# 1994 Toronto International Film Festival

The 19th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 8 and September 17, 1994. Whale Music by Richard J. Lewis was selected as the opening film. The festival's name changed from Festival of festivals to Toronto International Film Festival.

## Awards

| Award | Film | Director |
| People's Choice Award | Priest | Antonia Bird |
| Metro Media Award | Heavenly Creatures | Peter Jackson |
| Best Canadian Feature Film | Exotica | Atom Egoyan |
| Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation | Double Happiness | Mina Shum |
| Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation | Windigo | Robert Morin |
| Best Canadian Short Film | Frank's Cock | Mike Hoolboom |
| Best Canadian Short Film - Special Jury Citation | Technilogic Ordering | Philip Hoffman |
| Best Canadian Short Film - Special Jury Citation | Make Some Noise | Andrew Munger |
| FIPRESCI International Critics' Award | The Silences of the Palace | Moufida Tlatli |
| FIPRESCI International Critics' Award - Honorable Mention | Fate | Fred Kelemen |

## Programme
### Gala Presentation

* The Ascent — Donald Shebib
* Ashes of Time — Wong Kar-wai
* Bullets Over Broadway — Woody Allen
* The Burning Season — John Frankenheimer
* Captives — Angela Pope
* Chungking Express — Wong Kar-wai
* Cold Water — Olivier Assayas
* Colonel Chabert — Yves Angelo
* Eat Drink Man Woman — Ang Lee
* Fate (Verhängnis) — Fred Kelemen
* I Like It Like That — Darnell Martin
* Lamerica — Gianni Amelio
* Little Odessa — James Gray
* Muriel's Wedding — P. J. Hogan
* Nadja — Michael Almereyda
* Once Were Warriors — Lee Tamahori
* Il Postino: The Postman — Michael Radford
* Priest — Antonia Bird
* Second Best — Sarah Radclyffe
* The Secret of Roan Inish — John Sayles
* Sleep with Me — Rory Kelly
* The Sum of Us — Kevin Dowling & Geoff Burton
* Swimming with Sharks — George Huang
* Through the Olive Trees — Abbas Kiarostami
* Vanya on 42nd Street — Louis Malle
* Vive L'Amour — Tsai Ming-liang
* Whale Music — Richard J. Lewis

### Special Presentations

* Amateur — Hal Hartley
* Curse of the Starving Class — J. Michael McClary
* Hell (L'Enfer) — Claude Chabrol
* Martha — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
* Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle — Alan Rudolph
* Somebody to Love — Alexandre Rockwell
* Three Colors: Red — Krzysztof Kieślowski
* To Live — Zhang Yimou
* Tsahal — Claude Lanzmann

### Spotlight

* Anna: 6 - 18 — Nikita Mikhalkov
* Burnt by the Sun — Nikita Mikhalkov

### Perspective Canada Features

* The Circle Game — Brigitte Berman
* Dance Me Outside — Bruce McDonald
* Double Happiness — Mina Shum
* Eclipse — Jeremy Podeswa
* Exotica — Atom Egoyan
* Frank's Cock — Mike Hoolboom
* Henry & Verlin — Gary Ledbetter
* A Hero's Life (La Vie d'un héros) — Micheline Lanctôt
* Highway of Heartache — Gregory Wild
* Max — Charles Wilkinson
* Narmada: A Valley Rises — Ali Kazimi
* Only You — Norman Jewison
* Paint Cans — Paul Donovan
* Picture of Light — Peter Mettler
* Super 8½ — Bruce LaBruce
* Valentine's Day — Mike Hoolboom
* The Wind from Wyoming (Le Vent du Wyoming) — André Forcier
* Wasaga — Judith Doyle
* Windigo — Robert Morin

### Perspective Canada Shorts

* Leftovers — Janine Fung
* Make Some Noise — Andrew Munger
* Murmuration — Elizabeth Murray
* Off Key — Karethe Linaae
* Technilogic Ordering — Philip Hoffman
* You Love Me I Hate You — Rosamund Owen

### Contemporary World Cinema

* Blue Sky — Tony Richardson
* Boca — Walter Avancini, Zalman King
* Dead Tired (Grosse Fatigue) — Michel Blanc
* Dear Diary — Nanni Moretti
* Fun — Rafal Zielinski
* Glitterbug — Derek Jarman
* Heavenly Creatures — Peter Jackson
* Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses — Aki Kaurismäki
* Movie Days — Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
* Moving the Mountain — Michael Apted
* Tracking Down Maggie — Nick Broomfield

### First Cinema

* Clerks — Kevin Smith
* Coming to Terms with the Dead (Petits arrangements avec les morts) — Pascale Ferran
* Killer — Mark Malone
* Mille Bolle Blu — Leone Pompucci
* The Shawshank Redemption — Frank Darabont
* The Silences of the Palace — Moufida Tlatli

### Documentaries

* Atlantis — Luc Besson
* Hoop Dreams — Steve James
* Crumb — Terry Zwigoff
* Destiny in Space — Toni Myers
* Silent Witness — Harriet Wichin
* Tracking Down Maggie — Nick Broomfield

### Asian Horizons

* A Borrowed Life — Wu Nien-jen
* The Red Lotus Society — Stan Lai

### India Now

* Bandit Queen — Shekhar Kapur
* Fearless: The Hunterwali Story — Riyad Vinci Wadia
* The Kite (Patang) — Goutam Ghose
* Roja — Mani Ratnam

### Latin American Panorama

* Strawberry and Chocolate — Tomás Gutiérrez Alea & Juan Carlos Tabío

### Midnight Madness

* Cemetery Man — Michele Soavi
* The Eagle Shooting Heroes — Jeffrey Lau
* Love and a .45 — C.M. Talkington
* Naked Killer — Clarence Fok
* Nightwatch — Ole Bornedal
* S.F.W. — Jefery Levy
* Schramm — Jörg Buttgereit
* Tokarefu — Junji Sakamoto
* Wes Craven's New Nightmare - Wes Craven