# 1984 Toronto International Film Festival

The 9th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 6 and September 15, 1984. The festival introduced Perspective Canada programme, devoted to Canadian films. The festival screened 225 feature films and more than half of them were Canadian films.
In 1984 Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time list was released. It was created by the votes of film critics, professors, fans and festival staff.

## Awards

| Award | Film | Director |
| People's Choice Award | Places in the Heart | Robert Benton |
| Best Canadian Feature Film | A Woman in Transit | Léa Pool |
| International Critics' Award | Choose Me | Alan Rudolph |

## Programme
### Gala Presentation

* Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders
* Places in the Heart by Robert Benton
* Stranger Than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch
* Blood Simple by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
* Where the Green Ants Dream by Werner Herzog
* Boy Meets Girl by Leos Carax
* Another Country by Marek Kanievska
* Funny Dirty Little War by Héctor Olivera
* Diary for My Children by Márta Mészáros
* The Gold Diggers by Sally Potter
* Wildrose by John Hanson
* Choose Me by Alan Rudolph
* The Company of Wolves by Neil Jordan

### Canadian Perspective

* Abortion: Stories From North and South by Gail Singer
* Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair by Paul Cowan
* Le jour S... by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
* Low Visibility by Patricia Gruben
* Mario by Jean Beaudin
* The Masculine Mystique by Giles Walker and John N. Smith
* Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh by Demitrios Estdelacropolis
* Next of Kin by Atom Egoyan
* The Obsession of Billy Botski by John Paizs
* The International Style by John Paizs
* Springtime in Greenland by John Paizs
* Revolution by Jean-Marc Larivière
* Sonatine by Micheline Lanctôt
* Unfinished Business by Don Owen
* Walls by Tom Shandel
* A Woman in Transit by Léa Pool
* The Years of Dreams and Revolt by Jean-Claude Labrecque

### Front & Centre

Front & Centre was a special one-off program, which screened culturally and artistically important films from throughout the entire history of Canadian cinema.
* Back to God's Country by David Hartford (1919)
* Lucky Corrigan by Lewis D. Collins (1936)
* Convicted by Leon Barsha (1937)
* Whispering City by Fedor Ozep (1947)
* The Bitter Ash by Larry Kent (1963)
* The Cat in the Bag by Gilles Groulx (1964)
* When Tomorrow Dies by Larry Kent (1965)
* Winter Kept Us Warm by David Secter (1965)
* The Times That Are by Pierre Perrault (1966)
* Don't Let It Kill You by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (1967)
* High by Larry Kent (1967)
* The River Schooners by Pierre Perrault (1968)
* A Married Couple by Allan King (1969)
* The Only Thing You Know by Clarke Mackey (1971)
* Proxyhawks by Jack Darcus (1971)
* The Rowdyman by Peter Carter (1971)
* The Time of the Hunt by Francis Mankiewicz (1972)
* Wedding in White by William Fruet (1972)
* Dream Life by Mireille Dansereau (1972)
* Dirty Money by Denys Arcand (1972)
* Réjeanne Padovani by Denys Arcand (1973)
* The Last Betrothal by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (1973)
* Paperback Hero by Peter Pearson (1973)
* Skip Tracer by Zale Dalen (1977)
* The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (1977)
* Why Shoot the Teacher? by Silvio Narizzano (1977)
* Blue Winter by André Blanchard (1979)
* A Scream from Silence by Anne Claire Poirier (1979)
* Stations by William D. MacGillivray (1983)

### Documentaries

* In Heaven There Is No Beer? by Les Blank
* Before Stonewall by Robert Rosenberg, Greta Schiller and John Scagliotti

## Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time

| Rank | Title | Year | Director |
| 1 | Mon oncle Antoine | 1971 | Claude Jutra |
| 2 | Goin' Down the Road | 1970 | Don Shebib |
| 3 | Good Riddance | 1980 | Francis Mankiewicz |
| 4 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | 1974 | Ted Kotcheff |
| 5 | The Grey Fox | 1983 | Phillip Borsos |
| 6 | Orders | 1974 | Michel Brault |
| 7 | J.A. Martin Photographer | 1977 | Jean Beaudin |
| 8 | Pour la suite du monde | 1963 | Pierre Perrault |
| 9 | Nobody Waved Goodbye | 1964 | Don Owen |
| 10 | The True Nature of Bernadette | 1972 | Gilles Carle |