2004 Toronto International Film Festival

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Official poster for the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival

The 2004 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 9 through September 18.

Canada First

• CQ2 (Seek You Too) (Carole Laure)
• I, Claudia (Chris Abraham)
• Ill Fated (Mark A. Lewis)
• It's All Gone Pete Tong (Michael Dowse)
• Jimmywork (Simon Sauvé)
• Littoral (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 (Peter Carter)

Canadian Retrospective

• Attiuk (René Bonnière)
• La bête lumineuse (Pierre Perrault)
• Le Pays de la terre sans arbre ou le Mouchouânipi (Pierre Perrault)
• Un Pays sans bon sens! (Pierre Perrault)
• Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault, Michel Brault)
• Le Règne du jour (Pierre Perrault)
• Tête-à-la-Baleine (René Bonnière)
• La Traverse d'hiver à l'Île-aux-Coudres (Réne Bonnière)
• Les Voitures d'eau (Pierre Perrault)

Contemporary World Cinema

• 3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk)
• After the Day Before (Attila Janisch)
• Almost Brothers (Lúcia Murat)
• The Alzheimer Case (Erik Van Looy)
• Antares (Götz Spielmann)
• As Follows (Federico Veiroj)
• BOMBÓN - El Perro (Carlos Sorín)
• Breaking News (Johnnie To)
• Brodeuses (Eléonore Faucher)
• Brothers (Susanne Bier)
• Cool (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)
• Hidden Flaws (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)
• The Limb Salesman (Anais Granofsky)
• Little Sky (María Victoria Menis)
• Ma mère (Christophe Honoré)
• Male Fantasy (Blaine Thurier)
• Mon père est ingénieur (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 (Dmitry Meskhiyev)
• Plastic Flowers (Liu Bingjian)
• Quill (Yoichi Sai)
• Real Life (Panos Koutras)
• Rois et reine (Arnaud Desplechin)
• Rolling Family (Pablo Trapero)
• Shiza (Gulshat Omarova)
• Siblings (David Weaver)
• Somersault (Cate Shortland)
• Spider Forest Song (Il-gon)
• 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

• Astronauts (Santi Amodeo)
• Automne (Ra'up McGee)
• Boats out of Watermelon Rinds (Ahmet Uluçay)
• The Buffalo Boy (Minh Nguyen-Vô)
• Le Cou de la girafe (Safy Nebbou)
• Crying? (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 (Hendrik Hölzemann)
• Omagh (Pete Travis)
• On the Outs (Lori Silverbush, Michael Skolnik)
• The Overture (Itthi-sunthorn Wichailak)
• Oyster Farmer (Anna Reeves)
• Private (Saverio Costanzo)
• Producing Adults (Aleksi Salmenperä)
• Les Revenants (Robin Campillo)
• Saving Face (Alice Wu)
• Summer Storm (Marco Kreuzpaintner)
• Symmetry (Konrad Niewolski)
• Uno (Aksel Hennie)
• Vento di Terra (Vincenzo Marra)
• A Way of Life (Amma Asante)
• Whisky Romeo Zulu (Enrique Piñeyro)

Masters

• 10 on Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
• 10e Chambre, instants d'audiences (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)
• Cinévardaphoto (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)
• Max and Mona (Teddy Mattera)
• Mozart - The Music of the Violin (Mickey Madoda Dube)
• A South African Love Story - Walter and Albertina Sisulu (Toni Strasburg)
• Zulu Love Letter (Ramadan Suleman)

Planet Africa

• Aïcha (Newton I. Aduaka)
• above & beneath (René Alberta)
• Bullet Boy (Saul Dibb)
• Gardiens de la Mémoire (Eric Kabera)
• Le Goût des jeunes filles (John L'Ecuyer)
• Le Grand Voyage (Ismaël Ferroukhi)
• The Hero (Zézé Gamboa)
• Kounandi (Apolline Traoré)
• La Nuit de la vérité (Fanta Régina Nacro)
• Off Duty (Buboo Kakati)
• One Flight Stand (Saladin Patterson)
• A Spoonful of Sugar (Andrea Williams)
• Time Out (Xelinda Yancy)

Real to Reel

• Andrew and Jeremy Get Married (Don Boyd)
• Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (Margaret Brown)
• Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat (Zev Asher)
• Darwin's Nightmare (Hubert Sauper)
• Double Dare (Amanda Micheli)
• Le Fantôme d'Henri Langlois (Jacques Richard)
• Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (Michael Epstein)
• Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (George T. Butler)
• Gunner Palace (Michael Tucker, Petra Epperlein)
• I Died in Childhood... (Georgy Paradjanov)
• Kings of the Sky (Deborah Stratman)
• The Last Victory (John Appel)
• Letters to Ali (Clara Law)
• Lightning in a Bottle (Antoine Fuqua)
• Mondovino (Jonathan Nossiter)
• Scared Sacred (Velcrow Ripper)
• Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire (Peter Raymont)
• Small Mall (Róbert Ingi Douglas)
• Tell Them Who You Are (Mark S. Wexler)
• Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family (Susan Kaplan)
• Touch the Sound (Thomas Riedelsheimer)
• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (Ken Burns)
• A Whale of a Tale (Peter Lynch)
• White Tower (Su Qing, Mina)
• Writer of O (Pola Rapaport)
• The Year of the Yao (James D. Stern, Adam Del Deo)
• Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (Xan Cassavetes)

Short Cuts Canada

• Accordéon (Michèle Cournoyer)
• Almost Forgot My Bones (Katrin Bowen)
• Between Science and Garbage (Pierre Hébert, Bob Ostertag)
• Birdlings Two (Davina Pardo)
• Boyclops (Jay Dahl)
• Build (Greg Atkins)
• choke. (David Hyde)
• Corps étrangers (Simon Lavoie)
• Desastre (Jay Field)
• Deux Enfants qui fument (Sarah Fortin)
• Elephant Shoe (Christopher Behnisch)
• Elliot Smelliot (Anita Doron)
• Encre noire sur fond d'azur (Félix Dufour-Laperrière)
• Filth (Wrik Mead)
• The Finite (Alexi Manis)
• Girl Cleans Sink (Sook-Yin Lee)
• Groomed (Joseph Raso)
• The Hill (Deborah Chow)
• Hogtown Blues (Hugh Gibson)
• Hotel Saudade (Cameron Bailey)
• The Human Kazoo (Fabrizio Filippo)
• Man Feel Pain (Dylan Akio Smith)
• mary/me (Kelly Egan)
• Milo 55160 (David Ostry)
• More Sensitive (Gail Noonan)
• Mothers, Fathers and Other Strangers (Carl Knutson)
• My Old Man (Alex Levine)
• Pigeon (Anthony Green)
• Le Pont (Guy Edoin)
• Rodéo (Mélanie Dion)
• Ryan (Chris Landreth)
• The Sadness of Johnson Joe Jangles (Jeffrey St. Jules)
• Sissy Boy Slap Party (Guy Maddin)
• Sombra Dolorosa (Guy Maddin)
• Stronger (Debra Felstead)
• Superhero (Wannabe Patricia, Harris Seeley)
• A Tale of Bad Luck (Brad Peyton)
• Trouser Accidents (Semi Chellas)
• white out (Matt Sinclair-Foreman)

Special Presentations

• 5x2 (Cinq fois deux) (François Ozon)
• The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Niels Mueller)
• Bluebird (Mijke de Jong)
• Celebrating (Brian Linehan)
• 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)
• Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal (Jim Brown)
• 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)

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 (John Stephenson)
• 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)
• Art Project: Role Play
• Blood (Jerry Ciccoritti)
• Días de Santiago (Josué Méndez)
• Evolution of a Filipino Family (Lav Diaz)
• The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (Asia Argento)
• I Like It a Lot (Jay Rosenblatt)
• L'Intrus (Claire Denis)
• A Letter to True (Bruce Weber)
• The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (Bruce McDonald)
• Los Muertos (Lisandro Alonso)
• Primer (Shane Carruth)
• Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
• Thème (Je Françoise Romand)
• Trauma (Marc Evans)
• Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• Undertow (David Gordon Green)
• Vital (Shinya Tsukamoto)
• ZERO the inside story (Elida Schogt)
• SMARTERCHILD (SPLEAK)

Wavelengths

• ( ) (Morgan Fisher)
• --- ------ (a.k.a. Short Line Long Line) (Thom Andersen, Malcolm Brodwick)
• Anaconda Targets (Dominic Angerame)
• Ber-Lin 99/00 (André Lehmann)
• Bouquets 26-27 (Rose Lowder)
• Chateau/Poyet (Lawrence Jordan)
• Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature (Charlotte Pryce)
• Daylight Moon (A Quartet) (Lewis Klahr)
• Enid's Idyll (Lawrence Jordan)
• Le Fantôme de l'opératrice (Caroline Martel)
• Flushing Meadows (Joseph Cornell)
• Free To Go (Interlude) (Andrew Noren)
• Golden Gate Bridge Exposure: Poised for Parabolas (Lynn Marie Kirby)
• It's Not My Memory of It - Three Recollected Documents (Julia Meltzer, David Thorne)
• Line Describing a Cone (Anthony McCall)
• Mirror (Matthias Müller, Christoph Girardet)
• Mouths of Ash (Juan Manuel Echavarría)
• The Observatory (Alexi Manis)
• Phantom (Matthias Müller)
• Play (Matthias Müller, Christoph Girardet)
• Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
• Skagafjördur (Peter Hutton)
• St. Ignatius Church Exposure: Lenten Light Conversions (Lynn Marie Kirby)
• Terrace 49 (Janie Geiser)
• Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Jonas Mekas)