1995 Toronto International Film Festival
 Festival poster | |
| Opening film | The Confessional |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Devil in a Blue Dress |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Hosted by | Toronto International Film Festival Group |
| Festival date | September 7, 1995–September 16, 1995 |
| Language | English |
| Website | tiff |
The 20th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 7 and September 16, 1995.[1] The Confessional by Robert Lepage was selected as the opening film and Devil in a Blue Dress by Carl Franklin was selected as the closing film.[2]
The 1995 festival notably marked the first time that TIFF published its film schedule to the World Wide Web in addition to the conventional paper calendar.[3]
Awards
[edit]| Award[4][5] | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| People's Choice Award | Antonia's Line | Marleen Gorris |
| Metro Media Award | La Cérémonie | Claude Chabrol |
| Best Canadian Feature Film | Live Bait | Bruce Sweeney |
| Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation | Curtis's Charm | John L'Ecuyer |
| Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation | Rude | Clement Virgo |
| Best Canadian Short Film | Reconstruction | Laurence Green |
| Best Canadian Short Film - Special Jury Citation | Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity | Guy Maddin |
| Best Canadian Short Film - Special Jury Citation | Use Once and Destroy | John L'Ecuyer |
| FIPRESCI International Critics' Award | Desolation Angels | Tim McCann |
| FIPRESCI International Critics' Award | Eggs | Bent Hamer |
Programme
[edit]Gala Presentations
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Confessional | Le Confessionnal | Robert Lepage | Canada |
| The Crossing Guard | Sean Penn | United States | |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | Darrell Roodt | South Africa, United States | |
| Devil in a Blue Dress | Carl Franklin | United States | |
| The Grass Harp | Charles Matthau | United States | |
| Guantanamera | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío | Cuba | |
| Leaving Las Vegas | Mike Figgis | United States | |
| Margaret's Museum | Mort Ransen | Canada | |
| Mighty Aphrodite | Woody Allen | United States | |
| Nelly and Mr. Arnaud | Nelly et M. Arnaud | Claude Sautet | France |
| Nobody Loves Me | Keiner liebt mich | Doris Dörrie | Germany |
| The Run of the Country | Peter Yates | United States | |
| The Stars Fell on Henrietta | James Keach | United States | |
| Steal Big Steal Little | Andrew Davis | United States | |
| To Die For | Gus Van Sant | United States | |
| Unstrung Heroes | Diane Keaton | United States | |
Special Presentations
[edit]Michelangelo Antonioni's film Beyond the Clouds had been slated to premiere in the Special Presentations program, but was withdrawn from the festival due to not being complete.[6]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrington | Christopher Hampton | United Kingdom | |
| Fallen Angels | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong | |
| Flirt | Hal Hartley | United States | |
| Four Rooms | Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Alexandre Rockwell, Allison Anders | United States | |
| The Grotesque | John-Paul Davidson | United Kingdom | |
| In the Bleak Midwinter | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom | |
| Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead | Gary Fleder | United States | |
| Wings of Courage | Jean-Jacques Annaud | United States, France | |
Contemporary World Cinema
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antonia's Line | Marleen Gorris | Netherlands | |
| The Blue Veiled | Rūsarī-Ābī | Rakhshān Banietemad | Iran |
| Canadian Bacon | Michael Moore | United States | |
| The Celluloid Closet | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | United States | |
| Cold Fever | Á köldum klaka | Friðrik Þór Friðriksson | Iceland |
| Frankie Starlight | Michael Lindsay-Hogg | United States, Ireland | |
| Flamenco | Carlos Saura | Spain | |
| French Twist | Gazon maudit | Josiane Balasko | France |
| Land and Freedom | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, Spain, Germany | |
| Lisbon Story | Wim Wenders | Portugal, Germany | |
| The Neon Bible | Terence Davies | United Kingdom | |
| The Monster | Il Mostro | Roberto Benigni | Italy |
| Notes from Underground | Gary Alan Walkow | United States | |
| The Promise | Das Versprechen | Margarethe von Trotta | Germany, France, Switzerland |
| Total Eclipse | Agnieszka Holland | United Kingdom | |
| The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | United States | |
| Who Killed Pasolini? | Pasolini, un delitto italiano | Marco Tullio Giordana | Italy |
Perspective Canada: Features
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black List | Liste noire | Jean-Marc Vallée | Canada |
| Blood and Donuts | Holly Dale | ||
| The Champagne Safari | George Ungar | ||
| Curtis's Charm | John L'Ecuyer | ||
| House | Laurie Lynd | ||
| House of Pain | Mike Hoolboom | ||
| If Only I Were an Indian | John Paskievich | ||
| Live Bait | Bruce Sweeney | ||
| The Michelle Apartments | John Pozer | ||
| Once in a Blue Moon | Philip Spink | ||
| Reconstruction | Laurence Green | ||
| Rude | Clement Virgo | ||
| Skin Deep | Midi Onodera | ||
| Soul Survivor | Stephen Williams | ||
| The Suburbanators | Gary Burns | ||
| Voices of Change | Barbara Doran, Lyn Wright | ||
| The War Between Us | Anne Wheeler | ||
| Use Once and Destroy | John L'Ecuyer | ||
| Water Child | L'Enfant d'eau | Robert Ménard | |
| Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics | Terre Nash | ||
| Zigrail | André Turpin | ||
Perspective Canada: Shorts
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Al Tasmim | Selwyn Jacob | Canada | |
| Cramps | Penny Gay | ||
| Movements of the Body: "1st Movement: The Gesture" | Wayne Traudt | ||
| My Name is Kahentiiosta | Alanis Obomsawin | ||
| Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity | Guy Maddin | ||
| Picoti Picota | Manon Briand | ||
| Pleasure Film (Ahmed's Story) | Ann Marie Fleming | ||
| A Portrait of Arshile | Atom Egoyan | ||
| Prey | Helen Lee | ||
| Reconstruction | Laurence Green | ||
First Cinema
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy | James Mangold | United States | |
| Loaded | Anna Campion | New Zealand | |
| The White Balloon | Badkonake sefid | Jafar Panahi | Iran |
| The Young Poisoner's Handbook | Benjamin Ross | United Kingdom, Germany, France | |
Planet Africa
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Africa, My Africa | Afrique, mon Afrique | Idrissa Ouédraogo | Burkina Faso, France |
| Le Franc | Djibril Diop Mambéty | Switzerland, France, Senegal | |
| Guimba the Tyrant | Guimba, un tyrant, une époque | Cheick Oumar Sissoko | Mali, Burkina Faso, France |
| Haramuya | Drissa Toure | Burkina Faso, France | |
| The Keeper | Joe Brewster | United States | |
| The Killers | Tanya Hamilton | United States | |
| Sidney's Chair | Roberto Bangura | United Kingdom | |
| Vintage: Families of Value | Thomas Allen Harris | United States | |
| What My Mother Told Me | Frances-Anne Solomon | United Kingdom | |
Latin American Panorama
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil | Carlota Joaquina, Princesa do Brazil | Carla Camurati | Brazil |
| Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business | Helena Solberg | Brazil | |
| Cinema of Tears | Cinema de Lágrimas | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Brazil |
| Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going | No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas | Eliseo Subiela | Argentina |
| The Eyes of the Scissors | El Censor | Eduardo Calcagno | Argentina |
| Jonah and the Pink Whale | Jonás y la ballena rosada | Juan Carlos Valdivia | Mexico, Bolivia |
| No Return Address | Sin remitente | Carlos Carrera | Mexico |
| Two Crimes | Dos crímenes | Roberto Sneider | |
Asian Horizons
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackbirds at Bangpleng | Ka Wao Thi Bang Phleng | Niratisai Kanjareuk | Thailand |
| Cyclo | Xích Lô | Tran Anh Hung | Vietnam |
| Maiden Rose | Xie Yang | China | |
Hungarian Rhapsodies
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Countdown | Visszaszámlálás | Pál Erdöss | Hungary |
| A Light-Sensitive Story | Fényérzékeny történet | Pál Erdöss | |
| The Princess | Adj király katonát | Pál Erdöss | |
| Tolerance | Gondviselés | Pál Erdöss | |
| Twilight | Szürkület | Gyorgy Feher | |
| The Wondrous Voyage of Kornel Esti | Esti Kornél csodálatos utazása | Jozsef Pacskovszky |
Director's Spotlight
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Almanac of Fall | Őszi almanach | Béla Tarr | Hungary |
| Damnation | Kárhozat | ||
| Family Nest | Családi tűzfészek | ||
| The Outsider | Szabadgyalog | ||
| The Prefab People | Panelkapcsolat | ||
| Satan's Tango | Sátántangó |
Midnight Madness
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crying Freeman | Christophe Gans | France, Canada, Japan | |
| The Day of the Beast | El día de la bestia | Álex de la Iglesia | Spain, Italy |
| Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness | Shimako Sato | Japan | |
| An Evil Town | Richard Sears | United States | |
| Gamera: Guardian of the Universe | Gamera: Daikaijū Kūchū Kessen | Shūsuke Kaneko | Japan |
| Mute Witness | Stumme Zeugin | Anthony Waller | United Kingdom, Germany, Russia |
| Screamers | Christian Duguay | Canada, United States, Japan | |
| Synthetic Pleasures | Iara Lee | United States | |
| To Kill a Dead Man | Alexander Hemming | United Kingdom | |
| Tokyo Fist | Shinya Tsukamoto | Japan | |
| Trailer Camp | Jenni Olson | United States | |
Dialogues: Talking with Pictures
[edit]A program which asked nine prominent filmmakers to select a film that had been a key influence on their own filmmaking career.[7]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Selected by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antonio das Mortes | Glauber Rocha | Jonathan Demme | |
| Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson | Doris Dörrie | |
| Freaks | Tod Browning | David Cronenberg | |
| A Hard Day's Night | Richard Lester | Hal Hartley | |
| Late Spring | Banshun | Yasujirō Ozu | Hou Hsiao-hsien |
| Limelight | Charlie Chaplin | Liv Ullmann | |
| A Man Escaped | Un condamné à mort s'est échappé | Robert Bresson | Agnieszka Holland |
| Le Samourai | Jean-Pierre Melville | John Woo | |
| Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | Tini zabutykh predkiv | Sergei Parajanov | Paul Cox |
Unverified program
[edit]Films that are known to have screened, but have not yet been verified which program they were in.
- The Addiction by Abel Ferrara
- Angel Baby by Michael Rymer
- Angels and Insects by Philip Haas
- Augustin by Anne Fontaine
- Blue in the Face by Paul Auster, Wayne Wang & Harvey Wang
- Bombay by Mani Ratnam
- Brother of Sleep by Joseph Vilsmaier
- Bye-Bye by Karim Dridi
- La Cérémonie by Claude Chabrol
- Denise Calls Up by Hal Salwen
- Desolation Angels by Tim McCann
- Don't Forget You're Going to Die (N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir) by Xavier Beauvois
- Eggs by Bent Hamer
- The Freethinker by Peter Watkins
- Georgia by Ulu Grosbard
- Go Now by Michael Winterbottom
- Good Men, Good Women by Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Harvest Home by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
- Hate (La Haine) by Mathieu Kassovitz
- Hello Cinema (Salaam Cinema) by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Institute Benjamenta by Brothers Quay
- It's A Long Way to the Sea (Xagoroloi Bohudoor) by Jahnu Barua
- The Journey of August King by John Duigan
- Kristin Lavransdatter by Liv Ullmann
- The Last Supper by Stacy Title
- Love Letter by Shunji Iwai
- Maborosi by Hirokazu Koreeda
- Madagascar Skin by Chris Newby
- A Month by the Lake by John Irvin
- A Moslem (Musulmanin) by Vladimir Khotinenko
- Nothing Personal by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
- On the Beat by Ning Ying
- Once Upon a Time...This Morning (Kalla khrung nueng... muea chao nee) by Bhandit Rittakol
- Peculiarities of the National Hunt by Aleksandr Rogozhkin
- Persuasion by Roger Michell
- Someone Else's America by Goran Paskaljevic
- Stonewall by Nigel Finch
- Time of Love (Nobat-e âšeqi) by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Ulysses' Gaze by Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Under the Domim Tree by Eli Cohen
- Voices by Malcolm Clarke
- Welcome to the Dollhouse by Todd Solondz
References
[edit]- ^ Leonard Klady and Harvey Enchin, "Toronto at 20: Bountiful, beleaguered". Variety, September 4, 1995.
- ^ "Taking a look back at TIFF". Archived from the original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Peter Howell and Susan Walker, "Filmfest '95 Buzz". Toronto Star, September 7, 1995.
- ^ "TIFF Awards" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. tiff.net, October 19, 2013.
- ^ "TIFF People's Choice prize heralds film industry kudos". CBC News. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ "Italian film bows out". Montreal Gazette, September 8, 1995.
- ^ Rob Salem, "Film fest's 20th full of stars, premieres Dozen Canadian features will have their world debut in Toronto". Toronto Star, August 23, 1995.