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1997 Toronto International Film Festival

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Opening film
  
The Sweet Hereafter

Number of films
  
279 films

Closing film
  
Jackie Brown


Location
  
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hosted by
  
Toronto International Film Festival Group

Festival date
  
September 4, 1997 (1997-09-04)–September 13, 1997 (1997-09-13)

The 22nd Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 4 to September 13, 1997. This festival was notable for the introduction of the Masters programme to TIFF.

Contents

Galas

  • Artemisia by Agnès Merlet
  • The Assignment by Christian Duguay
  • Chinese Box by Wayne Wang
  • The Edge by Lee Tamahori
  • Eve's Bayou by Kasi Lemmons
  • FairyTale: A True Story by Charles Sturridge
  • Gattaca by Andrew Niccol
  • In & Out by Frank Oz
  • L.A. Confidential by Curtis Hanson
  • Marquise by Véra Belmont
  • Men with Guns by John Sayles
  • Mrs Dalloway by Marleen Gorris
  • Regeneration by Gillies MacKinnon
  • Seven Years in Tibet by Jean-Jacques Annaud
  • The Sweet Hereafter by Atom Egoyan
  • Swept from the Sea by Beeban Kidron
  • Washington Square by Agnieszka Holland
  • The Wings of the Dove by Iain Softley

    • Special Presentations

  • Afterglow by Alan Rudolph
  • The Apostle by Robert Duvall
  • Le Bassin de J.W. by João César Monteiro
  • The Big One by Michael Moore
  • The Blackout by Abel Ferrara
  • The Blood Oranges by Philip Haas
  • Boogie Nights by Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Face by Antonia Bird
  • Fast, Cheap & Out of Control by Errol Morris
  • Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano
  • 4 Little Girls by Spike Lee
  • Henry Fool by Hal Hartley
  • The House of Yes by Mark Waters
  • The Informant by Jim McBride
  • Inspirations by Michael Apted
  • The Alarmist by Evan Dunsky
  • Loved by Erin Dignam
  • Mr. Jealousy by Noah Baumbach
  • My Best Girl by Sam Taylor
  • Nil by Mouth by Gary Oldman
  • One Night Stand by Mike Figgis
  • Pronto by Jim McBride
  • The Spanish Prisoner by David Mamet
  • Suicide Kings by Peter O'Fallon
  • The Tango Lesson by Sally Potter
  • Two Girls and a Guy by James Toback
  • Welcome to Sarajevo by Michael Winterbottom
  • Year of the Horse by Jim Jarmusch

    • The Masters

  • Das Schloß by Michael Haneke
  • Iruvar by Mani Ratnam
  • Esmeralda Comes by Night by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
  • Funny Games by Michael Haneke
  • Voyage to the Beginning of the World by Manoel de Oliveira
  • Keep Cool by Zhang Yimou
  • Mon oncle Antoine by Claude Jutra
  • Moon Over Broadway by Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker
  • Mother and Son by Alexander Sokurov
  • The Scar by Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • The Eel by Shōhei Imamura

    • Perspective Canada

  • L'Absent by Céline Baril
  • Across by Cara Morton
  • Anna à la lettre C by Hugo Brochu
  • The Big Pickle by Gary Yates
  • BP (Pushing the Boundaries) by Brian Nash
  • Breakfast with Gus by Siobhan Devine
  • Bury Me Happy by Brian McPhail
  • City of Dark by Bruno Lazaro
  • The Countess of Baton Rouge by André Forcier
  • Cosmos by Manon Briand, André Turpin, Marie-Julie Dallaire, Denis Villeneuve, Jennifer Alleyn and Arto Paragamian
  • Cotton Candy by Roshell Bissett
  • Cube by Vincenzo Natali
  • Dance with Me by Cassandra Nicolaou
  • Drive, She Said by Mina Shum
  • Drowning in Dreams by Tim Southam
  • Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality by Maya Gallus
  • Fresh Off the Boat by Peter Demas
  • Gerrie & Louise by Sturla Gunnarsson
  • Grace Eternal by Neil Burns
  • Guise by Wrik Mead
  • Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight by Noam Gonick
  • The Hanging Garden by Thom Fitzgerald
  • Hayseed by Josh Levy and Andrew Hayes
  • The Hazards of Falling Glass by John Martins-Manteiga
  • Incantation by Cara Morton
  • Kid Nerd by Shereen Jerrett
  • Kitchen Party by Gary Burns
  • Linear Dreams by Richard Reeves
  • The Mao Lounge by Chad Derrick
  • Men with Guns by Kari Skogland
  • Museum by Chris Walsh
  • 1919 by Noam Gonick
  • Permission by Daniel MacIvor
  • Pitch by Spencer Rice and Kenny Hotz
  • The Planet of Junior Brown by Clement Virgo
  • Question of Reality by Barry Gibson
  • Shift by Shaun Cathcart
  • Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas by Ali Kazimi
  • Shopping for Fangs by Quentin Lee and Justin Lin
  • Le Siège de l'âme by Olivier Asselin
  • The Skating Party by Marcia Connolly and Janet Hawkwood
  • The Swimming Lesson by Sheri Elwood
  • Tu as crié: Let me go by Anne Claire Poirier
  • Twilight of the Ice Nymphs by Guy Maddin
  • Two Feet, One Angel by Ramiro Puerta
  • Uncut by John Greyson
  • La vie arrêtée by Martine Allard
  • We Are Experiencing... by John Kneller
  • What Goes Around by Lloyd Surdi
  • White Cloud, Blue Mountain by Keith Behrman
  • Zie 37 Stagen by Sylvain Guy

    • Contemporary World Cinema

  • The Assistant by Daniel Petrie
  • Bird Watching by Shinobu Yaguchi
  • Blinded by Daniel Calparsoro
  • Brain Holiday by Hineki Mito
  • Brother by Aleksei Balabanov
  • Love, Math and Sex by Charlotte Silvera
  • Character by Mike van Diem
  • Clandestins by Denis Chouinard and Nicolas Wadimoff
  • Close To by David Ottenhouse
  • Conceiving Ada by Lynn Hershman Leeson
  • Delirium by Peque Gallaga and Lore Reyes
  • Des majorettes dans l'espace by David Fourier
  • Devil's Island by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
  • Doing Time for Patsy Cline by Chris Kennedy
  • East Palace, West Palace by Zhang Yuan
  • Four Days in September by Bruno Barreto
  • A Friend of the Deceased by Viatcheslav Krichtofovitch and Leonid Boyko
  • Un frère... by Sylvie Verheyde
  • The Girl with Brains in Her Feet by Roberto Bangura
  • Gummo by Harmony Korine
  • Hanoi-Winter 1946 by Đặng Nhật Minh
  • Happy Together by Wong Kar-wai
  • Heaven's Burning by Craig Lahiff
  • Homesick Eyes by Hsu Hsiao-ming
  • I Think I Do by Brian Sloan
  • Silvester Countdown by Oskar Roehler
  • Inside/Out by Robert Tregenza
  • Insomnia by Erik Skjoldbjærg
  • The James Gang by Mike Barker
  • Junk Food by Masashi Yamamoto
  • Junk Mail by Pål Sletaune
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying by Robert Bierman
  • Kiss or Kill by Bill Bennett
  • Labyrinth of Dreams by Gakuryū Ishii
  • The Leading Hand by Masahiro Muramatsu
  • Long Twilight by Attila Janisch
  • Love and Death on Long Island by Richard Kwietniowski
  • Ma vie en rose by Alain Berliner
  • The Maker by Tim Hunter
  • The Man in Her Life by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
  • Marius and Jeannette by Robert Guédiguian
  • Metroland by Philip Saville
  • The Mirror by Jafar Panahi
  • Misfortune's End by Vu Xuan Hung
  • Murmur of Youth by Lin Cheng-sheng
  • The Myth of Fingerprints by Bart Freundlich
  • Nettoyage à sec by Anne Fontaine
  • No Child of Mine by Peter Kosminsky
  • Obsession by Peter Sehr
  • Okke-ke Bibirobos by Takuji Suzuki
  • Onibi by Rokurō Mochizuki
  • Our Boy by David Evans
  • The Oyster and the Wind by Walter Lima, Jr.
  • Ashes of Paradise by Marcelo Piñeyro
  • Passage by Juraj Herz
  • Port Djema by Eric Heumann
  • After Sex by Brigitte Roüan
  • Private Confessions by Liv Ullmann
  • Rizal sa Dapitan by Tikoy Aguiluz
  • The Rocking Horse Winner by Michael Almereyda
  • The Soong Sisters by Mabel Cheung
  • Stolen Moments by Oscar Barney Finn
  • Sue Lost in Manhattan by Amos Kollek
  • Suzaku by Naomi Kawase
  • Telling Lies in America by Guy Ferland
  • Their Last Love Affair by Lee Myung-se
  • They Call Me Joy by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
  • Thirteen by David D. Williams
  • Touch Me by H. Gordon Boos
  • Touch Me Not by Dimitrios Yatzouzakis
  • La Vérité si je mens ! by Thomas Gilou
  • Vertical Love by Arturo Sotto Díaz
  • La Vie de Jésus by Bruno Dumont
  • Le voleur de diagonale by Jean Darrigol
  • We All Fall Down by Davide Ferrario
  • Western by Manuel Poirier
  • Winter Sleepers by Tom Tykwer
  • The Witman Boys by János Szász
  • Wolves Cry Under the Moon by Ho Ping
  • Yours and Mine by Wang Shaudi

    • Discovery

  • Bandits by Katja von Garnier
  • Belly Up by Beto Brant
  • Clockwatchers by Jill Sprecher
  • First Love, Last Rites by Jesse Peretz
  • Guilt Free by Marcel Sisniega Campbell
  • The Impostor by Alejandro Maci
  • In Praise of Older Women by Manuel Lombardero
  • Life According to Muriel by Eduardo Milewicz
  • The Life of Stuff by Simon Donald
  • Lover Girl by Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse
  • Marie Baie des Anges by Manuel Pradal
  • Martha's Garden by Peter Liechti
  • Perfumed Ball by Lírio Ferreira and Paulo Caldas
  • Scars by James Herbert
  • Somersault in a Coffin by Derviş Zaim
  • The Sticky Fingers of Time by Hilary Brougher
  • Stone, Scissors, Paper by Stephen Whittaker
  • Traveler from the South by Parviz Shahbazi
  • Twenty Four Seven by Shane Meadows
  • Under the Skin by Carine Adler
  • Unmade Beds by Nicholas Barker
  • Who the Hell Is Juliette? by Carlos Marcovich
  • Words of Wisdom by Susanna Fogel

    • Planet Africa

  • Breeze by Barbara Sanon
  • Buud Yam by Gaston Kaboré
  • The Draughtsmen Clash by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
  • Dancehall Queen by Don Letts and Rick Elgood
  • Destiny by Youssef Chahine
  • Fools by Ramadan Suleman
  • Hav Plenty by Christopher Scott Cherot
  • Honey and Ashes by Nadia Farès
  • Martin Luther King: Days of Hope by John Akomfrah
  • Mossane by Safi Faye
  • Sabriya by Abderrahmane Sissako
  • Taafé Fanga by Adama Drabo
  • Through the Door of No Return by Shirikiana Aina
  • To Be a Black Man by Nelson George

    • Real To Reel

  • Best Man: 'Best Boy' and All of Us Twenty Years Later by Ira Wohl
  • Chile, Obstinate Memory by Patricio Guzmán
  • HHH - Un portrait de Hou Hsiao-Hsien by Olivier Assayas
  • Didn't Do It for Love by Monika Treut
  • Exile in Sarajevo by Tahir Cambis and Alma Sahbaz
  • Exile Shanghai by Ulrike Ottinger
  • From Son to Salsa by Rigoberto López
  • Full Tilt Boogie by Sarah Kelly
  • Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember by Anna Maria Tatò
  • My House Is on Fire by Ariel Dorfman and Rodrigo Dorfman
  • As Time Goes By by Ann Hui and Vincent Chui
  • Still Love You After All These by Stanley Kwan
  • Robinson in Space by Patrick Keiller

    • Dialogues: Talking With Pictures

  • Detour by Edgar G. Ulmer, presented by Errol Morris
  • The Devil-Doll by Tod Browning, presented by Guy Maddin
  • Dont Look Back by D. A. Pennebaker, presented by Chris Hegedus
  • F for Fake by Orson Welles, presented by James Toback
  • The Fireman's Ball by Miloš Forman, presented by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
  • Les Girls by George Cukor, presented by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Miloš Forman, presented by Chow Yun-fat
  • The Organizer by Mario Monicelli, presented by John Sayles
  • A Matter of Life and Death by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, presented by Sally Potter

    • Balkan Cinema: Home Truths

  • Across the Lake by Antonio Mitrikeski
  • The Awkward Age by Nenad Dizdarević
  • Belated Full Moon by Eduard Zahariev
  • The Days on Earth Are Flowing by Goran Paskaljević
  • The End of the War by Dragan Kresoja
  • An Unforgettable Summer by Lucian Pintilie
  • Felix by Božo Šprajc
  • The Goat Horn by Metodi Andonov
  • How the War Started on My Island by Vinko Brešan
  • The Perfect Circle by Ademir Kenović
  • Petria's Wreath by Srđan Karanović
  • Pretty Village, Pretty Flame by Srđan Dragojević
  • Thalassa, Thalassa by Bogdan Dumitrescu
  • Tired Companions by Zoran Solomun
  • Tito and Me by Goran Marković
  • Underground by Emir Kusturica
  • Vukovar Poste Restante by Boro Drašković
  • Who's Singin' Over There? by Slobodan Šijan
  • W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism by Dušan Makavejev

    • Directors' Spotlight: Benoît Jacquot

  • The Musician Killer by Benoît Jacquot
  • Corps et biens by Benoît Jacquot
  • La désenchantée by Benoît Jacquot
  • A Single Girl by Benoît Jacquot
  • Marianne by Benoît Jacquot
  • Le septième ciel by Benoît Jacquot

    • Midnight Madness

  • A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation by Andrew Chan
  • Fudoh: The New Generation by Takashi Miike
  • I Married a Strange Person! by Bill Plympton
  • Love God by Frank Grow
  • Office Killer by Cindy Sherman
  • Orgazmo by Trey Parker
  • SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist by Kirby Dick
  • The Ugly by Scott Reynolds

    • References

    1997 Toronto International Film Festival Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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