1994 Toronto International Film Festival Explained

1994 Toronto International Film Festival
Host:	Toronto International Film Festival Group
Opening:	Whale Music
Location:	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Language:	English
Date:	–

The 19th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 8 and September 17, 1994. Whale Music by Richard J. Lewis was selected as the opening film. The festival's name changed from Festival of festivals to Toronto International Film Festival.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Awards

Award^[4] ^[5]	Film	Director
People's Choice Award	Priest	Antonia Bird
Metro Media Award	Heavenly Creatures	Peter Jackson
Best Canadian Feature Film	Exotica	Atom Egoyan
Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation	Double Happiness	Mina Shum
Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation	Windigo	Robert Morin
Best Canadian Short Film	Frank's Cock	Mike Hoolboom
Best Canadian Short Film - Special Jury Citation	Technilogic Ordering	Philip Hoffman
Best Canadian Short Film - Special Jury Citation	Make Some Noise	Andrew Munger
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award	The Silences of the Palace	Moufida Tlatli
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award - Honorable Mention	Fate	Fred Kelemen

Programme

Gala Presentation

• The Ascent — Donald Shebib
• Ashes of Time — Wong Kar-wai
• Bullets Over Broadway — Woody Allen
• The Burning Season — John Frankenheimer
• Captives — Angela Pope
• Chungking Express — Wong Kar-wai
• Cold Water — Olivier Assayas
• Colonel Chabert — Yves Angelo
• Eat Drink Man Woman — Ang Lee
• Fate (Verhängnis) — Fred Kelemen
• I Like It Like That — Darnell Martin
• Lamerica — Gianni Amelio
• Little Odessa — James Gray
• Muriel's Wedding — P. J. Hogan
• Nadja — Michael Almereyda
• Once Were Warriors — Lee Tamahori
• — Michael Radford
• Priest — Antonia Bird
• Second Best — Sarah Radclyffe
• The Secret of Roan Inish — John Sayles
• Sleep with Me — Rory Kelly
• The Sum of Us — Kevin Dowling & Geoff Burton
  • Swimming with Sharks — George Huang Through the Olive Trees — Abbas Kiarostami
• Vanya on 42nd Street — Louis Malle
• Vive L'Amour — Tsai Ming-liang
• Whale Music — Richard J. Lewis

Special Presentations

• Amateur — Hal Hartley
• Curse of the Starving Class — J. Michael McClary
• Hell (L'Enfer) — Claude Chabrol
• Martha — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle — Alan Rudolph
• Somebody to Love — Alexandre Rockwell
• — Krzysztof Kieślowski
• To Live — Zhang Yimou
• Tsahal — Claude Lanzmann

Spotlight

• — Nikita Mikhalkov
• Burnt by the Sun — Nikita Mikhalkov

Perspective Canada Features

• The Circle Game — Brigitte Berman
• Dance Me Outside — Bruce McDonald
• Double Happiness — Mina Shum
• Eclipse — Jeremy Podeswa
• Exotica — Atom Egoyan
• Frank's Cock — Mike Hoolboom
• Henry & Verlin — Gary Ledbetter
• A Hero's Life (La Vie d'un héros) — Micheline Lanctôt
• Highway of Heartache — Gregory Wild
• Max — Charles Wilkinson
• — Ali Kazimi
• Only You — Norman Jewison
• Paint Cans — Paul Donovan
• Picture of Light — Peter Mettler
• Super 8½ — Bruce LaBruce
• Valentine's Day — Mike Hoolboom
• The Wind from Wyoming (Le Vent du Wyoming) — André Forcier
• Wasaga — Judith Doyle
• Windigo — Robert Morin

Perspective Canada Shorts

• Leftovers — Janine Fung
• Make Some Noise — Andrew Munger
• Murmuration — Elizabeth Murray
• Off Key — Karethe Linaae
• Technilogic Ordering — Philip Hoffman
• You Love Me I Hate You — Rosamund Owen

Contemporary World Cinema

• Blue Sky — Tony Richardson
• Boca — Walter Avancini, Zalman King
• Dead Tired (Grosse Fatigue) — Michel Blanc
• Dear Diary — Nanni Moretti
• Fun — Rafal Zielinski
• Glitterbug — Derek Jarman
• Heavenly Creatures — Peter Jackson
• Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses — Aki Kaurismäki
• Movie Days — Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
• Moving the Mountain — Michael Apted
• Tracking Down Maggie — Nick Broomfield

First Cinema

• Clerks — Kevin Smith
• Coming to Terms with the Dead (Petits arrangements avec les morts) — Pascale Ferran
• Killer — Mark Malone
• Mille Bolle Blu — Leone Pompucci
• The Shawshank Redemption — Frank Darabont
• The Silences of the Palace — Moufida Tlatli

Documentaries

• Atlantis — Luc Besson
• Hoop Dreams — Steve James
• Crumb — Terry Zwigoff
• Destiny in Space — Toni Myers
• Silent Witness — Harriet Wichin
• Tracking Down Maggie — Nick Broomfield

Asian Horizons

• A Borrowed Life — Wu Nien-jen
• The Red Lotus Society — Stan Lai

India Now

• Bandit Queen — Shekhar Kapur
• Fearless: The Hunterwali Story — Riyad Vinci Wadia
• The Kite (Patang) — Goutam Ghose
• Roja — Mani Ratnam

Latin American Panorama

• Strawberry and Chocolate — Tomás Gutiérrez Alea & Juan Carlos Tabío

Midnight Madness

• Cemetery Man — Michele Soavi
• The Eagle Shooting Heroes — Jeffrey Lau
• Love and a .45 — C.M. Talkington
• Naked Killer — Clarence Fok
• Nightwatch — Ole Bornedal
• S.F.W. — Jefery Levy
• Schramm — Jörg Buttgereit
• Tokarefu — Junji Sakamoto
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare - Wes Craven

External links

• Official site
• TIFF: A Reel History: 1976 - 2012
• 1994 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb

Notes and References

1. News: TIFF: A history of opening nights. October 19, 2013 . CBC News.
2. Web site: TIFF History. October 19, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131015055839/http://tiff.net/about/tiffhistory. 2013-10-15. dead.
3. Web site: Taking a look back at TIFF. October 19, 2013. https://archive.today/20131012155556/http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Film_Festivals/Toronto/2009/about/. 2013-10-12. usurped.
4. http://tiff.net/thefestival/festivalawards/awardsarchive "TIFF Awards"
5. News: TIFF People's Choice prize heralds film industry kudos. October 19, 2013 . CBC News.