The 18th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 18, 1993. M. Butterfly by David Cronenberg was selected as the opening film.
Forest Whitaker won FIPRESCI International Critics' Award for Strapped.
Awards
Programme
Gala presentations
- The Accompanist (L'Accompagnatrice), Claude Miller
- Belle ÃÂpoque, Fernando Trueba
- Bitter Moon, Roman Polanski
- Bopha!, Morgan Freeman
- A Bronx Tale by Robert De Niro
- A Dangerous Woman, Stephen Gyllenhaal
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Gus Van Sant
- Flight of the Innocent, Carlo Carlei
- The Joy Luck Club, Wayne Wang
- A Life in the Theatre, Gregory Mosher
- Love and Human Remains, Denys Arcand
- M. Butterfly, David Cronenberg
- (Der Kinoerzähler), Bernhard Sinkel
- The Piano, Jane Campion
- Red Rock West, John Dahl
- Rudy, David Anspaugh
- The Snapper, Stephen Frears
- Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, François Girard
Special presentations
- Arizona Dream, Emir Kusturica
- The Baby of Mâcon, Peter Greenaway
- El Cid, Anthony Mann
- L'enfant lion, Patrick Grandperret
- Farewell My Concubine, Chen Kaige
- Friends, Elaine Proctor
- Hadashi no pikunikku, Shinobu Yaguchi
- Madadayo, Akira Kurosawa
- The Puppetmaster, Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Romeo Is Bleeding, Peter Medak
- The Saint of Fort Washington by Tim Hunter
- ', Krzysztof KieÃ
Âlowski
World Cinema
- 1, 2, 3, Sun (Un, deux, trois, soleil), Bertrand Blier
- The Ballad of Little Jo, Maggie Greenwald
- The Cement Garden, Andrew Birkin
- La Crise, Coline Serreau
- Daens, Stijn Coninx
- Darkness in Tallinn, Ilkka Järvi-Laturi
- Gorilla Bathes at Noon, Dusan Makavejev
- ', Jeff Feuerzeig
- Hélas pour moi, Jean-Luc Godard
- Household Saints, Nancy Savoca
- Le journal de Lady M., Alain Tanner
- ',
- Lessons of Darkness, Werner Herzog
- Naked by Mike Leigh
- A New Life (Une nouvelle vie), Olivier Assayas
- Raining Stones, Ken Loach
- Samba Traoré, Idrissa Ouedraogo
- Sankofa, Haile Gerima
- Shadow of a Doubt (L'ombre du doute), Aline Issermann
- These Hands, Flora MâÂÂmbugu-Schelling
- The Wedding Banquet, Ang Lee
- Wendemi, l'enfant du bon Dieu, S. Pierre Yameogo
- The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, Ray Müller
Italian Section
Latin American Panorama
The Edge
Spotlight
Canadian Perspective
- Because Why, Arto Paragamian
- Blockade, Nettie Wild
- The Burning Season, Harvey Crossland
- Cap Tourmente, Michel Langlois
- Crad Kilodney, Peter F. Glen
- I Love a Man in Uniform, David Wellington
- ', Alanis Obomsawin
- Ley Lines, Patricia Gruben
- The Lotus Eaters, Paul Shapiro
- Me, Mom and Mona, Mina Shum
- Moving the Mountain, William Ging Wee Dere and Malcolm Guy
- Mustard Bath, Darrell Wasyk
- Paris, France, Jerry Ciccoritti
- Picture of Light, Peter Mettler
- Save My Lost Nigga Soul, Clement Virgo
- The Sex of the Stars (Le sexe des étoiles), Paule Baillargeon
- Small Pleasures, Keith Lock
- Telewhore, Spencer Rice
- Two Brothers, a Girl and a Gun, William Hornecker
- Zero Patience, John Greyson
10 x 10
First Cinema
Midnight Madness
Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time
In 1993 a new Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time list was made, an exercise previously carried out in 1984 and later repeated in 2004.
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