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–September 18, 1999 |
| Language | English |
| Website | tiff |
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
[edit]| Award[4] | Film | Recipient |
|---|---|---|
| People's Choice Award | American Beauty | Sam Mendes |
| Discovery Award | Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish | Kevin Jordan |
| 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 | Karaoke | Stéphane Lafleur |
| FIPRESCI International Critics' Award | Shower | Zhang Yang |
Programmes
[edit]Gala Opening Night
[edit]Gala Closing Night
[edit]Gala Presentations
[edit]- 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
- Love in the Mirror (Amor nello specchio) by Salvatore Maira
- 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
[edit]- 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 John Swanbeck
- 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 Ilkka Jarvilaturi
- 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 Scott Elliott
- 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 Randall Harris
- Women Talking Dirty by Coky Giedroyc
- Wonderland by Michael Winterbottom
Masters
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Babette's Feet by Harry Killas
- Below the Belt by Laurie Colbert and Dominique Cardona
- The Big Snake of the World (Le Grand serpent du monde) by Yves Dion
- By This Parting by Mieko Ouchi
- La Casa del Nonno by Lisa Sfriso
- Discharge (Décharge) by Patrick Demers
- Don't Think Twice by Sarah Polley
- Dreamtrips by Kal Ng
- Ecstasy by Mark Wihak
- Eva Meets Felix by Heidi B. Gerber
- Exhuming Tyler by Merlin Dervisevic
- Fit by David Christensen
- The Five Senses by Jeremy Podeswa
- Fly by Jigar Talati
- Four Days by Curtis Wehrfritz
- Fries with That by Christopher McKay
- Frog Pond by Bradley Walsh
- Full Blast by Rodrigue Jean
- A Girl is a Girl by Reginald Harkema
- Here am I by Joshua Dorsey and Douglas Naimer
- Hi, I'm Steve by Robert Kennedy
- Je te salue by Hugo Brochu
- Johnny by Carl Bessai
- Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the 70's Generation by Catherine Annau
- Karaoke by Stéphane Lafleur
- Kokoro is for Heart 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
- Mothers of Me by Alexandra Grimanis
- My Father's Angel by Davor Marjanovic
- My Father's Hands by David Sutherland
- New Waterford Girl by Allan Moyle
- The Offering by Paul Lee
- Pamplemousse by Tink
- Quiver by Scott Beveridge
- Remembrance Dance by Chris Gilpin
- Rollercoaster by Scott Smith
- Sea Song by Richard Reeves
- Second Date by James Genn
- Set Me Free (Emporte-moi) by Léa Pool
- So Beautiful by Jacob Wren
- Soul Cages by Phillip Barker
- Sparklehorse by Gariné Torossian
- Subterranean Passage by Michael Crochetière
- Switch by Hope Thompson
- Top of the Food Chain by John Paizs
- Tops & Bottoms: Sex, Power and Sadomasochism by Cristine Richey
- Touched by Mort Ransen
- Toy Soldiers by Jackie May
- Tuba Girl by Michèle Muzzi
- Undertow by Sarah Bachinski
- Wedding Knives by Johanna Mercer
- When the Day Breaks by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
- Where Lies the Homo? by Jean-François Monette
- Zyklon Portrait by Elida Schogt
Contemporary World Cinema
[edit]- 1999 Madeleine by Laurent Bouhnik
- Adrenaline Drive by Shinobu Yaguchi
- After the Truth by Roland Suso Richter
- Criminal Lovers by François Ozon
- Andares in Time of War by Alejandra Jimenez Lopez
- 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
- Le bleu des villes 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
- The Color of Heaven by Majid Majidi
- Les convoyeurs attendent by Benoit Mariage
- Crane World by Pablo Trapero
- The Cup by Khyentse Norbu
- Dancing with Hydra by Takuji Suzuki
- Darkness and Light by Chang Tso-chi
- Un derangement considerable 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
- Hans Warns – My 20th Century by Gordian Maugg
- 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 Bakhityar Khudojnazarov
- M/Other by Nobuhiro Suwa
- Malli by Santosh Sivan
- The Man-Eater by Aurelio Grimaldi
- March of Happiness by Lin Cheng-Sheng
- Mifune – Dogme 3 by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
- Miss Julie by Mike Figgis
- Nightfall by Fred Kelemen
- One Piece! by Shinobu Yaguchi and Takuji Suzuki
- Peau neuve by Emilie Deleuze
- The Personals by Chen Kuo-fu
- Le petit voleur by Eric Zonca
- Ratcatcher by Lynne Ramsay
- Revenge by Andrés Wood
- Rien a faire 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
- Simon, The Magician by Ildiko Enyedi
- So Close to Paradise by Wang Xiaoshuai
- Soft Hearts by Joel Lamangan and Eric Quizon
- Speedy Boys by James Herbert
- Splendor by Gregg Araki
- Split Wide Open by Dev Benegal
- Sunburn by Nelson Hume
- Tempting Heart by Sylvia Chang
- Throne of Death by Murali Nair
- Time Out by Sergio Cabrera
- A Time to Love by Giacomo Campiotti
- Two Streams by Carlos Reichenbach
- Urban Feel by Jonathan Sagall
- The Virgin by Diego Donnhofer
- The War Zone by Tim Roth
- Yesterday Children by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
Discovery
[edit]- 30 Days by Aaron Harnick
- Bloody Angels by Karin Julsrud
- But Forever in My Mind by Gabriele Muccino
- But I'm a Cheerleader by Jamie Babbit
- Civilisees by Randa Chahal
- The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion by Lav Diaz
- Envy by Julie Money
- Freak Weather by Mary Kuryla
- Girls' Night Out by Im Sang-soo
- A Glass of Rage by Aluízio Abranches
- Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish by Kevin Jordan
- Guts by Ron Termaat
- Hidden River by Mercedes García Guevara
- Human Traffic by Justin Kerrigan
- I Could Read the Sky by Nichola Bruce
- Idle Running by Janez Burger
- Janice Beard: 45 WPM by Clare Kilner
- The Joys of Smoking by Nick Katsapetses
- The Junction by Urszula Urbaniak
- Just One Time by Lane Janger
- Kill by Inches by Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur Flam
- Moonlight Whispers by Akihiko Shiota
- Mr. I and Mrs. O by Valentina Leduc
- Northern Skirts by Barbara Albert
- Pictures and Butterfly by Yanko Del Pino
- 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 David Kane
- Under California – The Limit of Time by Carlos Bolado
- The Wall by Sergio Arau
- Wheels by Djordje Milosavljevic
- Yana's Friends by Arik Kaplun
Planet Africa
[edit]- After the Rain by Ross Kettle
- Chef! by Jean-Marie Teno
- Compensation by Zeinabu irene Davis
- Cry Me a Baby by Tamsin MacCarthy
- La genèse by Cheick Oumar Sissoko
- Harlem Aria by William Jennings
- Hot-Irons by Andrew Dosunmu
- Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 by Yvonne Welbon
- Love and Action In Chicago by Dwayne Johnson-Cochran
- Olivia's Story by Charles Burnett
- La petite vendeuse de soleil by Djibril Diop Mambety
- Portrait of a Young Man Drowning by Teboho Mahlatsi
- Rage by Newton I. Aduaka
- Rituals by Carol Mayes
- Third World Cop by Chris Browne
Real to Reel
[edit]- American Movie by Chris Smith
- Barenaked in America by Jason Priestley
- Berlin-Cinema (Titre Provisoire) by Samira Gloor-Fadel
- Bread Day by Sergei Dvortsevoy
- Coven by Mark Borchardt
- Crazy English by Zhang Yuan
- Highway by Sergei Dvortsevoy
- Homo Sapiens 1900 by Peter Cohen
- The Humiliated by Jesper Jargil
- If You Only Understood by Rolando Diaz
- Jam Session by Makoto Shinozaki
- The Jaundiced Eye by Nonny de la Pena
- Juan, I Forgot I Don't Remember 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 Katya Bankowsky
- The Specialist by Eyal Sivan
- Sud by Chantal Akerman
- Three by Issac Julien
- Work and Progress by Vivian Ostrovsky and Yann Beauvais
Dialogues: Talking with Pictures
[edit]- The Awful Truth by Leo McCarey
- Elephant by Alan Clarke
- Hiroshima 28 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
[edit]- Solas by Benito Zambrano
- Beloved/Friend by Ventura Pons
- Between Your Legs by Manuel Gomez Pereira
- Do You Really Wanna Know? by Jurdao Faemino, Blanco Faemino, Javier Jurdao and Pedro Blanco
- Dying of Laughter by Álex de la Iglesia
- Fading Memories by Enrique Gabriel
- Flesh by Begona Vicario
- Flowers from Another World by Icíar Bollaín
- Frivolinas by Arturo Carballo
- Golden Whore by Miquel Crespi
- Havana Quartet by Fernando Colomo
- Jealousy by Vicente Aranda
- Lisbon by Antonio Hernández
- The Mole and the Fairy by Grojo
- Rapture by Iván Zulueta
- Roulette by Roberto Santiago
- Washington Wolves by Mariano Barroso
Spotlight: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
[edit]- Barren Illusion by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Charisma by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Eyes of the Spider by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- License to Live by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Serpent's Path by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Tribute: The Story of David Overbey
[edit]- A Better Tomorrow by John Woo
- Beyond Gravity 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
- Tragedy of an Indian Farmer by Murali Nair
Midnight Madness
[edit]- Born to Lose: The Last Rock and Roll Movie 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
- Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes by Cass Paley
- The Wisdom of Crocodiles by Po Chih Leong
References
[edit]- ^ "24th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ^ "24th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ^ "indieWIRE - Toronto International Film Festival". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ^ "Awards" Archived 2016-07-18 at the Wayback Machine. tiff.net, October 11, 2013.
- ^ "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme". Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved October 19, 2013.