1995 Toronto International Film Festival
![]() Festival poster | |
Opening film | The Confessional |
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Closing film | Devil in a Blue Dress |
Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Hosted by | Toronto International Film Festival Group |
Festival date | September 7, 1995 (1995-09-07)–September 16, 1995 (1995-09-16) |
Language | English |
Website | tiff |
The 20th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 7 and September 16, 1995.[1] The Confessional by Robert Lepage was selected as the opening film and Devil in a Blue Dress by Carl Franklin was selected as the closing film.[2]
The 1995 festival notably marked the first time that TIFF published its film schedule to the World Wide Web in addition to the conventional paper calendar.[3]
Awards
Award[4][5] | Film | Director |
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People's Choice Award | Antonia's Line | Marleen Gorris |
Metro Media Award | La Cérémonie | Claude Chabrol |
Best Canadian Feature Film | Live Bait | Bruce Sweeney |
Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation | Curtis's Charm | John L'Ecuyer |
Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation | Rude | Clement Virgo |
Best Canadian Short Film | Reconstruction | Laurence Green |
Best Canadian Short Film - Special Jury Citation | Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity | Guy Maddin |
Best Canadian Short Film - Special Jury Citation | Use Once and Destroy | John L'Ecuyer |
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award | Desolation Angels | Tim McCann |
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award | Eggs | Bent Hamer |
Programme
Gala Presentations
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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The Confessional | Le Confessionnal | Robert Lepage | Canada |
The Crossing Guard | Sean Penn | United States | |
Cry, the Beloved Country | Darrell Roodt | South Africa, United States | |
Devil in a Blue Dress | Carl Franklin | United States | |
The Grass Harp | Charles Matthau | United States | |
Guantanamera | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío | Cuba | |
Leaving Las Vegas | Mike Figgis | United States | |
Margaret's Museum | Mort Ransen | Canada | |
Mighty Aphrodite | Woody Allen | United States | |
Nelly and Mr. Arnaud | Nelly et M. Arnaud | Claude Sautet | France |
Nobody Loves Me | Keiner liebt mich | Doris Dörrie | Germany |
The Run of the Country | Peter Yates | United States | |
The Stars Fell on Henrietta | James Keach | United States | |
Steal Big Steal Little | Andrew Davis | United States | |
To Die For | Gus Van Sant | United States | |
Unstrung Heroes | Diane Keaton | United States |
Special Presentations
Michelangelo Antonioni's film Beyond the Clouds had been slated to premiere in the Special Presentations program, but was withdrawn from the festival due to not being complete.[6]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Carrington | Christopher Hampton | United Kingdom | |
Fallen Angels | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong | |
Flirt | Hal Hartley | United States | |
Four Rooms | Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Alexandre Rockwell, Allison Anders | United States | |
The Grotesque | John-Paul Davidson | United Kingdom | |
In the Bleak Midwinter | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom | |
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead | Gary Fleder | United States | |
Wings of Courage | Jean-Jacques Annaud | United States, France |
Contemporary World Cinema
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Antonia's Line | Marleen Gorris | Netherlands | |
The Blue Veiled | Rūsarī-Ābī | Rakhshān Banietemad | Iran |
Canadian Bacon | Michael Moore | United States | |
The Celluloid Closet | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | United States | |
Cold Fever | Á köldum klaka | Friðrik Þór Friðriksson | Iceland |
Frankie Starlight | Michael Lindsay-Hogg | United States, Ireland | |
Flamenco | Carlos Saura | Spain | |
French Twist | Gazon maudit | Josiane Balasko | France |
Land and Freedom | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, Spain, Germany | |
Lisbon Story | Wim Wenders | Portugal, Germany | |
The Neon Bible | Terence Davies | United Kingdom | |
The Monster | Il Mostro | Roberto Benigni | Italy |
Notes from Underground | Gary Alan Walkow | United States | |
The Promise | Das Versprechen | Margarethe von Trotta | Germany, France, Switzerland |
Total Eclipse | Agnieszka Holland | United Kingdom | |
The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | United States | |
Who Killed Pasolini? | Pasolini, un delitto italiano | Marco Tullio Giordana | Italy |
Perspective Canada: Features
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Black List | Liste noire | Jean-Marc Vallée | Canada |
Blood and Donuts | Holly Dale | ||
The Champagne Safari | George Ungar | ||
Curtis's Charm | John L'Ecuyer | ||
House | Laurie Lynd | ||
House of Pain | Mike Hoolboom | ||
If Only I Were an Indian | John Paskievich | ||
Live Bait | Bruce Sweeney | ||
The Michelle Apartments | John Pozer | ||
Once in a Blue Moon | Philip Spink | ||
Reconstruction | Laurence Green | ||
Rude | Clement Virgo | ||
Skin Deep | Midi Onodera | ||
Soul Survivor | Stephen Williams | ||
The Suburbanators | Gary Burns | ||
Voices of Change | Barbara Doran, Lyn Wright | ||
The War Between Us | Anne Wheeler | ||
Use Once and Destroy | John L'Ecuyer | ||
Water Child | L'Enfant d'eau | Robert Ménard | |
Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics | Terre Nash | ||
Zigrail | André Turpin |
Perspective Canada: Shorts
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Al Tasmim | Selwyn Jacob | Canada | |
Cramps | Penny Gay | ||
Movements of the Body: "1st Movement: The Gesture" | Wayne Traudt | ||
My Name is Kahentiiosta | Alanis Obomsawin | ||
Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity | Guy Maddin | ||
Picoti Picota | Manon Briand | ||
Pleasure Film (Ahmed's Story) | Ann Marie Fleming | ||
A Portrait of Arshile | Atom Egoyan | ||
Prey | Helen Lee | ||
Reconstruction | Laurence Green |
First Cinema
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Heavy | James Mangold | United States | |
Loaded | Anna Campion | New Zealand | |
The White Balloon | Badkonake sefid | Jafar Panahi | Iran |
The Young Poisoner's Handbook | Benjamin Ross | United Kingdom, Germany, France |
Planet Africa
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Africa, My Africa | Afrique, mon Afrique | Idrissa Ouédraogo | Burkina Faso, France |
Le Franc | Djibril Diop Mambéty | Switzerland, France, Senegal | |
Guimba the Tyrant | Guimba, un tyrant, une époque | Cheick Oumar Sissoko | Mali, Burkina Faso, France |
Haramuya | Drissa Toure | Burkina Faso, France | |
The Keeper | Joe Brewster | United States | |
The Killers | Tanya Hamilton | United States | |
Sidney's Chair | Roberto Bangura | United Kingdom | |
Vintage: Families of Value | Thomas Allen Harris | United States | |
What My Mother Told Me | Frances-Anne Solomon | United Kingdom |
Latin American Panorama
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil | Carlota Joaquina, Princesa do Brazil | Carla Camurati | Brazil |
Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business | Helena Solberg | Brazil | |
Cinema of Tears | Cinema de Lágrimas | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Brazil |
Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going | No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas | Eliseo Subiela | Argentina |
The Eyes of the Scissors | El Censor | Eduardo Calcagno | Argentina |
Jonah and the Pink Whale | Jonás y la ballena rosada | Juan Carlos Valdivia | Mexico, Bolivia |
No Return Address | Sin remitente | Carlos Carrera | Mexico |
Two Crimes | Dos crímenes | Roberto Sneider |
Asian Horizons
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Blackbirds at Bangpleng | Ka Wao Thi Bang Phleng | Niratisai Kanjareuk | Thailand |
Cyclo | Xích Lô | Tran Anh Hung | Vietnam |
Maiden Rose | Xie Yang | China |
Hungarian Rhapsodies
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Countdown | Visszaszámlálás | Pál Erdöss | Hungary |
A Light-Sensitive Story | Fényérzékeny történet | Pál Erdöss | |
The Princess | Adj király katonát | Pál Erdöss | |
Tolerance | Gondviselés | Pál Erdöss | |
Twilight | Szürkület | Gyorgy Feher | |
The Wondrous Voyage of Kornel Esti | Esti Kornél csodálatos utazása | Jozsef Pacskovszky |
Director's Spotlight
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Almanac of Fall | Őszi almanach | Béla Tarr | Hungary |
Damnation | Kárhozat | ||
Family Nest | Családi tűzfészek | ||
The Outsider | Szabadgyalog | ||
The Prefab People | Panelkapcsolat | ||
Satan's Tango | Sátántangó |
Midnight Madness
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Crying Freeman | Christophe Gans | France, Canada, Japan | |
The Day of the Beast | El día de la bestia | Álex de la Iglesia | Spain, Italy |
Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness | Shimako Sato | Japan | |
An Evil Town | Richard Sears | United States | |
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe | Gamera: Daikaijū Kūchū Kessen | Shūsuke Kaneko | Japan |
Mute Witness | Stumme Zeugin | Anthony Waller | United Kingdom, Germany, Russia |
Screamers | Christian Duguay | Canada, United States, Japan | |
Synthetic Pleasures | Iara Lee | United States | |
To Kill a Dead Man | Alexander Hemming | United Kingdom | |
Tokyo Fist | Shinya Tsukamoto | Japan | |
Trailer Camp | Jenni Olson | United States |
Dialogues: Talking with Pictures
A program which asked nine prominent filmmakers to select a film that had been a key influence on their own filmmaking career.[7]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Selected by |
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Antonio das Mortes | Glauber Rocha | Jonathan Demme | |
Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson | Doris Dörrie | |
Freaks | Tod Browning | David Cronenberg | |
A Hard Day's Night | Richard Lester | Hal Hartley | |
Late Spring | Banshun | Yasujirō Ozu | Hou Hsiao-hsien |
Limelight | Charlie Chaplin | Liv Ullmann | |
A Man Escaped | Un condamné à mort s'est échappé | Robert Bresson | Agnieszka Holland |
Le Samourai | Jean-Pierre Melville | John Woo | |
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | Tini zabutykh predkiv | Sergei Parajanov | Paul Cox |
Unverified program
Films that are known to have screened, but have not yet been verified which program they were in.
- The Addiction by Abel Ferrara
- Angel Baby by Michael Rymer
- Angels and Insects by Philip Haas
- Augustin by Anne Fontaine
- Blue in the Face by Paul Auster, Wayne Wang & Harvey Wang
- Bombay by Mani Ratnam
- Brother of Sleep by Joseph Vilsmaier
- Bye-Bye by Karim Dridi
- La Cérémonie by Claude Chabrol
- Denise Calls Up by Hal Salwen
- Desolation Angels by Tim McCann
- Don't Forget You're Going to Die (N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir) by Xavier Beauvois
- Eggs by Bent Hamer
- The Freethinker by Peter Watkins
- Georgia by Ulu Grosbard
- Go Now by Michael Winterbottom
- Good Men, Good Women by Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Harvest Home by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
- Hate (La Haine) by Mathieu Kassovitz
- Hello Cinema (Salaam Cinema) by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Institute Benjamenta by Brothers Quay
- It's A Long Way to the Sea (Xagoroloi Bohudoor) by Jahnu Barua
- The Journey of August King by John Duigan
- Kristin Lavransdatter by Liv Ullmann
- The Last Supper by Stacy Title
- Love Letter by Shunji Iwai
- Maborosi by Hirokazu Koreeda
- Madagascar Skin by Chris Newby
- A Month by the Lake by John Irvin
- A Moslem (Musulmanin) by Vladimir Khotinenko
- Nothing Personal by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
- On the Beat by Ning Ying
- Once Upon a Time...This Morning (Kalla khrung nueng... muea chao nee) by Bhandit Rittakol
- Peculiarities of the National Hunt by Aleksandr Rogozhkin
- Persuasion by Roger Michell
- Someone Else's America by Goran Paskaljevic
- Stonewall by Nigel Finch
- Time of Love (Nobat-e âšeqi) by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Ulysses' Gaze by Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Under the Domim Tree by Eli Cohen
- Voices by Malcolm Clarke
- Welcome to the Dollhouse by Todd Solondz
References
- ^ Leonard Klady and Harvey Enchin, "Toronto at 20: Bountiful, beleaguered". Variety, September 4, 1995.
- ^ "Taking a look back at TIFF". Archived from the original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Peter Howell and Susan Walker, "Filmfest '95 Buzz". Toronto Star, September 7, 1995.
- ^ "TIFF Awards" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. tiff.net, October 19, 2013.
- ^ "TIFF People's Choice prize heralds film industry kudos". CBC News. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ "Italian film bows out". Montreal Gazette, September 8, 1995.
- ^ Rob Salem, "Film fest's 20th full of stars, premieres Dozen Canadian features will have their world debut in Toronto". Toronto Star, August 23, 1995.
External links
- Official site
- TIFF: A Reel History: 1976 - 2012
- 1995 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb
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- People's Choice
- People's Choice: Documentaries
- People's Choice: Midnight Madness
- Best Canadian Film
- Best Canadian Discovery
- Best Canadian Short Film
- Amplify Voices
- Changemaker
- International Critics' (FIPRESCI) Prizes
- Best International Short Film
- NETPAC Prize
- Platform Prize
- Share Her Journey
- TIFF Tribute Awards