2004 Toronto International Film Festival
 Festival poster | |
| Opening film | Being Julia[1] |
|---|---|
| Closing film | 5x2 |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Hosted by | Toronto International Film Festival Group |
| No. of films | 328 films |
| Festival date | September 9, 2004–September 18, 2004 |
| Language | English |
| Website | tiff |
The 29th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 9 through September 18. The festival screened 328 films of which 253 were features and 75 were shorts (148 of the films screened were in a language other than English).[2][3][4]
Awards
| Award[5][6][7] | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| People's Choice Award | Hotel Rwanda | Terry George |
| Discovery Award | Omagh | Pete Travis |
| Best Canadian Feature Film | It's All Gone Pete Tong | Michael Dowse |
| Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation | Scared Sacred | Velcrow Ripper |
| Best Canadian First Feature Film | White Skin | Daniel Roby |
| Best Canadian Short Film | Man Feel Pain | Dylan Akio Smith |
| FIPRESCI International Critics' Award | In My Father's Den | Brad McGann |
Programmes
Canada First
- CQ2 (Seek You Too) (Carole Laure)
- I, Claudia (Chris Abraham)
- Ill Fated (Mark A. Lewis)
- It's All Gone Pete Tong (Michael Dowse)
- Jimmywork (Simon Sauvé)
- Littoral (Wajdi Mouawad)
- Phil the Alien (Rob Stefaniuk)
- Saint Ralph (Michael McGowan)
- Seven Times Lucky (Gary Yates)
- White Skin (Daniel Roby)
Canadian Open Vault
Canadian Retrospective
- Attiuk (René Bonnière)
- La bête lumineuse (Pierre Perrault)
- Le Pays de la terre sans arbre ou le Mouchouânipi (Pierre Perrault)
- Un Pays sans bon sens! (Pierre Perrault)
- Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault, Michel Brault)
- Le Règne du jour (Pierre Perrault)
- Tête-à-la-Baleine (René Bonnière)
- La Traverse d'hiver à l'Île-aux-Coudres (Réne Bonnière)
- Les Voitures d'eau (Pierre Perrault)
Contemporary World Cinema
- 3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk)
- After the Day Before (Attila Janisch)
- Almost Brothers (Lúcia Murat)
- The Alzheimer Case (Erik Van Looy)
- Antares (Götz Spielmann)
- As Follows (Federico Veiroj)
- BOMBÓN - El Perro (Carlos Sorín)
- Breaking News (Johnnie To)
- Brodeuses (Eléonore Faucher)
- Brothers (Susanne Bier)
- Cool (Theo van Gogh)
- Crónicas (Sebastián Cordero)
- Days and Hours (Pjer Žalica)
- Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows)
- Dear Frankie (Shona Auerbach)
- Duck Season (Fernando Eimbcke)
- Earth and Ashes (Atiq Rahimi)
- L'Équipier (Philippe Lioret)
- La Femme de Gilles (Frédéric Fonteyne)
- Ferpect Crime (Álex de la Iglesia)
- Hidden Flaws (Paula van der Oest)
- The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
- Hotel (Jessica Hausner)
- The Keys to the House (Gianni Amelio)
- Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants (Yvan Attal)
- Inconscientes (Joaquín Oristrell)
- Innocent Voices (Luis Mandoki)
- Lila dit ça (Ziad Doueiri)
- The Limb Salesman (Anais Granofsky)
- Little Sky (María Victoria Menis)
- Ma Mère (Christophe Honoré)
- Male Fantasy (Blaine Thurier)
- Mon père est ingénieur (Robert Guédiguian)
- My Summer of Love (Paweł Pawlikowski)
- Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
- Niceland (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson)
- Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda)
- Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
- Our Own (Dmitry Meskhiyev)
- Plastic Flowers (Liu Bingjian)
- Quill (Yoichi Sai)
- Real Life (Panos Koutras)
- Rois et reine (Arnaud Desplechin)
- Rolling Family (Pablo Trapero)
- Shiza (Gulshat Omarova)
- Siblings (David Weaver)
- Somersault (Cate Shortland)
- Spider Forest Song (Il-gon)
- Stray Dogs (Marzieh Meshkini)
- The Tuner (Kira Muratova)
- Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobadi)
- Two Great Sheep (Liu Hao)
- Up and Down (Jan Hřebejk)
- Walk on Water (Eytan Fox)
- Whisky (Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll)
- Wilby Wonderful (Daniel MacIvor)
- The Woodsman (Nicole Kassell)
- The World (Jia Zhangke)
Dialogues: Talking with Pictures
- The Brood (David Cronenberg)
- Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
- Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino)
- La Noire De... (Ousmane Sembène)
- Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
- This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson)
- Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson)
Discovery
- Astronauts (Santi Amodeo)
- Automne (Ra'up McGee)
- Boats out of Watermelon Rinds (Ahmet Uluçay)
- The Buffalo Boy (Minh Nguyen-Vô)
- Le Cou de la girafe (Safy Nebbou)
- Crying? (Alexander Voulgaris)
- Electric Shadows (Xiao Jiang)
- The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade)
- Hari Om (Bharatbala)
- Harvest Time (Marina Razbezhkina)
- In My Father's Den (Brad McGann)
- Innocence (Lucile Hadžihalilović)
- Mirage (Svetozar Ristovski)
- Off Beat (Hendrik Hölzemann)
- Omagh (Pete Travis)
- On the Outs (Lori Silverbush, Michael Skolnik)
- The Overture (Itthi-sunthorn Wichailak)
- Oyster Farmer (Anna Reeves)
- Private (Saverio Costanzo)
- Producing Adults (Aleksi Salmenperä)
- Les Revenants (Robin Campillo)
- Saving Face (Alice Wu)
- Summer Storm (Marco Kreuzpaintner)
- Symmetry (Konrad Niewolski)
- Uno (Aksel Hennie)
- Vento di Terra (Vincenzo Marra)
- A Way of Life (Amma Asante)
- Whisky Romeo Zulu (Enrique Piñeyro)
Masters
- 10 on Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
- 10e Chambre, instants d'audiences (Raymond Depardon)
- À tout de suite (Benoît Jacquot)
- Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
- Brides (Pantelis Voulgaris)
- Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
- Chased by Dreams (Buddhadeb Dasgupta)
- Cinévardaphoto (Agnès Varda)
- Demain on déménage (Chantal Akerman)
- Eros (Wong Kar-wai, Steven Soderbergh, Michelangelo Antonioni)
- Five (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Human Touch (Paul Cox)
- Land of Plenty (Wim Wenders)
- Low Life (Im Kwon-taek)
- Midwinter Night's Dream (Goran Paskaljević)
- Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène)
- The Ninth Day (Volker Schlöndorff)
- Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Salvador Allende (Patricio Guzmán)
- Sucker Free City (Spike Lee)
- Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
Midnight Madness[8]
- Calvaire (Fabrice du Welz)
- Creep (Christopher Smith)
- Dead Birds (Alex Turner)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Mamoru Oshii)
- Kontroll (Nimród Antal)
- The Machinist (Brad Anderson)
- Rahtree: Flower of the Night (Yuthlert Sippapak)
- The Raspberry Reich (Bruce LaBruce)
- Saw (James Wan)
- Zebraman (Takashi Miike)
National Cinema Program
- Cape of Good Hope (Mark Bamford)
- Drum (Zola Maseko)
- Forgiveness (Ian Gabriel)
- Max and Mona (Teddy Mattera)
- Mozart - The Music of the Violin (Mickey Madoda Dube)
- A South African Love Story - Walter and Albertina Sisulu (Toni Strasburg)
- Zulu Love Letter (Ramadan Suleman)
Planet Africa
- Aïcha (Newton I. Aduaka)
- above & beneath (René Alberta)
- Bullet Boy (Saul Dibb)
- Gardiens de la Mémoire (Eric Kabera)
- Le Goût des jeunes filles (John L'Ecuyer)
- Le Grand Voyage (Ismaël Ferroukhi)
- The Hero (Zézé Gamboa)
- Kounandi (Apolline Traoré)
- La Nuit de la vérité (Fanta Régina Nacro)
- Off Duty (Buboo Kakati)
- One Flight Stand (Saladin Patterson)
- A Spoonful of Sugar (Andrea Williams)
- Time Out (Xelinda Yancy)
Real to Reel
- Andrew and Jeremy Get Married (Don Boyd)
- Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (Margaret Brown)
- Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat (Zev Asher)
- Darwin's Nightmare (Hubert Sauper)
- Double Dare (Amanda Micheli)
- Le Fantôme d'Henri Langlois (Jacques Richard)
- Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (Michael Epstein)
- Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (George T. Butler)
- Gunner Palace (Michael Tucker, Petra Epperlein)
- I Died in Childhood... (Georgy Paradjanov)
- Kings of the Sky (Deborah Stratman)
- The Last Victory (John Appel)
- Letters to Ali (Clara Law)
- Lightning in a Bottle (Antoine Fuqua)
- Mondovino (Jonathan Nossiter)
- Scared Sacred (Velcrow Ripper)
- Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire (Peter Raymont)
- Small Mall (Róbert Ingi Douglas)
- Tell Them Who You Are (Mark S. Wexler)
- Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family (Susan Kaplan)
- Touch the Sound (Thomas Riedelsheimer)
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (Ken Burns)
- A Whale of a Tale (Peter Lynch)
- White Tower (Su Qing, Mina)
- Writer of O (Pola Rapaport)
- The Year of the Yao (James D. Stern, Adam Del Deo)
- Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (Xan Cassavetes)
Short Cuts Canada
- Accordéon (Michèle Cournoyer)
- Almost Forgot My Bones (Katrin Bowen)
- Between Science and Garbage (Pierre Hébert, Bob Ostertag)
- Birdlings Two (Davina Pardo)
- Boyclops (Jay Dahl)
- Build (Greg Atkins)
- choke. (David Hyde)
- Corps étrangers (Simon Lavoie)
- Desastre (Jay Field)
- Deux Enfants qui fument (Sarah Fortin)
- Elephant Shoe (Christopher Behnisch)
- Elliot Smelliot (Anita Doron)
- Encre noire sur fond d'azur (Félix Dufour-Laperrière)
- Filth (Wrik Mead)
- The Finite (Alexi Manis)
- Girl Cleans Sink (Sook-Yin Lee)
- Groomed (Joseph Raso)
- The Hill (Deborah Chow)
- Hogtown Blues (Hugh Gibson)
- Hotel Saudade (Cameron Bailey)
- The Human Kazoo (Fabrizio Filippo)
- Man Feel Pain (Dylan Akio Smith)
- mary/me (Kelly Egan)
- Milo 55160 (David Ostry)
- More Sensitive (Gail Noonan)
- Mothers, Fathers and Other Strangers (Carl Knutson)
- My Old Man (Alex Levine)
- Pigeon (Anthony Green)
- Le Pont (Guy Édoin)
- Rodéo (Mélanie Dion)
- Ryan (Chris Landreth)
- The Sadness of Johnson Joe Jangles (Jeffrey St. Jules)
- Sissy Boy Slap Party (Guy Maddin)
- Sombra Dolorosa (Guy Maddin)
- Stronger (Debra Felstead)
- Superhero (Wannabe Patricia, Harris Seeley)
- A Tale of Bad Luck (Brad Peyton)
- Trouser Accidents (Semi Chellas)
- white out (Matt Sinclair-Foreman)
Special Presentations
- 5x2 (Cinq fois deux) (François Ozon)
- The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Niels Mueller)
- Bluebird (Mijke de Jong)
- Celebrating (Brian Linehan)
- Childstar (Don McKellar)
- Les Choristes (Christophe Barratier)
- Crash (Paul Haggis)
- A Dirty Shame (John Waters)
- Enduring Love (Roger Michell)
- The General (Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman)
- Haven (Frank E. Flowers)
- Head in the Clouds (John Duigan)
- Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
- Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal (Jim Brown)
- Keane (Lodge Kerrigan)
- Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
- Ladies in Lavender (Charles Dance)
- The Libertine (Laurence Dunmore)
- The Merchant of Venice (Michael Radford)
- Millions (Danny Boyle)
- Noel (Chazz Palminteri)
- P.S. (Dylan Kidd)
- Palindromes (Todd Solondz)
- Promised Land (Amos Gitaï)
- The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenábar)
- Shadows of Time (Florian Gallenberger)
- Sideways (Alexander Payne)
- Silver City (John Sayles)
- Steamboy (Katsuhiro Otomo)
- Throw Down (Johnnie To)
- When Will I Be Loved (James Toback)
- Yes (Sally Potter)
- Yesterday (Darrell James Roodt)
Viacom Galas
- Arsène Lupin (Jean-Paul Salomé)
- Being Julia (István Szabó)
- Beyond the Sea (Kevin Spacey)
- Clean (Olivier Assayas)
- Der Untergang (Downfall) (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
- Five Children and It (John Stephenson)
- A Good Woman (Mike Barker)
- House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
- I ♥ Huckabees (David O. Russell)
- Imaginary Heroes (Dan Harris)
- An Italian Romance (Carlo Mazzacurati)
- Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (Vadim Jean)
- Kinsey (Bill Condon)
- Modigliani (Mick Davis)
- The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)
- Ray (Taylor Hackford)
- Red Dust (Tom Hooper)
- Return to Sender (Bille August)
- Shark Tale (Vicky Jenson, Bibo Bergeron, Rob Letterman)
- Stage Beauty (Richard Eyre)
Visions
- 9 Songs (Michael Winterbottom)
- A Hole in My Heart (Lukas Moodysson)
- Acapulco Gold (André Forcier)
- Anatomie de l'enfer (Catherine Breillat)
- Art Project: Role Play
- Blood (Jerry Ciccoritti)
- Días de Santiago (Josué Méndez)
- Evolution of a Filipino Family (Lav Diaz)
- The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (Asia Argento)
- I Like It a Lot (Jay Rosenblatt)
- L'Intrus (Claire Denis)
- A Letter to True (Bruce Weber)
- The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (Bruce McDonald)
- Los Muertos (Lisandro Alonso)
- Primer (Shane Carruth)
- Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
- Thème (Je Françoise Romand)
- Trauma (Marc Evans)
- Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Undertow (David Gordon Green)
- Vital (Shinya Tsukamoto)
- ZERO the inside story (Elida Schogt)
- SMARTERCHILD (SPLEAK)
Wavelengths
- ( ) (Morgan Fisher)
- --- ------ (a.k.a. Short Line Long Line) (Thom Andersen, Malcolm Brodwick)
- Anaconda Targets (Dominic Angerame)
- Ber-Lin 99/00 (André Lehmann)
- Bouquets 26-27 (Rose Lowder)
- Chateau/Poyet (Lawrence Jordan)
- Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature (Charlotte Pryce)
- Daylight Moon (A Quartet) (Lewis Klahr)
- Enid's Idyll (Lawrence Jordan)
- Le Fantôme de l'opératrice (Caroline Martel)
- Flushing Meadows (Joseph Cornell)
- Free To Go (Interlude) (Andrew Noren)
- Golden Gate Bridge Exposure: Poised for Parabolas (Lynn Marie Kirby)
- It's Not My Memory of It - Three Recollected Documents (Julia Meltzer, David Thorne)
- Line Describing a Cone (Anthony McCall)
- Mirror (Matthias Müller, Christoph Girardet)
- Mouths of Ash (Juan Manuel Echavarría)
- The Observatory (Alexi Manis)
- Phantom (Matthias Müller)
- Play (Matthias Müller, Christoph Girardet)
- Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
- Skagafjördur (Peter Hutton)
- St. Ignatius Church Exposure: Lenten Light Conversions (Lynn Marie Kirby)
- Terrace 49 (Janie Geiser)
- Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Jonas Mekas)
Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time
In 2004 a new Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time list was made, an exercise previously carried out in 1984 and 1993.[9]
| 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 Sweet Hereafter | 1997 | Atom Egoyan |
| 5 | Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | 2002 | Zacharias Kunuk |
| 6 | Dead Ringers | 1988 | David Cronenberg |
| 7 | Les Bons Débarras | 1980 | Francis Mankiewicz |
| 8 | Les Ordres | 1974 | Michel Brault |
| 9 | The Decline of the American Empire | 1986 | Denys Arcand |
| 10 | The Barbarian Invasions | 2003 | Denys Arcand |
References
- ^ "2004 TIFF Update #1: "Laying to Rest the Summer of Discontent"". Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ "2004 Toronto International Film Festival Annual report" (PDF). Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ^ "Impressive line-up for Toronto Film Festival". The Sydney Morning Herald. August 27, 2004. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ^ "29th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
- ^ "2004 Toronto International Film Festival Winners". tiff.net, October 11, 2013.
- ^ "Awards". tiff.net, October 11, 2013.
- ^ "TIFF Awards". movies.about, October 11, 2013.
- ^ "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme". Retrieved October 19, 2013.
- ^ "Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time," The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2012, URL accessed 28 April 2013.