28th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films

On August 19th, 2003, the Toronto International Film Festival released the complete list of films that will unspool at the 2003 edition. Before we get to the list, here are some interesting facts:

  • 336 Films: Features — 252; Shorts — 84
  • 184 Features that are world, international, or North American premieres:64, 17, and 103 respectively
  • 73% Feature Films that are world, international, or North American premieres
  • 145 Number of Features Screened in a Language Other than English; 58% of the total Feature Films screened
  • 3193 Total Submissions: International — 2561, Canadian — 632
  • 55 Countries
  • 66 First Features
  • 21 Screens Used
  • 15 Programmes
  • 28,340 Minutes of Film
  • 545’ Longest Film: WEST OF THE TRACKS, Wang Bing
  • 1’ Shortest Film: X-MAN, Chris Hinton
  • 37 Canadian features, including co-productions
  • 38 Canadian shorts, including co-productions
  • 21 Canadian features making their world premiere, including co-productions

As usual, Digital Hit will have daily coverage of the 10 days of the festival, starting September 4th.

And now, without further ado, here’s the complete list:

CANADIAN OPEN VAULT
Film Title Director
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Ted Kotcheff
CANADIAN RETROSPECTIVE
Film Title Director
Back to God's Country David M. Hartford
A Bear, a Boy and a Dog Bert Van Tuyle
The Grub Stake Bert Van Tuyle, in collaboration with Nell Shipman
The Light on Lookout Bert Van Tuyle, Nell Shipman
Something New Nell Shipman, Bert Van Tuyle
The Story of Mr. Hobbs Lorenzo Alagio
The Trail of the North Wind Nell Shipman
White Water Bert Van Tuyle, Nell Shipman
CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
Film Title Director
Abjad Abolfazl Jalili
Alexandra's Project Rolf de Heer
Antenna Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
At Five in the Afternoon Samira Makhmalbaf
B-Happy Gonzalo Justiniano
Bright Young Things Stephen Fry
Broken Wings Nir Bergman
Crimson Gold Jafar Panahi
Depuis qu'Otar est parti Julie Bertuccelli
Drifters Wang Xiaoshuai
Dummy Greg Pritikin
Errance Damien Odoul
The Event Thom Fitzgerald
Evil Mikael Håfström
Facing Window Ferzan Ozpetek
Forest Benedek Fliegauf
Free Radicals Barbara Albert
Fuse Pjer Zalica
The Galíndez File Gerardo Herrero
Golden Chicken Samson Chiu
Good Bye, Lenin! Wolfgang Becker
A Good Lawyer's Wife Im Sang-soo
Grimm Alex van Warmerdam
Gun-shy Dito Tsintsadze
A Heart Elsewhere Pupi Avati
The Hours of the Day Jaime Rosales
I'm Not Scared Gabriele Salvatores
Identity Kills Sören Voigt
In the City Cesc Gay
Intermission John Crowley
Interview Theo van Gogh
James' Journey to Jerusalem Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Japanese Story Sue Brooks
Kamchatka Marcelo Piñeyro
Kitchen Stories Bent Hamer
Last Life in the Universe Pen-ek Ratanaruang
The Last Virgin Joel Lamangan
Loving Glances Srdjan Karanovic
The Magic Gloves Martin Rejtman
Les Mains vides Marc Recha
Memories of Murder Bong Joon-Ho
Milwaukee, Minnesota Allan Mindel
The Mother Roger Michell
My Life Without Me Isabelle Coixet
Nói albinói Dagur Kari
Nicotina Hugo Rodríguez
Nos enfants chéris Benoît Cohen
Osama Siddiq Barmak
Pieces of April Peter Hedges
Prey for Rock & Roll Alex Steyermark
The Principles of Lust Penny Woolcock
Prosti Erik Matti
PTU Johnnie To
Pupendo Jan Hrebejk
Purple Butterfly Lou Ye
Qui a tué Bambi? Gilles Marchand
Ramblers Nobuhiro Yamashita
Remember Me Gabriele Muccino
The Return Andrey Zvyagintsev
Secret File Paolo Benvenuti
Shara Naomi Kawase
Silence Between Two Thoughts Babak Payami
So Far Away Juan Carlos Tabío
South from Granada Fernando Colomo
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring Kim Ki-duk
Stander Bronwen Hughes
Stormy Weather Sólveig Anspach
Struggle Ruth Mader
SuperTex Jan Schütte
Testosterone David Moreton
Toutes ces belles promesses Jean Paul Civeyrac
Travellers and Magicians Khyentse Norbu
Vibrator Ryuichi Hiroki
Vodka Lemon Hiner Saleem
What the Eye Doesn't See Francisco J. Lombardi
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself Lone Scherfig
Wonderland James Cox
Young Adam David Mackenzie
DIALOGUES: TALKING WITH PICTURES
Film Title Director
Alien Sir Ridley Scott
Bad Timing Nicolas Roeg
Ikiru Akira Kurosawa
Nashville Robert Altman
One from the Heart Francis Ford Coppola
Twenty Years Later Eduardo Coutinho
DIRECTOR'S SPOTLIGHT
Film Title Director
Clouds of May Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Confession Zeki Demirkubuz
Distant Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Encounter Ömer Kavur
Fate Zeki Demirkubuz
Motherland Hotel Ömer Kavur
The Secret Face Ömer Kavur
The Small Town Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Third Page Zeki Demirkubuz
DISCOVERY
Film Title Director
11:14 Greg Marcks
16 Years of Alcohol Richard Jobson
Ana and the Others Celina Murga
Christmas Gregory King
Les Corps impatients Xavier Giannoli
Dallas 362 Scott Caan
Easy Jane Weinstock
The Green Butchers Anders Thomas Jensen
I Love Your Work Adam Goldberg
Jeux d'enfants Yann Samuell
Koktebel Boris Khlebnikov, Alexei Popogrebsky
The Last Customer Nanni Moretti
Madness and Genius Ryan Eslinger
Maqbool Vishal Bharadwaj
My Father and I Xu Jinglei
My Town Marek Lechki
A Nation Without Women Manish Jha
November Achero Mañas
Rhinoceros Eyes Aaron Woodley
Rick Curtiss Clayton
Sexual Dependency Rodrigo Bellott
A Smile Park Kyung-hee
Summer in the Golden Valley Srdjan Vuletic
This Little Life Sarah Gavron
The Triggerstreet.com Project
MASTERS
Film Title Director
Casa de los Babys John Sayles
Chokher Bali, A Passion Play Rituparno Ghosh
Come and Go João César Monteiro
Dying at Grace Allan King
Elephant Gus Van Sant
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead Mike Hodges
A Talking Picture Manoel de Oliveira
Le Temps du Loup Michael Haneke
Zatoichi Takeshi Kitano
MIDNIGHT MADNESS
Film Title Director
Cypher Vincenzo Natali
End of the Century: The Story of The Ramones Jim Fields, Michael Gramaglia
Gozu Takashi Miike
The Grudge Takashi Shimizu
Haute Tension Alexandre Aja
Ong-Bak Muay Thai Warrior Prachya Pinkaew
Save the Green Planet Jang Jun-hwan
Undead Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig
Underworld Len Wiseman
NATIONAL CINEMA
Film Title Director
Bus 174 José Padilha
Carandiru Hector Babenco
God Is Brazilian Carlos Diegues
The Man of the Year José Henrique Fonseca
Margarette's Feast Renato Falcão
The Middle of the World Vicente Amorim
The Storytellers Eliane Caffé
PERSPECTIVE CANADA
Film Title Director
20h17, rue Darling Bernard Émond
Animal Nightmares Peter Lynch
Aspiration Constant Mentzas
Bager Tomi Grgicevic
The Big Charade Jesse McKeown
The Bread Maker Anita McGee
The Corporation Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott
Déformation Personnelle Jean-François Asselin
Defile in Veil deco dawson
DNA Jack Blum
The Dog Walker James Genn
Emile Carl Bessai
Exposures Matt Sinclair-Foreman
An Eye for an Eye David Rimmer
Falling Angels Scott Smith
The Fever of the Western Nile deco dawson
Flyerman Jeff Stephenson, Jason Tan
The Garden Jason Buxton
Gaz Bar Blues Louis Bélanger
Grotesque Wrik Mead
Guest Room Skander Halim
her carnal longings Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
Hollywood North Peter O'Brian
Imitations of Life Mike Hoolboom
In the Dark Mike Hoolboom
Jours en fleurs Louise Bourque
The Last Night Mathieu Guez
A Little Life Elizabeth Murray
Love, Sex, and Eating the Bones Sudz Sutherland
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam Ann Marie Fleming
Mardi (Quel jour était-ce?) Lyne Charlebois
Moccasin Flats Randy Redroad
Noël Blank Jean-François Rivard
Not a Fish Story Anita Doron
Nothing Vincenzo Natali
On the Corner Nathaniel Geary
Passages John Price
Perfect Boris Rodriguez
Pop Song Charles Officer
A Problem with Fear Gary Burns
Proteus John Greyson
Saskatchewan Part 2 Brian Stockton
The School Ezra Krybus, Matthew Miller
She Was Cuba Ho Tam
Shooting Star Jason Britski
Sometimes a Voice Simon Davidson
Song of Wreckage Ryan Redford
Terminal Venus Alexandre Franchi
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil Craig D. Wallace
Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole Gil Cardinal
The Truth about Head Dale Heslip
Twist Jacob Tierney
Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner Jamie Travis
Wildflowers Geoffrey Uloth
X Man Christopher Hinton
PLANET AFRICA
Film Title Director
Afropunk: The "Rock n Roll Nigger" Experience James Spooner
Dark D.A. Bullock
His/Her Story Nzinga Kemp
Histoire de Tresses Jacqueline Kalimunda
How to Get the Man's Foot Out of Your Ass Mario Van Peebles
Mille Mois Faouzi Bensaïdi
Moi et mon blanc S. Pierre Yaméogo
One Love Rick Elgood, Don Letts
Outcry Destau Damtou
Short on Sugar Joseph Anaya
Le Silence de la forêt Didier Ouénangaré, Bassek ba Kobhio
The Sky in Her Eyes Ouida Smit, Madoda Ncayiyana
Soldiers of the Rock Norman Maake
Strange and Charmed Shari Frilot
Valley of the Innocent Branwen Okpako
Les Yeux secs Narjiss Nejjar
REAL TO REEL
Film Title Director
The Agronomist Jonathan Demme
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill
The Blonds Albertina Carri
Bright Leaves Ross McElwee
Destiny's Children Pimmi Pândé
Dream Cuisine Li Ying
Enquête sur le monde invisible Jean Michel Roux
Festival Express Bob Smeaton
The Five Obstructions Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine Vikram Jayanti
Jesus, You Know Ulrich Seidl
Los Angeles Plays Itself Thom Andersen
Mayor of the Sunset Strip George Hickenlooper
Molly & Mobarak Tom Zubrycki
The Passion of María Elena Mercedes Moncada
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain
S21, La Machine de mort Khmère Rouge Rithy Panh
The Story of the Weeping Camel Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion Tom Peosay
Tom Dowd & the Language of Music Mark Moormann
West of the Tracks, Part I: Rust Wang Bing
West of the Tracks, Part II: Remnants Wang Bing
West of the Tracks, Part III: Rails Wang Bing
The Yes Men Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, Chris Smith
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Film Title Director
21 Grams Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alila Amos Gitaï
The Best of Youth Marco Tullio Giordana
Cheeky David Thewlis
Coffee & Cigarettes Jim Jarmusch
The Cooler Wayne Kramer
Dogville Lars von Trier
La face cachée de la lune Robert Lepage
The Fog of War Errol Morris
Go Further Ron Mann
The Gospel of John Philip Saville
La Grande Séduction Jean-François Pouliot
L' Histoire de Marie et Julien Jacques Rivette
Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola
Love Actually Richard Curtis
The Merry Widow Erich von Stroheim
Monsieur Ibrahim François Dupeyron
Père et fils Michel Boujenah
Raja Jacques Doillon
The Saddest Music in the World Guy Maddin
Les Sentiments Noémie Lvovsky
Shattered Glass Billy Ray
The Singing Detective Keith Gordon
The Snow Walker Charles Martin Smith
The Station Agent Tom McCarthy
Touching the Void Kevin Macdonald
Valentin Alejandro Agreste
Zhou Yu's Train Sun Zhou
VIACOM GALAS
Film Title Director
Bon Voyage Jean-Paul Rappeneau
The Boys from County Clare John Irvin
Code 46 Michael Winterbottom
The Company Robert Altman
Danny Deckchair Jeff Balsmeyer
Girl with a Pearl Earring Peter Webber
Good Morning, Night Marco Bellocchio
The Human Stain Robert Benton
In the Cut Jane Campion
Les Invasions barbares Denys Arcand
Mambo Italiano Émile Gaudreault
Matchstick Men Sir Ridley Scott
Nathalie... Anne Fontaine
Out of Time Carl Franklin
The Republic of Love Deepa Mehta
Rosenstrasse Margarethe von Trotta
The School of Rock Richard Linklater
Veronica Guerin Joel Schumacher
VISIONS
Film Title Director
Bright Future Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Brown Bunny Vincent Gallo
Cremaster 3 Matthew Barney
Good Bye, Dragon Inn Tsai Ming-liang
Greendale Bernard Shakey a.k.a Neil Young
In This World Michael Winterbottom
Nine Souls Toshiaki Toyoda
Des Plumes dans la tête Thomas de Thier
Sansa Siegfried
The Tesseract Oxide Pang
Les Triplettes de Belleville Sylvain Chomet
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Episode 3. Antwerp Peter Greenaway
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1. The Moab Story Peter Greenaway
Twentynine Palms Bruno Dumont
WAVELENGTHS
Film Title Director
Bouquet 25 Rose Lowder
Chinese Series Stan Brakhage
Cocteau Cento Dan Boord, Luis Valdovino
Early Monthly Segments Robert Beavers
Fear of Blushing Jennifer Reeves
The Ground Robert Beavers
He Walked Away Jennifer Reeves
The Hedge Theater Robert Beavers
Horizontal Boundaries Second Projection Pat O'Neill
In the Garden Ute Aurand, Bärbel Freund
Interior Jim Jennings
Let's Make a Sandwich Pat O'Neill
Meditations on Revolution, Part V: Foreign City Robert Fenz
Megalopolis Jim Jennings
No Sharon Lockhart
Noor Deborah Phillips
Outline Sandra Gibson
Psalm III: "Night of the Meek" Phil Solomon
Quadro Lotte Schreiber
Rolling in My Ears Barry Gerson
Seasons Phil Solomon, Stan Brakhage
Stan's Window and Work in Progress Stan Brakhage
System of Transitions Johannes Hammel
Translucent Appearances Barry Gerson
The Visitation Nathaniel Dorsky