2004 Toronto International Film Festival
Opening film | Being Julia[1] |
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Closing film | 5x2 |
Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Hosted by | Toronto International Film Festival Group |
No. of films | 328 films |
Festival date | September 9, 2004 | –September 18, 2004
Language | English |
Website | tiff |
The 29th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 9 through September 18. The festival screened 328 films of which 253 were features and 75 were shorts (148 of the films screened were in a language other than English).[2][3][4]
Awards[]
Award[5][6][7] | Film | Director |
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People's Choice Award | Hotel Rwanda | Terry George |
Discovery Award | Omagh | Pete Travis |
Best Canadian Feature Film | It's All Gone Pete Tong | Michael Dowse |
Best Canadian Feature Film – Special Jury Citation | Scared Sacred | Velcrow Ripper |
Best Canadian First Feature Film | White Skin | Daniel Roby |
Best Canadian Short Film | Man. Feel. Pain. | Dylan Akio Smith |
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award | In My Father's Den | Brad McGann |
No first or second runners-up were officially named for the People's Choice Award; however, festival director Piers Handling did provide the media with a list of numerous other films that had been in the running, including Crash, Gunner Palace, I, Claudia, Up and Down, 3-Iron, Ma Mère, The Holy Girl, Red Dust, Brides, Saving Face and Sideways.[8]
Programmes[]
Canada First[]
- (Carole Laure)
- I, Claudia ()
- (Mark A. Lewis)
- It's All Gone Pete Tong (Michael Dowse)
- Jimmywork ()
- (Wajdi Mouawad)
- Phil the Alien (Rob Stefaniuk)
- Saint Ralph (Michael McGowan)
- Seven Times Lucky (Gary Yates)
- White Skin (Daniel Roby)
Canadian Open Vault[]
- The Rowdyman ()
Canadian Retrospective[]
- (René Bonnière)
- La bête lumineuse (Pierre Perrault)
- (Pierre Perrault)
- (Pierre Perrault)
- Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault, Michel Brault)
- The Times That Are (Le Règne du jour) (Pierre Perrault)
- (René Bonnière)
- (Réne Bonnière)
- The River Schooners (Les Voitures d'eau) (Pierre Perrault)
Contemporary World Cinema[]
- 3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk)
- After the Day Before ()
- Almost Brothers (Lúcia Murat)
- The Alzheimer Case (Erik Van Looy)
- Antares (Götz Spielmann)
- (Federico Veiroj)
- BOMBÓN – El Perro (Carlos Sorín)
- Breaking News (Johnnie To)
- Brodeuses ()
- Brothers (Susanne Bier)
- (Theo van Gogh)
- Crónicas (Sebastián Cordero)
- Days and Hours (Pjer Žalica)
- Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows)
- Dear Frankie (Shona Auerbach)
- Duck Season (Fernando Eimbcke)
- Earth and Ashes (Atiq Rahimi)
- L'Équipier (Philippe Lioret)
- La Femme de Gilles (Frédéric Fonteyne)
- Ferpect Crime (Álex de la Iglesia)
- (Paula van der Oest)
- The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
- Hotel (Jessica Hausner)
- The Keys to the House (Gianni Amelio)
- Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants (Yvan Attal)
- Inconscientes (Joaquín Oristrell)
- Innocent Voices (Luis Mandoki)
- Lila dit ça (Ziad Doueiri)
- (Anais Granofsky)
- ()
- Ma Mère (Christophe Honoré)
- Male Fantasy (Blaine Thurier)
- (Robert Guédiguian)
- My Summer of Love (Paweł Pawlikowski)
- Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
- Niceland (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson)
- Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda)
- Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
- Our Own ()
- (Liu Bingjian)
- Quill (Yoichi Sai)
- Real Life ()
- Rois et reine (Arnaud Desplechin)
- Rolling Family (Pablo Trapero)
- Shiza (Gulshat Omarova)
- (David Weaver)
- Somersault (Cate Shortland)
- ()
- Stray Dogs (Marzieh Meshkini)
- The Tuner (Kira Muratova)
- Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobadi)
- Two Great Sheep (Liu Hao)
- Up and Down (Jan Hřebejk)
- Walk on Water (Eytan Fox)
- Whisky (Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll)
- Wilby Wonderful (Daniel MacIvor)
- The Woodsman (Nicole Kassell)
- The World (Jia Zhangke)
Dialogues: Talking with Pictures[]
- The Brood (David Cronenberg)
- Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
- Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino)
- La Noire De... (Ousmane Sembène)
- Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
- This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson)
- Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson)
Discovery[]
- ()
- ()
- ()
- The Buffalo Boy (Minh Nguyen-Vô)
- Le Cou de la girafe (Safy Nebbou)
- (Alexander Voulgaris)
- Electric Shadows (Xiao Jiang)
- The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade)
- Hari Om (Bharatbala)
- Harvest Time (Marina Razbezhkina)
- In My Father's Den (Brad McGann)
- Innocence (Lucile Hadžihalilović)
- Mirage (Svetozar Ristovski)
- Off Beat ()
- Omagh (Pete Travis)
- On the Outs (, Michael Skolnik)
- The Overture ()
- Oyster Farmer ()
- Private (Saverio Costanzo)
- Producing Adults (Aleksi Salmenperä)
- Les Revenants (Robin Campillo)
- Saving Face (Alice Wu)
- Summer Storm (Marco Kreuzpaintner)
- Symmetry ()
- Uno (Aksel Hennie)
- (Vincenzo Marra)
- A Way of Life (Amma Asante)
- Whisky Romeo Zulu (Enrique Piñeyro)
Masters[]
- 10 on Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
- (Raymond Depardon)
- À tout de suite (Benoît Jacquot)
- Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
- Brides (Pantelis Voulgaris)
- Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- Chased by Dreams (Buddhadeb Dasgupta)
- (Agnès Varda)
- Demain on déménage (Chantal Akerman)
- Eros (Wong Kar-wai, Steven Soderbergh, Michelangelo Antonioni)
- Five (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Human Touch (Paul Cox)
- Land of Plenty (Wim Wenders)
- Low Life (Im Kwon-taek)
- Midwinter Night's Dream (Goran Paskaljević)
- Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène)
- The Ninth Day (Volker Schlöndorff)
- Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Salvador Allende (Patricio Guzmán)
- Sucker Free City (Spike Lee)
- Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
Midnight Madness[]
- Calvaire (Fabrice du Welz)
- Creep (Christopher Smith)
- Dead Birds (Alex Turner)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Mamoru Oshii)
- Kontroll (Nimród Antal)
- The Machinist (Brad Anderson)
- Rahtree: Flower of the Night (Yuthlert Sippapak)
- The Raspberry Reich (Bruce LaBruce)
- Saw (James Wan)
- Zebraman (Takashi Miike)
National Cinema Program[]
- Cape of Good Hope (Mark Bamford)
- Drum (Zola Maseko)
- Forgiveness (Ian Gabriel)
- ()
- ()
- ()
- Zulu Love Letter ()
Planet Africa[]
- (Newton I. Aduaka)
- ()
- Bullet Boy (Saul Dibb)
- (Eric Kabera)
- Le Grand Voyage (Ismaël Ferroukhi)
- The Hero (Zézé Gamboa)
- (Apolline Traoré)
- La Nuit de la vérité (Fanta Régina Nacro)
- ()
- On the Verge of a Fever (Le Goût des jeunes filles) (John L'Ecuyer)
- ()
- (Andrea Williams)
- ()
Real to Reel[]
- Andrew and Jeremy Get Married (Don Boyd)
- Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (Margaret Brown)
- (Zev Asher)
- Darwin's Nightmare (Hubert Sauper)
- Double Dare (Amanda Micheli)
- ()
- ()
- Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (George T. Butler)
- Gunner Palace (Michael Tucker, )
- ()
- (Deborah Stratman)
- (John Appel)
- Letters to Ali (Clara Law)
- (Antoine Fuqua)
- Mondovino (Jonathan Nossiter)
- Scared Sacred (Velcrow Ripper)
- Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire (Peter Raymont)
- (Róbert Ingi Douglas)
- ()
- Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family ()
- Touch the Sound ()
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (Ken Burns)
- (Peter Lynch)
- (, )
- ()
- The Year of the Yao (James D. Stern, )
- Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (Xan Cassavetes)
Short Cuts Canada[]
- (Michèle Cournoyer)
- ()
- (, Bob Ostertag)
- ()
- ()
- (Le Pont) (Guy Édoin)
- ()
- ()
- (Simon Lavoie)
- ()
- ()
- ()
- (Anita Doron)
- ()
- (Wrik Mead)
- ()
- (Sook-Yin Lee)
- (Joseph Raso)
- (Deborah Chow)
- ()
- (Cameron Bailey)
- (Fabrizio Filippo)
- Man. Feel. Pain. (Dylan Akio Smith)
- ()
- Milo 55160 ()
- ()
- ()
- ()
- Pigeon ()
- ()
- Ryan (Chris Landreth)
- (Jeffrey St. Jules)
- Sissy Boy Slap Party (Guy Maddin)
- (Guy Maddin)
- Stronger ()
- (, )
- (Brad Peyton)
- (Semi Chellas)
- ()
Special Presentations[]
- 5x2 (Cinq fois deux) (François Ozon)
- The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Niels Mueller)
- Bluebird (Mijke de Jong)
- Childstar (Don McKellar)
- Les Choristes (Christophe Barratier)
- Crash (Paul Haggis)
- A Dirty Shame (John Waters)
- Enduring Love (Roger Michell)
- The General (Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman)
- Haven (Frank E. Flowers)
- Head in the Clouds (John Duigan)
- Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
- ()
- Keane (Lodge Kerrigan)
- Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
- Ladies in Lavender (Charles Dance)
- The Libertine (Laurence Dunmore)
- The Merchant of Venice (Michael Radford)
- Millions (Danny Boyle)
- Noel (Chazz Palminteri)
- P.S. (Dylan Kidd)
- Palindromes (Todd Solondz)
- Promised Land (Amos Gitaï)
- The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar)
- Shadows of Time (Florian Gallenberger)
- Sideways (Alexander Payne)
- Silver City (John Sayles)
- Steamboy (Katsuhiro Otomo)
- Throw Down (Johnnie To)
- When Will I Be Loved (James Toback)
- Yes (Sally Potter)
- Yesterday (Darrell James Roodt)
Special events[]
- Celebrating Brian Linehan — Live tribute event at the Winter Garden Theatre to Canadian entertainment journalist and interviewer Brian Linehan, following his death earlier in 2004. Hosted by Roger Ebert, with celebrity guests including Martin Short.
Viacom Galas[]
- Arsène Lupin (Jean-Paul Salomé)
- Being Julia (István Szabó)
- Beyond the Sea (Kevin Spacey)
- Clean (Olivier Assayas)
- Der Untergang (Downfall) (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
- Five Children and It ()
- A Good Woman (Mike Barker)
- House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
- I ♥ Huckabees (David O. Russell)
- Imaginary Heroes (Dan Harris)
- An Italian Romance (Carlo Mazzacurati)
- Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (Vadim Jean)
- Kinsey (Bill Condon)
- Modigliani (Mick Davis)
- The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)
- Ray (Taylor Hackford)
- Red Dust (Tom Hooper)
- Return to Sender (Bille August)
- Shark Tale (Vicky Jenson, Bibo Bergeron, Rob Letterman)
- Stage Beauty (Richard Eyre)
Visions[]
- 9 Songs (Michael Winterbottom)
- A Hole in My Heart (Lukas Moodysson)
- Acapulco Gold (André Forcier)
- Anatomie de l'enfer (Catherine Breillat)
- Blood (Jerry Ciccoritti)
- Días de Santiago (Josué Méndez)
- Evolution of a Filipino Family (Lav Diaz)
- The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (Asia Argento)
- ()
- L'Intrus (Claire Denis)
- (Bruce Weber)
- The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (Bruce McDonald)
- (Lisandro Alonso)
- Primer (Shane Carruth)
- Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
- ()
- Trauma (Marc Evans)
- Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Undertow (David Gordon Green)
- Vital (Shinya Tsukamoto)
- ()
- ()
Wavelengths[]
- ( ) (Morgan Fisher)
- (Thom Andersen, )
- ()
- ()
- (Rose Lowder)
- ()
- ()
- (Lewis Klahr)
- ()
- ()
- Flushing Meadows (Joseph Cornell)
- (Andrew Noren)
- (Lynn Marie Kirby)
- (Julia Meltzer, )
- Line Describing a Cone (Anthony McCall)
- (Matthias Müller, )
- (Juan Manuel Echavarría)
- ()
- (Matthias Müller)
- (Matthias Müller, )
- Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
- (Peter Hutton)
- (Lynn Marie Kirby)
- (Janie Geiser)
- (Jonas Mekas)
Canada's Top Ten[]
The festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list was announced in December.[10]
- Childstar — Don McKellar
- The Five of Us (Elles étaient cinq) — Ghyslaine Côté
- I, Claudia —
- It's All Gone Pete Tong — Michael Dowse
- Ryan — Chris Landreth
- Saint Ralph — Michael McGowan
- Scared Sacred — Velcrow Ripper
- Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire — Peter Raymont
- What Remains of Us (Ce qu'il reste de nous) — ,
- White Skin (La Peau blanche) — Daniel Roby
Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time[]
In 2004 a new Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time list was made, an exercise previously carried out in 1984 and 1993.[11]
Rank | Title | Year | Director |
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1 | Mon oncle Antoine | 1971 | Claude Jutra |
2 | Jesus of Montreal | 1989 | Denys Arcand |
3 | Goin' Down the Road | 1970 | Don Shebib |
4 | The Sweet Hereafter | 1997 | Atom Egoyan |
5 | Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | 2002 | Zacharias Kunuk |
6 | Dead Ringers | 1988 | David Cronenberg |
7 | Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) | 1980 | Francis Mankiewicz |
8 | Orders (Les Ordres) | 1974 | Michel Brault |
9 | The Decline of the American Empire | 1986 | Denys Arcand |
10 | The Barbarian Invasions | 2003 | Denys Arcand |
References[]
- ^ "2004 TIFF Update #1: "Laying to Rest the Summer of Discontent"". Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ "2004 Toronto International Film Festival Annual report" (PDF). Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ^ "Impressive line-up for Toronto Film Festival". The Sydney Morning Herald. August 27, 2004. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ^ "29th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ^ "2004 Toronto International Film Festival Winners" Archived 2013-11-12 at the Wayback Machine. tiff.net, October 11, 2013.
- ^ "Awards" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. tiff.net, October 11, 2013.
- ^ "TIFF Awards" Archived 2013-11-12 at the Wayback Machine. movies.about, October 11, 2013.
- ^ Liam Lacey, "Hotel Rwanda wins top festival prize". The Globe and Mail, September 20, 2004.
- ^ "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme". Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ "Best films tells diverse stories; Top Ten Canadian movies honoured New filmmakers being recognized". Toronto Star, December 15, 2004.
- ^ "Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time Archived 2013-10-12 at the Wayback Machine," The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2012, URL accessed 28 April 2013.
External links[]
- Toronto International Film Festival
- 2004 film festivals
- 2004 in Toronto
- 2004 in Canadian cinema
- 2004 festivals in North America