Toronto International Film Festival Coverage:2003:List of Films
28th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films
On August 19th, 2003, the Toronto International Film Festival released the complete list of films that will unspool at the 2003 edition. Before we get to the list, here are some interesting facts:
- 336 Films: Features — 252; Shorts — 84
- 184 Features that are world, international, or North American premieres:64, 17, and 103 respectively
- 73% Feature Films that are world, international, or North American premieres
- 145 Number of Features Screened in a Language Other than English; 58% of the total Feature Films screened
- 3193 Total Submissions: International — 2561, Canadian — 632
- 55 Countries
- 66 First Features
- 21 Screens Used
- 15 Programmes
- 28,340 Minutes of Film
- 545’ Longest Film: WEST OF THE TRACKS, Wang Bing
- 1’ Shortest Film: X-MAN, Chris Hinton
- 37 Canadian features, including co-productions
- 38 Canadian shorts, including co-productions
- 21 Canadian features making their world premiere, including co-productions
As usual, Digital Hit will have daily coverage of the 10 days of the festival, starting September 4th.
And now, without further ado, here’s the complete list:
- Canadian Open Vault
- Canadian Retrospective
- Contemporary World Cinema
- Dialogues: Talking With Pictures
- Director's Spotlight
- Discovery
- Masters
- Midnight Madness
- National Cinema
- Perspective Canada
- Planet Africa
- Real to Reel
- Special Presentations
- Viacom Galas
- Visions
- Wavelengths
| CANADIAN OPEN VAULT | |
| Film Title | Director |
| The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Ted Kotcheff |
| CANADIAN RETROSPECTIVE | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Back to God's Country | David M. Hartford |
| A Bear, a Boy and a Dog | Bert Van Tuyle |
| The Grub Stake | Bert Van Tuyle, in collaboration with Nell Shipman |
| The Light on Lookout | Bert Van Tuyle, Nell Shipman |
| Something New | Nell Shipman, Bert Van Tuyle |
| The Story of Mr. Hobbs | Lorenzo Alagio |
| The Trail of the North Wind | Nell Shipman |
| White Water | Bert Van Tuyle, Nell Shipman |
| CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Abjad | Abolfazl Jalili |
| Alexandra's Project | Rolf de Heer |
| Antenna | Kazuyoshi Kumakiri |
| At Five in the Afternoon | Samira Makhmalbaf |
| B-Happy | Gonzalo Justiniano |
| Bright Young Things | Stephen Fry |
| Broken Wings | Nir Bergman |
| Crimson Gold | Jafar Panahi |
| Depuis qu'Otar est parti | Julie Bertuccelli |
| Drifters | Wang Xiaoshuai |
| Dummy | Greg Pritikin |
| Errance | Damien Odoul |
| The Event | Thom Fitzgerald |
| Evil | Mikael Håfström |
| Facing Window | Ferzan Ozpetek |
| Forest | Benedek Fliegauf |
| Free Radicals | Barbara Albert |
| Fuse | Pjer Zalica |
| The Galíndez File | Gerardo Herrero |
| Golden Chicken | Samson Chiu |
| Good Bye, Lenin! | Wolfgang Becker |
| A Good Lawyer's Wife | Im Sang-soo |
| Grimm | Alex van Warmerdam |
| Gun-shy | Dito Tsintsadze |
| A Heart Elsewhere | Pupi Avati |
| The Hours of the Day | Jaime Rosales |
| I'm Not Scared | Gabriele Salvatores |
| Identity Kills | Sören Voigt |
| In the City | Cesc Gay |
| Intermission | John Crowley |
| Interview | Theo van Gogh |
| James' Journey to Jerusalem | Ra'anan Alexandrowicz |
| Japanese Story | Sue Brooks |
| Kamchatka | Marcelo Piñeyro |
| Kitchen Stories | Bent Hamer |
| Last Life in the Universe | Pen-ek Ratanaruang |
| The Last Virgin | Joel Lamangan |
| Loving Glances | Srdjan Karanovic |
| The Magic Gloves | Martin Rejtman |
| Les Mains vides | Marc Recha |
| Memories of Murder | Bong Joon-Ho |
| Milwaukee, Minnesota | Allan Mindel |
| The Mother | Roger Michell |
| My Life Without Me | Isabelle Coixet |
| Nói albinói | Dagur Kari |
| Nicotina | Hugo Rodríguez |
| Nos enfants chéris | Benoît Cohen |
| Osama | Siddiq Barmak |
| Pieces of April | Peter Hedges |
| Prey for Rock & Roll | Alex Steyermark |
| The Principles of Lust | Penny Woolcock |
| Prosti | Erik Matti |
| PTU | Johnnie To |
| Pupendo | Jan Hrebejk |
| Purple Butterfly | Lou Ye |
| Qui a tué Bambi? | Gilles Marchand |
| Ramblers | Nobuhiro Yamashita |
| Remember Me | Gabriele Muccino |
| The Return | Andrey Zvyagintsev |
| Secret File | Paolo Benvenuti |
| Shara | Naomi Kawase |
| Silence Between Two Thoughts | Babak Payami |
| So Far Away | Juan Carlos Tabío |
| South from Granada | Fernando Colomo |
| Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | Kim Ki-duk |
| Stander | Bronwen Hughes |
| Stormy Weather | Sólveig Anspach |
| Struggle | Ruth Mader |
| SuperTex | Jan Schütte |
| Testosterone | David Moreton |
| Toutes ces belles promesses | Jean Paul Civeyrac |
| Travellers and Magicians | Khyentse Norbu |
| Vibrator | Ryuichi Hiroki |
| Vodka Lemon | Hiner Saleem |
| What the Eye Doesn't See | Francisco J. Lombardi |
| Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself | Lone Scherfig |
| Wonderland | James Cox |
| Young Adam | David Mackenzie |
| DIALOGUES: TALKING WITH PICTURES | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Alien | Sir Ridley Scott |
| Bad Timing | Nicolas Roeg |
| Ikiru | Akira Kurosawa |
| Nashville | Robert Altman |
| One from the Heart | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Twenty Years Later | Eduardo Coutinho |
| DIRECTOR'S SPOTLIGHT | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Clouds of May | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| Confession | Zeki Demirkubuz |
| Distant | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| Encounter | Ömer Kavur |
| Fate | Zeki Demirkubuz |
| Motherland Hotel | Ömer Kavur |
| The Secret Face | Ömer Kavur |
| The Small Town | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| The Third Page | Zeki Demirkubuz |
| DISCOVERY | |
| Film Title | Director |
| 11:14 | Greg Marcks |
| 16 Years of Alcohol | Richard Jobson |
| Ana and the Others | Celina Murga |
| Christmas | Gregory King |
| Les Corps impatients | Xavier Giannoli |
| Dallas 362 | Scott Caan |
| Easy | Jane Weinstock |
| The Green Butchers | Anders Thomas Jensen |
| I Love Your Work | Adam Goldberg |
| Jeux d'enfants | Yann Samuell |
| Koktebel | Boris Khlebnikov, Alexei Popogrebsky |
| The Last Customer | Nanni Moretti |
| Madness and Genius | Ryan Eslinger |
| Maqbool | Vishal Bharadwaj |
| My Father and I | Xu Jinglei |
| My Town | Marek Lechki |
| A Nation Without Women | Manish Jha |
| November | Achero Mañas |
| Rhinoceros Eyes | Aaron Woodley |
| Rick | Curtiss Clayton |
| Sexual Dependency | Rodrigo Bellott |
| A Smile | Park Kyung-hee |
| Summer in the Golden Valley | Srdjan Vuletic |
| This Little Life | Sarah Gavron |
| The Triggerstreet.com Project | |
| MASTERS | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Casa de los Babys | John Sayles |
| Chokher Bali, A Passion Play | Rituparno Ghosh |
| Come and Go | João César Monteiro |
| Dying at Grace | Allan King |
| Elephant | Gus Van Sant |
| I'll Sleep When I'm Dead | Mike Hodges |
| A Talking Picture | Manoel de Oliveira |
| Le Temps du Loup | Michael Haneke |
| Zatoichi | Takeshi Kitano |
| MIDNIGHT MADNESS | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Cypher | Vincenzo Natali |
| End of the Century: The Story of The Ramones | Jim Fields, Michael Gramaglia |
| Gozu | Takashi Miike |
| The Grudge | Takashi Shimizu |
| Haute Tension | Alexandre Aja |
| Ong-Bak Muay Thai Warrior | Prachya Pinkaew |
| Save the Green Planet | Jang Jun-hwan |
| Undead | Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig |
| Underworld | Len Wiseman |
| NATIONAL CINEMA | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Bus 174 | José Padilha |
| Carandiru | Hector Babenco |
| God Is Brazilian | Carlos Diegues |
| The Man of the Year | José Henrique Fonseca |
| Margarette's Feast | Renato Falcão |
| The Middle of the World | Vicente Amorim |
| The Storytellers | Eliane Caffé |
| PERSPECTIVE CANADA | |
| Film Title | Director |
| 20h17, rue Darling | Bernard Émond |
| Animal Nightmares | Peter Lynch |
| Aspiration | Constant Mentzas |
| Bager | Tomi Grgicevic |
| The Big Charade | Jesse McKeown |
| The Bread Maker | Anita McGee |
| The Corporation | Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott |
| Déformation Personnelle | Jean-François Asselin |
| Defile in Veil | deco dawson |
| DNA | Jack Blum |
| The Dog Walker | James Genn |
| Emile | Carl Bessai |
| Exposures | Matt Sinclair-Foreman |
| An Eye for an Eye | David Rimmer |
| Falling Angels | Scott Smith |
| The Fever of the Western Nile | deco dawson |
| Flyerman | Jeff Stephenson, Jason Tan |
| The Garden | Jason Buxton |
| Gaz Bar Blues | Louis Bélanger |
| Grotesque | Wrik Mead |
| Guest Room | Skander Halim |
| her carnal longings | Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof |
| Hollywood North | Peter O'Brian |
| Imitations of Life | Mike Hoolboom |
| In the Dark | Mike Hoolboom |
| Jours en fleurs | Louise Bourque |
| The Last Night | Mathieu Guez |
| A Little Life | Elizabeth Murray |
| Love, Sex, and Eating the Bones | Sudz Sutherland |
| The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam | Ann Marie Fleming |
| Mardi (Quel jour était-ce?) | Lyne Charlebois |
| Moccasin Flats | Randy Redroad |
| Noël Blank | Jean-François Rivard |
| Not a Fish Story | Anita Doron |
| Nothing | Vincenzo Natali |
| On the Corner | Nathaniel Geary |
| Passages | John Price |
| Perfect | Boris Rodriguez |
| Pop Song | Charles Officer |
| A Problem with Fear | Gary Burns |
| Proteus | John Greyson |
| Saskatchewan Part 2 | Brian Stockton |
| The School | Ezra Krybus, Matthew Miller |
| She Was Cuba | Ho Tam |
| Shooting Star | Jason Britski |
| Sometimes a Voice | Simon Davidson |
| Song of Wreckage | Ryan Redford |
| Terminal Venus | Alexandre Franchi |
| Todd and the Book of Pure Evil | Craig D. Wallace |
| Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole | Gil Cardinal |
| The Truth about Head | Dale Heslip |
| Twist | Jacob Tierney |
| Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner | Jamie Travis |
| Wildflowers | Geoffrey Uloth |
| X Man | Christopher Hinton |
| PLANET AFRICA | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Afropunk: The "Rock n Roll Nigger" Experience | James Spooner |
| Dark | D.A. Bullock |
| His/Her Story | Nzinga Kemp |
| Histoire de Tresses | Jacqueline Kalimunda |
| How to Get the Man's Foot Out of Your Ass | Mario Van Peebles |
| Mille Mois | Faouzi Bensaïdi |
| Moi et mon blanc | S. Pierre Yaméogo |
| One Love | Rick Elgood, Don Letts |
| Outcry | Destau Damtou |
| Short on Sugar | Joseph Anaya |
| Le Silence de la forêt | Didier Ouénangaré, Bassek ba Kobhio |
| The Sky in Her Eyes | Ouida Smit, Madoda Ncayiyana |
| Soldiers of the Rock | Norman Maake |
| Strange and Charmed | Shari Frilot |
| Valley of the Innocent | Branwen Okpako |
| Les Yeux secs | Narjiss Nejjar |
| REAL TO REEL | |
| Film Title | Director |
| The Agronomist | Jonathan Demme |
| Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer | Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill |
| The Blonds | Albertina Carri |
| Bright Leaves | Ross McElwee |
| Destiny's Children | Pimmi Pândé |
| Dream Cuisine | Li Ying |
| Enquête sur le monde invisible | Jean Michel Roux |
| Festival Express | Bob Smeaton |
| The Five Obstructions | Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth |
| Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine | Vikram Jayanti |
| Jesus, You Know | Ulrich Seidl |
| Los Angeles Plays Itself | Thom Andersen |
| Mayor of the Sunset Strip | George Hickenlooper |
| Molly & Mobarak | Tom Zubrycki |
| The Passion of María Elena | Mercedes Moncada |
| The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain |
| S21, La Machine de mort Khmère Rouge | Rithy Panh |
| The Story of the Weeping Camel | Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni |
| Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion | Tom Peosay |
| Tom Dowd & the Language of Music | Mark Moormann |
| West of the Tracks, Part I: Rust | Wang Bing |
| West of the Tracks, Part II: Remnants | Wang Bing |
| West of the Tracks, Part III: Rails | Wang Bing |
| The Yes Men | Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, Chris Smith |
| SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS | |
| Film Title | Director |
| 21 Grams | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| Alila | Amos Gitaï |
| The Best of Youth | Marco Tullio Giordana |
| Cheeky | David Thewlis |
| Coffee & Cigarettes | Jim Jarmusch |
| The Cooler | Wayne Kramer |
| Dogville | Lars von Trier |
| La face cachée de la lune | Robert Lepage |
| The Fog of War | Errol Morris |
| Go Further | Ron Mann |
| The Gospel of John | Philip Saville |
| La Grande Séduction | Jean-François Pouliot |
| L' Histoire de Marie et Julien | Jacques Rivette |
| Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola |
| Love Actually | Richard Curtis |
| The Merry Widow | Erich von Stroheim |
| Monsieur Ibrahim | François Dupeyron |
| Père et fils | Michel Boujenah |
| Raja | Jacques Doillon |
| The Saddest Music in the World | Guy Maddin |
| Les Sentiments | Noémie Lvovsky |
| Shattered Glass | Billy Ray |
| The Singing Detective | Keith Gordon |
| The Snow Walker | Charles Martin Smith |
| The Station Agent | Tom McCarthy |
| Touching the Void | Kevin Macdonald |
| Valentin | Alejandro Agreste |
| Zhou Yu's Train | Sun Zhou |
| VIACOM GALAS | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Bon Voyage | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
| The Boys from County Clare | John Irvin |
| Code 46 | Michael Winterbottom |
| The Company | Robert Altman |
| Danny Deckchair | Jeff Balsmeyer |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring | Peter Webber |
| Good Morning, Night | Marco Bellocchio |
| The Human Stain | Robert Benton |
| In the Cut | Jane Campion |
| Les Invasions barbares | Denys Arcand |
| Mambo Italiano | Émile Gaudreault |
| Matchstick Men | Sir Ridley Scott |
| Nathalie... | Anne Fontaine |
| Out of Time | Carl Franklin |
| The Republic of Love | Deepa Mehta |
| Rosenstrasse | Margarethe von Trotta |
| The School of Rock | Richard Linklater |
| Veronica Guerin | Joel Schumacher |
| VISIONS | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Bright Future | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| The Brown Bunny | Vincent Gallo |
| Cremaster 3 | Matthew Barney |
| Good Bye, Dragon Inn | Tsai Ming-liang |
| Greendale | Bernard Shakey a.k.a Neil Young |
| In This World | Michael Winterbottom |
| Nine Souls | Toshiaki Toyoda |
| Des Plumes dans la tête | Thomas de Thier |
| Sansa | Siegfried |
| The Tesseract | Oxide Pang |
| Les Triplettes de Belleville | Sylvain Chomet |
| The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Episode 3. Antwerp | Peter Greenaway |
| The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1. The Moab Story | Peter Greenaway |
| Twentynine Palms | Bruno Dumont |
| WAVELENGTHS | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Bouquet 25 | Rose Lowder |
| Chinese Series | Stan Brakhage |
| Cocteau Cento | Dan Boord, Luis Valdovino |
| Early Monthly Segments | Robert Beavers |
| Fear of Blushing | Jennifer Reeves |
| The Ground | Robert Beavers |
| He Walked Away | Jennifer Reeves |
| The Hedge Theater | Robert Beavers |
| Horizontal Boundaries Second Projection | Pat O'Neill |
| In the Garden | Ute Aurand, Bärbel Freund |
| Interior | Jim Jennings |
| Let's Make a Sandwich | Pat O'Neill |
| Meditations on Revolution, Part V: Foreign City | Robert Fenz |
| Megalopolis | Jim Jennings |
| No | Sharon Lockhart |
| Noor | Deborah Phillips |
| Outline | Sandra Gibson |
| Psalm III: "Night of the Meek" | Phil Solomon |
| Quadro | Lotte Schreiber |
| Rolling in My Ears | Barry Gerson |
| Seasons | Phil Solomon, Stan Brakhage |
| Stan's Window and Work in Progress | Stan Brakhage |
| System of Transitions | Johannes Hammel |
| Translucent Appearances | Barry Gerson |
| The Visitation | Nathaniel Dorsky |