1993 Toronto International Film Festival

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.^[1][2][3]

1993 Toronto International Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film	M. Butterfly
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by	Toronto International Film Festival Group
Festival date	September 9, 1993 (1993-09-09)–September 18, 1993 (1993-09-18)
Language	English
Website	tiff.net

Forest Whitaker won FIPRESCI International Critics' Award for Strapped.

Awards

Award[4][5]	Film	Director
People's Choice Award	The Snapper	Stephen Frears
Metro Media Award	Naked	Mike Leigh
Best Canadian Feature Film	Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance	Alanis Obomsawin
Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation	Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould	François Girard
Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation	Zero Patience	John Greyson
Best Canadian Short Film	Save My Lost Nigga Soul	Clement Virgo
Best Canadian Short Film - Special Jury Citation	Me, Mom and Mona	Mina Shum
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award	Strapped	Forest Whitaker

Programme

Gala presentations

• The Accompanist (L'Accompagnatrice), Claude Miller
• Belle Époque, 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
• The Movie Teller (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
• Three Colors: Blue, Krzysztof Kieślowski

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
• Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King, Jeff Feuerzeig
• Hélas pour moi, Jean-Luc Godard^[6]
• Household Saints, Nancy Savoca
• Le journal de Lady M., Alain Tanner^[6]
• Kaspar Hauser [de], Peter Sehr [de]
• 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 M’mbugu-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

• L'aria serena dell'ovest by Silvio Soldini^[6]
• Un'anima divisa in due by Silvio Soldini^[6]

Latin American Panorama

• Cronos, Guillermo del Toro
• I Don't Want to Talk About It, Marcello Mastroianni
• Unexpected Encounter (Encuentro Inesperado), Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

The Edge

• Kosh ba kosh by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov^[6]

Spotlight

• Roi blanc, dame rouge by Sergei Bodrov^[6]

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
• Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, 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

• The Dead Father, Guy Maddin
• The Forgotten War (La Guerre oubliée), Richard Boutet
• The Grocer's Wife, John Pozer
• Intimate Power (Pouvoir intime), Yves Simoneau
• Life Classes, William D. MacGillivray
• Pissoir, John Greyson
• Sonatine, Micheline Lanctôt

First Cinema

• Boxing Helena, Jennifer Lynch
• Don't Call Me Frankie, Thomas Fucci
• Kalifornia, Dominic Sena
• Menace II Society, Allen and Albert Hughes
• The Scent of Green Papaya, Tran Anh Hung
• Suture, Scott McGehee and David Siegel

Midnight Madness

• Acción mutante by Álex de la Iglesia
• Dazed and Confused by Richard Linklater
• Freaked by Alex Winter & Tom Stern
• Frauds by Stephan Elliott
• Jack Be Nimble by Garth Maxwell
• The Last Border by Mika Kaurismäki
• The Making of And God Spoke by Arthur Borman
• Trauma by Dario Argento
• Wicked City by Yoshiaki Kawajiri
• The Wicked City by Tsui Hark, Peter Mak

^[7]

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.^[8]

Rank	Title	Year	Director
1	Mon oncle Antoine	1971	Claude Jutra
2	Jesus of Montreal	1989	Denys Arcand
3	Goin' Down the Road	1970	Don Shebib
4	The Decline of the American Empire	1986	Denys Arcand
5	Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras)	1980	Francis Mankiewicz
6	Orders (Les Ordres)	1974	Michel Brault
7	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	1974	Ted Kotcheff
8	The Grey Fox	1983	Phillip Borsos
9	I've Heard the Mermaids Singing	1987	Patricia Rozema
10	The Adjuster	1991	Atom Egoyan

References

1. "TIFF: A history of opening nights". CBC News. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
2. "TIFF History". Archived from the original on 2013-10-15. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
3. "Taking a look back at TIFF". Archived from the original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
4. "TIFF Awards" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. tiff.net, October 19, 2013.
5. "TIFF People's Choice prize heralds film industry kudos". CBC News. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
6. "Toronto International Film Festival". Archived from the original on October 20, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
7. "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme". Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
8. "Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time Archived 2013-07-03 at the Wayback Machine," The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2012, URL accessed 28 April 2013.

External links

• Official site
• TIFF: A Reel History: 1976 - 2012
• 1993 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb