1998 Toronto International Film Festival

Awards

Programme

Gala Opening Night

• The Red Violin by François Girard

Gala Closing Night

• Antz by Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson

Gala Presentations

• August 32nd on Earth by Denis Villeneuve
• Central Station by Walter Salles
• Dancing at Lughnasa by Pat O'Connor
• Dog Park by Bruce McCulloch
• Elizabeth by Shekhar Kapur
• Hilary and Jackie by Anand Tucker
• Judas Kiss by Sebastian Gutierrez
• The School of Flesh by Benoît Jacquot
• L.A. Without a Map by Mika Kaurismäki
• Lautrec by Roger Planchon
• Little Voice by Mark Herman
• Living Out Loud by Richard LaGravenese
• Pleasantville by Gary Ross
• A Simple Plan by Sam Raimi
• A Soldier's Sweetheart by Thomas Michael Donnelly
• Without Limits by Robert Towne

Special Presentations

• The Way We Laughed by Gianni Amelio
• Am I Beautiful? by Doris Dörrie
• Another Day in Paradise by Larry Clark
• Apt Pupil by Bryan Singer
• At Sachem Farm by John Huddles
• Down in the Delta by Maya Angelou
• Earth by Deepa Mehta
• Finding Graceland by David Winkler
• Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni
• Pecker by John Waters
• Permanent Midnight by David Veloz
• Rushmore by Wes Anderson
• A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries by James Ivory
• Such a Long Journey by Sturla Gunnarsson
• Summer of the Monkeys by Michael Anderson
• The Giraffe by Dani Levy
• The Mighty by Peter Chelsom
• The Theory of Flight by Paul Greengrass
• Touch of Evil by Orson Welles
• Voleur de vie by Yves Angelo
• Wide Prairie by Oscar Grillo

Masters

• Besieged by Bernardo Bertolucci
• April by Nanni Moretti
• Clouds by Fernando E. Solanas
• Conte d'automne by Éric Rohmer
• Divine by Arturo Ripstein
• Dr. Akagi by Shōhei Imamura
• Eternity and a Day by Theo Angelopoulos
• Flowers of Shanghai by Hou Hsiao-hsien
• The General by John Boorman
• Anxiety by Manoel de Oliveira
• My Name Is Joe by Ken Loach
• Cabaret Balkan by Goran Paskaljević
• The Silence by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Tango by Carlos Saura
• You Laugh by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

Perspective Canada

• 2 secondes by Manon Briand
• L'Amour L'Amour Shut the Door Por Favor by Valerie Buhagiar
• Angel Walk by Mitchell Gabourie
• Beauty Crowds Me by Julie Trimingham
• Boy Meets Girl by Jerry Ciccoritti
• Brakhage by Jim Shedden
• Bridal Path by Cynthia Roberts
• Clutch by Chris Grismer
• Cold Feet by James Allodi
• Crickets by Jane Eun-Hee Kim
• Cupid by Wrik Mead
• Les Dames du 9 by Catherine Martin
• Death Threat by Zarqa Nawaz
• Destroying Angel by Wayne Salazar, Philip Hoffman
• Dirty by Bruce Sweeney
• Echoes in the Rink: The Willie O'Ree Story by Errol Williams
• Elimination Dance by Bruce McDonald
• Elysian Fields by Leonardo Salvo
• Eve-Olve! by Sandra Law
• Extraordinary Visitor by John W. Doyle
• The Falling by Raul Sanchez Inglis
• Faultlines by Gary Popovich
• Fish Bait by Anthony Seck
• The Fisherman and His Wife by Jochen Schliessler
• The Fishing Trip by Amnon Buchbinder
• From Morning on I Waited Yesterday by Wiebke von Carolsfeld
• God Comes as a Child by Jeremiah Hayes
• Great Expectations (Not What You're Thinking) by Ann Marie Fleming
• Harlan and Fiona by Gary Yates
• The Herd by Peter Lynch
• Hustle My Crush by Heidi Gerber
• In the Future by Mike Hoolboom
• Jack and Jill by John Kalangis
• John Scott - Art & Justice by Michael McNamara
• The Last Split Second by Judith Doyle
• Last Night by Don McKellar
• Leda and the Swan by Alexandra Gill
• Le Lépidoptère by Chloë Mercier
• Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles by Jennifer Baichwal
• Mr. Aiello (La Déroute) by Paul Tana
• Michel in the Suête by Neal Livingston
• Moving Day by Chris Deacon
• Nô by Robert Lepage
• Now or Never (Aujourd'hui ou jamais) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• Phil Touches Flo by David Birdsell
• A Place Called Chiapas by Nettie Wild
• Rain, Drizzle and Fog by Rosemary House
• Reaction Stick by John May
• The Rogers' Cable by Jennifer Kierans
• Rupert's Land by Jonathan Tammuz
• Shoes Off! by Mark Sawers
• Shrink by Tim Hamilton
• The Sickroom by Serge Marcotte
• Sploosh by Nathan Garfinkel
• Streetheart (Le cœur au poing) by Charles Binamé
• Le Succédané by Nicolas Frichot
• Sway by Paul Carrière
• Swell by Carolynne Hew
• Under Chad Valley by Jeff Erbach
• Until I Hear From You by Daniel MacIvor
• When I Will Be Gone (L'Âge de braise) by Jacques Leduc
• When Ponds Freeze Over by Mary Lewis

Contemporary World Cinema

• À Vendre by Laetitia Masson
• All the Little Animals by Jeremy Thomas
• Bishonen by Yonfan
• Bedrooms and Hallways by Rose Troche
• The Book Of Life by Hal Hartley
• Buttoners by Petr Zelenka
• Caresses by Ventura Pons
• The Celebration by Thomas Vinterberg
• Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train by Patrice Chéreau
• Christmas in August by Hur Jin-ho
• The City by David Riker
• Claire Dolan by Lodge Kerrigan
• Clay Pigeons by David Dobkin
• Curacha - A Woman Without Rest by Chito S. Roño
• The Dance by Ágúst Guðmundsson
• Dance of Dust by Abolfazl Jalili
• Delivery of a Nation by Momir Matovic
• Desert Blue by Morgan J. Freeman
• Le Dîner de Cons by Francis Veber
• F. est un salaud by Marcel Gisler
• Fated Vocation by Nguyen Vu Chau
• Fin août, début septembre by Olivier Assayas
• Fiona by Amos Kollek
• Fire-Eater by Pirjo Honkasalo
• Full Moon Den by Karen Shakhnazarov
• Gangland by Peque Gallaga, Lore Reyes
• Happiness by Todd Solondz
• Home Fries by Dean Parisot
• The Hole by Tsai Ming-liang
• I'm Losing You by Bruce Wagner
• The Impostors by Stanley Tucci
• In That Land by Lidia Bobrova
• In the Navel of the Sea by Marilou Diaz-Abaya
• Island, Alicia by Ken Yunome
• The Inheritors by Stefan Ruzowitzky
• J'Aimerais Pas Crever Un Dimanche by Didier Le Pêcheur
• Jeanne Et Le Garçon Formidable by Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
• Jerry and Tom by Saul Rubinek
• Just One Time by Lane Janger
• The Last Contract by Kjell Sundvall
• Little Thieves, Big Thieves by Alejandro Saderman
• Little Tropikana by Daniel Díaz Torres
• Love Go Go by Chen Yu-hsun
• Love Is the Devil by John Maybury
• The Lovers of the Arctic Circle by Julio Médem
• Lucia by Don Boyd
• Luminous Motion by Bette Gordon
• The Man with Rain in His Shoes by María Ripoll
• Midnight by Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas
• Motel Erotica by Ho Ping
• My Rice Noodle Shop by Yang Xie
• Night Train by John Lynch
• No Support by Rene Castillo Rivera, Antonio Urrutia
• Notes of Love by Mimmo Calopresti
• Our Troubles Will Soon Be Over by Jorge Ramírez-Suárez
• Passion by György Fehér
• The Patriot by Paulo Thiago
• The Poet by Casey L.Y. Chan
• Rehearsal For War by Mario Martone
• The Rose Seller by Víctor Gaviria
• Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer
• Seul Contre Tous by Gaspar Noé
• Shattered Image by Raúl Ruiz
• Snow by Eric Tretbar
• Spanish Fly by Daphna Kastner
• The Stolen Years by Fernando Colomo
• Sweet Degeneration by Lin Cheng-sheng
• This Is My Father by Paul Quinn
• Three by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
• Thursday by Skip Woods
• Titanic Town by Roger Michell
• Traffic by João Botelho
• Trance by Michael Almereyda
• Un Grand Cri D'amour by Josiane Balasko
• Under A Spell by Carlos Carrera
• Very Bad Things by Peter Berg
• La Vie Rêvée Des Anges by Erick Zonca
• Vigo by Julien Temple
• Waking Ned Devine by Kirk Jones
• Water Easy Reach by Bent Hamer
• What Farocki Taught by Jill Godmilow
• When Love Comes by Garth Maxwell
• Where the Heart Is (À la place du cœur) by Robert Guédiguian
• The Wounds by Srdjan Dragojevic

Discovery

• The Apple by Samira Makhmalbaf
• 23 by Hans-Christian Schmid
• The Adopted Son by Aktan Abdikalikov
• The Adventures of Sebastian Cole by Tod Williams
• Bombay Boys by Kaizad Gustad
• Broken Vessels by Scott Ziehl
• Following by Christopher Nolan
• Georgica by Sulev Keedus
• Get Real by Simon Shore
• Getting Off by Julie A. Lynch
• Hair Shirt by Dean Paras
• Hell's Kitchen by Tony Cinciripini
• In the Winter Dark by James Bogle
• Kenoma by Eliane Caffé
• L'arrière Pays by Jacques Nolot
• Long Time Since by Jay Anania
• Mensaka by Salvador García Ruiz
• The Pianist by Mario Gas
• Porkkaalam by Cheran
• Praise by John Curran
• Radiance by Rachel Perkins
• Rosie: The Devil In My Head by Patrice Toye
• The Shoe by Laila Pakalniņa
• The Sleepwalker by Fernando Spiner
• Sombre by Philippe Grandrieux
• Sweety Barrett by Stephen Bradley
• The Terrorist by Santosh Sivan
• Trans by Julian L. Goldberger
• Une Minute De Silence by Florent Emilio Siri
• West Beirut by Ziad Doueiri
• Windhorse by Paul Wagner

Planet Africa

• Ainsi Soit Il So Be It by Joseph Gaye Ramaka
• Babymother by Julian Henriques
• Bent Familia by Nouri Bouzid
• Corps Plongés by Raoul Peck
• Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland by Charles Burnett
• La Vie Sur Terre by Abderrahmane Sissako
• L'Onzième Commandement by Mama Keïta
• Mixing Nia by Alison Swan
• On The Edge by Newton I. Aduaka
• Pièces D'indentités by Mwezé Ngangura
• Secrets by Sheryl Lee Ralph
• Silmande Tourbillon by S. Pierre Yameogo
• Slam by Marc Levin
• Souko Camera Box by Issiaka Konaté
• Speak Like A Child by John Akomfrah
• Take Your Bags by Camille Billops

Real to Reel

• Angel On My Shoulder by Donna Deitch
• The Cruise by Bennett Miller
• Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance by Kevin Macdonald, Chris Rodley
• The Filmmaker Of The Amazon by Aurélio Michiles
• FragmentsJerusalem* by Ron Havilio
• God Said, "Ha!" by Julia Sweeney
• Megacities by Michael Glawogger
• Richard Lester! by Stacy Cochran
• State of Dogs by Peter Brosens, Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

• Gone with the Wind by Victor Fleming
• Boom! by Joseph Losey
• Charulata by Satyajit Ray
• Forty Guns by Samuel Fuller
• The Four Feathers by Zoltan Korda
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
• Nazarín by Luis Buñuel
• Othello by Orson Welles

New Beat of Japan

• After Life by Hirokazu Kore-Eda
• April Story by Shunji Iwai
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity by Kinji Fukasaku
• Beautiful Sunday by Tetsuya Nakashima
• Bullet Ballet by Shinya Tsukamoto
• Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Detective Riko by Satoshi Isaka
• Hadashi no pikunikku by Shinobu Yaguchi
• The Goofball by Junji Sakamoto
• Happy Go Lucky by Tetsuya Nakashima
• Ikinai by Hiroshi Shimizu
• Kichiku by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
• Muscle Influenza by Keiji Ichikawa, Ken Arima
• Paradise Sea by Koji Hagiuda
• Ping Pong Bath Station by Gen Yamakawa
• Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl by Katsuhito Ishii
• Sunday Drive by Hisashi Saito
• Unlucky Monkey by Sabu
• Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald by Kōki Mitani

Spotlight: Darezhan Omirbaev

• Cardiogram by Darezhan Omirbaev
• July by Darezhan Omirbaev
• Kairat by Darezhan Omirbaev
• Killer by Darezhan Omirbaev
• Life by Darezhan Omirbaev

Canadian Film Centre at 10

• Blood & Donuts by Holly Dale
• Dead Meat by Holly Dale
• The Feeler by Colleen Murphy
• House by Laurie Lynd
• The Making of Monsters by John Greyson
• Save My Lost Nigga Soul by Clement Virgo
• Shoemaker by Colleen Murphy
• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould by François Girard
• Zero Patience by John Greyson

Canadian Open Vault

• Goin' Down the Road by Donald Shebib

Midnight Madness

• The Acid House by Paul McGuigan
• The Bystander From Hell by Matthew Harrison
• Cascadeur - The Amber Chamber by Hardy Martins
• Hang the DJ by Marco La Villa, Mauro La Villa
• Heaven by Scott Reynolds
• I Woke Up Early The Day I Died by Arlis Iliopulos
• Mighty Peking Man by Ho Meng Hua
• ** by Peter Fratzscher
• Perdita Durango by Álex de la Iglesia
• Six-String Samurai by Lance Mungia

References

References

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2. "TORONTO '98: Archive of Coverage of the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival".
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6. "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme".