1997 Toronto International Film Festival

1997 Toronto International Film Festival
Festival poster
Opening film	The Sweet Hereafter^[1]
Closing film	Jackie Brown
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by	Toronto International Film Festival Group
Number of films	279 films
Festival date	September 4, 1997 (1997-09-04)–September 13, 1997 (1997-09-13)
Language	English
Website	tiff.net

The 22nd Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 4 to September 13, 1997. This festival was notable for the introduction of the Masters programme to TIFF.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Awards

Award^[5]	Film	Director
People's Choice Award	The Hanging Garden	Thom Fitzgerald
Metro Media Award	Boogie Nights	Paul Thomas Anderson
Metro Media Award	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson
Best Canadian Feature Film	The Hanging Garden	Thom Fitzgerald
Best Canadian Feature Film	The Sweet Hereafter	Atom Egoyan
Best Canadian First Feature Film	Cube	Vincenzo Natali
Best Canadian Short Film	Cotton Candy	Roshell Bissett
Best Canadian Short Film - Special Mention	BP (Pushing the Boundaries)	Brian Nash
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award	Under the Skin	Carine Adler

Programmes

Perspective Canada

L'Absent by Céline Baril
Across by Cara Morton
Anna à la lettre C by Hugo Brochu
The Big Pickle by Gary Yates
BP (Pushing the Boundaries) by Brian Nash
Breakfast with Gus by Siobhan Devine
Bury Me Happy by Brian McPhail
City of Dark by Bruno Lazaro
The Countess of Baton Rouge by André Forcier
Cosmos by Manon Briand, André Turpin, Marie-Julie Dallaire, Denis Villeneuve, Jennifer Alleyn and Arto Paragamian
Cotton Candy by Roshell Bissett
Cube by Vincenzo Natali
Dance with Me by Cassandra Nicolaou
Drive, She Said by Mina Shum
Drowning in Dreams by Tim Southam
Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality by Maya Gallus
Fresh Off the Boat by Peter Demas
Gerrie & Louise by Sturla Gunnarsson
Grace Eternal by Neil Burns
Guise by Wrik Mead
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight by Noam Gonick
The Hanging Garden by Thom Fitzgerald
Hayseed by Josh Levy and Andrew Hayes
The Hazards of Falling Glass by John Martins-Manteiga
Incantation by Cara Morton
Kid Nerd by Shereen Jerrett
Kitchen Party by Gary Burns
Linear Dreams by Richard Reeves
The Mao Lounge by Chad Derrick
Men with Guns by Kari Skogland
Museum by Chris Walsh
1919 by Noam Gonick
Permission by Daniel MacIvor
Pitch by Spencer Rice and Kenny Hotz
The Planet of Junior Brown by Clement Virgo
Question of Reality by Barry Gibson
Shift by Shaun Cathcart
Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas by Ali Kazimi
Shopping for Fangs by Quentin Lee and Justin Lin
Le Siège de l'âme by Olivier Asselin
The Skating Party by Marcia Connolly and Janet Hawkwood
The Swimming Lesson by Sheri Elwood
Tu as crié: Let me go by Anne Claire Poirier
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs by Guy Maddin
Two Feet, One Angel by Ramiro Puerta
Uncut by John Greyson
La vie arrêtée by Martine Allard
We Are Experiencing... by John Kneller
What Goes Around by Lloyd Surdi
White Cloud, Blue Mountain by Keith Behrman
Zie 37 Stagen by Sylvain Guy

Contemporary World Cinema

The Assistant by Daniel Petrie
Bird Watching by Shinobu Yaguchi
Blinded by Daniel Calparsoro
Brain Holiday by Hineki Mito
Brother by Aleksei Balabanov
Love, Math and Sex by Charlotte Silvera
Character by Mike van Diem
Clandestins by Denis Chouinard and Nicolas Wadimoff
Close To by David Ottenhouse
Conceiving Ada by Lynn Hershman Leeson
Delirium by Peque Gallaga and Lore Reyes
Des majorettes dans l'espace by David Fourier
Devil's Island by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Doing Time for Patsy Cline by Chris Kennedy
East Palace, West Palace by Zhang Yuan
Four Days in September by Bruno Barreto
A Friend of the Deceased by Viatcheslav Krichtofovitch and Leonid Boyko
Un frère... by Sylvie Verheyde
The Girl with Brains in Her Feet by Roberto Bangura
Gummo by Harmony Korine
Hanoi-Winter 1946 by Đặng Nhật Minh
Happy Together by Wong Kar-wai
Heaven's Burning by Craig Lahiff
Homesick Eyes by Hsu Hsiao-ming
I Think I Do by Brian Sloan
Silvester Countdown by Oskar Roehler
Inside/Out by Robert Tregenza
Insomnia by Erik Skjoldbjærg
The James Gang by Mike Barker
Junk Food by Masashi Yamamoto
Junk Mail by Pål Sletaune
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by Robert Bierman
Kiss or Kill by Bill Bennett
Labyrinth of Dreams by Gakuryū Ishii
The Leading Hand by Masahiro Muramatsu
Long Twilight by Attila Janisch
Love and Death on Long Island by Richard Kwietniowski
Ma vie en rose by Alain Berliner
The Maker by Tim Hunter
The Man in Her Life by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
Marius and Jeannette by Robert Guédiguian
Metroland by Philip Saville
The Mirror by Jafar Panahi
Misfortune's End by Vu Xuan Hung
Murmur of Youth by Lin Cheng-sheng
The Myth of Fingerprints by Bart Freundlich
Nettoyage à sec by Anne Fontaine
No Child of Mine by Peter Kosminsky
Obsession by Peter Sehr
Okke-ke Bibirobos by Takuji Suzuki
Onibi by Rokurō Mochizuki
Our Boy by David Evans
The Oyster and the Wind by Walter Lima, Jr.
Ashes of Paradise by Marcelo Piñeyro
Passage by Juraj Herz
Port Djema by Eric Heumann
After Sex by Brigitte Roüan
Private Confessions by Liv Ullmann
Rizal sa Dapitan by Tikoy Aguiluz
The Rocking Horse Winner by Michael Almereyda
The Soong Sisters by Mabel Cheung
Stolen Moments by Oscar Barney Finn
Sue Lost in Manhattan by Amos Kollek
Suzaku by Naomi Kawase
Telling Lies in America by Guy Ferland
Their Last Love Affair by Lee Myung-se
They Call Me Joy by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
Thirteen by David D. Williams
Touch Me by H. Gordon Boos
Touch Me Not by Dimitrios Yatzouzakis
La Vérité si je mens ! by Thomas Gilou
Vertical Love by Arturo Sotto Díaz
La Vie de Jésus by Bruno Dumont
Le voleur de diagonale by Jean Darrigol
We All Fall Down by Davide Ferrario
Western by Manuel Poirier
Winter Sleepers by Tom Tykwer
The Witman Boys by János Szász
Wolves Cry Under the Moon by Ho Ping
Yours and Mine by Wang Shaudi

Discovery

Bandits by Katja von Garnier
Belly Up by Beto Brant
Clockwatchers by Jill Sprecher
First Love, Last Rites by Jesse Peretz
Guilt Free by Marcel Sisniega Campbell
The Impostor by Alejandro Maci
In Praise of Older Women by Manuel Lombardero
Life According to Muriel by Eduardo Milewicz
The Life of Stuff by Simon Donald
Lover Girl by Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse
Marie Baie des Anges by Manuel Pradal
Martha's Garden by Peter Liechti
Perfumed Ball by Lírio Ferreira and Paulo Caldas
Scars by James Herbert
Somersault in a Coffin by Derviş Zaim
The Sticky Fingers of Time by Hilary Brougher
Stone, Scissors, Paper by Stephen Whittaker
Traveler from the South by Parviz Shahbazi
Twenty Four Seven by Shane Meadows
Under the Skin by Carine Adler
Unmade Beds by Nicholas Barker
Who the Hell Is Juliette? by Carlos Marcovich
Words of Wisdom by Susanna Fogel

Planet Africa

Breeze by Barbara Sanon
Buud Yam by Gaston Kaboré
The Draughtsmen Clash by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
Dancehall Queen by Don Letts and Rick Elgood
Destiny by Youssef Chahine
Fools by Ramadan Suleman
Hav Plenty by Christopher Scott Cherot
Honey and Ashes by Nadia Farès
Martin Luther King: Days of Hope by John Akomfrah
Mossane by Safi Faye
Sabriya by Abderrahmane Sissako
Taafé Fanga by Adama Drabo
Through the Door of No Return by Shirikiana Aina
To Be a Black Man by Nelson George

Real To Reel

Best Man: 'Best Boy' and All of Us Twenty Years Later by Ira Wohl
Chile, Obstinate Memory by Patricio Guzmán
HHH - Un portrait de Hou Hsiao-Hsien by Olivier Assayas
Didn't Do It for Love by Monika Treut
Exile in Sarajevo by Tahir Cambis and Alma Sahbaz
Exile Shanghai by Ulrike Ottinger
From Son to Salsa by Rigoberto López
Full Tilt Boogie by Sarah Kelly
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember by Anna Maria Tatò
My House Is on Fire by Ariel Dorfman and Rodrigo Dorfman
As Time Goes By by Ann Hui and Vincent Chui
Still Love You After All These by Stanley Kwan
Robinson in Space by Patrick Keiller

Dialogues: Talking With Pictures

Detour by Edgar G. Ulmer, presented by Errol Morris
The Devil-Doll by Tod Browning, presented by Guy Maddin
Dont Look Back by D. A. Pennebaker, presented by Chris Hegedus
F for Fake by Orson Welles, presented by James Toback
The Fireman's Ball by Miloš Forman, presented by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Les Girls by George Cukor, presented by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Miloš Forman, presented by Chow Yun-fat
The Organizer by Mario Monicelli, presented by John Sayles
A Matter of Life and Death by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, presented by Sally Potter

Balkan Cinema: Home Truths

Across the Lake by Antonio Mitrikeski
The Awkward Age by Nenad Dizdarević
Belated Full Moon by Eduard Zahariev
The Days on Earth Are Flowing by Goran Paskaljević
The End of the War by Dragan Kresoja
An Unforgettable Summer by Lucian Pintilie
Felix by Božo Šprajc
The Goat Horn by Metodi Andonov
How the War Started on My Island by Vinko Brešan
The Perfect Circle by Ademir Kenović
Petria's Wreath by Srđan Karanović
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame by Srđan Dragojević
Thalassa, Thalassa by Bogdan Dumitrescu
Tired Companions by Zoran Solomun
Tito and Me by Goran Marković
Underground by Emir Kusturica
Vukovar Poste Restante by Boro Drašković
Who's Singin' Over There? by Slobodan Šijan
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism by Dušan Makavejev

Directors' Spotlight: Benoît Jacquot

The Musician Killer by Benoît Jacquot
Corps et biens by Benoît Jacquot
La désenchantée by Benoît Jacquot
A Single Girl by Benoît Jacquot
Marianne by Benoît Jacquot
Le septième ciel by Benoît Jacquot

Midnight Madness^[6]

A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation by Andrew Chan
Fudoh: The New Generation by Takashi Miike
I Married a Strange Person! by Bill Plympton
Love God by Frank Grow
Office Killer by Cindy Sherman
Orgazmo by Trey Parker
SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist by Kirby Dick
The Ugly by Scott Reynolds

References

↑ "TIFF: A history of opening nights". CBC News. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
↑ "279 Movies and 2 Funerals-Toronto International Film Festival Report". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
↑ "Glimmering in the Dark – Big Fun with Toronto's Treats". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
↑ "TIFF History". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
↑ "Awards". tiff.net, October 11, 2013.
↑ "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme". Retrieved October 19, 2013.

External links

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