1993 Toronto International Film Festival
Opening film | M. Butterfly |
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Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Hosted by | Toronto International Film Festival Group |
Festival date | September 9, 1993 | –September 18, 1993
Language | English |
Website | tiff |
The 18th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 18, 1993. M. Butterfly by David Cronenberg was selected as the opening film.[1][2][3]
Forest Whitaker won FIPRESCI International Critics' Award for Strapped.
Awards[]
Award[4][5] | Film | Director |
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People's Choice Award | The Snapper | Stephen Frears |
Metro Media Award | Naked | Mike Leigh |
Best Canadian Feature Film | Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance | Alanis Obomsawin |
Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation | Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould | François Girard |
Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation | Zero Patience | John Greyson |
Best Canadian Short Film | Save My Lost Nigga Soul | Clement Virgo |
Best Canadian Short Film - Special Jury Citation | Me, Mom and Mona | Mina Shum |
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award | Strapped | Forest Whitaker |
Programme[]
Gala presentations[]
- The Accompanist (L'Accompagnatrice), Claude Miller
- Belle Époque, Fernando Trueba
- Bitter Moon, Roman Polanski
- Bopha!, Morgan Freeman
- A Bronx Tale by Robert De Niro
- A Dangerous Woman, Stephen Gyllenhaal
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Gus Van Sant
- Flight of the Innocent, Carlo Carlei
- The Joy Luck Club, Wayne Wang
- A Life in the Theatre, Gregory Mosher
- Love and Human Remains, Denys Arcand
- M. Butterfly, David Cronenberg
- Bernhard Sinkel (Der Kinoerzähler),
- The Piano, Jane Campion
- Red Rock West, John Dahl
- Rudy, David Anspaugh
- The Snapper, Stephen Frears
- Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, François Girard
Special presentations[]
- Arizona Dream, Emir Kusturica
- The Baby of Mâcon, Peter Greenaway
- El Cid, Anthony Mann
- L'enfant lion, Patrick Grandperret
- Farewell My Concubine, Chen Kaige
- Friends, Elaine Proctor
- Hadashi no pikunikku, Shinobu Yaguchi
- Madadayo, Akira Kurosawa
- The Puppetmaster, Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Romeo Is Bleeding, Peter Medak
- The Saint of Fort Washington by Tim Hunter
- Three Colors: Blue, Krzysztof Kieślowski
World Cinema[]
- 1, 2, 3, Sun (Un, deux, trois, soleil), Bertrand Blier
- The Ballad of Little Jo, Maggie Greenwald
- The Cement Garden, Andrew Birkin
- La Crise, Coline Serreau
- Daens, Stijn Coninx
- Darkness in Tallinn, Ilkka Järvi-Laturi
- , Dusan Makavejev
- , Jeff Feuerzeig
- Hélas pour moi, Jean-Luc Godard[6]
- Household Saints, Nancy Savoca
- Le journal de Lady M., Alain Tanner[6]
- ,
- Lessons of Darkness, Werner Herzog
- Naked by Mike Leigh
- (Une nouvelle vie), Olivier Assayas
- Raining Stones, Ken Loach
- Samba Traoré, Idrissa Ouedraogo
- Sankofa, Haile Gerima
- Shadow of a Doubt (L'ombre du doute), Aline Issermann
- These Hands, Flora M’mbugu-Schelling
- The Wedding Banquet, Ang Lee
- , S. Pierre Yameogo
- The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl,
Italian Section[]
- L'aria serena dell'ovest by Silvio Soldini[6]
- Un'anima divisa in due by Silvio Soldini[6]
Latin American Panorama[]
- Cronos, Guillermo del Toro
- I Don't Want to Talk About It, Marcello Mastroianni
- Unexpected Encounter (Encuentro Inesperado), Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
The Edge[]
Spotlight[]
- Roi blanc, dame rouge by Sergei Bodrov[6]
Canadian Perspective[]
- Because Why, Arto Paragamian
- , Nettie Wild
- The Burning Season,
- Cap Tourmente, Michel Langlois
- ,
- I Love a Man in Uniform, David Wellington
- Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Alanis Obomsawin
- , Patricia Gruben
- The Lotus Eaters, Paul Shapiro
- , Mina Shum
- Moving the Mountain, and
- Mustard Bath, Darrell Wasyk
- Paris, France, Jerry Ciccoritti
- Picture of Light, Peter Mettler
- Save My Lost Nigga Soul, Clement Virgo
- The Sex of the Stars (Le sexe des étoiles), Paule Baillargeon
- Small Pleasures,
- , Spencer Rice
- ,
- Zero Patience, John Greyson
10 x 10[]
- The Dead Father, Guy Maddin
- (La Guerre oubliée),
- The Grocer's Wife, John Pozer
- Intimate Power (Pouvoir intime), Yves Simoneau
- Life Classes, William D. MacGillivray
- Pissoir, John Greyson
- Sonatine, Micheline Lanctôt
First Cinema[]
- Boxing Helena, Jennifer Lynch
- ,
- Kalifornia, Dominic Sena
- Menace II Society, Allen and Albert Hughes
- The Scent of Green Papaya, Tran Anh Hung
- Suture, Scott McGehee and David Siegel
Midnight Madness[]
- Acción mutante by Álex de la Iglesia
- Dazed and Confused by Richard Linklater
- Freaked by Alex Winter & Tom Stern
- Frauds by Stephan Elliott
- Jack Be Nimble by Garth Maxwell
- The Last Border by Mika Kaurismäki
- The Making of And God Spoke by Arthur Borman
- Trauma by Dario Argento
- Wicked City by Yoshiaki Kawajiri
- The Wicked City by Tsui Hark, Peter Mak
Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time[]
In 1993 a new Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time list was made, an exercise previously carried out in 1984 and later repeated in 2004.[8]
Rank | Title | Year | Director |
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1 | Mon oncle Antoine | 1971 | Claude Jutra |
2 | Jesus of Montreal | 1989 | Denys Arcand |
3 | Goin' Down the Road | 1970 | Don Shebib |
4 | The Decline of the American Empire | 1986 | Denys Arcand |
5 | Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) | 1980 | Francis Mankiewicz |
6 | Orders (Les Ordres) | 1974 | Michel Brault |
7 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | 1974 | Ted Kotcheff |
8 | The Grey Fox | 1983 | Phillip Borsos |
9 | I've Heard the Mermaids Singing | 1987 | Patricia Rozema |
10 | The Adjuster | 1991 | Atom Egoyan |
References[]
- ^ "TIFF: A history of opening nights". CBC News. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ "TIFF History". Archived from the original on 2013-10-15. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ "Taking a look back at TIFF". Archived from the original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ "TIFF Awards" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. tiff.net, October 19, 2013.
- ^ "TIFF People's Choice prize heralds film industry kudos". CBC News. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Toronto International Film Festival". Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme". Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ "Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time," The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2012, URL accessed 28 April 2013.
External links[]
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