2002 Toronto International Film Festival

2002 Toronto International Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film	Ararat
Closing film	Femme Fatale
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by	Toronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films	343 films
Festival date	September 5, 2002 (2002-09-05)–September 17, 2002 (2002-09-17)
Language	English
Website	tiff.net

The 27th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 5 to September 17 and screened 343 films from 50 countries. Of these 263 were feature films, of which 141 were in a language other than English. The ten-day festival opened with Atom Egoyan's Ararat and closed with Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale.^[1][2]

Awards[]

Award[3]	Film	Director
People's Choice Award	Whale Rider	Niki Caro
Discovery Award	The Magdalene Sisters	Peter Mullan
Visions Award	Russian Ark	Aleksandr Sokurov
Visions Award - Special Citation	City of God	Fernando Meirelles
Visions Award - Special Citation	Gerry	Gus Van Sant
Best Canadian Feature Film	Spider	David Cronenberg
Best Canadian First Feature Film	Marion Bridge	Wiebke von Carolsfeld
Best Canadian Short Film	Blue Skies	Ann Marie Fleming
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award	(Les chemins de l'oued)	Gaël Morel
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award - Special Mention	Open Hearts	Susanne Bier

Programmes[]

Gala Presentations[]

• 11'9"01 September 11 by Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai, Shōhei Imamura, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn and Danis Tanović
• Antwone Fisher by Denzel Washington
• Ararat by Atom Egoyan
• Chihwaseon by Im Kwon-taek
• Far From Heaven by Todd Haynes
• Femme Fatale by Brian De Palma
• The Four Feathers by Shekhar Kapur
• Frida by Julie Taymor
• The Good Thief by Neil Jordan
• The Guys by
• L'homme du train by Patrice Leconte
• In America by Jim Sheridan
• Jet Lag by Danièle Thompson
• Moonlight Mile by Brad Silberling
• The Other Side of the Bed by Emilio Martínez Lázaro
• Phone Booth by Joel Schumacher
• Spider by David Cronenberg
• White Oleander by Peter Kosminsky

Masters[]

• 10 by Abbas Kiarostami
• All or Nothing by Mike Leigh
• by Frederick Wiseman
• Dirty Pretty Things by Stephen Frears
• The Man Without a Past by Aki Kaurismäki
• My Mother's Smile by Marco Bellocchio
• A Peck on the Cheek by Mani Ratnam
• Sex Is Comedy by Catherine Breillat
• Shadow Kill by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
• Sweet Sixteen by Ken Loach
• A Tale Of A Naughty Girl by Buddhadev Dasgupta
• Ten Minutes Older: The Cello by Bernardo Bertolucci, Claire Denis, Mike Figgis, Jean-Luc Godard, Jiří Menzel, Michael Radford, Volker Schlöndorff and István Szabó
• Together by Chen Kaige

Visions[]

• Blissfully Yours by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• City Of God by Fernando Meirelles
• Dolls by Takeshi Kitano
• Le Fils by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
• Gerry by Gus Van Sant
• by Michael Almereyda
• Irreversible by Gaspar Noé
• Japón by Carlos Reygadas
• Ken Park by Larry Clark and Edward Lachman
• Lilya 4-ever by Lukas Moodysson
• Morvern Callar by Lynne Ramsay
• by Unni Straume
• Novo by Jean-Pierre Limosin
• Personal Velocity by Rebecca Miller
• Public Toilet by Fruit Chan
• Russian Ark by Alexandr Sokurov
• A Snake of June by Shinya Tsukamoto
• Teknolust by Lynn Hershman Leeson
• by Lucas Belvaux
• by Lucas Belvaux
• by Lucas Belvaux
• Vendredi soir by Claire Denis
• by Philippe Grandrieux
• by Aurelio Grimaldi

Special Presentations[]

• 8 Women by François Ozon
• 8 Mile by Curtis Hanson
• Adolphe by Benoît Jacquot
• Assassination Tango by Robert Duvall
• Auto Focus by Paul Schrader
• Between Strangers by Edoardo Ponti
• Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore
• Chaos and Desire by Manon Briand
• City of Ghosts by Matt Dillon
• Dirty Deeds by David Caesar
• Divine Intervention by Elia Suleiman
• The Emperor's Club by Michael Hoffman
• Evelyn by Bruce Beresford
• Heaven by Tom Tykwer
• I've Heard the Mermaids Singing by Patricia Rozema
• Laurel Canyon by Lisa Cholodenko
• Max by Menno Meyjes
• Miyazaki's Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki
• Punch-Drunk Love by Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Quiet American by Phillip Noyce
• Rabbit-Proof Fence by Phillip Noyce
• The Secret Lives of Dentists by Alan Rudolph
• Shaolin Soccer by Stephen Chow
• Standing in the Shadows of Motown by
• by Charles Chaplin
• Talk to Her by Pedro Almodóvar
• by
• The Wild Thornberrys Movie by and

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures[]

• Billy Jack by Tom Laughlin
• The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola
• Days of Heaven by Terrence Malick
• Modern Times by Charles Chaplin
• Outcast of the Islands by Carol Reed
• Pickpocket by Robert Bresson

Discovery[]

• by
• by
• Les Diables by Christophe Ruggia
• by
• by
• Hukkle by Gyorgy Palfi
• The Last Great Wilderness by David Mackenzie
• Leo by Mehdi Norowzian
• Letters in the Wind by
• The Magdalene Sisters by Peter Mullan
• Try Seventeen by
• Whale Rider by Niki Caro
• by
• by Manijeh Hekmat
• Blue by Hiroshi Ando

Real to Reel[]

• by Michel Daeron
• Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary by André Heller and
• Cuban Rafters by Carles Bosch and
• by Garrett Scott
• Elsewhere by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
• by Sami Saif and
• Gabriel Orozco by
• Horns and Halos by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky
• Local Angel by Udi Aloni
• Lost in La Mancha by and
• by
• by Rod Lurie
• by
• OT: Our Town by Scott Hamilton Kennedy
• Promise Land by
• Railroad of Hope by Ning Ying
• Spellbound by Jeff Blitz
• Stevie by Steve James
• The Sweatbox by John-Paul Davidson and Trudie Styler
• by
• The Trials of Henry Kissinger by Eugene Jarecki
• Winged Migration by Jacques Perrin
• Être et avoir by Nicolas Philibert

Midnight Madness[]

• Alive by Ryuhei Kitamura
• Bubba Ho-tep by Don Coscarelli
• Cabin Fever by Eli Roth
• The Eye by Oxide Pang and Danny Pang
• MC5: A True Testimonial by
• My Little Eye by Marc Evans
• Spun by Jonas Åkerlund
• Volcano High by Kim Tae-Kyun

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Wavelengths[]

• by Lewis Klahr
• The Art of Fugue by
• by
• by Brett Simon
• by Lewis Klahr
• by Glen Fogel
• by
• Going Back Home by
• by
• by Andrew Noren
• Incense by
• by Travis Wilkerson
• by Peter Hutton
• by Kenneth Anger
• by and Matthias Müller
• by
• by Travis Wilkerson
• Puce Moment by Kenneth Anger
• by
• by
• by Oskar Fischinger
• by Andrew Noren
• Ultima Thule by Janie Geiser
• by Stan Brakhage
• by Jonas Mekas

Canadian Open Vault[]

• La vraie nature de Bernadette by Gilles Carle

Perspective Canada[]

• The Baroness and the Pig by Michael Mackenzie
• by Ann Marie Fleming
• Bollywood/Hollywood by Deepa Mehta
• by Nathan Morlando
• by Donigan Cumming
• by
• by and Karim Hussain
• Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl by Brad Peyton
• FIX: The Story of an Addicted City by Nettie Wild
• Flower & Garnet by Keith Behrman
• Flux by Chris Hinton
• by
• Gambling, Gods and LSD by Peter Mettler
• by and
• Is the Crown at War with Us? by Alanis Obomsawin
• Islands by Richard Fung
• by
• by Anita McGee
• by Mark Sawers
• Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity by Mina Shum
• Marion Bridge by Wiebke von Carolsfeld
• The Marsh by Kim Nguyen
• by Simon Davidson
• Die Mutter by
• The Negro by Robert Morin
• Ocean by Catherine Martin
• by
• Past Perfect by Daniel MacIvor
• Perfect Pie by
• by
• Punch by Guy Bennett
• by
• by Jennifer Alleyn
• by
• by Marc Bisaillon
• Saint Monica by Terrance Odette
• Saskatchewan by
• by Gariné Torossian
• Short Hymn, Silent War by Charles Officer
• by Stéphane Lafleur
• by
• by Matthew Holm
• The Stone of Folly by
• by
• Tom by Mike Hoolboom
• The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia by Jennifer Baichwal
• by Michael Downing
• The Wild Dogs by Thom Fitzgerald
• Yellowknife by Rodrigue Jean

Contemporary World Cinema[]

• by Laurent Bouhnik
• Aiki by
• Angela by Roberta Torre
• Autumn Spring by Vladimír Michálek
• BaadAsssss Cinema by Isaac Julien
• Bear's Kiss by Sergei Bodrov
• Bend It Like Beckham by Gurinder Chadha
• by
• Better Luck Tomorrow by Justin Lin
• Big Shot's Funeral by Feng Xiaogang
• Black and White by Craig Lahiff
• Blue Car by Karen Moncrieff
• Blue Gate Crossing by Yee Chin-yen
• El Bonaerense by Pablo Trapero
• The Crime of Father Amaro by Carlos Carrera
• Cry Woman by Liu Bingjian
• The Cuckoo by Aleksandr Rogozhkin
• by Sinişa Dragin
• Falcons by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
• by
• Gasoline by
• by
• The Heart of Me by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
• by Samantha Lang
• Intacto by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
• The Intended by Kristian Levring
• Julie Walking Home by Agnieszka Holland
• Kedma by Amos Gitai
• by
• Love Liza by Todd Louiso
• by Valeriy Todorovskiy
• A Lucky Day by Sandra Gugliotta
• Ma vraie vie à Rouen by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
• Madame Satã by Karim Aïnouz
• by
• Nothing More by Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
• Nowhere in Africa by Caroline Link
• The Nugget by Bill Bennett
• by Shane Meadows
• One Night the Moon by Rachel Perkins
• Open Hearts by Susanne Bier
• Une part du ciel by Benedicte Lienard
• by Kornél Mundruczó
• Poniente by Chus Gutierrez
• Prayer by
• Pure by Gillies MacKinnon
• Raising Victor Vargas by Peter Sollett
• Real Women Have Curves by Patricia Cardoso
• by Nancy Savoca
• Respiro by Emanuele Crialese
• Roger Dodger by Dylan Kidd
• by Valeria Sarmiento
• The Sea by Baltasar Kormákur
• Secretary by Steven Shainberg
• Small Voices by Gil M. Portes
• The Space Between by Chad Lowe
• Springtime in a Small Town by Tian Zhuangzhuang
• by Sabine Derflinger
• Suddenly by Diego Lerman
• by Yves Angelo
• The Three Marias by Aluízio Abranches
• by Rashid Masharawi
• A Transistor Love Story by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
• Tuck Everlasting by Jay Russell
• Tycoon by Pavel Lounguine
• Unknown Pleasures by Jia Zhang-Ke
• by
• Warriors by Daniel Calparsoro
• Welcome to Collinwood by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo
• by Joel Lamangan

Planet Africa[]

• Abouna by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
• by
• by
• by Gaël Morel
• G by Christopher Scott Cherot
• by
• I Have a Dream by Zak Ove
• by
• by
• by Mary Wells
• Promised Land by
• by
• by
• Shottas by
• by Camille Billops and
• by
• Waiting for Happiness by Abderrahmane Sissako
• by Seiichi Motohashi

National Cinema Lineup - Harvest: South Korean Renaissance[]

• Bad Guy by Kim Ki-duk
• by
• Champion by Kwak Kyung-taek
• by
• Oasis by Lee Chang-dong
• Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance by Park Chan-wook
• Take Care of My Cat by Jeong Jae-eun
• by Park Jin-pyo
• Turning Gate by Hong Sang-soo
• The Way Home by Lee Jeong-hyang

Canadian Retrospective: Allan King[]

• by Allan King
• by Allan King
• by Allan King
• Dreams by Allan King
• Epilogue by Allan King
• by Allan King
• by Allan King
• by Allan King
• by Allan King
• A Married Couple by Allan King
• by Allan King
• Red Emma by Allan King and
• Rickshaw by Allan King
• by Allan King
• Skidrow by Allan King
• Warrendale by Allan King
• Who Has Seen the Wind by Allan King
• by

Spotlight: Robert Guédiguian[]

• by Robert Guédiguian and
• by Robert Guédiguian
• Marie-Jo et ses 2 amours by Robert Guédiguian
• Marius et Jeannette by Robert Guédiguian
• La ville est tranquille by Robert Guédiguian
• by Robert Guédiguian
• by Robert Guédiguian
• À la vie, à la mort! by Robert Guédiguian

Two Feet, One Angel: A Tribute to Ramiro Puerta[]

• by
• by
• The Lovers of the Arctic Circle by Julio Médem
• Strawberry and Chocolate by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío
• by
• by
• by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

Canada's Top Ten[]

TIFF named its annual Canada's Top Ten list in early 2003.^[5]

• Ararat by Atom Egoyan
• Chaos and Desire by Manon Briand
• Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary by Guy Maddin
• Flower & Garnet by Keith Behrman
• Gambling, Gods and LSD by Peter Mettler
• Marion Bridge by Wiebke von Carolsfeld
• The Negro by Robert Morin
• Ocean by Catherine Martin
• Spider by David Cronenberg
• Tom by Mike Hoolboom

References[]

External links[]

• Official site
• 2002 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb