1998 Toronto International Film Festival
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Opening film | The Red Violin |
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Closing film | Antz |
Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Hosted by | Toronto International Film Festival Group |
No. of films | 311 films |
Festival date | September 10, 1998 | –September 19, 1998
Language | English |
Website | tiff |
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 |
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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[]
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
References[]
- ^ "23rd Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ^ "TORONTO '98: Archive of Coverage of the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ^ "23rd Toronto International Film Festival Coverage". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ^ "David Walsh reviews the 23rd Toronto International Film Festival". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ^ "Awards" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. tiff.net, October 11, 2013.
- ^ "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme". Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
External links[]
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