1999 Toronto International Film Festival

The 24th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 9 to September 18, 1999. The festival opened with Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey and closed with Onegin by Martha Fiennes. A total of 318 films were screened in the 13 programmes.

Awards

Programme

Gala Opening Night

• Felicia's Journey by Atom Egoyan

Gala Closing Night

• Onegin by Martha Fiennes

Gala Presentations

• American Beauty by Sam Mendes
• Anywhere But Here by Wayne Wang
• The Cider House Rules by Lasse Hallstrom
• Est-ouest by Regis Wargnier
• Jakob the Liar by Peter Kassovitz
• Love in the Mirror (Amor nello specchio) by Salvatore Maira
• Me Myself I by Pip Karmel
• Mumford by Lawrence Kasdan
• Music of the Heart by Wes Craven
• La niña de tus ojos by Fernando Trueba
• Orfeu by Carlos Diegues
• Ride with the Devil by Ang Lee
• Simpatico by Matthew Warchus
• Snow Falling on Cedars by Scott Hicks
• Sunshine by István Szabó
• Sweet and Lowdown by Woody Allen

Special Presentations

• Children of the Century by Diane Kurys
• All the Rage by James D. Stern
• Annaluise & Anton by Caroline Link
• The Best Man by Malcolm D. Lee
• The Big Kahuna by John Swanbeck
• Black and White by James Toback
• Breakfast of Champions by Alan Rudolph
• Dogma by Kevin Smith
• Forever Mine by Paul Schrader
• ' by Jim Jarmusch
• Grass by Ron Mann
• Gregory's Two Girls by Bill Forsyth
• History is Made at Night by Ilkka Jarvilaturi
• The Hurricane by Norman Jewison
• Joe the King by Frank Whaley
• Une liaison pornographique by Frederic Fonteyne
• The Limey by Steven Soderbergh
• The Luck of Ginger Coffey by Irvin Kershner
• Mansfield Park by Patricia Rozema
• A Map of the World by Scott Elliott
• ' by Errol Morris
• Pas de scandale by Benoît Jacquot
• Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki
• The Third Miracle by Agnieszka Holland
• To Walk with Lions by Carl Schultz
• Tumbleweeds by Gavin O'Connor
• Wayward Son by Randall Harris
• Women Talking Dirty by Coky Giedroyc
• Wonderland by Michael Winterbottom

Masters

• 8½ Women by Peter Greenaway
• L'Autre by Youssef Chahine
• The Emperor and the Assassin by Chen Kaige
• Goya in Bordeaux by Carlos Saura
• Juha by Aki Kaurismäki
• Kikujiro by Takeshi Kitano
• The Legend of 1900 by Giuseppe Tornatore
• La lettre by Manoel de Oliveira
• Moloch by Alexandr Sokurov
• ' by Paul Cox
• No One Writes to the Colonel by Arturo Ripstein
• The Wet-Nurse by Marco Bellocchio
• The Wind Will Carry Us by Abbas Kiarostami

Perspective Canada

• Babette's Feet by Harry Killas
• Below the Belt by Laurie Colbert and Dominique Cardona
• The Big Snake of the World (Le Grand serpent du monde) by Yves Dion
• By This Parting by Mieko Ouchi
• La Casa del Nonno by Lisa Sfriso
• Discharge (Décharge) by Patrick Demers
• Don't Think Twice by Sarah Polley
• Dreamtrips by Kal Ng
• Ecstasy by Mark Wihak
• Eva Meets Felix by Heidi B. Gerber
• Exhuming Tyler by Merlin Dervisevic
• Fit by David Christensen
• The Five Senses by Jeremy Podeswa
• Fly by Jigar Talati
• Four Days by Curtis Wehrfritz
• Fries with That by Christopher McKay
• Frog Pond by Bradley Walsh
• Full Blast by Rodrigue Jean
• A Girl is a Girl by Reginald Harkema
• Here am I by Joshua Dorsey and Douglas Naimer
• Hi, I'm Steve by Robert Kennedy
• Je te salue by Hugo Brochu
• Johnny by Carl Bessai
• ' by Catherine Annau
• Karaoke by Stéphane Lafleur
• Kokoro is for Heart by Philip Hoffman
• The Life Before This by Jerry Ciccoritti
• The Long Winter (Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore) by Michel Brault
• Memories Unlocked (Souvenirs intimes) by Jean Beaudin
• Mothers of Me by Alexandra Grimanis
• My Father's Angel by Davor Marjanovic
• My Father's Hands by David Sutherland
• New Waterford Girl by Allan Moyle
• The Offering by Paul Lee
• Pamplemousse by Tink
• Quiver by Scott Beveridge
• Remembrance Dance by Chris Gilpin
• Rollercoaster by Scott Smith
• Sea Song by Richard Reeves
• Second Date by James Genn
• Set Me Free (Emporte-moi) by Léa Pool
• So Beautiful by Jacob Wren
• Soul Cages by Phillip Barker
• Sparklehorse by Gariné Torossian
• Subterranean Passage by Michael Crochetière
• Switch by Hope Thompson
• Top of the Food Chain by John Paizs
• ' by Cristine Richey
• Touched by Mort Ransen
• Toy Soldiers by Jackie May
• Tuba Girl by Michèle Muzzi
• Undertow by Sarah Bachinski
• Wedding Knives by Johanna Mercer
• When the Day Breaks by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
• Where Lies the Homo? by Jean-François Monette
• Zyklon Portrait by Elida Schogt

Contemporary World Cinema

• 1999 Madeleine by Laurent Bouhnik
• Adrenaline Drive by Shinobu Yaguchi
• After the Truth by Roland Suso Richter
• Criminal Lovers by François Ozon
• Andares in Time of War by Alejandra Jimenez Lopez
• The Annihilation of Fish by Charles Burnett
• Augustin, roi du Kung-fu by Anne Fontaine
• Away with Words by Christopher Doyle
• Beau travail by Claire Denis
• Beautiful People by Jasmin Dizdar
• The Big Brass Ring by George Hickenlooper
• Le bleu des villes by Stephane Brize
• Boys Don't Cry by Kimberly Peirce
• Buddy Boy by Mark Hanlon
• Bullets Over Summer by Wilson Yip
• Burlesk King by Mel Chionglo
• C'est quoi la vie? by François Dupeyron
• Caravan by Eric Valli
• The Color of Heaven by Majid Majidi
• Les convoyeurs attendent by Benoit Mariage
• Crane World by Pablo Trapero
• The Cup by Khyentse Norbu
• Dancing with Hydra by Takuji Suzuki
• Darkness and Light by Chang Tso-chi
• Un derangement considerable by Bernard Stora
• Deterrence by Rod Lurie
• East is East by Damien O'Donnell
• Enthusiasm by Ricardo Larrain
• Feeling Sexy by Davida Allen
• From the Edge of the City by Constantinos Giannaris
• Garage Olimpo by Marco Bechis
• Gemini by Shinya Tsukamoto
• Guinevere by Audrey Wells
• Hans Warns – My 20th Century by Gordian Maugg
• Happy, Texas by Mark Illsley
• Harem Suare by Ferzan Özpetek
• High Expectations by Evi Quaid
• L'humanite by Bruno Dumont
• Jesus' Son by Alison Maclean
• Journey to the Sun by Yeşim Ustaoğlu
• Judy Berlin by Eric Mendelsohn
• julien donkey-boy by Harmony Korine
• Kadosh by Amos Gitaï
• The Last September by Deborah Warner
• Lies by Jang Sun-woo
• Luna Papa by Bakhityar Khudojnazarov
• M/Other by Nobuhiro Suwa
• Malli by Santosh Sivan
• The Man-Eater by Aurelio Grimaldi
• March of Happiness by Lin Cheng-Sheng
• Mifune – Dogme 3 by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
• Miss Julie by Mike Figgis
• ' by Fred Kelemen
• One Piece! by Shinobu Yaguchi and Takuji Suzuki
• Peau neuve by Emilie Deleuze
• The Personals by Chen Kuo-fu
• Le petit voleur by Eric Zonca
• Ratcatcher by Lynne Ramsay
• Revenge by Andrés Wood
• Rien a faire by Marion Vernoux
• Romance by Catherine Breillat
• A Room for Romeo Brass by Shane Meadows
• Rosetta by Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• Show Me Love by Lukas Moodysson
• Shower by Zhang Yang
• Simon, The Magician by Ildiko Enyedi
• So Close to Paradise by Wang Xiaoshuai
• Soft Hearts by Joel Lamangan and Eric Quizon
• Speedy Boys by James Herbert
• Splendor by Gregg Araki
• Split Wide Open by Dev Benegal
• Sunburn by Nelson Hume
• Tempting Heart by Sylvia Chang
• Throne of Death by Murali Nair
• Time Out by Sergio Cabrera
• A Time to Love by Giacomo Campiotti
• Two Streams by Carlos Reichenbach
• Urban Feel by Jonathan Sagall
• The Virgin by Diego Donnhofer
• The War Zone by Tim Roth
• Yesterday Children by Carlos Siguion-Reyna

Discovery

• 30 Days by Aaron Harnick
• Bloody Angels by Karin Julsrud
• But Forever in My Mind by Gabriele Muccino
• But I'm a Cheerleader by Jamie Babbit
• Civilisees by Randa Chahal
• The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion by Lav Diaz
• Envy by Julie Money
• Freak Weather by Mary Kuryla
• Girls' Night Out by Im Sang-soo
• A Glass of Rage by Aluízio Abranches
• Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish by Kevin Jordan
• Guts by Ron Termaat
• Hidden River by Mercedes García Guevara
• Human Traffic by Justin Kerrigan
• I Could Read the Sky by Nichola Bruce
• Idle Running by Janez Burger
• ' by Clare Kilner
• The Joys of Smoking by Nick Katsapetses
• The Junction by Urszula Urbaniak
• Just One Time by Lane Janger
• Kill by Inches by Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur Flam
• Moonlight Whispers by Akihiko Shiota
• Mr. I and Mrs. O by Valentina Leduc
• Northern Skirts by Barbara Albert
• Pictures and Butterfly by Yanko Del Pino
• Return of the Idiot by SaÅ¡a Gedeon
• Rodents by Sebastián Cordero
• Shadows in the Dark by Pankaj Butalia
• Spring Forward by Tom Gilroy
• This Year's Love by David Kane
• Under California – The Limit of Time by Carlos Bolado
• The Wall by Sergio Arau
• Wheels by Djordje Milosavljevic
• Yana's Friends by Arik Kaplun

Planet Africa

• After the Rain by Ross Kettle
• Chef! by Jean-Marie Teno
• Compensation by Zeinabu irene Davis
• Cry Me a Baby by Tamsin MacCarthy
• La genèse by Cheick Oumar Sissoko
• Harlem Aria by William Jennings
• Hot-Irons by Andrew Dosunmu
• ' by Yvonne Welbon
• Love and Action In Chicago by Dwayne Johnson-Cochran
• Olivia's Story by Charles Burnett
• La petite vendeuse de soleil by Djibril Diop Mambety
• Portrait of a Young Man Drowning by Teboho Mahlatsi
• Rage by Newton I. Aduaka
• Rituals by Carol Mayes
• Third World Cop by Chris Browne

Real to Reel

• American Movie by Chris Smith
• Barenaked in America by Jason Priestley
• Berlin-Cinema (Titre Provisoire) by Samira Gloor-Fadel
• Bread Day by Sergei Dvortsevoy
• Coven by Mark Borchardt
• Crazy English by Zhang Yuan
• Highway by Sergei Dvortsevoy
• Homo Sapiens 1900 by Peter Cohen
• The Humiliated by Jesper Jargil
• If You Only Understood by Rolando Diaz
• Jam Session by Makoto Shinozaki
• The Jaundiced Eye by Nonny de la Pena
• Juan, I Forgot I Don't Remember by Juan Carlos Rulfo
• The Making of a New Empire by Jos de Putter
• Me & Isaac Newton by Michael Apted
• My Best Fiend by Werner Herzog
• Negative Space by Chris Petit
• Pripyat by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
• Shadow Boxers by Katya Bankowsky
• The Specialist by Eyal Sivan
• Sud by Chantal Akerman
• Three by Issac Julien
• Work and Progress by Vivian Ostrovsky and Yann Beauvais

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

• The Awful Truth by Leo McCarey
• Elephant by Alan Clarke
• Hiroshima 28 by Patrick Lung Kong
• Persona by Ingmar Bergman
• Shadows by John Cassavetes
• The Tales of Hoffmann by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
• Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Michael Fengler
• Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa

Indiscreet Charms: New Spanish Cinema

• Solas by Benito Zambrano
• Beloved/Friend by Ventura Pons
• Between Your Legs by Manuel Gomez Pereira
• Do You Really Wanna Know? by Jurdao Faemino, Blanco Faemino, Javier Jurdao and Pedro Blanco
• Dying of Laughter by Álex de la Iglesia
• Fading Memories by Enrique Gabriel
• Flesh by Begona Vicario
• Flowers from Another World by Icíar Bollaín
• Frivolinas by Arturo Carballo
• Golden Whore by Miquel Crespi
• Havana Quartet by Fernando Colomo
• Jealousy by Vicente Aranda
• Lisbon by Antonio Hernández
• The Mole and the Fairy by Grojo
• Rapture by Iván Zulueta
• Roulette by Roberto Santiago
• Washington Wolves by Mariano Barroso

Spotlight: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

• Barren Illusion by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Charisma by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Eyes of the Spider by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• License to Live by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Serpent's Path by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Tribute: The Story of David Overbey

• A Better Tomorrow by John Woo
• Beyond Gravity by Garth Maxwell
• Carne by Gaspar Noé
• Distant Voices, Still Lives by Terence Davies
• Dust in the Wind by Hou Hsiao-hsien
• Insiang by Lino Brocka
• Killer of Sheep by Charles Burnett
• Tragedy of an Indian Farmer by Murali Nair

Midnight Madness

• ' by Lech Kowalski
• Fever by Alex Winter
• ' by Matthew Bright
• ' by Shusuke Kaneko
• George Lucas in Love by Joe Nussbaum
• The Item by Dan Clark
• Komodo by Michael Lantieri
• Possessed by Anders Rønnow Klarlund
• ' by Cass Paley
• The Wisdom of Crocodiles by Po Chih Leong

References

External links

• Official site
• 1999 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb