1998 Toronto International Film Festival

1998 Toronto International Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film	The Red Violin
Closing film	Antz
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by	Toronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films	311 films
Festival date	September 10, 1998 (1998-09-10)–September 19, 1998 (1998-09-19)
Language	English
Website	tiff.net

The 23rd Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 10 to September 19, 1998. A total of 311 films were screened during the ten-day festival, commencing with the opening gala, The Red Violin.^[1][2][3][4]

Awards[]

Award[5]	Film	Director
People's Choice	Life Is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni
Metro Media Award	Happiness	Todd Solondz
Best Canadian Feature Film	Nô	Robert Lepage
Best Canadian First Feature Film	Last Night	Don McKellar
Best Canadian Short Film	When Ponds Freeze Over	Mary Lewis
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award	West Beirut	Ziad Doueiri
	Praise	John Curran

Programmes[]

Gala Opening Night[]

• The Red Violin by François Girard

Gala Closing Night[]

• Antz by Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson

Gala Presentations[]

• August 32nd on Earth by Denis Villeneuve
• Central Station by Walter Salles
• Dancing at Lughnasa by Pat O'Connor
• Dog Park by Bruce McCulloch
• Elizabeth by Shekhar Kapur
• Hilary and Jackie by Anand Tucker
• Judas Kiss by Sebastian Gutierrez
• The School of Flesh by Benoît Jacquot
• L.A. Without a Map by Mika Kaurismäki
• Lautrec by Roger Planchon
• Little Voice by Mark Herman
• Living Out Loud by Richard LaGravenese
• Pleasantville by Gary Ross
• A Simple Plan by Sam Raimi
• A Soldier's Sweetheart by
• Without Limits by Robert Towne

Special Presentations[]

• The Way We Laughed by Gianni Amelio
• Am I Beautiful? by Doris Dörrie
• Another Day in Paradise by Larry Clark
• Apt Pupil by Bryan Singer
• At Sachem Farm by
• Down in the Delta by Maya Angelou
• Earth by Deepa Mehta
• Finding Graceland by
• Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni
• Pecker by John Waters
• Permanent Midnight by
• Rushmore by Wes Anderson
• A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries by James Ivory
• Such a Long Journey by Sturla Gunnarsson
• Summer of the Monkeys by Michael Anderson
• The Giraffe by Dani Levy
• The Mighty by Peter Chelsom
• The Theory of Flight by Paul Greengrass
• Touch of Evil by Orson Welles
• Voleur de vie by Yves Angelo
• Wide Prairie by

Masters[]

• Besieged by Bernardo Bertolucci
• Aprile by Nanni Moretti
• Clouds by Fernando E. Solanas
• Conte d'automne by Éric Rohmer
• Divine by Arturo Ripstein
• Dr. Akagi by Shōhei Imamura
• Eternity and a Day by Theo Angelopoulos
• Flowers of Shanghai by Hou Hsiao-hsien
• The General by John Boorman
• Anxiety by Manoel de Oliveira
• My Name Is Joe by Ken Loach
• Cabaret Balkan by Goran Paskaljević
• The Silence by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Tango by Carlos Saura
• Tu Ridi by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

Perspective Canada[]

• 2 secondes by Manon Briand
• by Valerie Buhagiar
• by
• by
• Boy Meets Girl by Jerry Ciccoritti
• Brakhage by
• by Cynthia Roberts
• by Chris Grismer
• by James Allodi
• by
• by Wrik Mead
• by Catherine Martin
• by Zarqa Nawaz
• Destroying Angel by , Philip Hoffman
• by Bruce Sweeney
• by
• by Bruce McDonald
• by
• by
• Extraordinary Visitor by
• The Falling by
• by
• by Anthony Seck
• The Fisherman and His Wife by
• The Fishing Trip by Amnon Buchbinder
• by Wiebke von Carolsfeld
• by Jeremiah Hayes
• by Ann Marie Fleming
• by Gary Yates
• by Peter Lynch
• by
• by Mike Hoolboom
• Jack and Jill by
• by
• by
• Last Night by Don McKellar
• Leda and the Swan by
• by
• by Jennifer Baichwal
• Mr. Aiello (La Déroute) by Paul Tana
• by
• Moving Day by
• Nô by Robert Lepage
• Now or Never (Aujourd'hui ou jamais) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• by
• A Place Called Chiapas by Nettie Wild
• by
• by
• by
• Rupert's Land by Jonathan Tammuz
• by Mark Sawers
• by
• by
• by
• Streetheart (Le cœur au poing) by Charles Binamé
• by Nicolas Frichot
• by
• by
• by
• by Daniel MacIvor
• When I Will Be Gone (L'Âge de braise) by Jacques Leduc
• When Ponds Freeze Over by Mary Lewis

Contemporary World Cinema[]

• by Laetitia Masson
• All the Little Animals by Jeremy Thomas
• Bishonen by Yonfan
• Bedrooms and Hallways by Rose Troche
• The Book Of Life by Hal Hartley
• Buttoners by Petr Zelenka
• Caresses by Ventura Pons
• The Celebration by Thomas Vinterberg
• Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train by Patrice Chéreau
• Christmas in August by Hur Jin-ho
• The City by David Riker
• Claire Dolan by Lodge Kerrigan
• Clay Pigeons by David Dobkin
• by Chito S. Roño
• The Dance by Ágúst Guðmundsson
• by Abolfazl Jalili
• by
• Desert Blue by Morgan J. Freeman
• Le Dîner de Cons by Francis Veber
• F. est un salaud by Marcel Gisler
• by
• Fin août, début septembre by Olivier Assayas
• Fiona by Amos Kollek
• Fire-Eater by Pirjo Honkasalo
• by Karen Shakhnazarov
• by Peque Gallaga,
• Happiness by Todd Solondz
• Home Fries by Dean Parisot
• The Hole by Tsai Ming-liang
• I'm Losing You by Bruce Wagner
• The Impostors by Stanley Tucci
• In That Land by Lidia Bobrova
• by Marilou Diaz-Abaya
• by
• The Inheritors by Stefan Ruzowitzky
• by
• by Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
• Jerry and Tom by Saul Rubinek
• Just One Time by Lane Janger
• The Last Contract by Kjell Sundvall
• Little Thieves, Big Thieves by
• by Daniel Díaz Torres
• by
• Love Is the Devil by John Maybury
• The Lovers of the Arctic Circle by Julio Médem
• by Don Boyd
• by Bette Gordon
• The Man with Rain in His Shoes by María Ripoll
• Midnight by Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas
• by Ho Ping
• by
• Night Train by
• by ,
• Notes of Love by Mimmo Calopresti
• by
• Passion by György Fehér
• by Paulo Thiago
• by
• by Mario Martone
• by Víctor Gaviria
• Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer
• Seul Contre Tous by Gaspar Noé
• Shattered Image by Raúl Ruiz
• by
• Spanish Fly by Daphna Kastner
• The Stolen Years by Fernando Colomo
• Sweet Degeneration by Lin Cheng-sheng
• This Is My Father by
• by
• Thursday by Skip Woods
• by Roger Michell
• by João Botelho
• Trance by Michael Almereyda
• by Josiane Balasko
• by Carlos Carrera
• Very Bad Things by Peter Berg
• La Vie Rêvée Des Anges by Erick Zonca
• by Julien Temple
• Waking Ned Devine by Kirk Jones
• by Bent Hamer
• by Jill Godmilow
• When Love Comes by Garth Maxwell
• Where the Heart Is (À la place du cœur) by Robert Guédiguian
• The Wounds by Srdjan Dragojevic

Discovery[]

• The Apple by Samira Makhmalbaf
• 23 by Hans-Christian Schmid
• The Adopted Son by Aktan Abdikalikov
• The Adventures of Sebastian Cole by Tod Williams
• Bombay Boys by Kaizad Gustad
• Broken Vessels by Scott Ziehl
• Following by Christopher Nolan
• Georgica by Sulev Keedus
• Get Real by Simon Shore
• by
• Hair Shirt by
• Hell's Kitchen by
• by James Bogle
• Kenoma by Eliane Caffé
• by Jacques Nolot
• by
• by
• The Pianist by Mario Gas
• Porkkaalam by Cheran
• Praise by John Curran
• Radiance by Rachel Perkins
• Rosie: The Devil In My Head by Patrice Toye
• The Shoe by Laila Pakalniņa
• by
• Sombre by Philippe Grandrieux
• by Stephen Bradley
• The Terrorist by Santosh Sivan
• Trans by Julian L. Goldberger
• by Florent Emilio Siri
• West Beirut by Ziad Doueiri
• Windhorse by

Planet Africa[]

• by
• by
• Bent Familia by Nouri Bouzid
• by Raoul Peck
• by Charles Burnett
• La Vie Sur Terre by Abderrahmane Sissako
• by
• Mixing Nia by Alison Swan
• by Newton I. Aduaka
• Pièces D'indentités by Mwezé Ngangura
• by Sheryl Lee Ralph
• by S. Pierre Yameogo
• Slam by Marc Levin
• by
• by John Akomfrah
• by Camille Billops

Real to Reel[]

• by Donna Deitch
• The Cruise by Bennett Miller
• by Kevin Macdonald,
• by
• by
• by Julia Sweeney
• Megacities by Michael Glawogger
• by Stacy Cochran
• State of Dogs by ,

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures[]

• Gone with the Wind by Victor Fleming
• Boom! by Joseph Losey
• Charulata by Satyajit Ray
• Forty Guns by Samuel Fuller
• The Four Feathers by Zoltan Korda
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
• Nazarín by Luis Buñuel
• Othello by Orson Welles

New Beat of Japan[]

• After Life by Hirokazu Kore-Eda
• April Story by Shunji Iwai
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity by Kinji Fukasaku
• Beautiful Sunday by Tetsuya Nakashima
• Bullet Ballet by Shinya Tsukamoto
• Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• by
• by Shinobu Yaguchi
• by Junji Sakamoto
• by Tetsuya Nakashima
• by
• Kichiku by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
• by ,
• by
• by
• Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl by Katsuhito Ishii
• by
• by Sabu
• Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald by Kōki Mitani

Spotlight: Darezhan Omirbaev[]

• Cardiogram by Darezhan Omirbaev
• by Darezhan Omirbaev
• by Darezhan Omirbaev
• Killer by Darezhan Omirbaev
• by Darezhan Omirbaev

Canadian Film Centre at 10[]

• Blood & Donuts by Holly Dale
• by Holly Dale
• by Colleen Murphy
• House by Laurie Lynd
• The Making of Monsters by John Greyson
• Save My Lost Nigga Soul by Clement Virgo
• Shoemaker by Colleen Murphy
• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould by François Girard
• Zero Patience by John Greyson

Canadian Open Vault[]

• Goin' Down the Road by Donald Shebib

Midnight Madness[]

• The Acid House by Paul McGuigan
• by Matthew Harrison
• by
• Hang the DJ by Marco La Villa, Mauro La Villa
• by
• I Woke Up Early The Day I Died by
• Mighty Peking Man by Ho Meng Hua
• by Peter Fratzscher
• Perdita Durango by Álex de la Iglesia
• Six-String Samurai by Lance Mungia

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References[]

External links[]

• Official site
• 1998 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb