1994 Toronto International Film Festival

The 19th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 8 and September 17, 1994. Whale Music by Richard J. Lewis was selected as the opening film. The festival's name changed from Festival of festivals to Toronto International Film Festival.

Gala Presentation

 * The Ascent — Donald Shebib
 * Ashes of Time — Wong Kar-wai
 * Bullets Over Broadway — Woody Allen
 * The Burning Season — John Frankenheimer
 * Captives — Angela Pope
 * Chungking Express — Wong Kar-wai
 * Cold Water — Olivier Assayas
 * Colonel Chabert — Yves Angelo
 * Eat Drink Man Woman — Ang Lee
 * Fate (Verhängnis) — Fred Kelemen
 * I Like It Like That — Darnell Martin
 * Lamerica — Gianni Amelio
 * Little Odessa — James Gray
 * Muriel's Wedding — P. J. Hogan
 * Nadja — Michael Almereyda
 * Once Were Warriors — Lee Tamahori
 * Il Postino: The Postman — Michael Radford
 * Priest — Antonia Bird
 * Second Best — Sarah Radclyffe
 * The Secret of Roan Inish — John Sayles
 * Sleep with Me — Rory Kelly
 * The Sum of Us — Kevin Dowling & Geoff Burton
 * Swimming with Sharks — George Huang
 * Through the Olive Trees — Abbas Kiarostami
 * Vanya on 42nd Street — Louis Malle
 * Vive L'Amour — Tsai Ming-liang
 * Whale Music — Richard J. Lewis

Special Presentations

 * Amateur — Hal Hartley
 * Curse of the Starving Class — J. Michael McClary
 * Hell (L'Enfer) — Claude Chabrol
 * Martha — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
 * Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle — Alan Rudolph
 * Somebody to Love — Alexandre Rockwell
 * Three Colors: Red — Krzysztof Kieślowski
 * To Live — Zhang Yimou
 * Tsahal — Claude Lanzmann

Spotlight

 * Anna: 6 - 18 — Nikita Mikhalkov
 * Burnt by the Sun — Nikita Mikhalkov

Perspective Canada Features

 * The Circle Game — Brigitte Berman
 * Dance Me Outside — Bruce McDonald
 * Double Happiness — Mina Shum
 * Eclipse — Jeremy Podeswa
 * Exotica — Atom Egoyan
 * Frank's Cock — Mike Hoolboom
 * Henry & Verlin — Gary Ledbetter
 * A Hero's Life (La Vie d'un héros) — Micheline Lanctôt
 * Highway of Heartache — Gregory Wild
 * Max — Charles Wilkinson
 * Narmada: A Valley Rises — Ali Kazimi
 * Only You — Norman Jewison
 * Paint Cans — Paul Donovan
 * Picture of Light — Peter Mettler
 * Super 8½ — Bruce LaBruce
 * Valentine's Day — Mike Hoolboom
 * The Wind from Wyoming (Le Vent du Wyoming) — André Forcier
 * Wasaga — Judith Doyle
 * Windigo — Robert Morin

Perspective Canada Shorts

 * Leftovers — Janine Fung
 * Make Some Noise — Andrew Munger
 * Murmuration — Elizabeth Murray
 * Off Key — Karethe Linaae
 * Technilogic Ordering — Philip Hoffman
 * You Love Me I Hate You — Rosamund Owen

Contemporary World Cinema

 * Blue Sky — Tony Richardson
 * Boca — Walter Avancini, Zalman King
 * Dead Tired (Grosse Fatigue) — Michel Blanc
 * Dear Diary — Nanni Moretti
 * Fun — Rafal Zielinski
 * Glitterbug — Derek Jarman
 * Heavenly Creatures — Peter Jackson
 * Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses — Aki Kaurismäki
 * Movie Days — Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
 * Moving the Mountain — Michael Apted
 * Tracking Down Maggie — Nick Broomfield

First Cinema

 * Clerks — Kevin Smith
 * Coming to Terms with the Dead (Petits arrangements avec les morts) — Pascale Ferran
 * Killer — Mark Malone
 * Mille Bolle Blu — Leone Pompucci
 * The Shawshank Redemption — Frank Darabont
 * The Silences of the Palace — Moufida Tlatli

Documentaries

 * Atlantis — Luc Besson
 * Hoop Dreams — Steve James
 * Crumb — Terry Zwigoff
 * Destiny in Space — Toni Myers
 * Silent Witness — Harriet Wichin
 * Tracking Down Maggie — Nick Broomfield

Asian Horizons

 * A Borrowed Life — Wu Nien-jen
 * The Red Lotus Society — Stan Lai

India Now

 * Bandit Queen — Shekhar Kapur
 * Fearless: The Hunterwali Story — Riyad Vinci Wadia
 * The Kite (Patang) — Goutam Ghose
 * Roja — Mani Ratnam

Latin American Panorama

 * Strawberry and Chocolate — Tomás Gutiérrez Alea & Juan Carlos Tabío

Midnight Madness

 * Cemetery Man — Michele Soavi
 * The Eagle Shooting Heroes — Jeffrey Lau
 * Love and a .45 — C.M. Talkington
 * Naked Killer — Clarence Fok
 * Nightwatch — Ole Bornedal
 * S.F.W. — Jefery Levy
 * Schramm — Jörg Buttgereit
 * Tokarefu — Junji Sakamoto
 * Wes Craven's New Nightmare - Wes Craven