1999 Toronto International Film Festival

1999 Toronto International Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film	Felicia's Journey
Closing film	Onegin
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by	Toronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films	318 films
Festival date	September 9, 1999 (1999-09-09)–September 18, 1999 (1999-09-18)
Language	English
Website	tiff.net

The 24th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 9 to September 18, 1999. The festival opened with Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey and closed with Onegin by Martha Fiennes. A total of 318 films were screened in the 13 programmes.^[1][2][3]

Awards[]

Award[4]	Film	Recipient
People's Choice Award	American Beauty	Sam Mendes
Discovery Award	Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish
Best Canadian Feature Film	The Five Senses	Jeremy Podeswa
Best Canadian Feature Film – Special Jury Citation	Set Me Free (Emporte-moi)	Léa Pool
Best Canadian First Feature Film	Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation	Catherine Annau
Best Canadian First Feature Film – Special Jury Citation	Full Blast	Rodrigue Jean
Canadian Film Jury Special Citations for Acting	Johnny	Chris Martin
	New Waterford Girl	Liane Balaban
	Set Me Free (Emporte-moi)	Karine Vanasse
Best Canadian Short Film	Discharge (Décharge)	Patrick Demers
Best Canadian Short Film – Special Mention		Stéphane Lafleur
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award	Shower	Zhang Yang

Programmes[]

Gala Opening Night[]

• Felicia's Journey by Atom Egoyan

Gala Closing Night[]

• Onegin by Martha Fiennes

Gala Presentations[]

• American Beauty by Sam Mendes
• Anywhere But Here by Wayne Wang
• The Cider House Rules by Lasse Hallstrom
• Est-ouest by Regis Wargnier
• Jakob the Liar by Peter Kassovitz
• (Amor nello specchio) by
• Me Myself I by Pip Karmel
• Mumford by Lawrence Kasdan
• Music of the Heart by Wes Craven
• La niña de tus ojos by Fernando Trueba
• Orfeu by Carlos Diegues
• Ride with the Devil by Ang Lee
• Simpatico by Matthew Warchus
• Snow Falling on Cedars by Scott Hicks
• Sunshine by István Szabó
• Sweet and Lowdown by Woody Allen

Special Presentations[]

• Children of the Century by Diane Kurys
• All the Rage by James D. Stern
• Annaluise & Anton by Caroline Link
• The Best Man by Malcolm D. Lee
• The Big Kahuna by
• Black and White by James Toback
• Breakfast of Champions by Alan Rudolph
• Dogma by Kevin Smith
• Forever Mine by Paul Schrader
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai by Jim Jarmusch
• Grass by Ron Mann
• Gregory's Two Girls by Bill Forsyth
• History is Made at Night by
• The Hurricane by Norman Jewison
• Joe the King by Frank Whaley
• Une liaison pornographique by Frederic Fonteyne
• The Limey by Steven Soderbergh
• The Luck of Ginger Coffey by Irvin Kershner
• Mansfield Park by Patricia Rozema
• A Map of the World by
• Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. by Errol Morris
• Pas de scandale by Benoît Jacquot
• Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki
• The Third Miracle by Agnieszka Holland
• To Walk with Lions by Carl Schultz
• Tumbleweeds by Gavin O'Connor
• Wayward Son by
• Women Talking Dirty by Coky Giedroyc
• Wonderland by Michael Winterbottom

Masters[]

• 8½ Women by Peter Greenaway
• L'Autre by Youssef Chahine
• The Emperor and the Assassin by Chen Kaige
• Goya in Bordeaux by Carlos Saura
• Juha by Aki Kaurismäki
• Kikujiro by Takeshi Kitano
• The Legend of 1900 by Giuseppe Tornatore
• La lettre by Manoel de Oliveira
• Moloch by Alexandr Sokurov
• Molokai: The Story of Father Damien by Paul Cox
• No One Writes to the Colonel by Arturo Ripstein
• The Wet-Nurse by Marco Bellocchio
• The Wind Will Carry Us by Abbas Kiarostami

Perspective Canada[]

• by
• Below the Belt by Laurie Colbert and Dominique Cardona
• The Big Snake of the World (Le Grand serpent du monde) by
• by Mieko Ouchi
• by
• Discharge (Décharge) by Patrick Demers
• by Sarah Polley
• by
• by
• by
• by
• by David Christensen
• The Five Senses by Jeremy Podeswa
• Fly by
• by
• by Christopher McKay
• by Bradley Walsh
• Full Blast by Rodrigue Jean
• by Reginald Harkema
• by and
• by
• by
• Johnny by Carl Bessai
• Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the 70's Generation by Catherine Annau
• by Stéphane Lafleur
• by Philip Hoffman
• The Life Before This by Jerry Ciccoritti
• The Long Winter (Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore) by Michel Brault
• Memories Unlocked (Souvenirs intimes) by Jean Beaudin
• by
• My Father's Angel by
• by David Sutherland
• New Waterford Girl by Allan Moyle
• by
• by
• by
• by
• Rollercoaster by Scott Smith
• by Richard Reeves
• by James Genn
• Set Me Free (Emporte-moi) by Léa Pool
• by
• by Phillip Barker
• by Gariné Torossian
• by
• by Hope Thompson
• Top of the Food Chain by John Paizs
• by
• by Mort Ransen
• by
• by
• by
• by
• When the Day Breaks by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
• Where Lies the Homo? by
• by

Contemporary World Cinema[]

• by Laurent Bouhnik
• Adrenaline Drive by Shinobu Yaguchi
• After the Truth by Roland Suso Richter
• Criminal Lovers by François Ozon
• by
• The Annihilation of Fish by Charles Burnett
• Augustin, roi du Kung-fu by Anne Fontaine
• Away with Words by Christopher Doyle
• Beau travail by Claire Denis
• Beautiful People by Jasmin Dizdar
• The Big Brass Ring by George Hickenlooper
• by Stephane Brize
• Boys Don't Cry by Kimberly Peirce
• Buddy Boy by Mark Hanlon
• Bullets Over Summer by Wilson Yip
• Burlesk King by Mel Chionglo
• C'est quoi la vie? by François Dupeyron
• Caravan by Eric Valli
• by Majid Majidi
• by Benoit Mariage
• Crane World by Pablo Trapero
• The Cup by Khyentse Norbu
• by
• Darkness and Light by Chang Tso-chi
• by Bernard Stora
• Deterrence by Rod Lurie
• East is East by Damien O'Donnell
• Enthusiasm by Ricardo Larrain
• Feeling Sexy by Davida Allen
• From the Edge of the City by Constantinos Giannaris
• Garage Olimpo by Marco Bechis
• Gemini by Shinya Tsukamoto
• Guinevere by Audrey Wells
• by
• Happy, Texas by Mark Illsley
• Harem Suare by Ferzan Özpetek
• High Expectations by Evi Quaid
• L'humanite by Bruno Dumont
• Jesus' Son by Alison Maclean
• Journey to the Sun by Yeşim Ustaoğlu
• Judy Berlin by Eric Mendelsohn
• julien donkey-boy by Harmony Korine
• Kadosh by Amos Gitaï
• The Last September by Deborah Warner
• Lies by Jang Sun-woo
• Luna Papa by
• by Nobuhiro Suwa
• Malli by Santosh Sivan
• The Man-Eater by Aurelio Grimaldi
• March of Happiness by
• Mifune – Dogme 3 by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
• Miss Julie by Mike Figgis
• by Fred Kelemen
• by Shinobu Yaguchi and
• Peau neuve by Emilie Deleuze
• The Personals by Chen Kuo-fu
• by
• Ratcatcher by Lynne Ramsay
• by Andrés Wood
• by Marion Vernoux
• Romance by Catherine Breillat
• A Room for Romeo Brass by Shane Meadows
• Rosetta by Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• Show Me Love by Lukas Moodysson
• Shower by Zhang Yang
• by Ildiko Enyedi
• So Close to Paradise by Wang Xiaoshuai
• by Joel Lamangan and Eric Quizon
• by James Herbert
• Splendor by Gregg Araki
• Split Wide Open by Dev Benegal
• Sunburn by
• Tempting Heart by Sylvia Chang
• Throne of Death by Murali Nair
• Time Out by Sergio Cabrera
• by Giacomo Campiotti
• by Carlos Reichenbach
• Urban Feel by Jonathan Sagall
• by
• The War Zone by Tim Roth
• by

Discovery[]

• 30 Days by
• by
• But Forever in My Mind by Gabriele Muccino
• But I'm a Cheerleader by Jamie Babbit
• Civilisees by Randa Chahal
• by Lav Diaz
• Envy by
• Freak Weather by
• Girls' Night Out by Im Sang-soo
• A Glass of Rage by Aluízio Abranches
• Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish by
• Guts by
• by
• Human Traffic by Justin Kerrigan
• I Could Read the Sky by Nichola Bruce
• Idle Running by Janez Burger
• by Clare Kilner
• by
• The Junction by Urszula Urbaniak
• Just One Time by Lane Janger
• Kill by Inches by and
• Moonlight Whispers by Akihiko Shiota
• by
• Northern Skirts by Barbara Albert
• by
• Return of the Idiot by Saša Gedeon
• Rodents by Sebastián Cordero
• Shadows in the Dark by Pankaj Butalia
• Spring Forward by Tom Gilroy
• This Year's Love by
• by Carlos Bolado
• The Wall by Sergio Arau
• Wheels by
• Yana's Friends by

Planet Africa[]

• After the Rain by Ross Kettle
• by Jean-Marie Teno
• Compensation by Zeinabu irene Davis
• by
• La genèse by Cheick Oumar Sissoko
• by
• by Andrew Dosunmu
• by Yvonne Welbon
• by
• by Charles Burnett
• by Djibril Diop Mambety
• by
• Rage by Newton I. Aduaka
• Rituals by
• Third World Cop by Chris Browne

Real to Reel[]

• American Movie by Chris Smith
• Barenaked in America by Jason Priestley
• by
• by
• Coven by Mark Borchardt
• Crazy English by Zhang Yuan
• Highway by
• Homo Sapiens 1900 by Peter Cohen
• by
• by
• Jam Session by Makoto Shinozaki
• by Nonny de la Pena
• by Juan Carlos Rulfo
• The Making of a New Empire by Jos de Putter
• Me & Isaac Newton by Michael Apted
• My Best Fiend by Werner Herzog
• Negative Space by Chris Petit
• Pripyat by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
• Shadow Boxers by
• The Specialist by Eyal Sivan
• Sud by Chantal Akerman
• by Issac Julien
• by Vivian Ostrovsky and

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures[]

• The Awful Truth by Leo McCarey
• Elephant by Alan Clarke
• by Patrick Lung Kong
• Persona by Ingmar Bergman
• Shadows by John Cassavetes
• The Tales of Hoffmann by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
• Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Michael Fengler
• Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa

Indiscreet Charms: New Spanish Cinema[]

• Solas by Benito Zambrano
• Beloved/Friend by Ventura Pons
• Between Your Legs by Manuel Gomez Pereira
• by , , and
• Dying of Laughter by Álex de la Iglesia
• by
• by
• by Icíar Bollaín
• by
• by
• by Fernando Colomo
• Jealousy by Vicente Aranda
• Lisbon by Antonio Hernández
• by
• Rapture by Iván Zulueta
• by Roberto Santiago
• by Mariano Barroso

Spotlight: Kiyoshi Kurosawa[]

• by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Charisma by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• License to Live by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Serpent's Path by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Tribute: The Story of David Overbey[]

• A Better Tomorrow by John Woo
• by Garth Maxwell
• Carne by Gaspar Noé
• Distant Voices, Still Lives by Terence Davies
• Dust in the Wind by Hou Hsiao-hsien
• Insiang by Lino Brocka
• Killer of Sheep by Charles Burnett
• by Murali Nair

Midnight Madness[]

• by Lech Kowalski
• Fever by Alex Winter
• Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby by Matthew Bright
• Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris by Shusuke Kaneko
• George Lucas in Love by Joe Nussbaum
• The Item by Dan Clark
• Komodo by Michael Lantieri
• Possessed by Anders Rønnow Klarlund
• by
• The Wisdom of Crocodiles by Po Chih Leong

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References[]

External links[]

• Official site
• 1999 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb