# 2002 Toronto International Film Festival

The 27th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 5 to September 17 and screened 343 films from 50 countries. Of these 263 were feature films, of which 141 were in a language other than English. The ten-day festival opened with Atom Egoyan's Ararat and closed with Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale.

## Awards

| Award | Film | Director |
| People's Choice Award | Whale Rider | Niki Caro |
| Discovery Award | The Magdalene Sisters | Peter Mullan |
| Visions Award | Russian Ark | Aleksandr Sokurov |
| Visions Award - Special Citation | City of God | Fernando Meirelles |
| Visions Award - Special Citation | Gerry | Gus Van Sant |
| Best Canadian Feature Film | Spider | David Cronenberg |
| Best Canadian First Feature Film | Marion Bridge | Wiebke von Carolsfeld |
| Best Canadian Short Film | Blue Skies | Ann Marie Fleming |
| FIPRESCI International Critics' Award | Under Another Sky (Les chemins de l'oued) | Gaël Morel |
| FIPRESCI International Critics' Award - Special Mention | Open Hearts | Susanne Bier |

## Programmes
### Gala Presentations

* 11'9"01 September 11 by Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai, Shōhei Imamura, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn and Danis Tanović
* Antwone Fisher by Denzel Washington
* Ararat by Atom Egoyan
* Chihwaseon by Im Kwon-taek
* Far From Heaven by Todd Haynes
* Femme Fatale by Brian De Palma
* The Four Feathers by Shekhar Kapur
* Frida by Julie Taymor
* The Good Thief by Neil Jordan
* The Guys by Jim Simpson
* L'homme du train by Patrice Leconte
* In America by Jim Sheridan
* Jet Lag by Danièle Thompson
* Moonlight Mile by Brad Silberling
* The Other Side of the Bed by Emilio Martínez Lázaro
* Phone Booth by Joel Schumacher
* Spider by David Cronenberg
* White Oleander by Peter Kosminsky

### Masters

* 10 by Abbas Kiarostami
* All or Nothing by Mike Leigh
* La Dernière Lettre by Frederick Wiseman
* Dirty Pretty Things by Stephen Frears
* The Man Without a Past by Aki Kaurismäki
* My Mother's Smile by Marco Bellocchio
* A Peck on the Cheek by Mani Ratnam
* Sex Is Comedy by Catherine Breillat
* Shadow Kill by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
* Sweet Sixteen by Ken Loach
* A Tale Of A Naughty Girl by Buddhadev Dasgupta
* Ten Minutes Older: The Cello by Bernardo Bertolucci, Claire Denis, Mike Figgis, Jean-Luc Godard, Jiří Menzel, Michael Radford, Volker Schlöndorff and István Szabó
* Together by Chen Kaige

### Visions

* Blissfully Yours by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
* City Of God by Fernando Meirelles
* Dolls by Takeshi Kitano
* Le Fils by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
* Gerry by Gus Van Sant
* Happy Here and Now by Michael Almereyda
* Irreversible by Gaspar Noé
* Japón by Carlos Reygadas
* Ken Park by Larry Clark and Edward Lachman
* Lilya 4-ever by Lukas Moodysson
* Morvern Callar by Lynne Ramsay
* Music for Weddings and Funerals by Unni Straume
* Novo by Jean-Pierre Limosin
* Personal Velocity by Rebecca Miller
* Public Toilet by Fruit Chan
* Russian Ark by Alexandr Sokurov
* A Snake of June by Shinya Tsukamoto
* Teknolust by Lynn Hershman Leeson
* La Trilogie: Après la vie by Lucas Belvaux
* La Trilogie: Cavale by Lucas Belvaux
* La Trilogie: Un couple épatant by Lucas Belvaux
* Vendredi soir by Claire Denis
* La Vie Nouvelle by Philippe Grandrieux
* A World Of Love by Aurelio Grimaldi

### Special Presentations

* 8 Women by François Ozon
* 8 Mile by Curtis Hanson
* Adolphe by Benoît Jacquot
* Assassination Tango by Robert Duvall
* Auto Focus by Paul Schrader
* Between Strangers by Edoardo Ponti
* Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore
* Chaos and Desire by Manon Briand
* City of Ghosts by Matt Dillon
* Dirty Deeds by David Caesar
* Divine Intervention by Elia Suleiman
* The Emperor's Club by Michael Hoffman
* Evelyn by Bruce Beresford
* Heaven by Tom Tykwer
* I've Heard the Mermaids Singing by Patricia Rozema
* Laurel Canyon by Lisa Cholodenko
* Max by Menno Meyjes
* Miyazaki's Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki
* Punch-Drunk Love by Paul Thomas Anderson
* The Quiet American by Phillip Noyce
* Rabbit-Proof Fence by Phillip Noyce
* The Secret Lives of Dentists by Alan Rudolph
* Shaolin Soccer by Stephen Chow
* Standing in the Shadows of Motown by Paul Justman
* Tso Chaplin Mutual Shorts: Easy Street; The Cure; The Adventurer by Charles Chaplin
* Talk to Her by Pedro Almodóvar
* Touching Wild Horses by Eleanore Lindo
* The Wild Thornberrys Movie by Jeff McGrath and Cathy Malkasian

### Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

* Billy Jack by Tom Laughlin
* The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola
* Days of Heaven by Terrence Malick
* Modern Times by Charles Chaplin
* Outcast of the Islands by Carol Reed
* Pickpocket by Robert Bresson

### Discovery

* Bellissima by Artur Urbanski
* Chicken Poets by Meng Jinghui
* Les Diables by Christophe Ruggia
* The Exam by Nasser Refaie
* Hard Goodbyes: My Father by Penny Panayotopoulou
* Hukkle by Gyorgy Palfi
* The Last Great Wilderness by David Mackenzie
* Leo by Mehdi Norowzian
* Letters in the Wind by Ali Reza Amini
* The Magdalene Sisters by Peter Mullan
* Try Seventeen by Jeffrey Porter
* Whale Rider by Niki Caro
* Woman Of Water by Hidenori Sugimori
* Women's Prison by Manijeh Hekmat
* Blue by Hiroshi Ando

### Real to Reel

* Atlantic Drift by Michel Daeron
* Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary by André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer
* Cuban Rafters by Carles Bosch and Josep M. Domenech
* Cul De Sac: A Suburban War Story by Garrett Scott
* Elsewhere by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
* Family by Sami Saif and Phie Ambo
* Gabriel Orozco by Juan Carlos Martín
* Horns and Halos by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky
* Local Angel by Udi Aloni
* Lost in La Mancha by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe
* My Name Was Sabina Spielrein by Elisabeth Marton
* The Nazi by Rod Lurie
* Neapolitan Heart by Paolo Santoni
* OT: Our Town by Scott Hamilton Kennedy
* Promise Land by Gili Dolev
* Railroad of Hope by Ning Ying
* Spellbound by Jeff Blitz
* Stevie by Steve James
* The Sweatbox by John-Paul Davidson and Trudie Styler
* This Winter by Zhong Hua
* The Trials of Henry Kissinger by Eugene Jarecki
* Winged Migration by Jacques Perrin
* Être et avoir by Nicolas Philibert

### Midnight Madness

* Alive by Ryuhei Kitamura
* Bubba Ho-tep by Don Coscarelli
* Cabin Fever by Eli Roth
* The Eye by Oxide Pang and Danny Pang
* MC5: A True Testimonial by David C. Thomas
* My Little Eye by Marc Evans
* Spun by Jonas Åkerlund
* Volcano High by Kim Tae-Kyun

### Wavelengths

* The Aperture Of Ghostings: Catherine Street; Creased Robe Smile; Elsa Kirk by Lewis Klahr
* The Art of Fugue by Takashi Ishida
* Bautismo by Casey Koehler
* Counterfeit Film by Brett Simon
* Daylight Moon by Lewis Klahr
* Endless Obsession by Glen Fogel
* Gestalt by Takashi Ishida
* Going Back Home by Louise Bourque
* Gossamer Conglomerate by Courtney Hoskins
* Imaginary Light by Andrew Noren
* Incense by Shiho Kano
* An Injury to One by Travis Wilkerson
* Looking at the Sea by Peter Hutton
* The Man We Want To Hang by Kenneth Anger
* Manual by Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller
* Munkphilm by Courtney Hoskins
* National Archive: V.1 by Travis Wilkerson
* Puce Moment by Kenneth Anger
* Scratch by Christoph Girardet
* Self Portrait Post Mortem by Louise Bourque
* Swiss Trip by Oskar Fischinger
* Time Being by Andrew Noren
* Ultima Thule by Janie Geiser
* Very and Night Mulch by Stan Brakhage
* Wien & Mozart And Elvis by Jonas Mekas

### Canadian Open Vault

* La vraie nature de Bernadette by Gilles Carle

### Perspective Canada

* The Baroness and the Pig by Michael Mackenzie
* Blue Skies by Ann Marie Fleming
* Bollywood/Hollywood by Deepa Mehta
* Countdown by Nathan Morlando
* Culture by Donigan Cumming
* Deadend.Com by S. Wyeth Clarkson
* La Dernière voix by Julien Fonfrède and Karim Hussain
* Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl by Brad Peyton
* FIX: The Story of an Addicted City by Nettie Wild
* Flower & Garnet by Keith Behrman
* Flux by Christopher Hinton
* Folk by Ryan Feldman
* Gambling, Gods and LSD by Peter Mettler
* Heatscore by Adam Brodie and Dave Derewlany
* Is the Crown at War with Us? by Alanis Obomsawin
* Islands by Richard Fung
* Lighthead by Daniel Sadler
* Little Dickie by Anita McGee
* Lonesome Joe by Mark Sawers
* Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity by Mina Shum
* Marion Bridge by Wiebke von Carolsfeld
* The Marsh by Kim Nguyen
* Moon in the Afternoon by Simon Davidson
* Die Mutter by Cliff Caines
* The Negro by Robert Morin
* Ocean by Catherine Martin
* Once Upon a Time on the Beach by Byron Lamarque
* Past Perfect by Daniel MacIvor
* Perfect Pie by Barbara Willis Sweete
* Prom Fight: The Marc Hall Story by Larry Peloso
* Punch by Guy Bennett
* Rondo pour trompette by Jean-Sebastien Baillat
* Les Rossy by Jennifer Alleyn
* Rub & Tug by Soo Lyu
* S.P.C.E. by Marc Bisaillon
* Saint Monica by Terrance Odette
* Saskatchewan by Brian Stockton
* Shadowy Encounters by Gariné Torossian
* Short Hymn, Silent War by Charles Officer
* Snooze by Stéphane Lafleur
* Song of the Firefly by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
* Spring Chickens by Matthew Holm
* The Stone of Folly by Jesse Rosensweet
* Straight in the Face by Peter Demas
* Tom by Mike Hoolboom
* The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia by Jennifer Baichwal
* Why Don't You Dance? by Michael Downing
* The Wild Dogs by Thom Fitzgerald
* Yellowknife by Rodrigue Jean

### Contemporary World Cinema

* 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman by Laurent Bouhnik
* Aiki by Daisuke Tengan
* Angela by Roberta Torre
* Autumn Spring by Vladimír Michálek
* BaadAsssss Cinema by Isaac Julien
* Bear's Kiss by Sergei Bodrov
* Bend It Like Beckham by Gurinder Chadha
* The Best of Times by Chang Tso-Chi
* Better Luck Tomorrow by Justin Lin
* Big Shot's Funeral by Feng Xiaogang
* Black and White by Craig Lahiff
* Blue Car by Karen Moncrieff
* Blue Gate Crossing by Yee Chin-yen
* El Bonaerense by Pablo Trapero
* The Crime of Father Amaro by Carlos Carrera
* Cry Woman by Liu Bingjian
* The Cuckoo by Aleksandr Rogozhkin
* Everyday God Kisses Us On The Mouth by Sinişa Dragin
* Falcons by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
* Fuehrer Ex by Winfried Bonengel
* Gasoline by Monica Stambrini
* The Ghost Of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Charles Lyons
* The Heart of Me by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
* L'Idole by Samantha Lang
* Intacto by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
* The Intended by Kristian Levring
* Julie Walking Home by Agnieszka Holland
* Kedma by Amos Gitai
* The Kite by Alexei Muradov
* Love Liza by Todd Louiso
* The Lover by Valeriy Todorovskiy
* A Lucky Day by Sandra Gugliotta
* Ma vraie vie à Rouen by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
* Madame Satã by Karim Aïnouz
* Never Get Outta the Boat by Paul Quinn
* Nothing More by Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
* Nowhere in Africa by Caroline Link
* The Nugget by Bill Bennett
* Once Upon a Time in the Midlands by Shane Meadows
* One Night the Moon by Rachel Perkins
* Open Hearts by Susanne Bier
* Une part du ciel by Benedicte Lienard
* Pleasant Days by Kornél Mundruczó
* Poniente by Chus Gutierrez
* Prayer by Jay Rosenblatt
* Pure by Gillies MacKinnon
* Raising Victor Vargas by Peter Sollett
* Real Women Have Curves by Patricia Cardoso
* Reno: Rebel Without A Pause by Nancy Savoca
* Respiro by Emanuele Crialese
* Roger Dodger by Dylan Kidd
* Rosa La China by Valeria Sarmiento
* The Sea by Baltasar Kormákur
* Secretary by Steven Shainberg
* Small Voices by Gil M. Portes
* The Space Between by Chad Lowe
* Springtime in a Small Town by Tian Zhuangzhuang
* Step on It by Sabine Derflinger
* Suddenly by Diego Lerman
* Sur Le Bout Des Doigts by Yves Angelo
* The Three Marias by Aluízio Abranches
* Ticket to Jerusalem by Rashid Masharawi
* A Transistor Love Story by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
* Tuck Everlasting by Jay Russell
* Tycoon by Pavel Lounguine
* Unknown Pleasures by Jia Zhang-Ke
* The Voice Of The Prophet by Robert Edwards
* Warriors by Daniel Calparsoro
* Welcome to Collinwood by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo
* Wretched Lives by Joel Lamangan

### Planet Africa

* Abouna by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
* Alexei and the Spring by Seiichi Motohashi
* Ataklan -- Naked Walk by Walt Lovelace
* Black Attack by Walt Lovelace
* G by Christopher Scott Cherot
* George and the Bicycle Pump by Asha Lovelace
* I Have a Dream by Zak Ove
* Khorma, Enfant Du Cimetiere by Jilani Saadi
* Mud Madness by Walt Lovelace
* Now Jimmy! by Mary Wells
* Promised Land by Jason Xenopoulos
* Rendez-Vous by Mariette Monpierre
* Royal Bonbon by Charles Najman
* Shottas by Cess Silvera
* A String of Pearls by Camille Billops and James V. Hatch
* Ubuntu's Wounds by Sechaba Morojele
* Under Another Sky (Les Chemins de l'oued) by Gaël Morel
* Waiting for Happiness by Abderrahmane Sissako

### National Cinema Lineup - Harvest: South Korean Renaissance

* Bad Guy by Kim Ki-duk
* Camel(s) by Park Ki-yong
* Champion by Kwak Kyung-taek
* Desire by Kim Eung-su
* Oasis by Lee Chang-dong
* Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance by Park Chan-wook
* Take Care of My Cat by Jeong Jae-eun
* Too Young to Die by Park Jin-pyo
* Turning Gate by Hong Sang-soo
* The Way Home by Lee Jeong-hyang

### Canadian Retrospective: Allan King

* Children In Conflict Episode: A Talk With Irene by Allan King
* Come On Children by Allan King
* The Dragon's Egg by Allan King
* Dreams by Allan King
* Epilogue by Allan King
* The Field Day by Allan King
* Interview with Orson Welles by Allan King
* Joshua, A Nigerian Portrait by Allan King
* Maria by Allan King
* A Married Couple by Allan King
* A Matter of Pride by Allan King
* Red Emma by Allan King and Martin Kinch
* Rickshaw by Allan King
* Running Away Backwards by Allan King
* Skidrow by Allan King
* Warrendale by Allan King
* Who Has Seen the Wind by Allan King
* Who's in Charge? by Sig Gerber

### Spotlight: Robert Guédiguian

* Dernier Été by Robert Guédiguian and Frank Le Wita
* Dieu vomit les tièdes by Robert Guédiguian
* Marie-Jo et ses 2 amours by Robert Guédiguian
* Marius et Jeannette by Robert Guédiguian
* La ville est tranquille by Robert Guédiguian
* À l'attaque! by Robert Guédiguian
* À la Place du Coeur by Robert Guédiguian
* À la vie, à la mort! by Robert Guédiguian

### Two Feet, One Angel: A Tribute to Ramiro Puerta

* Contradanza No. 2 by Ramiro Puerta
* Crucero/Crossroads by Ramiro Puerta
* The Lovers of the Arctic Circle by Julio Médem
* Strawberry and Chocolate by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío
* The Topic of Cancer by Ramiro Puerta
* Two Feet, One Angel by Ramiro Puerta
* Exxxorcisms by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

## Canada's Top Ten

TIFF named its annual Canada's Top Ten list in early 2003.
* Ararat by Atom Egoyan
* Chaos and Desire by Manon Briand
* Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary by Guy Maddin
* Flower & Garnet by Keith Behrman
* Gambling, Gods and LSD by Peter Mettler
* Marion Bridge by Wiebke von Carolsfeld
* The Negro by Robert Morin
* Ocean by Catherine Martin
* Spider by David Cronenberg
* Tom by Mike Hoolboom