1997 Toronto International Film Festival

1997 Toronto International Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film	The Sweet Hereafter[1]
Closing film	Seven Years in Tibet
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by	Toronto International Film Festival Group
No. 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		Roshell Bissett
Best Canadian Short Film - Special Mention
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award	Under the Skin	Carine Adler

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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Mr. Jealousy by Noah Baumbach
• My Best Girl by Sam Taylor
• Nil by Mouth by Gary Oldman
• One Night Stand by Mike Figgis
• 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
• 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, 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
• by
• by
• by Gary Yates
• by
• by
• by
• by Bruno Lazaro
• The Countess of Baton Rouge by André Forcier
• Cosmos by Manon Briand, André Turpin, , Denis Villeneuve, Jennifer Alleyn, Arto Paragamian
• by Roshell Bissett
• Cube by Vincenzo Natali
• by
• Drive, She Said by Mina Shum
• by Tim Southam
• by Maya Gallus
• by
• Gerrie & Louise by Sturla Gunnarsson
• by
• by Wrik Mead
• by Noam Gonick
• The Hanging Garden by Thom Fitzgerald
• Hayseed by and
• by
• by
• by
• Kitchen Party by Gary Burns
• by Richard Reeves
• by
• by Kari Skogland
• by
• by Noam Gonick
• Permission by Daniel MacIvor
• Pitch by Spencer Rice and Kenny Hotz
• The Planet of Junior Brown by Clement Virgo
• by
• The Seat of the Soul by
• by
• by Ali Kazimi
• Shopping for Fangs by Quentin Lee, Justin Lin
• by ,
• by Sheri Elwood
• Tu as crié: Let me go by Anne Claire Poirier
• Twilight of the Ice Nymphs by Guy Maddin
• by
• Uncut by John Greyson
• by
• by John Kneller
• by
• by Keith Behrman
• by Sylvain Guy

Contemporary World Cinema[]

• The Assistant by Daniel Petrie
• by Shinobu Yaguchi
• Blinded by Daniel Calparsoro
• by
• Brother by Aleksei Balabanov
• Love, Math and Sex by
• Character by Mike van Diem
• by Denis Chouinard,
• by
• Conceiving Ada by Lynn Hershman Leeson
• by Peque Gallaga,
• 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 ,
• by Sylvie Verheyde
• The Girl with Brains in Her Feet by
• Gummo by Harmony Korine
• by Đặng Nhật Minh
• Happy Together by Wong Kar-wai
• Heaven's Burning by Craig Lahiff
• by
• I Think I Do by
• by Oskar Roehler
• Inside/Out by Robert Tregenza
• Insomnia by Erik Skjoldbjærg
• by Mike Barker
• 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
• by
• Long Twilight by
• Love and Death on Long Island by Richard Kwietniowski
• Ma vie en rose by Alain Berliner
• Majorettes in Space by
• The Maker by Tim Hunter
• by
• Marius and Jeannette by Robert Guédiguian
• Metroland by Philip Saville
• The Mirror by Jafar Panahi
• by
• 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
• by
• Onibi by Rokurō Mochizuki
• by
• by Walter Lima, Jr.
• Ashes of Paradise by Marcelo Piñeyro
• by Juraj Herz
• Port Djema by
• After Sex by Brigitte Roüan
• Private Confessions by Liv Ullmann
• Rizal sa Dapitan by Tikoy Aguiluz
• by Michael Almereyda
• The Soong Sisters by Mabel Cheung
• by Oscar Barney Finn
• Sue Lost in Manhattan by Amos Kollek
• Suzaku by Naomi Kawase
• Telling Lies in America by Guy Ferland
• by Lee Myung-se
• by
• by
• Touch Me by
• Touch Me Not by
• La Vérité si je mens ! by
• Vertical Love by
• La Vie de Jésus by Bruno Dumont
• by
• 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
• by Beto Brant
• Clockwatchers by Jill Sprecher
• by Jesse Peretz
• by Marcel Sisniega Campbell
• by
• In Praise of Older Women by
• by
• The Life of Stuff by
• by ,
• Marie Baie des Anges by Manuel Pradal
• by Peter Liechti
• Perfumed Ball by ,
• by James Herbert
• Somersault in a Coffin by Derviş Zaim
• The Sticky Fingers of Time by Hilary Brougher
• by Stephen Whittaker
• by Parviz Shahbazi
• Twenty Four Seven by Shane Meadows
• Under the Skin by Carine Adler
• Unmade Beds by
• Who the Hell Is Juliette? by Carlos Marcovich
• by Susanna Fogel

Planet Africa[]

• by
• Buud Yam by Gaston Kaboré
• The Draughtsmen Clash by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
• Dancehall Queen by Don Letts,
• Destiny by Youssef Chahine
• by
• Hav Plenty by Christopher Scott Cherot
• by
• by John Akomfrah
• Mossane by Safi Faye
• Sabriya by Abderrahmane Sissako
• by Adama Drabo
• by Shirikiana Aina
• by Nelson George

Real to Reel[]

• by Ira Wohl
• by Patricio Guzmán
• by Olivier Assayas
• by Monika Treut
• Exile in Sarajevo by ,
• by Ulrike Ottinger
• by
• Full Tilt Boogie by
• Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember by Anna Maria Tatò
• by Ariel Dorfman, Rodrigo Dorfman
• As Time Goes By by Ann Hui, Vincent Chui
• by Stanley Kwan
• 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, Emeric Pressburger, presented by Sally Potter

Balkan Cinema: Home Truths[]

• by
• The Awkward Age by Nenad Dizdarević
• by Eduard Zahariev
• by Goran Paskaljević
• The End of the War by Dragan Kresoja
• An Unforgettable Summer by Lucian Pintilie
• Felix by
• 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
• by
• by
• 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

Spotlight: Benoît Jacquot[]

• The Musician Killer by Benoît Jacquot
• by Benoît Jacquot
• by Benoît Jacquot
• A Single Girl by Benoît Jacquot
• by Benoît Jacquot
• Seventh Heaven by Benoît Jacquot

Nathan Phillips Square Outdoor Screening[]

• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Howard Hawks

Midnight Madness[]

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

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References[]

External links[]

• Official site
• 1997 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb