1997 Toronto International Film Festival
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| Opening film | The Sweet Hereafter[1] |
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| Closing film | Jackie Brown |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Hosted by | Toronto International Film Festival Group |
| No. of films | 279 films |
| Festival date | September 4, 1997–September 13, 1997 |
| Language | English |
| Website | tiff |
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]
Contents
Awards
| Award[5] | Film | Director |
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| 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
Galas
- 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
- FairyTale: A True Story 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
- Seven Years in Tibet by Jean-Jacques Annaud
- The Sweet Hereafter by Atom Egoyan
- 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
- The Apostle by Robert Duvall
- 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
The 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
- 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
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