1993 Toronto International Film Festival

The 18th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 18, 1993. M. Butterfly by David Cronenberg was selected as the opening film.

Forest Whitaker won FIPRESCI International Critics' Award for Strapped.

Gala presentations

 * The Accompanist (L'Accompagnatrice), Claude Miller
 * Belle Époque, Fernando Trueba
 * Bitter Moon, Roman Polanski
 * Bopha!, Morgan Freeman
 * A Bronx Tale by Robert De Niro
 * A Dangerous Woman, Stephen Gyllenhaal
 * Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Gus Van Sant
 * Flight of the Innocent, Carlo Carlei
 * The Joy Luck Club, Wayne Wang
 * A Life in the Theatre, Gregory Mosher
 * Love and Human Remains, Denys Arcand
 * M. Butterfly, David Cronenberg
 * The Movie Teller (Der Kinoerzähler), Bernhard Sinkel
 * The Piano, Jane Campion
 * Red Rock West, John Dahl
 * Rudy, David Anspaugh
 * The Snapper, Stephen Frears
 * Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, François Girard

Special presentations

 * Arizona Dream, Emir Kusturica
 * The Baby of Mâcon, Peter Greenaway
 * El Cid, Anthony Mann
 * L'enfant lion, Patrick Grandperret
 * Farewell My Concubine, Chen Kaige
 * Friends, Elaine Proctor
 * Hadashi no pikunikku, Shinobu Yaguchi
 * Madadayo, Akira Kurosawa
 * The Puppetmaster, Hou Hsiao-hsien
 * Romeo Is Bleeding, Peter Medak
 * The Saint of Fort Washington by Tim Hunter
 * Three Colors: Blue, Krzysztof Kieślowski

World Cinema

 * 1, 2, 3, Sun (Un, deux, trois, soleil), Bertrand Blier
 * The Ballad of Little Jo, Maggie Greenwald
 * The Cement Garden, Andrew Birkin
 * La Crise, Coline Serreau
 * Daens, Stijn Coninx
 * Darkness in Tallinn, Ilkka Järvi-Laturi
 * Gorilla Bathes at Noon, Dusan Makavejev
 * Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King, Jeff Feuerzeig
 * Hélas pour moi, Jean-Luc Godard
 * Household Saints, Nancy Savoca
 * Le journal de Lady M., Alain Tanner
 * Lessons of Darkness, Werner Herzog
 * Naked by Mike Leigh
 * A New Life (Une nouvelle vie), Olivier Assayas
 * Raining Stones, Ken Loach
 * Samba Traoré, Idrissa Ouedraogo
 * Sankofa, Haile Gerima
 * Shadow of a Doubt (L'ombre du doute), Aline Issermann
 * These Hands, Flora M’mbugu-Schelling
 * The Wedding Banquet, Ang Lee
 * Wendemi, l'enfant du bon Dieu, S. Pierre Yameogo
 * The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, Ray Müller
 * The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, Ray Müller

Italian Section

 * L'aria serena dell'ovest by Silvio Soldini
 * Un'anima divisa in due by Silvio Soldini

Latin American Panorama

 * Cronos, Guillermo del Toro
 * I Don't Want to Talk About It, Marcello Mastroianni
 * Unexpected Encounter (Encuentro Inesperado), Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

The Edge

 * Kosh ba kosh by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov

Spotlight

 * Roi blanc, dame rouge by Sergei Bodrov

Canadian Perspective

 * Because Why, Arto Paragamian
 * Blockade, Nettie Wild
 * The Burning Season, Harvey Crossland
 * Cap Tourmente, Michel Langlois
 * Crad Kilodney, Peter F. Glen
 * I Love a Man in Uniform, David Wellington
 * Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Alanis Obomsawin
 * Ley Lines, Patricia Gruben
 * The Lotus Eaters, Paul Shapiro
 * Me, Mom and Mona, Mina Shum
 * Moving the Mountain, William Ging Wee Dere and Malcolm Guy
 * Mustard Bath, Darrell Wasyk
 * Paris, France, Jerry Ciccoritti
 * Picture of Light, Peter Mettler
 * Save My Lost Nigga Soul, Clement Virgo
 * The Sex of the Stars (Le sexe des étoiles), Paule Baillargeon
 * Small Pleasures, Keith Lock
 * Telewhore, Spencer Rice
 * Two Brothers, a Girl and a Gun, William Hornecker
 * Zero Patience, John Greyson

10 x 10

 * The Dead Father, Guy Maddin
 * The Forgotten War (La Guerre oubliée), Richard Boutet
 * The Grocer's Wife, John Pozer
 * Intimate Power (Pouvoir intime), Yves Simoneau
 * Life Classes, William D. MacGillivray
 * Pissoir, John Greyson
 * Sonatine, Micheline Lanctôt

First Cinema

 * Boxing Helena, Jennifer Lynch
 * Don't Call Me Frankie, Thomas Fucci
 * Kalifornia, Dominic Sena
 * Menace II Society, Allen and Albert Hughes
 * The Scent of Green Papaya, Tran Anh Hung
 * Suture, Scott McGehee and David Siegel

Midnight Madness

 * Acción mutante by Álex de la Iglesia
 * Dazed and Confused by Richard Linklater
 * Freaked by Alex Winter & Tom Stern
 * Frauds by Stephan Elliott
 * Jack Be Nimble by Garth Maxwell
 * The Last Border by Mika Kaurismäki
 * The Making of And God Spoke by Arthur Borman
 * Trauma by Dario Argento
 * Wicked City by Yoshiaki Kawajiri
 * The Wicked City by Tsui Hark, Peter Mak

Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time
In 1993 a new Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time list was made, an exercise previously carried out in 1984 and later repeated in 2004.