# 1997 Toronto International Film Festival

The 22nd Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 4 to September 13, 1997. This festival was notable for the introduction of the Masters programme to TIFF.

## Awards

| Award | Film | Director |
| People's Choice Award | The Hanging Garden | Thom Fitzgerald |
| Metro Media Award | Boogie Nights | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Metro Media Award | L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson |
| Best Canadian Feature Film | The Hanging Garden | Thom Fitzgerald |
| Best Canadian Feature Film | The Sweet Hereafter | Atom Egoyan |
| Best Canadian First Feature Film | Cube | Vincenzo Natali |
| Best Canadian Short Film | Cotton Candy | Roshell Bissett |
| Best Canadian Short Film - Special Mention | bp: pushing the boundaries | Brian Nash |
| FIPRESCI International Critics' Award | Under the Skin | Carine Adler |

## Programmes
### Gala Opening Night

* The Sweet Hereafter by Atom Egoyan

### Gala Closing Night

* Seven Years in Tibet by Jean-Jacques Annaud

### Gala Presentations

* The Apostle by Robert Duvall
* Artemisia by Agnès Merlet
* The Assignment by Christian Duguay
* Chinese Box by Wayne Wang
* The Edge by Lee Tamahori
* Eve's Bayou by Kasi Lemmons
* FairyTale: A True Story by Charles Sturridge
* Gattaca by Andrew Niccol
* In & Out by Frank Oz
* L.A. Confidential by Curtis Hanson
* Marquise by Véra Belmont
* Men with Guns by John Sayles
* Mrs Dalloway by Marleen Gorris
* Regeneration by Gillies MacKinnon
* Swept from the Sea by Beeban Kidron
* Washington Square by Agnieszka Holland
* The Wings of the Dove by Iain Softley

### Special Presentations

* Afterglow by Alan Rudolph
* Le Bassin de J.W. by João César Monteiro
* The Big One by Michael Moore
* The Blackout by Abel Ferrara
* The Blood Oranges by Philip Haas
* Boogie Nights by Paul Thomas Anderson
* Face by Antonia Bird
* Fast, Cheap & Out of Control by Errol Morris
* Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano
* 4 Little Girls by Spike Lee
* Henry Fool by Hal Hartley
* The House of Yes by Mark Waters
* The Informant by Jim McBride
* Inspirations by Michael Apted
* The Alarmist by Evan Dunsky
* Loved by Erin Dignam
* Mr. Jealousy by Noah Baumbach
* My Best Girl by Sam Taylor
* Nil by Mouth by Gary Oldman
* One Night Stand by Mike Figgis
* Pronto by Jim McBride
* The Spanish Prisoner by David Mamet
* Suicide Kings by Peter O'Fallon
* The Tango Lesson by Sally Potter
* Two Girls and a Guy by James Toback
* Welcome to Sarajevo by Michael Winterbottom
* Year of the Horse by Jim Jarmusch

### Masters

* Das Schloß by Michael Haneke
* Iruvar by Mani Ratnam
* Esmeralda Comes by Night by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
* Funny Games by Michael Haneke
* Voyage to the Beginning of the World by Manoel de Oliveira
* Keep Cool by Zhang Yimou
* Mon oncle Antoine by Claude Jutra
* Moon Over Broadway by Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker
* Mother and Son by Alexander Sokurov
* The Scar by Krzysztof Kieślowski
* The Eel by Shōhei Imamura

### Perspective Canada

* The Absent One by Céline Baril
* Across by Cara Morton
* Anna à la lettre C by Hugo Brochu
* The Big Pickle by Gary Yates
* bp: pushing the boundaries by Brian Nash
* Breakfast with Gus by Siobhan Devine
* Bury Me Happy by Brian McPhail
* City of Dark by Bruno Lazaro
* The Countess of Baton Rouge by André Forcier
* Cosmos by Manon Briand, André Turpin, Marie-Julie Dallaire, Denis Villeneuve, Jennifer Alleyn, Arto Paragamian
* Cotton Candy by Roshell Bissett
* Cube by Vincenzo Natali
* Dance with Me by Cassandra Nicolaou
* Drive, She Said by Mina Shum
* Drowning in Dreams by Tim Southam
* Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality by Maya Gallus
* Fresh Off the Boat by Peter Demas
* Gerrie & Louise by Sturla Gunnarsson
* Grace Eternal by Neil Burns
* Guise by Wrik Mead
* Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight by Noam Gonick
* The Hanging Garden by Thom Fitzgerald
* Hayseed by Josh Levy and Andrew Hayes
* The Hazards of Falling Glass by John Martins-Manteiga
* Incantation by Cara Morton
* Kid Nerd by Shereen Jerrett
* Kitchen Party by Gary Burns
* Linear Dreams by Richard Reeves
* The Mao Lounge by Chad Derrick
* Men with Guns by Kari Skogland
* Museum by Chris Walsh
* 1919 by Noam Gonick
* Permission by Daniel MacIvor
* Pitch by Spencer Rice and Kenny Hotz
* The Planet of Junior Brown by Clement Virgo
* Question of Reality by Barry Gibson
* The Seat of the Soul by Olivier Asselin
* Shift by Shaun Cathcart
* Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas by Ali Kazimi
* Shopping for Fangs by Quentin Lee, Justin Lin
* The Skating Party by Marcia Connolly, Janet Hawkwood
* The Swimming Lesson by Sheri Elwood
* Tu as crié: Let me go by Anne Claire Poirier
* Twilight of the Ice Nymphs by Guy Maddin
* Two Feet, One Angel by Ramiro Puerta
* Uncut by John Greyson
* La vie arrêtée by Martine Allard
* We Are Experiencing... by John Kneller
* What Goes Around by Lloyd Surdi
* White Cloud, Blue Mountain by Keith Behrman
* Zie 37 Stagen by Sylvain Guy

### Contemporary World Cinema

* The Assistant by Daniel Petrie
* Bird Watching by Shinobu Yaguchi
* Blinded by Daniel Calparsoro
* Brain Holiday by Hineki Mito
* Brother by Aleksei Balabanov
* Love, Math and Sex by Charlotte Silvera
* Character by Mike van Diem
* Clandestins by Denis Chouinard, Nicolas Wadimoff
* Close To by David Ottenhouse
* Conceiving Ada by Lynn Hershman Leeson
* Delirium by Peque Gallaga, Lore Reyes
* Devil's Island by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
* Doing Time for Patsy Cline by Chris Kennedy
* East Palace, West Palace by Zhang Yuan
* Four Days in September by Bruno Barreto
* A Friend of the Deceased by Viatcheslav Krichtofovitch, Leonid Boyko
* Un frère... by Sylvie Verheyde
* The Girl with Brains in Her Feet by Roberto Bangura
* Gummo by Harmony Korine
* Hanoi-Winter 1946 by Đặng Nhật Minh
* Happy Together by Wong Kar-wai
* Heaven's Burning by Craig Lahiff
* Homesick Eyes by Hsu Hsiao-ming
* I Think I Do by Brian Sloan
* Silvester Countdown by Oskar Roehler
* Inside/Out by Robert Tregenza
* Insomnia by Erik Skjoldbjærg
* The James Gang by Mike Barker
* Junk Food by Masashi Yamamoto
* Junk Mail by Pål Sletaune
* Keep the Aspidistra Flying by Robert Bierman
* Kiss or Kill by Bill Bennett
* Labyrinth of Dreams by Gakuryū Ishii
* The Leading Hand by Masahiro Muramatsu
* Long Twilight by Attila Janisch
* Love and Death on Long Island by Richard Kwietniowski
* Ma vie en rose by Alain Berliner
* Majorettes in Space by David Fourier
* The Maker by Tim Hunter
* The Man in Her Life by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
* Marius and Jeannette by Robert Guédiguian
* Metroland by Philip Saville
* The Mirror by Jafar Panahi
* Misfortune's End by Vu Xuan Hung
* Murmur of Youth by Lin Cheng-sheng
* The Myth of Fingerprints by Bart Freundlich
* Nettoyage à sec by Anne Fontaine
* No Child of Mine by Peter Kosminsky
* Obsession by Peter Sehr
* Okke-ke Bibirobos by Takuji Suzuki
* Onibi by Rokurō Mochizuki
* Our Boy by David Evans
* The Oyster and the Wind by Walter Lima, Jr.
* Ashes of Paradise by Marcelo Piñeyro
* Passage by Juraj Herz
* Port Djema by Eric Heumann
* After Sex by Brigitte Roüan
* Private Confessions by Liv Ullmann
* Rizal sa Dapitan by Tikoy Aguiluz
* The Rocking Horse Winner by Michael Almereyda
* The Soong Sisters by Mabel Cheung
* Stolen Moments by Oscar Barney Finn
* Sue Lost in Manhattan by Amos Kollek
* Suzaku by Naomi Kawase
* Telling Lies in America by Guy Ferland
* Their Last Love Affair by Lee Myung-se
* They Call Me Joy by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
* Thirteen by David D. Williams
* Touch Me by H. Gordon Boos
* Touch Me Not by Dimitrios Yatzouzakis
* La Vérité si je mens ! by Thomas Gilou
* Vertical Love by Arturo Sotto Díaz
* La Vie de Jésus by Bruno Dumont
* Le voleur de diagonale by Jean Darrigol
* We All Fall Down by Davide Ferrario
* Western by Manuel Poirier
* Winter Sleepers by Tom Tykwer
* The Witman Boys by János Szász
* Wolves Cry Under the Moon by Ho Ping
* Yours and Mine by Wang Shaudi

### Discovery

* Bandits by Katja von Garnier
* Belly Up by Beto Brant
* Clockwatchers by Jill Sprecher
* First Love, Last Rites by Jesse Peretz
* Guilt Free by Marcel Sisniega Campbell
* The Impostor by Alejandro Maci
* In Praise of Older Women by Manuel Lombardero
* Life According to Muriel by Eduardo Milewicz
* The Life of Stuff by Simon Donald
* Lover Girl by Lisa Addario, Joe Syracuse
* Marie Baie des Anges by Manuel Pradal
* Martha's Garden by Peter Liechti
* Perfumed Ball by Lírio Ferreira, Paulo Caldas
* Scars by James Herbert
* Somersault in a Coffin by Derviş Zaim
* The Sticky Fingers of Time by Hilary Brougher
* Stone, Scissors, Paper by Stephen Whittaker
* Traveler from the South by Parviz Shahbazi
* Twenty Four Seven by Shane Meadows
* Under the Skin by Carine Adler
* Unmade Beds by Nicholas Barker
* Who the Hell Is Juliette? by Carlos Marcovich
* Words of Wisdom by Susanna Fogel

### Planet Africa

* Breeze by Barbara Sanon
* Buud Yam by Gaston Kaboré
* The Draughtsmen Clash by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
* Dancehall Queen by Don Letts, Rick Elgood
* Destiny by Youssef Chahine
* Fools by Ramadan Suleman
* Hav Plenty by Christopher Scott Cherot
* Honey and Ashes by Nadia Farès
* Martin Luther King: Days of Hope by John Akomfrah
* Mossane by Safi Faye
* Sabriya by Abderrahmane Sissako
* Taafé Fanga by Adama Drabo
* Through the Door of No Return by Shirikiana Aina
* To Be a Black Man by Nelson George

### Real to Reel

* Best Man: 'Best Boy' and All of Us Twenty Years Later by Ira Wohl
* Chile, Obstinate Memory by Patricio Guzmán
* HHH - Un portrait de Hou Hsiao-Hsien by Olivier Assayas
* Didn't Do It for Love by Monika Treut
* Exile in Sarajevo by Tahir Cambis, Alma Sahbaz
* Exile Shanghai by Ulrike Ottinger
* From Son to Salsa by Rigoberto López
* Full Tilt Boogie by Sarah Kelly
* Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember by Anna Maria Tatò
* My House Is on Fire by Ariel Dorfman, Rodrigo Dorfman
* As Time Goes By by Ann Hui, Vincent Chui
* Still Love You After All These by Stanley Kwan
* Robinson in Space by Patrick Keiller

### Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

* Detour by Edgar G. Ulmer, presented by Errol Morris
* The Devil-Doll by Tod Browning, presented by Guy Maddin
* Dont Look Back by D. A. Pennebaker, presented by Chris Hegedus
* F for Fake by Orson Welles, presented by James Toback
* The Fireman's Ball by Miloš Forman, presented by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
* Les Girls by George Cukor, presented by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
* One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Miloš Forman, presented by Chow Yun-fat
* The Organizer by Mario Monicelli, presented by John Sayles
* A Matter of Life and Death by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, presented by Sally Potter

### Balkan Cinema: Home Truths

* Across the Lake by Antonio Mitrikeski
* The Awkward Age by Nenad Dizdarević
* Belated Full Moon by Eduard Zahariev
* The Days on Earth Are Flowing by Goran Paskaljević
* The End of the War by Dragan Kresoja
* An Unforgettable Summer by Lucian Pintilie
* Felix by Božo Šprajc
* The Goat Horn by Metodi Andonov
* How the War Started on My Island by Vinko Brešan
* The Perfect Circle by Ademir Kenović
* Petria's Wreath by Srđan Karanović
* Pretty Village, Pretty Flame by Srđan Dragojević
* Thalassa, Thalassa by Bogdan Dumitrescu
* Tired Companions by Zoran Solomun
* Tito and Me by Goran Marković
* Underground by Emir Kusturica
* Vukovar Poste Restante by Boro Drašković
* Who's Singin' Over There? by Slobodan Šijan
* W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism by Dušan Makavejev

### Spotlight: Benoît Jacquot

* The Musician Killer
* Corps et biens
* La désenchantée
* A Single Girl
* Marianne
* Seventh Heaven

### Nathan Phillips Square Outdoor Screening

* Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Howard Hawks

### Midnight Madness

* A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation by Andrew Chan
* Fudoh: The New Generation by Takashi Miike
* I Married a Strange Person! by Bill Plympton
* Love God by Frank Grow
* Office Killer by Cindy Sherman
* Orgazmo by Trey Parker
* SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist by Kirby Dick
* The Ugly by Scott Reynolds