1997 Toronto International Film Festival

Official poster for the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival

The 1997 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.

Galas

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

Special Presentations

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

The Masters

• The Castle directed by Michael Haneke
• The Duo directed by Mani Ratnam
• Esmeralda Comes By Night directed by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
• Funny Games directed by Michael Haneke
• Journey To The Beginning Of The World directed by Manoel de Oliveira
• Keep Cool directed by Zhang Yimou
• Mon Oncle Antoine directed by Claude Jutra
• Moon over Broadway directed by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker
• Mother and Son directed by Alexandr Sokurov
• The Scar (Blizna) directed by Krzystof Kieslowski
• Unagi (The Eel) directed by Shohei Imamura

Perspective Canada

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

Contemporary World Cinema

• The Assistant directed by Daniel Petrie
• Bird Watching directed by Shinobu Yaguchi
• Blinded (A Ciegas) directed by Daniel Calparsoro
• Brain Holiday directed by Hineki Mito
• Brother directed by Alexei Balabanov
• C'est la tangente que je prefere directed by Charlotte Silvera
• Character directed by Mike van Diem
• Clandestins directed by Denis Chouinard
• Close to the Knives directed by David Ottenhouse
• Conceiving Ada directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson
• Delirium directed by Peque Gallaga and Lore Reyes
• Des majorettes dans l'espace directed by David Fourier
• Devil's Island directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
• Doing Time for Patsy Cline directed by Chris Kennedy
• East Palace, West Palace directed by Zhang Yuan
• Four Days in September directed by Bruno Barreto
• Friend Of The Deceased directed by Viatcheslav Krichtofovitch
• Un Frere directed by Sylvie Verheyde
• The Girl with Brains in Her Feet directed by Roberto Bangura
• Gummo directed by Harmony Korine
• Hanoi - Winter 1946 directed by Dhang Nhat Minh
• Happy Together directed by Wong Kar-wai
• Heaven's Burning directed by Craig Lahiff
• Homesick Eyes directed by Hsu Hsiao-Ming
• I Think I Do directed by Brian Sloan
• In with the New directed by Oskar Roehler
• Inside/Out directed by Rob Tregenza
• Insomnia directed by Erik Skjoldbjaerg
• The James Gang directed by Mike Barker
• Junk Food directed by Masashi Yamamoto
• Junk Mail directed by Pal Sletaune
• Keep The Aspidistra Flying directed by Robert Bierman
• Kiss or Kill directed by Bill Bennett
• Labyrinth of Dreams directed by Sogo Ishii
• The Leading Hand directed by Masahiro Muramatsu
• Long Twilight directed by Attila Janisch
• Love and Death on Long Island directed by Richard Kwietniowski
• Ma vie en rose directed by Alain Berliner
• The Maker directed by Tim Hunter
• The Man in Her Life directed by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
• Marius et Jeanette directed by Robert Guediguian
• Metroland directed by Philip Saville
• The Mirror directed by Jafar Panahi
• Misfortune's End directed by Vu Xuan Hung
• Murmur of Youth directed by Lin Cheng-Sheng
• The Myth of Fingerprints directed by Bart Freundlich
• Nettoyage à sec directed by Anne Fontaine
• No Child of Mine directed by Peter Kosminsky
• Obsession directed by Peter Sehr
• Okke-Ke Bibirobos directed by Takuji Suzuki
• Onibi: The Fire Within directed by Rokuro Mochizuki
• Our Boy directed by David M. Evans
• The Oyster and the Wind (A Ostra e o Vento) directed by Walter Lima Jr.
• Paradise Ashes (Cenizas del Paraiso) directed by Marcelo Pioeyro
• Passage directed by Juraj Herz
• Port Djema directed by Eric Heumann
• Post Coitum, Animal Triste directed by Brigitte Rouan
• Private Confessions directed by Liv Ullmann
• Rizal in Dapitan directed by Amable "Tikoy" Aguiluz
• The Rocking Horse Winner directed by Michael Almereyda
• The Soong Sisters directed by Mabel Cheung
• Stolen Moments (Momentos Robados) directed by Oscar Barney Finn
• Sue directed by Amos Kollek
• Suzaku directed by Naomi Kawase
• Telling Lies In America directed by Guy Ferland
• Their Last Love Affair directed by Lee Myung-Sae
• They Call Me Joy directed by Carlos Sigiuon-Reyna
• Thirteen directed by David Williams
• Touch Me directed by H. Gordon Boos
• Touch Me Not directed by Dimitrios Yatzouzakis
• La Vérité si je mens! directed by Thomas Gilou
• Vertical Love (Amor Vertical) directed by Arturo Soto
• La vie de Jésus directed by Bruno Dumont
• Le voleur de diagonale directed by Jean Darrigol
• We All Fall Down directed by Davide Ferrario
• Western directed by Manuel Poirier
• Winter Sleepers directed by Tom Tykwer
• The Witman Boys directed by Janos Szasz
• Wolves Cry Under the Moon directed by Ho Ping
• Yours and Mine directed by Wang Shaudi

Discovery

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

Planet Africa

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

Real To Reel

• Best Man: 'Best Boy' And All Of Us Twenty Years Later directed by Ira Wohl
• Chile, The Obstinate Memory (Chile, La Memoria Obstinada) directed by Patricio Guzmán
• Cinema De Notre Temps: Hou Hsiao-Hsien directed by Olivier Assayas
• Didn't Do It For Love directed by Monika Treut
• Exile In Sarajevo directed by Tahir Cambis and Alma Sahbaz
• Exile Shanghai directed by Ulrike Ottinger
• From Son To Salsa (Yo Soy Del Son A La Salsa) directed by Rigoberto Lopez
• Full Tilt Boogie directed by Sarah Kelly
• Marcello Mastroianni, I Remember, Yes, I Remember directed by Anna Maria Tato
• My House Is On Fire (La Casa De Fuego) directed by Ariel Dorfman and Rodrigo Dorfman
• Personal Memoir Of Hong Kong: As Time Goes By directed by Ann Hui
• Personal Memoir Of Hong Kong: Still Love You After All These directed by Stanley Kwan
• Robinson In Space directed by Patrick Keiller

Dialogues: Talking With Pictures

• Detour directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, presented by Errol Morris
• The Devil Doll directed by Tod Browning, presented by Guy Maddin
• Dont Look Back directed by D.A. Pennebaker, presented by Chris Hegedus
• F For Fake directed by Orson Welles, presented by James Toback
• The Firemen's Ball directed by Milos Forman, presented by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
• Les Girls directed by George Cukor, presented by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest directed by Milos Forman, presented by Chow Yun-fat
• The Organizer directed by Mario Monicelli, presented by John Sayles
• Stairway to Heaven (A Matter of Life and Death) directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, presented by Sally Potter

Balkan Cinema: Home Truths

• Across The Lake directed by Antonio Mitrikeski
• Awkward Age directed by Nenad Dizdarević
• Belated Full Moon directed by Eduard Zahariev
• The Days Are Passing (Zemaljski dani teku) directed by Goran Paskaljević (1979)
• The End Of The War directed by Dragan Kresoja
• Un Été Inoubliable (An Unforgettable Summer) directed by Lucian Pintilie
• Felix directed by Božo Šprajc
• The Goat Horn directed by Metodi Andonov
• How the War Started on My Island (Kako je počeo rat na mom otoku) directed by Vinko Brešan (1996)
• The Perfect Circle (Savršeni krug) directed by Ademir Kenović (1997)
• Petria's Wreath (Petrijin venac) directed by Srđan Karanović (1980)
• Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Lepa sela lepo gore) directed by Srđan Dragojević (1996)
• Thalassa, Thalassa, Return To The Sea directed by Bogdan Dumitrescu
• Tired Companions directed by Zoran Solomun
• Tito and Me (Tito i ja) directed by Goran Marković (1992)
• Underground (Podzemlje) directed by Emir Kusturica (1995)
• Vukovar Poste Restante directed by Boro Drašković
• Who's Singin' Over There? directed by Slobodan Šijan
• W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism directed by Dušan Makavejev

Directors' Spotlight: Benoît Jacquot

• L'Assassin Musicien directed by Benoît Jacquot
• Corps Et Biens directed by Benoît Jacquot
• La Desenchantee directed by Benoît Jacquot
• La Fille seule directed by Benoît Jacquot
• Marianne directed by Benoît Jacquot
• Le Septieme Ciel directed by Benoît Jacquot

Midnight Madness

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