1997 Toronto International Film Festival

Awards

Programmes

Gala Opening Night

• The Sweet Hereafter by Atom Egoyan

  Gala Closing Night

• Seven Years in Tibet by Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Gala Presentations

• The Apostle by Robert Duvall
• Artemisia by Agnès Merlet
• The Assignment by Christian Duguay
• Chinese Box by Wayne Wang
• The Edge by Lee Tamahori
• Eve's Bayou by Kasi Lemmons
• by Charles Sturridge
• Gattaca by Andrew Niccol
• In & Out by Frank Oz
• L.A. Confidential by Curtis Hanson
• Marquise by Véra Belmont
• Men with Guns by John Sayles
• Mrs Dalloway by Marleen Gorris
• Regeneration by Gillies MacKinnon
• Swept from the Sea by Beeban Kidron
• Washington Square by Agnieszka Holland
• The Wings of the Dove by Iain Softley

  Special Presentations

• Afterglow by Alan Rudolph
• Le Bassin de J.W. by João César Monteiro
• The Big One by Michael Moore
• The Blackout by Abel Ferrara
• The Blood Oranges by Philip Haas
• Boogie Nights by Paul Thomas Anderson
• Face by Antonia Bird
• Fast, Cheap & Out of Control by Errol Morris
• Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano
• 4 Little Girls by Spike Lee
• Henry Fool by Hal Hartley
• The House of Yes by Mark Waters
• The Informant by Jim McBride
• Inspirations by Michael Apted
• The Alarmist by Evan Dunsky
• Loved by Erin Dignam
• Mr. Jealousy by Noah Baumbach
• My Best Girl by Sam Taylor
• Nil by Mouth by Gary Oldman
• One Night Stand by Mike Figgis
• Pronto by Jim McBride
• The Spanish Prisoner by David Mamet
• Suicide Kings by Peter O'Fallon
• The Tango Lesson by Sally Potter
• Two Girls and a Guy by James Toback
• Welcome to Sarajevo by Michael Winterbottom
• Year of the Horse by Jim Jarmusch

  Masters

• Das Schloß by Michael Haneke
• Iruvar by Mani Ratnam
• Esmeralda Comes by Night by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
• Funny Games by Michael Haneke
• Voyage to the Beginning of the World by Manoel de Oliveira
• Keep Cool by Zhang Yimou
• Mon oncle Antoine by Claude Jutra
• Moon Over Broadway by Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker
• Mother and Son by Alexander Sokurov
• The Scar by Krzysztof Kieślowski
• The Eel by Shōhei Imamura

  Perspective Canada

• The Absent One by Céline Baril
• Across by Cara Morton
• Anna à la lettre C by Hugo Brochu
• The Big Pickle by Gary Yates
• BP 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
• ' by Maya Gallus
• Fresh Off the Boat by Peter Demas
• Gerrie & Louise by Sturla Gunnarsson
• Grace Eternal by Neil Burns
• Guise by Wrik Mead
• ' 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
• The Seat of the Soul by Olivier Asselin
• Shift by Shaun Cathcart
• ' by Ali Kazimi
• Shopping for Fangs by Quentin Lee and Justin Lin
• The Skating Party by Marcia Connolly and Janet Hawkwood
• The Swimming Lesson by Sheri Elwood
• ' 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
• 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
• Majorettes in Space by David Fourier
• 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
• 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

• ' 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
• ' 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
• by Dušan Makavejev

  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
• Seventh Heaven by Benoît Jacquot

  Nathan Phillips Square Outdoor Screening

• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Howard Hawks

  Midnight Madness

• ' by Andrew Chan
• ' 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
• by Kirby Dick
• The Ugly by Scott Reynolds