# 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.
Forest Whitaker won FIPRESCI International Critics' Award for Strapped.

## Awards

| Award | 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
* Household Saints, Nancy Savoca
* Le journal de Lady M., Alain Tanner
* 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
* Un'anima divisa in due by Silvio Soldini

### 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

### Spotlight

* Roi blanc, dame rouge by Sergei Bodrov

### 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

## 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.
| 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 |