew Currie | Canada |
| The Mother and the Bear | The Mother and the Bear | Johnny Ma | Canada, Chile |
| The Outrun | The Outrun | Nora Fingscheidt | United Kingdom, Germanh |
| Young Werther | Young Werther | José Lourenço | Canada |

### Special Presentations

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 40 Acres | 40 Acres | R. T. Thorne | Canada |
| Anora | Anora | Sean Baker | United States |
| The Apprentice | The Apprentice | Ali Abbasi | Canada, Denmark, Ireland, United States |
| Bird | Bird | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom |
| Blue Sky Jo | La petite et le vieux | Patrice Sauvé | Canada |
| Can I Get a Witness? | Can I Get a Witness? | Ann Marie Fleming | Canada |
| Darkest Miriam | Darkest Miriam | Naomi Jaye | Canada |
| Disco's Revenge | 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 | Never Look Away | Lucy Lawless | New Zealand |
| Rumours | Rumours | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | Canada, Germany |
| Samia | Samia | Yasemin Şamdereli | Italy, Germany, Belgium |
| Shepherds | Berger | Sophie Deraspe | Canada |
| Sisters and Neighbors! | Nos belles-sœurs | René Richard Cyr | Canada |
| The Substance | The Substance | Coralie Fargeat | United Kingdom, United States, France |
| Treasure | 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 | All the Lost Ones | Mackenzie Donaldson | Canada |
| Bonjour Tristesse | Bonjour Tristesse | Durga Chew-Bose | Canada, Germany |
| Dada | Dada | Aaron Poole | Canada |
| Die Alone | Die Alone | Lowell Dean | Canada |
| His Father's Son | 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 | Paying for It | Sook-Yin Lee | Canada |
| Sharp Corner | Sharp Corner | Jason Buxton | Canada, Ireland |
| Shook | Shook | Amar Wala | Canada |
| A Thousand Cuts | A Thousand Cuts | Jake Horowitz | Canada |
| Universal Language | Une langue universelle | Matthew Rankin | Canada |
| We Forgot to Break Up | 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 | 7 Beats per Minute | Yuqi Kang | Canada |
| Curl Power | Curl Power | Josephine Anderson | Canada |
| The Hobby | The Hobby | Simon Ennis | Canada |
| Intercepted | 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 | Crossing | Levan Akin | Sweden, Denmark, France, Turkey, Georgia |
| A Different Man | 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 | Good One | India Donaldson | United States |
| In the Summers | In the Summers | Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio | United States, Mexico |
| Mamifera | Mamifera | Liliana Torres | Spain |
| Memoir of a Snail | Memoir of a Snail | Adam Elliot | Australia |
| Misericordia | Miséricorde | Alain Guiraudie | France, Spain, Portugal |
| The Missile | Ohjus | Miia Tervo | Finland, Estonia |
| My First Film | My First Film | Zia Anger | United States |
| Reinas | Reinas | Klaudia Reynicke | Switzerland, Peru |
| Rent Free | Rent Free | Fernando Andrés | United States |
| The Second Act | Le Deuxième acte | Quentin Dupieux | France |
| To a Land Unknown | 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 | Black Box Diaries | Shiori Itō | United States, United Kingdom, Japan |
| Ernest Cole: Lost and Found | Ernest Cole: Lost and Found | Raoul Peck | France |
| Mediha | Mediha | Hasan Oswald | United States, Iraq |
| Porcelain War | Porcelain War | Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev | United States, Australia, Ukraine |
| Stories and Pictures | Stories and Pictures | Joanna Rudnick | United States |
| Union | 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 | 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 | Aberdeen | Ryan Cooper, Eva Thomas | Canada |
| Red Fever | Red Fever | Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge | Canada |
| Seeds | Seeds | Kaniehtiio Horn | Canada |

### Cinema 9 Prime Time

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Home Free | Home Free | Avi Federgreen | Canada |
| Morningside | Morningside | Ron Dias | Canada |

### Short Circuit

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Anywhere | Nooj Goji | Evelyn Pakinewatik | Canada |
| Le Charade | Le Charade | Erika Totoro | United States |
| Curveball | Curveball | Igor Petrov | Canada |
| Deadpan | Deadpan | Aidan Cheeatow | Canada |
| The End of Love | The End of Love | Yanwenjun Liu | China |
| Ephemera | Ephemera | Cici Clancy | Canada |
| Karatéka | Karatéka | Florence Fauquet | France |
| The Painted Night | The Painted Night | Ben Bruhmuller | Canada |
| Rapture | Le Ravissement | Camille Trudel | Canada |
| Save Solace | Save Solace | Matt Steeves | Canada |
| Simp | Simp | Gabriel Carnick | United States |
| Summer Love | Summer Love | Virgile Ratelle | Canada |
| Tennis, Oranges | Tennis, Oranges | Sean Pecknold | United States |
| Thirteenth Night | Thirteenth Night | Xiaowen Song | China |
| Unclean | Unclean | Simon Chouinard | Canada |
| Wifi | Wifi | Ted Sakowsky | Canada |
| Zoé | Zoé | Rémi St-Michel | Canada |

### CTV Best in Shorts

The festival's dedicated competition for amateur short filmmakers from Northern Ontario.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Community |
| Cupid's Assist | Cupid's Assist | Richard Barlow | Sudbury |
| Ephemera | Ephemera | Cici Clancy | Sudbury |
| How to Eat a Rainbow | How to Eat a Rainbow | Tom Reid | Sudbury |
| Lucy's Birthday | Lucy's Birthday | Liam Siebolt | North Bay |
| The Painted Knight | The Painted Knight | Ben Bruhmuller | Sudbury |
| Save Solace | Save Solace | Matt Steeves | Temagami |
| The Snipers | The Snipers | Kelly Saxberg | Thunder Bay |
| The Stain | The Stain | MJ Dionne | Sudbury |