1988 Toronto International Film Festival

The 13th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 8 and September 17, 1988. Midnight Madness programme was introduced at the festival. The festival screened more than 300 films from all over the world. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Pedro Almodóvar won the People's Choice Award at the festival, which later nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at Academy Award.

Dead Ringers by David Cronenberg was selected as the opening film.

Gala Presentation

 * Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Pedro Almodóvar
 * Distant Voices, Still Lives by Terence Davies
 * A Short Film About Killing by Krzysztof Kieślowski
 * Chocolat by Claire Denis
 * The Last of England by Derek Jarman
 * Earth Girls Are Easy by Julien Temple
 * Track 29 by Nicolas Roeg
 * The Thin Blue Line by Errol Morris
 * Red Sorghum by Zhang Yimou
 * Wherever You Are... by Krzysztof Zanussi
 * Love Is a Fat Woman by Alejandro Agresti
 * The Way Things Go by Peter Fischli & David Weiss
 * Hard Times by João Botelho
 * Rouge by Stanley Kwan
 * Story of Women by Claude Chabrol
 * The Beast by Kevin Reynolds
 * Três Menos Eu by João Canijo
 * Madame Sousatzka by John Schlesinger
 * Tango Bar by Marcos Zurinaga
 * Ei by Danniel Danniel

Canadian Perspective

 * The Box of Sun (La boîte à soleil) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
 * Calling the Shots by Janis Cole and Holly Dale
 * Comic Book Confidential by Ron Mann
 * Dead Ringers by David Cronenberg
 * The Forgotten War by Richard Boutet
 * Growing Up in America by Morley Markson
 * The Heat Line by Hubert-Yves Rose
 * I Will Make No More Boring Art by William D. MacGillivray
 * Lac La Croix by Judith Doyle
 * Milk and Honey by Glen Salzman and Rebecca Yates
 * Name Your Poison It's a Scream Channel No. 5 by John Gagne
 * The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick by Allan A. Goldstein
 * Palais Royale by Martin Lavut
 * Pissoir by John Greyson
 * The Revolving Doors by Francis Mankiewicz
 * Shadow Dancing by Lewis Furey
 * Something About Love by Tom Berry
 * The Squamish Five by Paul Donovan
 * Strangers in a Strange Land by Bob McKeown
 * Walking After Midnight by Jonathan Kay

Midnight Madness

 * The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years by Penelope Spheeris
 * Big Time by Chris Blum
 * Hellbound: Hellraiser II by Tony Randel
 * Heavy Petting by Obie Benz
 * Forbidden to Forbid by Lothar Lambert
 * Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em by Ray Boseley
 * Brand New Day by Amos Gitai
 * Brain Damage by Frank Henenlotter