2001 Toronto International Film Festival

2001 Toronto International Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film	Last Wedding
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by	Toronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films	326 films
Festival date	September 6, 2001 (2001-09-06)–September 15, 2001 (2001-09-15)
Language	English
Website	tiff.net

The 26th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 6 to September 15, 2001. There were 326 films (249 feature films, 77 short films) from 54 countries scheduled to be screened during the ten-day festival. During a hastily arranged press conference on September 11, Festival director Piers Handling and managing director Michelle Maheux announced that 30 public screenings and 20 press screenings would be cancelled during the sixth day of the festival due to the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.^[1] The festival resumed for the final four days though some films were cancelled because the film prints could not reach Toronto due to flight restrictions.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Awards[]

Award[7]	Film	Director
People's Choice Award	Amélie	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Discovery Award	Chicken Rice War	Chee Kong Cheah
Best Canadian Feature Film	Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner	Zacharias Kunuk
Best Canadian First Feature Film	Inertia	Sean Garrity
Best Canadian Short Film	Film(dzama)	Deco Dawson
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award	Inch'Allah Dimanche	Yamina Benguigui
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award - Special Mention	Mein Stern	Valeska Grisebach
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award - Special Mention	Khaled	Asghar Massombagi

Programmes[]

Viacom Galas[]

• by Josée Dayan
• Dark Blue World by Jan Sverák
• Enigma by Michael Apted
• From Hell by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes
• Hearts in Atlantis by Scott Hicks
• Lantana by Ray Lawrence
• The Last Kiss by Gabriele Muccino
• Last Orders by Fred Schepisi
• Last Wedding by Bruce Sweeney
• Life as a House by Irwin Winkler
• Monsoon Wedding by Mira Nair
• No Man's Land by Danis Tanovic
• Novocaine by David Atkins
• Serendipity by Peter Chelsom
• Taking Sides by István Szabó
• Tosca by Benoît Jacquot
• Training Day by Antoine Fuqua
• The Triumph of Love by Clare Peploe

Canadian Open Vault[]

• The Grey Fox by Phillip Borsos

Contemporary World Cinema[]

• À ma soeur! by Catherine Breillat
• Abandoned by Árpád Sopsits
• Absolutely Fabulous (Absolument fabuleux) by Gabriel Aghion
• Address Unknown by Kim Ki-duk
• All About Lily Chou-Chou by Shunji Iwai
• by Anne-Marie Miéville
• Asoka by Santosh Sivan
• by Tanya Wexler
• Baran by Majid Majidi
• Beijing Bicycle by Wang Xiaoshuai
• The Believer by Henry Bean
• Big Bad Love by Arliss Howard
• Birthday Girl by Jez Butterworth
• Brainstorm by Laís Bodanzky
• Broken Silence by Montxo Armendáriz
• The Business of Strangers by Patrick Stettner
• by Jean-Pierre Améris
• La Ciénaga by Lucrecia Martel
• La Commune (Paris, 1871) by Peter Watkins
• The Daughter of Keltoum by Mehdi Charef
• The Days Between by
• Deathrow by Joel Lamangan
• Delbaran by Abolfazl Jalili
• Distance by Hirokazu Kore-Eda
• A Dog's Day by Murali Nair
• by
• Dust by Milcho Manchevski
• by Amos Gitaï
• L'Emploi du temps by Laurent Cantet
• The Fluffer by Richard Glatzer and Wash West
• Get a Life by João Canijo
• The Grey Zone by Tim Blake Nelson
• Harmful Insect by Akihiko Shiota
• by Robert Glinski
• The Hired Hand by Peter Fonda
• by Humberto Solás
• How Harry Became a Tree by Goran Paskaljević
• Hush! by Ryosuke Hashiguchi
• Ignorant Fairies by Ferzan Özpetek
• Jan Dara by Nonzee Nimibutr
• The Jimmy Show by Frank Whaley
• Kissing Jessica Stein by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
• Lagaan by Ashutosh Gowariker
• Le Lait de la tendresse humaine by Dominique Cabrera
• Lan Yu by Stanley Kwan
• Late Marriage by Dover Kosashvili
• by
• Light of My Eyes by Giuseppe Piccioni
• Loco Fever by Andrés Wood
• Loin by André Téchiné
• Lovely & Amazing by Nicole Holofcener
• Lovely Rita by Jessica Hausner
• The Man from Elysian Fields by George Hickenlooper
• Manic by
• by Ilya Chaiken
• Markova: Comfort Gay by Gil M. Portes
• Maya by
• Mirror Image by Hsiao Ya-chuan
• Musa - The Warrior by Kim Sung-su
• My Kingdom by Don Boyd
• Nine Queens by Fabián Bielinsky
• No Shame by Joaquín Oristrell
• The Only Journey of His Life by
• The Orphan of Anyang by Wang Chao
• Otilia by Dana Rotberg
• Passport by Péter Gothár
• by
• Piñero by Leon Ichaso
• Le Pornographe by Bertrand Bonello
• The Quickie by Sergei Bodrov
• Quitting by Zhang Yang
• Rain by Christine Jeffs
• Reines d'un jour by Marion Vernoux
• Revolution#9 by Tim McCann
• The Road by Darezhan Omirbaev
• Samsara by Pan Nalin
• Secret Ballot by Babak Payami
• Sex and Lucia by Julio Médem
• Silent Partner by Alkinos Tsilimidos
• Sisters by Sergei Bodrov Jr.
• by Gjergj Xhuvani
• Strumpet by Danny Boyle
• To End All Wars by David L. Cunningham
• Tuesday by Geoff Dunbar
• Under the Skin of the City by Rakhshan Bani Etemad
• Unfinished Song by Maziar Miri
• Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise by Danny Boyle
• by
• Waterboys by Shinobu Yaguchi
• What Time Is It There? by Tsai Ming-liang
• Y tu mamá también by Alfonso Cuarón
• The Zookeeper by
• Zus & Zo by Paula van der Oest

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures[]

• Exterminating Angel by Luis Buñuel
• The Killing by Stanley Kubrick
• Rollerball by Norman Jewison
• Two-Lane Blacktop by Monte Hellman
• Wild Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman

Spotlight: Ulrich Seidl[]

• by Ulrich Seidl
• Dog Days by Ulrich Seidl
• by Ulrich Seidl
• by Ulrich Seidl

Discovery[]

• Absolute Hundred by Srdan Golubović
• by
• The Bank by Robert Connolly
• by Valeska Grisebach
• Blue Spring by
• Bread and Milk by Jan Cvitkovič
• The Butterfly by
• Le Café de la plage by Benoît Graffin
• Chicken Rice War by
• Everybody Says I'm Fine! by Rahul Bose
• by Malgorzata Szumowska
• by
• Mostly Martha by Sandra Nettelbeck
• Mr In-Between by Paul Sarossy
• by
• La Spagnola by Steve Jacobs

Jean Pierre Lefebvre: Vidéaste[]

• by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• (La Chambre blanche) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• Le jour S... by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• (Mon amie Pierrette) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (Le Vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre

Masters[]

• Éloge de l'amour by Jean-Luc Godard
• L' Anglaise et le duc by Éric Rohmer
• by Carlos Saura
• The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky by Paul Cox
• Je rentre à la maison by Manoel de Oliveira
• Millennium Mambo by Hou Hsiao-hsien
• Mulholland Drive by David Lynch
• The Navigators by Ken Loach
• La Pianiste by Michael Haneke
• The Profession of Arms by Ermanno Olmi
• Pulse by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• The Son's Room by Nanni Moretti
• The Sun Behind the Moon by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Trouble Every Day by Claire Denis
• Warm Water Under a Red Bridge by Shōhei Imamura

Midnight Madness[]

• The American Astronaut by Cory McAbee
• by
• Bang Rajan The Legend of the Village Warriors by Thanit Jitnukul
• The Bunker by Rob Green
• by Chris Cunningham, , , Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, and
• Dogtown and Z-Boys by Stacy Peralta
• Eat by Bill Plympton
• Electric Dragon 80,000 V by Sogo Ishii
• Full Time Killer by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai
• Ichi the Killer by Takashi Miike
• Le Pacte des loups by Christophe Gans
• Versus by Ryuhei Kitamura

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National Cinema Programme[]

• As White as in Snow by Jan Troell
• Cabin Fever by
• by Knut Erik Jensen
• Earth by Veikko Aaltonen
• Elling by Petter Næss
• Fiasco by Ragnar Bragason
• Gossip by Colin Nutley
• The Icelandic Dream by Róbert I. Douglas
• Italian for Beginners by Lone Scherfig
• Jalla! Jalla! by Josef Fares
• by Ole Christian Madsen
• by Per Fronth
• The River by Jarmo Lampela
• A Song for Martin by Bille August
• You Really Got Me by Pål Sletaune

Perspective Canada[]

• Black Soul by Martine Chartrand
• by Richard Reeves
• by
• by
• The Art of Woo by Helen Lee
• Century Hotel by David Weaver
• by Keith Davidson
• Cyberman by Peter Lynch
• by Deco Dawson
• by
• A Fresh Start by Jason Buxton
• by
• I Shout Love by Sarah Polley
• by Aubrey Nealon
• Inertia by Sean Garrity
• by
• by
• by Philippe Falardeau
• The Judgment by
• Khaled by Asghar Massombagi
• by Lynne Stopkewich
• by Ann Marie Fleming
• by Carl Bessai
• Lollipops by
• Mariages by Catherine Martin
• by Anais Granofsky
• Rare Birds by Sturla Gunnarsson
• Remembrance by Stephanie Morgenstern
• by
• by Lara Fitzgerald
• by
• by John Kneller
• by
• Soft Shell Man by André Turpin
• by
• Strange Invaders by Cordell Barker
• Suddenly Naked by Anne Wheeler
• Tar Angel by Denis Chouinard
• by Julia Kwan
• by
• by Jeremy Podeswa
• Treed Murray by William Phillips
• by
• Westray by Paul Cowan
• The Woman Who Drinks by Bernard Émond

Planet Africa[]

• by Thomas Allen Harris
• 100 Days by
• by Alain Gomis
• Bintou by Fanta Regina Nacro
• by
• Inch'Allah Dimanche by Yamina Benguigui
• by
• by Euzhan Palcy
• by Stefanie Sycholt
• by
• Paris: XY by Zeka Laplaine
• Snipes by
• by

Real to Reel[]

• by Tony Zierra
• by Patricio Guzmán
• Chop Suey by Bruce Weber
• : In Public by Jia Zhangke, by John Akomfrah and by Tsai Ming-liang
• Facing the Music by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson
• Fidel by
• Grateful Dawg by
• Hell House by
• How's Your News? by Arthur Bradford
• by Ayelet Menahemi and
• by Vikram Jayanti
• Japanese Devils by
• by Lourdes Portillo
• by Michael Rubbo
• by Hany Abu-Assad
• Okie Noodling by Bradley Beesley
• by Heddy Honigmann
• Promises by Justine Shapiro, and Carlos Bolado
• The Struma by Simcha Jacobovici
• by
• Warrior of Light by Monika Treut

Special Presentations[]

• Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner by Zacharias Kunuk
• Buffalo Soldiers by Gregor Jordan
• La Chambre des officiers by François Dupeyron
• Christmas Carol: The Movie by Jimmy T. Murakami
• Comment j'ai tué mon père by Anne Fontaine
• The Devil's Backbone by Guillermo del Toro
• Emil and the Detectives by Franziska Buch
• Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Focus by Neal Slavin
• Heist by David Mamet
• Hotel by Mike Figgis
• In the Bedroom by Todd Field
• Joy Ride by John Dahl
• Ma femme est une actrice by Yvan Attal
• Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror by F. W. Murnau
• Picture Claire by Bruce McDonald
• Prozac Nation by Erik Skjoldbjærg
• The Safety of Objects by Rose Troche
• Sidewalks of New York by Edward Burns
• Sur mes lèvres by Jacques Audiard
• Tape by Richard Linklater
• Thirteen Conversations About One Thing by Jill Sprecher
• Waking Life by Richard Linklater
• Who is Cletis Tout? by
• World Traveler by Bart Freundlich

Wavelengths[]

• by Robert Breer
• Automatic Writing by Fred Worden
• by
• by Leighton Pierce
• by
• by Rose Lowder
• by
• by
• Didam by and
• by
• by Lewis Klahr
• by
• by
• by
• by Segundo de Chomón
• by
• by Nathaniel Dorsky
• by Stan Brakhage
• by
• by Matthias Müller
• by
• by Stephanie Maxwell and
• by
• by Étienne-Jules Marey
• by Segundo de Chomón
• by
• Serpentine Dance by Annabelle by W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise
• by Michael Gitlin
• by
• by
• by
• Tree-line by Gunvor Nelson
• by Kurt Kren
• by

Canada's Top Ten[]

In December 2001, TIFF introduced the Canada's Top Ten project to identify the year's ten best Canadian films as selected by festival programmers and film critics from across Canada.^[9]

• Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner by Zacharias Kunuk
• Ginger Snaps by John Fawcett
• The Heart of the World by Guy Maddin
• Khaled by Asghar Massombagi
• Last Wedding by Bruce Sweeney
• Marriages by Catherine Martin
• Parsley Days by Andrea Dorfman
• Soft Shell Man by André Turpin
• The Woman Who Drinks by Bernard Émond
• The Uncles by James Allodi

References[]

External links[]

• Official site
• 2001 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb