2003 Toronto International Film Festival

Official poster for the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival

The 2003 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 4 to September 13, 2003. A total of 336 films (252 feature length and 84 short films) from 55 countries were screened during the festival. Of the feature films, 73% were world, international, or North American premieres.^[1]

Viacom Galas

• Bon Voyage directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
• The Boys from County Clare directed by John Irvin
• Code 46 directed by Michael Winterbottom
• The Company directed by Robert Altman
• Danny Deckchair directed by Jeff Balsmeyer
• Girl with a Pearl Earring directed by Peter Webber
• Good Morning, Night directed by Marco Bellocchio
• The Human Stain directed by Robert Benton
• In the Cut directed by Jane Campion
• The Barbarian Invasions directed by Denys Arcand
• Mambo Italiano directed by Émile Gaudreault
• Matchstick Men directed by Ridley Scott
• Nathalie... directed by Anne Fontaine
• Out of Time directed by Carl Franklin
• The Republic of Love directed by Deepa Mehta
• Rosenstrasse directed by Margarethe von Trotta
• School of Rock directed by Richard Linklater
• Veronica Guerin directed by Joel Schumacher

Canadian Open Vault

• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz directed by Ted Kotcheff

Canadian Retrospective

• Back to God's Country directed by David M. Hartford
• A Bear, a Boy and a Dog directed by Bert Van Tuyle
• The Grub Stake directed by Bert Van Tuyle and Nell Shipman
• The Light on Lookout directed by Bert Van Tuyle and Nell Shipman
• Something New directed by Bert Van Tuyle and Nell Shipman
• The Story of Mr. Hobbs directed by Lorenzo Alagio
• The Trail of the North Wind directed by Nell Shipman
• White Water directed by Bert Van Tuyle and Nell Shipman

Contemporary World Cinema

• Abjad directed by Abolfazl Jalili
• Alexandra's Project directed by Rolf de Heer
• Antenna directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
• At Five in the Afternoon directed by Samira Makhmalbaf
• B-Happy directed by Gonzalo Justiniano
• Bright Young Things directed by Stephen Fry
• Broken Wings directed by Nir Bergman
• Crimson Gold directed by Jafar Panahi
• Since Otar Left directed by Julie Bertuccelli
• Drifters directed by Wang Xiaoshuai
• Dummy directed by Greg Pritikin
• Errance directed by Damien Odoul
• The Event directed by Thom Fitzgerald
• Evil directed by Mikael Håfström
• Facing Windows directed by Ferzan Özpetek
• Forest directed by Benedek Fliegauf
• Böse Zellen directed by Barbara Albert
• Fuse directed by Pjer Žalica
• The Galíndez File directed by Gerardo Herrero
• Golden Chicken directed by Samson Chiu
• Good Bye, Lenin! directed by Wolfgang Becker
• A Good Lawyer's Wife directed by Im Sang-soo
• Grimm directed by Alex van Warmerdam
• Gun-shy directed by Dito Tsintsadze
• Incantato directed by Pupi Avati
• The Hours of the Day directed by Jaime Rosales
• I'm Not Scared directed by Gabriele Salvatores
• Identity Kills directed by Sören Voigt
• In the City directed by Cesc Gay
• Intermission directed by John Crowley
• Interview directed by Theo van Gogh
• James' Journey to Jerusalem directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
• Japanese Story directed by Sue Brooks
• Kamchatka directed by Marcelo Piñeyro
• Kitchen Stories directed by Bent Hamer
• Last Life in the Universe directed by Pen-ek Ratanaruang
• The Last Virgin directed by Joel Lamangan
• Loving Glances directed by Srđan Karanović
• The Magic Gloves directed by Martín Rejtman
• Where Is Madame Catherine? directed by Marc Recha
• Memories of Murder directed by Bong Joon-ho
• Milwaukee, Minnesota directed by Allan Mindel
• The Mother directed by Roger Michell
• My Life Without Me directed by Isabel Coixet
• Noi the Albino directed by Dagur Kári
• Nicotina directed by Hugo Rodríguez
• Nos enfants chéris directed by Benoît Cohen
• Osama directed by Siddiq Barmak
• Pieces of April directed by Peter Hedges
• Prey for Rock & Roll directed by Alex Steyermark
• The Principles of Lust directed by Penny Woolcock
• Prosti directed by Erik Matti
• PTU directed by Johnnie To
• Pupendo directed by Jan Hřebejk
• Purple Butterfly directed by Lou Ye
• Who Killed Bambi? directed by Gilles Marchand
• Ramblers directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita
• Remember Me, My Love directed by Gabriele Muccino
• The Return directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Secret File directed by Paolo Benvenuti
• Shara directed by Naomi Kawase
• Silence Between Two Thoughts directed by Babak Payami
• So Far Away directed by Juan Carlos Tabío
• Al sur de Granada directed by Fernando Colomo
• Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring directed by Kim Ki-duk
• Stander directed by Bronwen Hughes
• Stormy Weather directed by Sólveig Anspach
• Struggle directed by Ruth Mader
• SuperTex directed by Jan Schütte
• Testosterone directed by David Moreton
• All the Fine Promises directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac
• Travellers and Magicians directed by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
• Vibrator directed by Ryūichi Hiroki
• Vodka Lemon directed by Hiner Saleem
• What the Eye Doesn't See directed by Francisco José Lombardi
• Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself directed by Lone Scherfig
• Wonderland directed by James Cox
• Young Adam directed by David Mackenzie

Dialogues: Talking With Pictures

• Alien directed by Ridley Scott
• Bad Timing directed by Nicolas Roeg
• Ikiru directed by Akira Kurosawa
• Nashville directed by Robert Altman
• One from the Heart directed by Francis Ford Coppola
• Twenty Years Later directed by Eduardo Coutinho

Director's Spotlight

• Clouds of May directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• The Confession directed by Zeki Demirkubuz
• Uzak directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Encounter directed by Ömer Kavur
• Fate directed by Zeki Demirkubuz
• Anayurt Oteli directed by Ömer Kavur
• The Secret Face directed by Ömer Kavur
• Kasaba directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• The Third Page directed by Zeki Demirkubuz

Discovery

• 11:14 directed by Greg Marcks
• 16 Years of Alcohol directed by Richard Jobson
• Ana and the Others directed by Celina Murga
• Christmas directed by Gregory King
• Les corps impatients directed by Xavier Giannoli
• Dallas 362 directed by Scott Caan
• Easy directed by Jane Weinstock
• The Green Butchers directed by Anders Thomas Jensen
• I Love Your Work directed by Adam Goldberg
• Love Me If You Dare directed by Yann Samuell
• Koktebel directed by Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei Popogrebski
• The Last Customer directed by Nanni Moretti
• Madness and Genius directed by Ryan Eslinger
• Maqbool directed by Vishal Bhardwaj
• My Father and I directed by Xu Jinglei
• My Town directed by Marek Lechki
• Matrubhoomi directed by Manish Jha
• Noviembre directed by Achero Mañas
• Rhinoceros Eyes directed by Aaron Woodley
• Rick directed by Curtiss Clayton
• Sexual Dependency directed by Rodrigo Bellott
• A Smile directed by Park Kyung-hee
• Ljeto u zlatnoj dolini directed by Srđan Vuletić
• This Little Life directed by Sarah Gavron
• The Triggerstreet.com Project

Masters

• Casa de los Babys directed by John Sayles
• Chokher Bali, A Passion Play directed by Rituparno Ghosh
• Come and Go directed by João César Monteiro
• Dying at Grace directed by Allan King
• Elephant directed by Gus Van Sant
• I'll Sleep When I'm Dead directed by Mike Hodges
• A Talking Picture directed by Manoel de Oliveira
• Le Temps du Loup directed by Michael Haneke
• Zatoichi directed by Takeshi Kitano

Midnight Madness

• Cypher directed by Vincenzo Natali
• End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones directed by Jim Fields and Michael Gramaglia
• Gozu directed by Takashi Miike
• The Grudge directed by Takashi Shimizu
• Haute Tension directed by Alexandre Aja
• Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior directed by Prachya Pinkaew
• Save the Green Planet! directed by Jang Jun-hwan
• Undead directed by Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig
• Underworld directed by Len Wiseman

National Cinema

• Bus 174 directed by José Padilha
• Carandiru directed by Hector Babenco
• God Is Brazilian directed by Carlos Diegues
• The Man of the Year^{[disambiguation needed ]} directed by José Henrique Fonseca
• Margarette's Feast directed by Renato Falcão
• The Middle of the World directed by Vicente Amorim
• The Storytellers directed by Eliane Caffé

Perspective Canada

• 20h17, rue Darling directed by Bernard Émond
• Animal Nightmares directed by Peter Lynch
• Aspiration directed by Constant Mentzas
• Bager directed by Tomi Grgicevic
• The Big Charade directed by Jesse McKeown
• The Bread Maker directed by Anita McGee
• The Corporation directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
• Déformation Personnelle directed by Jean-François Asselin
• Defile in Veil directed by Deco Dawson
• DNA directed by Jack Blum
• The Dog Walker directed by James Genn
• Emile directed by Carl Bessai
• Exposures directed by Matt Sinclair-Foreman
• An Eye for an Eye directed by David Rimmer
• Falling Angels directed by Scott Smith
• The Fever of the Western Nile directed by Deco Dawson
• Flyerman directed by Jeff Stephenson and Jason Tan
• The Garden directed by Jason Buxton
• Gaz Bar Blues directed by Louis Bélanger
• Grotesque directed by Wrik Mead
• Guest Room directed by Skander Halim
• her carnal longings directed by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
• Hollywood North directed by Peter O'Brian
• Imitations of Life directed by Mike Hoolboom
• In the Dark directed by Mike Hoolboom
• Jours en fleurs directed by Louise Bourque
• The Last Night directed by Mathieu Guez
• A Little Life directed by Elizabeth Murray
• Love, Sex and Eating the Bones directed by Sudz Sutherland
• The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam directed by Ann Marie Fleming
• Mardi (Quel jour était-ce?) directed by Lyne Charlebois
• Moccasin Flats directed by Randy Redroad
• Noël Blank directed by Jean-François Rivard
• Not a Fish Story directed by Anita Doron
• Nothing directed by Vincenzo Natali
• On the Corner directed by Nathaniel Geary
• Passages directed by John Price
• Perfect directed by Boris Rodriguez
• Pop Song directed by Charles Officer
• A Problem with Fear directed by Gary Burns
• Proteus directed by John Greyson
• Saskatchewan Part 2 directed by Brian Stockton
• The School directed by Ezra Krybus and Matthew Miller
• She Was Cuba directed by Ho Tam
• Shooting Star directed by Jason Britski
• Sometimes a Voice directed by Simon Davidson
• Song of Wreckage directed by Ryan Redford
• Terminal Venus directed by Alexandre Franchi
• Todd and the Book of Pure Evil directed by Craig D. Wallace
• Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole directed by Gil Cardinal
• The Truth about Head directed by Dale Heslip
• Twist directed by Jacob Tierney
• Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner directed by Jamie Travis
• Wildflowers directed by Geoffrey Uloth
• X Man directed by Christopher Hinton

Planet Africa

• Afropunk: The "Rock n Roll Nigger" Experience directed by James Spooner
• Dark directed by D.A. Bullock
• His/Her Story directed by Nzinga Kemp
• Histoire de Tresses directed by Jacqueline Kalimunda
• How to Get the Man's Foot Out of Your Ass directed by Mario Van Peebles
• Mille Mois directed by Faouzi Bensaïdi
• Moi et mon blanc directed by S. Pierre Yameogo
• One Love directed by Rick Elgood and Don Letts
• Outcry directed by Destau Damtou
• Short on Sugar directed by Joseph Anaya
• Le Silence de la forêt directed by Didier Ouénangaré and Bassek ba Kobhio
• The Sky in Her Eyes directed by Ouida Smit and Madoda Ncayiyana
• Soldiers of the Rock directed by Norman Maake
• Strange & Charmed directed by Shari Frilot
• Valley of the Innocent directed by Branwen Okpako
• Les Yeux secs directed by Narjiss Nejjar

Real to Reel

• The Agronomist directed by Jonathan Demme
• Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer directed by Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill
• The Blonds directed by Albertina Carri
• Bright Leaves directed by Ross McElwee
• Destiny's Children directed by Pimmi Pândé
• Dream Cuisine directed by Li Ying
• Enquête sur le monde invisible directed by Jean Michel Roux
• Festival Express directed by Bob Smeaton
• The Five Obstructions directed by Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth
• Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine directed by Vikram Jayanti
• Jesus, You Know directed by Ulrich Seidl
• Los Angeles Plays Itself directed by Thom Andersen
• Mayor of the Sunset Strip directed by George Hickenlooper
• Molly & Mobarak directed by Tom Zubrycki
• The Passion of María Elena directed by Mercedes Moncada
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised directed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain
• S21, La Machine de mort Khmère Rouge directed by Rithy Panh
• The Story of the Weeping Camel directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni
• Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion directed by Tom Peosay
• Tom Dowd and the Language of Music directed by Mark Moormann
• West of the Tracks, Part I: Rust directed by Wang Bing
• West of the Tracks, Part II: Remnants directed by Wang Bing
• West of the Tracks, Part III: Rails directed by Wang Bing
• The Yes Men directed by Dan Ollman, Sarah Price and Chris Smith

Special Presentations

• 21 Grams directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Alila directed by Amos Gitaï
• The Best of Youth directed by Marco Tullio Giordana
• Cheeky directed by David Thewlis
• Coffee and Cigarettes directed by Jim Jarmusch
• The Cooler directed by Wayne Kramer
• Dogville directed by Lars von Trier
• Far Side of the Moon directed by Robert Lepage
• The Fog of War directed by Errol Morris
• Go Further directed by Ron Mann
• The Gospel of John directed by Philip Saville
• La Grande Séduction directed by Jean-François Pouliot
• L' Histoire de Marie et Julien directed by Jacques Rivette
• Lost in Translation directed by Sofia Coppola
• Love Actually directed by Richard Curtis
• The Merry Widow directed by Erich von Stroheim
• Monsieur Ibrahim directed by François Dupeyron
• Père et fils directed by Michel Boujenah
• Raja directed by Jacques Doillon
• The Saddest Music in the World directed by Guy Maddin
• Les Sentiments directed by Noémie Lvovsky
• Shattered Glass directed by Billy Ray
• The Singing Detective directed by Keith Gordon
• The Snow Walker directed by Charles Martin Smith
• The Station Agent directed by Tom McCarthy
• Touching the Void directed by Kevin Macdonald
• Valentín directed by Alejandro Agresti
• Zhou Yu's Train directed by Sun Zhou

Visions

• Bright Future directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• The Brown Bunny directed by Vincent Gallo
• Cremaster 3 directed by Matthew Barney
• Good Bye, Dragon Inn directed by Tsai Ming-liang
• Greendale directed by Bernard Shakey a.k.a. Neil Young
• In This World directed by Michael Winterbottom
• Nine Souls directed by Toshiaki Toyoda
• Des Plumes dans la tête directed by Thomas de Thier
• Sansa^{[disambiguation needed ]} directed by Siegfried
• The Tesseract directed by Oxide Pang
• Les Triplettes de Belleville directed by Sylvain Chomet
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Episode 3. Antwerp directed by Peter Greenaway
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1. The Moab Story directed by Peter Greenaway
• Twentynine Palms directed by Bruno Dumont

Wavelengths

• Bouquet 25 directed by Rose Lowder
• Chinese Series directed by Stan Brakhage
• Cocteau Cento directed by Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino
• Early Monthly Segments directed by Robert Beavers
• Fear of Blushing directed by Jennifer Reeves
• The Ground directed by Robert Beavers
• He Walked Away directed by Jennifer Reeves
• The Hedge Theater directed by Robert Beavers
• Horizontal Boundaries Second Projection directed by Pat O'Neill
• In the Garden directed by Ute Aurand and Bärbel Freund
• Interior directed by Jim Jennings
• Let's Make a Sandwich directed by Pat O'Neill
• Meditations on Revolution, Part V: Foreign City directed by Robert Fenz
• Megalopolis directed by Jim Jennings
• No directed by Sharon Lockhart
• Noor directed by Deborah Phillips
• Outline directed by Sandra Gibson
• Psalm III: "Night of the Meek" directed by Phil Solomon
• Quadro directed by Lotte Schreiber
• Rolling in My Ears directed by Barry Gerson
• Seasons directed by Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage
• Stan's Window and Work in Progress directed by Stan Brakhage
• System of Transitions directed by Johannes Hammel
• Translucent Appearances directed by Barry Gerson
• The Visitation directed by Nathaniel Dorsky

References

1. ^ "28th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films (TIFF 2003)". DigitalHit.com. 2003-08-19. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. http://www.digitalhit.com/fest/tiff/2003/2003films.shtml. Retrieved 2011-08-02.