Toronto International Film Festival Coverage:1998:List of Films
23rd Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films
The 23rd Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 10th to the 19th, 1998 and Digital Hit Entertainment is going to be there. We’ll be providing full daily coverage of the activities and look forward to giving you great stories and photos of the celebrities who will be attending.
Below is the complete list of films that will be playing at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival:
| Galas | |
| Film Title | Director(s) |
| A Simple Plan | Sam Raimi |
| A Soldier’s Sweetheart | Thomas Michael Donnelly |
| Antz | Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson |
| Central Station | Walter Salles |
| Dancing at Lughnasa | Pat O’Connor |
| Dog Park | Bruce McCulloch |
| Elizabeth | Shekhar Kapur |
| Hilary and Jackie | Anand Tucker |
| Judas Kiss | Sebastian Gutierrez |
| L’ Ecole de la chair | Benoît Jacquot |
| LA Without a Map | Mika Kaurismäki |
| Lautrec | Roger Planchon |
| Little Voice | Mark Herman |
| Living Out Loud | Richard LaGravenese |
| Pleasantville | Gary Ross |
| The Red Violin | François Girard |
| Un 32 août sur Terre | Denis Villeneuve |
| Without Limits | Robert Towne |
| Special Presentations | |
| Film Title | Director(s) |
| A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries | James Ivory |
| Am I Beautiful? | Doris Dörrie |
| Another Day in Paradise | Larry Clark |
| Apt Pupil | Bryan Singer |
| At Sachem Farm | John Huddles |
| Down In The Delta | Maya Angelou |
| Earth | Deepa Mehta |
| Finding Graceland | David Winkler |
| Goin’ Down the Road | Donald Shebib |
| Life is Beautiful | Roberto Benigni |
| Pecker | John Waters |
| Permanent Midnight | David Veloz |
| Rushmore | Wes Anderson |
| Such a Long Journey | Sturla Gunnarsson |
| Summer of the Monkeys | Michael Anderson |
| The Giraffe | Dani Levy |
| The Mighty | Peter Chelsom |
| The Theory of Flight | Paul Greengrass |
| Touch of Evil | Orson Welles |
| Voleur de vie | Yves Angelo |
| Wide Prairie | Oscar Grillo |
| Masters | |
| Film Title | Director(s) |
| Aprile | Nanni Moretti |
| Clouds | Fernando E. Solanas |
| Conte d’Automne | Eric Rohmer |
| Divine | Arturo Ripstein |
| Dr. Akagi | Shohei Imamura |
| Eternity and a Day | Theo Angelopoulos |
| Flowers of Shanghai | Hou Hsiao-Hsien |
| Inquiétude | Manoel de Oliveira |
| My Name is Joe | Ken Loach |
| Tango | Carlos Saura |
| The General | John Boorman |
| The Powder Keg | Goran Paskaljevic |
| The Silence | Mohsen Makhmalbaf |
| Tu Ridi | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani |
| Perspective Canada | |
| Film Title | Director(s) |
| 2 secondes | Manon Briand |
| A Place Called Chiapas | Nettie Wild |
| Angel Walk | Mitchell Gabourie |
| Aujourd’hui ou jamais | Jean Pierre Lefebvre |
| beauty crowds me | Julie Trimingham |
| Boy Meets Girl | Jerry Ciccoritti |
| Brakhage | Jim Shedden |
| Bridal Path | Cynthia Roberts |
| Clutch | Chris Grismer |
| Cold Feet | Jim Allodi |
| Crickets | Jane Eun-Hee Kim |
| Cupid | Wrik Mead |
| Death Threat | Zarqa Nawaz |
| Destroying Angel | Wayne Salazar, Philip Hoffman |
| Dirty | Bruce Sweeney |
| Echoes in the Rink: The Willie O’Ree Story | Errol Williams |
| Elimination Dance | Bruce McDonald |
| Elysian Fields | Leonardo Salvo |
| Eve-olve! | Sandra Law |
| Extraordinary Visitor | John W. Doyle |
| Faultlines | Gary Popovich |
| Fish Bait | Anthony Seck |
| from morning on I waited yesterday | Wiebke von Carolsfeld |
| God Comes as a Child | Jeremiah Hayes |
| Great Expectations (not what you’re thinking) | Ann Marie Fleming |
| Harlan and Fiona | Gary Yates |
| Hustle My Crush | Heidi Gerber |
| In The Future | Mike Hoolboom |
| Jack & Jill | John Kalangis |
| John Scott – Art & Justice | Michael McNamara |
| L’âge de braise | Jacques Leduc |
| La déroute | Paul Tana |
| L’Amour l’Amour Shut the Door Por Favor | Valerie Buhagiar |
| Last Night | Don McKellar |
| Le coeur au poing | Charles Binamé |
| le Lépidoptère | Chloë Mercier |
| Le succédané | Nicolas Frichot |
| Leda and the Swan | Alexandra Gill |
| Les dames du 9e | Catherine Martin |
| Let it Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles | Jennifer Baichwal |
| Michel in the Suête | Neal Livingston |
| Moving Day | Chris Deacon |
| Nô | Robert Lepage |
| Phil Touches Flo | David Birdsell |
| Rain, Drizzle and Fog | Rosemary House |
| Reaction Stick | John May |
| Rupert’s Land | Jonathan Tammuz |
| Shoes off! | Mark Sawers |
| Shrink | Tim Hamilton |
| Sploosh | Nathan Garfinkel |
| Sway | Paul Carrière |
| swell | Carolynne Hew |
| The Falling | Raul Sanchez Inglis |
| The Fisherman and His Wife | Jochen Schliessler |
| The Fishing Trip | Amnon Buchbinder |
| The Herd | Peter Lynch |
| the last split second | Judith Doyle |
| The Rogers’ Cable | Jennifer Kierans |
| The Sickroom | Serge Marcotte |
| Under Chad Valley | Jeff Erbach |
| Until I Hear from You | Daniel MacIvor |
| When Ponds Freeze Over | Mary Lewis |
| Contemporary World Cinema | |
| Film Title | Director(s) |
| A la place du coeur | Robert Guédiguian |
| A vendre For Sale | Laetitia Masson |
| All the Little Animals | Jeremy Thomas |
| Beauty | Bishonen Yonfan |
| Bedrooms & Hallways | Rose Troche |
| Buttoners | Petr Zelenka |
| Caresses | Ventura Pons |
| Ceux qui m’aiment prendront le train | Patrice Chéreau |
| Christmas in August | Hur Jin-ho |
| Claire Dolan | Lodge Kerrigan |
| Clay Pigeons | David Dobkin |
| Curacha – A Woman Without Rest | Chito S. Roño |
| Dance of Dust | Abolfazl Jalili |
| Delivery of a Nation | Momir Matovic |
| Desert Blue | Morgan J. Freeman |
| F. est un salaud | Marcel Gisler |
| Fated Vocation | Nguyen Vu Chau |
| fin août, début septembre | Olivier Assayas |
| Fiona | Amos Kollek |
| Fire-Eater | Pirjo Honkasalo |
| Full Moon Den | Karen Shakhnazarovr |
| Gangland | Peque Gallaga, Lore Reyes |
| Happiness | Todd Solondz |
| Home Fries | Dean Parisot |
| I’m Losing You | Bruce Wagner |
| In That Land | Lidia Bobrova |
| In the Navel of the Sea | Marilou Diaz-Abayaisland, Alicia Ken Yunome |
| J’aimerais pas crever un dimanche | Didier Le Pêcheur |
| Jeanne et le garçon formidable | Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau |
| Jerry and Tom | Saul Rubinek |
| Just One Time | Lane Jangerr |
| La vie rêvée des anges | Erick Zonca |
| Le dîner de cons | Francis Veber |
| Little Thieves, Big Thieves | Alejandro Saderman |
| Little Tropikana | Daniel Díaz Torres |
| Love Go Go | Chen Yu-hsun |
| Love is the Devi | l John Maybury |
| Lucia | Don Boyd |
| Luminous Motion | Bette Gordon |
| Midnight | Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas |
| Motel Erotica | Ho Ping |
| My Rice Noodle Shop | Yang Xie |
| Night Train | John Lynch |
| No Support | Antonio Urrutia Martinez, Rene Castillo Rivera |
| Notes of Love | Mimmo Calopresti |
| Our Troubles Will Soon Be Over | Jorge Ramírez-Suárez |
| Passion | György Fehér |
| Rehearsal for War | Mario Martone |
| Run Lola Run | Tom Tykwer |
| Seul contre tous | Gaspar Noé |
| Shattered Image | Raul Ruiz |
| Snow | Eric Tretbar |
| Spanish Fly | Daphna Kastner |
| Sweet Degeneration | Lin Cheng-sheng |
| The Book of Life | Hal Hartley |
| The Celebration | Festen Thomas Vinterberg |
| The City | David Riker |
| The Dance | Agúst Gudmundsson |
| The Hole | Dona Tsai Ming-liang |
| The Impostors | Stanley Tucci |
| The Inheritors | Stefan Ruzowitzky |
| The Last Contract | Kjell Sundvall |
| The Lovers of the Arctic Circle | Julio Medem |
| The Man with Rain in his Shoes | María Ripoll |
| The Patriot | Paulo Thiago |
| The Poet | Casey L.Y. Chan |
| The Rose | Seller Victor Gaviria |
| The Stolen Years | Fernando Colomo |
| The Wounds | Rane Srdjan Dragojevic |
| The Apple | Samira Makhmalbaf |
| This is My Father | Paul Quinn |
| Three Carlos | Siguion-Reyna |
| Thursday | Skip Woods |
| Titanic Town | Roger Michell |
| Traffic | João Botelho |
| Trance | Michael Almereyda |
| Un grand cri d’amour | Josiane Balasko |
| Under a Spell | Carlos Carrera |
| Very Bad Things | Peter Berg |
| Vigo | Julien Temple |
| Waking Ned Devine | Kirk Jones |
| Water Easy Reach | Bent Hamer |
| What Farocki Taught | Jill Godmilow |
| When Love Comes | Garth Maxwell |
| Discovery | |
| Film Title | Director(s) |
| 23 | Hans-Christian Schmid |
| Bombay Boys | Kaizad Gustad |
| Broken Vessels | Scott Ziehl |
| Following | Christopher Nolan |
| Georgica | Sulev Keedus |
| Get Real | Simon Shore |
| Getting Off | Julie A. Lynch |
| Hair Shirt | Dean Paras |
| Hell’s Kitchen | Tony Cinciripini |
| In the Winter Dark | James Bogle |
| Kenoma | Eliane Caffé |
| L’arrière pays | Jacques Nolot |
| Long Time | Since Jay Anania |
| Mensaka Salvador | García Ruiz |
| Porkkalam | Cheran |
| Praise | John Curran |
| Radiance | Rachel Perkins |
| Rosie: The Devil in My Head | Patrice Toye |
| Sombre | Philippe Grandrieux |
| Sweety Barrett | Stephen Bradley |
| The Adopted Son | Aktan Abdikalikov |
| The Adventures of Sebastian Cole | Tod Williams |
| The Pianist | Mario Gas |
| The Shoe | Laila Pakalnina |
| The Sleepwalker | Fernando Spiner |
| The Terrorist | Santosh Sivan |
| Trans | Julian L. Goldberger |
| Une minute de silence | Florent Emilio Siri |
| West Beirut | Ziad Doueiri |
| Windhorse | Paul Wagner |
| Real to Reel | |
| Film Title | Director(s) |
| Angel On My Shoulder | Donna Deitch |
| Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance | Kevin McDonald, Chris Rodley |
| Fragments*Jerusalem | Ron Havilio |
| God Said, “Ha!” | Julia Sweeney |
| Megacities | Michael Glawogger |
| Richard Lester! | Stacy Cochran |
| State of Dogs | Peter Brosens, Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh |
| The Cruise | Bennett Miller |
| The Filmmaker of the Amazon | Aurélio Michiles |
| Planet Africa | |
| Film Title | Director(s) |
| Ainsi soit il So Be It | Joseph Gaye Ramaka |
| Babymother | Julian Henriques |
| Bent Familia | Nouri Bouzid |
| Corps plongés | Raoul Peck |
| Dr. Endesha | Ida Mae Holland Charles Burnett |
| La vie sur terre | Abderrahmane Sissako |
| L’onzième commandement | Mama Keïta |
| Mixing Nia | Alison Swan |
| On the Edge | Newton I. Aduaka |
| Pièces d’indentités | Mweze Ngangura |
| Secrets | Sheryl Lee Ralph |
| Silmande Tourbillon | S. Pierre Yameogo |
| Slam | Marc Levin |
| Souko Camera Box | Issiaka Konaté |
| Speak Like A Child | John Akomfrah |
| Take Your Bags | Camille Billops |
| Dialogues: Talking with Pictures | |
| Film Title | Director(s) |
| Boom! | Joseph Losey |
| Charulata | Satyajit Ray |
| Forty Guns | Samuel Fuller |
| Nazarín | Luis Buñuel |
| Othello | Orson Welles |
| The Four Feathers | Zoltan Korda |
| The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| New Beat of Japan | |
| Film Title | Director(s) |
| After Life | Hirokazu Kore-Eda |
| April Story | Shunji Iwai |
| Battles Without Honor and Humanity | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Beautiful Sunday | Tetsuya Nakashima |
| Bullet Ballet | Shinya Tsukamoto |
| Cure | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Detective Riko | Satoshi Isaka |
| Down the Drain | Shinobu Yaguchi |
| Happy Go Lucky | Tetsuya Nakashima |
| Ikinai | Hiroshi Shimizu |
| Kichiku | Kazuyoshi Kumakiri |
| Muscle Influenza | Keiji Ichikawa, Ken Arima |
| Paradise Sea | Koji Hagiuda |
| Ping Pong Bath Station | Gen Yamakawa |
| Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl | Katsuhito Ishii |
| Sunday Drive | Hisashi Saito |
| The Goofball | Junji Sakamoto |
| Unlucky Monkey | Sabu |
| Welcome Back Mr. McDonald | Koki Mitani |
| Spotlight: Darezhan Omirbaev | |
| Film Title | Director(s) |
| Cardiogram | Darezhan Omirbaev |
| July | Darezhan Omirbaev |
| Kairat | Darezhan Omirbaev |
| Killer | Darezhan Omirbaev |
| Life | Darezhan Omirbaev |
| Canadian Film Centre at Ten | |
| Film Title | Director(s) |
| Blood & Donuts | Holly Dale |
| Blue | Don McKellar |
| Dead Meat | Holly Dale |
| House | Laurie Lynd |
| Rude | Clement Virgo |
| Save My Lost Nigga’ Soul | Clement Virgo |
| Shoemaker | Colleen Murphy |
| The Fairy Who Didn’t Want To Be A Fairy Anymore | Laurie Lynd |
| The Feeler | Colleen Murphy |
| The Making of Monsters | John Greyson |
| Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould | François Girard |
| Zero Patience | John Greyson |
| Midnight Madness | |
| Film Title | Director(s) |
| Cascadeur – The Amber Chamber | Hardy Martins |
| Hang The DJ | Marco La Villa, Mauro La Villa |
| Heaven | Scott Reynolds |
| I Woke Up Early The Day I Died | Arlis Iliopulos |
| Mighty Peking Man | Ho Meng-Hua |
| Night Time | Peter Fratzscher |
| Perdita Durango | Alex de la Iglesia |
| Six-String Samurai | Lance Mungia |
| The Acid House | Paul McGuigan |
| The Bystander From Hell | Matthew Harrison |