2003 Toronto International Film Festival
The 28th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 4 to September 13, 2003. A total of 336 films from 55 countries were screened during the festival. Of the feature films, 73% were world, international, or North American premieres.
Awards
Programmes
Viacom Galas
- Bon Voyage directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- The Boys from County Clare directed by John Irvin
- Code 46 directed by Michael Winterbottom
- The Company directed by Robert Altman
- Danny Deckchair directed by Jeff Balsmeyer
- Girl with a Pearl Earring directed by Peter Webber
- Good Morning, Night directed by Marco Bellocchio
- The Human Stain directed by Robert Benton
- In the Cut directed by Jane Campion
- The Barbarian Invasions directed by Denys Arcand
- Mambo Italiano directed by Émile Gaudreault
- Matchstick Men directed by Ridley Scott
- Nathalie... directed by Anne Fontaine
- Out of Time directed by Carl Franklin
- The Republic of Love directed by Deepa Mehta
- Rosenstrasse directed by Margarethe von Trotta
- School of Rock directed by Richard Linklater
- Veronica Guerin directed by Joel Schumacher
Canadian Open Vault
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz directed by Ted Kotcheff
Canadian Retrospective
- Back to God's Country directed by David M. Hartford
- A Bear, a Boy and a Dog directed by Bert Van Tuyle
- The Grub Stake directed by Bert Van Tuyle and Nell Shipman
- The Light on Lookout directed by Bert Van Tuyle and Nell Shipman
- Something New directed by Bert Van Tuyle and Nell Shipman
- The Story of Mr. Hobbs directed by Lorenzo Alagio
- The Trail of the North Wind directed by Nell Shipman
- White Water directed by Bert Van Tuyle and Nell Shipman
Contemporary World Cinema
- Abjad directed by Abolfazl Jalili
- Alexandra's Project directed by Rolf de Heer
- Antenna directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
- At Five in the Afternoon directed by Samira Makhmalbaf
- B-Happy directed by Gonzalo Justiniano
- Bright Young Things directed by Stephen Fry
- Broken Wings directed by Nir Bergman
- Crimson Gold directed by Jafar Panahi
- Since Otar Left directed by Julie Bertuccelli
- Drifters directed by Wang Xiaoshuai
- Dummy directed by Greg Pritikin
- Errance directed by Damien Odoul
- The Event directed by Thom Fitzgerald
- Evil directed by Mikael Håfström
- Facing Windows directed by Ferzan Özpetek
- Forest directed by Benedek Fliegauf
- Böse Zellen directed by Barbara Albert
- Fuse directed by Pjer Žalica
- The Galíndez File directed by Gerardo Herrero
- Golden Chicken directed by Samson Chiu
- Good Bye, Lenin! directed by Wolfgang Becker
- A Good Lawyer's Wife directed by Im Sang-soo
- Grimm directed by Alex van Warmerdam
- Gun-shy directed by Dito Tsintsadze
- Incantato directed by Pupi Avati
- The Hours of the Day directed by Jaime Rosales
- I'm Not Scared directed by Gabriele Salvatores
- Identity Kills directed by Sören Voigt
- In the City directed by Cesc Gay
- Intermission directed by John Crowley
- Interview directed by Theo van Gogh
- James' Journey to Jerusalem directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
- Japanese Story directed by Sue Brooks
- Kamchatka directed by Marcelo Piñeyro
- Kitchen Stories directed by Bent Hamer
- Last Life in the Universe directed by Pen-ek Ratanaruang
- The Last Virgin directed by Joel Lamangan
- Loving Glances directed by Srđan Karanović
- The Magic Gloves directed by Martín Rejtman
- Where Is Madame Catherine? directed by Marc Recha
- Memories of Murder directed by Bong Joon-ho
- Milwaukee, Minnesota directed by Allan Mindel
- The Mother directed by Roger Michell
- My Life Without Me directed by Isabel Coixet
- Noi the Albino directed by Dagur Kári
- Nicotina directed by Hugo Rodríguez
- Nos enfants chéris directed by Benoît Cohen
- Osama directed by Siddiq Barmak
- Pieces of April directed by Peter Hedges
- Prey for Rock & Roll directed by Alex Steyermark
- The Principles of Lust directed by Penny Woolcock
- Prosti directed by Erik Matti
- PTU directed by Johnnie To
- Pupendo directed by Jan Hřebejk
- Purple Butterfly directed by Lou Ye
- Who Killed Bambi? directed by Gilles Marchand
- Ramblers directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita
- Remake directed by Dino Mustafić
- Remember Me, My Love directed by Gabriele Muccino
- The Return directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Secret File directed by Paolo Benvenuti
- Shara directed by Naomi Kawase
- Silence Between Two Thoughts directed by Babak Payami
- So Far Away directed by Juan Carlos Tabío
- Al sur de Granada directed by Fernando Colomo
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring directed by Kim Ki-duk
- Stander directed by Bronwen Hughes
- Stormy Weather directed by Sólveig Anspach
- Struggle directed by Ruth Mader
- SuperTex directed by Jan Schütte
- Testosterone directed by David Moreton
- All the Fine Promises directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac
- Travellers and Magicians directed by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
- Vibrator directed by Ryūichi Hiroki
- Vodka Lemon directed by Hiner Saleem
- What the Eye Doesn't See directed by Francisco José Lombardi
- Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself directed by Lone Scherfig
- Wonderland directed by James Cox
- Young Adam directed by David Mackenzie
Dialogues: Talking With Pictures
- Alien directed by Ridley Scott
- Bad Timing directed by Nicolas Roeg
- Ikiru directed by Akira Kurosawa
- Nashville directed by Robert Altman
- One from the Heart directed by Francis Ford Coppola
- Twenty Years Later directed by Eduardo Coutinho
Spotlight
- Clouds of May directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- The Confession directed by Zeki Demirkubuz
- Uzak directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Encounter directed by Ömer Kavur
- Fate directed by Zeki Demirkubuz
- Anayurt Oteli directed by Ömer Kavur
- The Secret Face directed by Ömer Kavur
- Kasaba directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- The Third Page directed by Zeki Demirkubuz
Discovery
- directed by Greg Marcks
- 16 Years of Alcohol directed by Richard Jobson
- Ana and the Others directed by Celina Murga
- Christmas directed by Gregory King
- Les corps impatients directed by Xavier Giannoli
- Dallas 362 directed by Scott Caan
- Easy directed by Jane Weinstock
- The Green Butchers directed by Anders Thomas Jensen
- I Love Your Work directed by Adam Goldberg
- Love Me If You Dare directed by Yann Samuell
- Koktebel directed by Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei Popogrebski
- The Last Customer directed by Nanni Moretti
- Madness and Genius directed by Ryan Eslinger
- Maqbool directed by Vishal Bhardwaj
- My Father and I directed by Xu Jinglei
- My Town directed by Marek Lechki
- Matrubhoomi directed by Manish Jha
- Noviembre directed by Achero Mañas
- Rhinoceros Eyes directed by Aaron Woodley
- Rick directed by Curtiss Clayton
- Sexual Dependency directed by Rodrigo Bellott
- A Smile directed by Park Kyung-hee
- Ljeto u zlatnoj dolini directed by Srđan Vuletić
- This Little Life directed by Sarah Gavron
- The Triggerstreet.com Project
Masters
- Casa de los Babys directed by John Sayles
- Chokher Bali, A Passion Play directed by Rituparno Ghosh
- Come and Go directed by João César Monteiro
- Dying at Grace directed by Allan King
- Elephant directed by Gus Van Sant
- I'll Sleep When I'm Dead directed by Mike Hodges
- A Talking Picture directed by Manoel de Oliveira
- Le Temps du Loup directed by Michael Haneke
- Zatoichi directed by Takeshi Kitano
Midnight Madness
- Cypher directed by Vincenzo Natali
- ' directed by Jim Fields and Michael Gramaglia
- Gozu directed by Takashi Miike
- ' directed by Takashi Shimizu
- Haute Tension directed by Alexandre Aja
- directed by Prachya Pinkaew
- Save the Green Planet! directed by Jang Joon-hwan
- Undead directed by Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig
- Underworld directed by Len Wiseman
National Cinema
- Bus 174 directed by José Padilha
- Carandiru directed by Hector Babenco
- God Is Brazilian directed by Carlos Diegues
- The Man of the Year directed by José Henrique Fonseca
- Margarette's Feast directed by Renato Falcão
- The Middle of the World directed by Vicente Amorim
- The Storytellers directed by Eliane Caffé
Perspective Canada
- directed by Bernard Émond
- Animal Nightmares directed by Peter Lynch
- Aspiration directed by Constant Mentzas
- Bager directed by Tomi Grgicevic
- The Big Charade directed by Jesse McKeown
- The Bread Maker directed by Anita McGee
- The Corporation directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
- Déformation Personnelle directed by Jean-François Asselin
- Defile in Veil directed by Deco Dawson
- DNA directed by Jack Blum
- The Dog Walker directed by James Genn
- Emile directed by Carl Bessai
- Exposures directed by Matt Sinclair-Foreman
- An Eye for an Eye directed by David Rimmer
- Falling Angels directed by Scott Smith
- The Fever of the Western Nile directed by Deco Dawson
- Flyerman directed by Jeff Stephenson and Jason Tan
- The Garden directed by Jason Buxton
- Gaz Bar Blues directed by Louis Bélanger
- Grotesque directed by Wrik Mead
- Guest Room directed by Skander Halim
- her carnal longings directed by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
- Hollywood North directed by Peter O'Brian
- Imitations of Life directed by Mike Hoolboom
- In the Dark directed by Mike Hoolboom
- Jours en fleurs directed by Louise Bourque
- The Last Night directed by Mathieu Guez
- A Little Life directed by Elizabeth Murray
- Love, Sex and Eating the Bones directed by Sudz Sutherland
- The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam directed by Ann Marie Fleming
- Mardi directed by Lyne Charlebois
- Moccasin Flats directed by Randy Redroad
- Noël Blank directed by Jean-François Rivard
- Not a Fish Story directed by Anita Doron
- Nothing directed by Vincenzo Natali
- On the Corner directed by Nathaniel Geary
- Passages directed by John Price
- Perfect directed by Boris Rodriguez
- Pop Song directed by Charles Officer
- A Problem with Fear directed by Gary Burns
- Proteus directed by John Greyson
- Saskatchewan Part 2 directed by Brian Stockton
- The School directed by Ezra Krybus and Matthew Miller
- She Was Cuba directed by Ho Tam
- Shooting Star directed by Jason Britski
- Sometimes a Voice directed by Simon Davidson
- Song of Wreckage directed by Ryan Redford
- Terminal Venus directed by Alexandre Franchi
- Todd and the Book of Pure Evil directed by Craig D. Wallace
- Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole directed by Gil Cardinal
- The Truth about Head directed by Dale Heslip
- Twist directed by Jacob Tierney
- Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner directed by Jamie Travis
- Wildflowers directed by Geoffrey Uloth
- X Man directed by Christopher Hinton
Planet Africa
- Afropunk: The "Rock n Roll Nigger" Experience directed by James Spooner
- Dark directed by D.A. Bullock
- His/Her Story directed by Nzinga Kemp
- Histoire de Tresses directed by Jacqueline Kalimunda
- How to Get the Man's Foot Out of Your Ass directed by Mario Van Peebles
- Mille Mois directed by Faouzi Bensaïdi
- Moi et mon blanc directed by S. Pierre Yameogo
- One Love directed by Rick Elgood and Don Letts
- Outcry directed by Destau Damtou
- Short on Sugar directed by Joseph Anaya
- Le Silence de la forêt directed by Didier Ouénangaré and Bassek ba Kobhio
- The Sky in Her Eyes directed by Ouida Smit and Madoda Ncayiyana
- Soldiers of the Rock directed by Norman Maake
- Strange & Charmed directed by Shari Frilot
- Valley of the Innocent directed by Branwen Okpako
- Les Yeux secs directed by Narjiss Nejjar
Real to Reel
- The Agronomist directed by Jonathan Demme
- ' directed by Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill
- The Blonds directed by Albertina Carri
- Bright Leaves directed by Ross McElwee
- Destiny's Children directed by Pimmi Pândé
- Dream Cuisine directed by Li Ying
- Enquête sur le monde invisible directed by Jean-Michel Roux
- Festival Express directed by Bob Smeaton
- The Five Obstructions directed by Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth
- ' directed by Vikram Jayanti
- Jesus, You Know directed by Ulrich Seidl
- Los Angeles Plays Itself directed by Thom Andersen
- Mayor of the Sunset Strip directed by George Hickenlooper
- Molly & Mobarak directed by Tom Zubrycki
- The Passion of María Elena directed by Mercedes Moncada
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised directed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain
- S21, La Machine de mort Khmère Rouge directed by Rithy Panh
- The Story of the Weeping Camel directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni
- ' directed by Tom Peosay
- Tom Dowd and the Language of Music directed by Mark Moormann
- ' directed by Wang Bing
- ' directed by Wang Bing
- ' directed by Wang Bing
- The Yes Men directed by Dan Ollman, Sarah Price and Chris Smith
Special Presentations
- 21 Grams directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Alila directed by Amos Gitaï
- The Best of Youth directed by Marco Tullio Giordana
- Cheeky directed by David Thewlis
- Coffee and Cigarettes directed by Jim Jarmusch
- The Cooler directed by Wayne Kramer
- Dogville directed by Lars von Trier
- Far Side of the Moon directed by Robert Lepage
- The Fog of War directed by Errol Morris
- Go Further directed by Ron Mann
- The Gospel of John directed by Philip Saville
- La Grande Séduction directed by Jean-François Pouliot
- L' Histoire de Marie et Julien directed by Jacques Rivette
- Lost in Translation directed by Sofia Coppola
- Love Actually directed by Richard Curtis
- The Merry Widow directed by Erich von Stroheim
- Monsieur Ibrahim directed by François Dupeyron
- Père et fils directed by Michel Boujenah
- Raja directed by Jacques Doillon
- The Saddest Music in the World directed by Guy Maddin
- Les Sentiments directed by Noémie Lvovsky
- Shattered Glass directed by Billy Ray
- The Singing Detective directed by Keith Gordon
- The Snow Walker directed by Charles Martin Smith
- The Station Agent directed by Tom McCarthy
- Touching the Void directed by Kevin Macdonald
- Valentín directed by Alejandro Agresti
- Zhou Yu's Train directed by Sun Zhou
Visions
- Bright Future directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- The Brown Bunny directed by Vincent Gallo
- Cremaster 3 directed by Matthew Barney
- Good Bye, Dragon Inn directed by Tsai Ming-liang
- Greendale directed by Bernard Shakey a.k.a. Neil Young
- In This World directed by Michael Winterbottom
- Nine Souls directed by Toshiaki Toyoda
- Des Plumes dans la tête directed by Thomas de Thier
- Sansa directed by Siegfried
- The Tesseract directed by Oxide Pang
- The Triplets of Belleville directed by Sylvain Chomet
- The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Episode 3. Antwerp directed by Peter Greenaway
- The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1. The Moab Story directed by Peter Greenaway
- Twentynine Palms directed by Bruno Dumont
Wavelengths
- Bouquet 25 directed by Rose Lowder
- Chinese Series directed by Stan Brakhage
- Cocteau Cento directed by Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino
- Early Monthly Segments directed by Robert Beavers
- Fear of Blushing directed by Jennifer Reeves
- The Ground directed by Robert Beavers
- He Walked Away directed by Jennifer Reeves
- The Hedge Theater directed by Robert Beavers
- Horizontal Boundaries Second Projection directed by Pat O'Neill
- In the Garden directed by Ute Aurand and Bärbel Freund
- Interior directed by Jim Jennings
- Let's Make a Sandwich directed by Pat O'Neill
- Meditations on Revolution, Part V: Foreign City directed by Robert Fenz
- Megalopolis directed by Jim Jennings
- No directed by Sharon Lockhart
- Noor directed by Deborah Phillips
- Outline directed by Sandra Gibson
- Psalm III: "Night of the Meek" directed by Phil Solomon
- Quadro directed by Lotte Schreiber
- Rolling in My Ears directed by Barry Gerson
- Seasons directed by Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage
- Stan's Window and Work in Progress directed by Stan Brakhage
- System of Transitions directed by Johannes Hammel
- Translucent Appearances directed by Barry Gerson
- The Visitation directed by Nathaniel Dorsky