1997 Toronto International Film Festival

The 22nd Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 4 to September 13, 1997. This festival was notable for the introduction of the Masters programme to TIFF.

Gala Opening Night

 * The Sweet Hereafter by Atom Egoyan

Gala Closing Night

 * Seven Years in Tibet by Jean-Jacques Annaud

Gala Presentations

 * The Apostle by Robert Duvall
 * Artemisia by Agnès Merlet
 * The Assignment by Christian Duguay
 * Chinese Box by Wayne Wang
 * The Edge by Lee Tamahori
 * Eve's Bayou by Kasi Lemmons
 * FairyTale: A True Story by Charles Sturridge
 * Gattaca by Andrew Niccol
 * In & Out by Frank Oz
 * L.A. Confidential by Curtis Hanson
 * Marquise by Véra Belmont
 * Men with Guns by John Sayles
 * Mrs Dalloway by Marleen Gorris
 * Regeneration by Gillies MacKinnon
 * Swept from the Sea by Beeban Kidron
 * Washington Square by Agnieszka Holland
 * The Wings of the Dove by Iain Softley

Special Presentations

 * Afterglow by Alan Rudolph
 * Le Bassin de J.W. by João César Monteiro
 * The Big One by Michael Moore
 * The Blackout by Abel Ferrara
 * The Blood Oranges by Philip Haas
 * Boogie Nights by Paul Thomas Anderson
 * Face by Antonia Bird
 * Fast, Cheap & Out of Control by Errol Morris
 * Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano
 * 4 Little Girls by Spike Lee
 * Henry Fool by Hal Hartley
 * The House of Yes by Mark Waters
 * The Informant by Jim McBride
 * Inspirations by Michael Apted
 * The Alarmist by Evan Dunsky
 * Loved by Erin Dignam
 * Mr. Jealousy by Noah Baumbach
 * My Best Girl by Sam Taylor
 * Nil by Mouth by Gary Oldman
 * One Night Stand by Mike Figgis
 * Pronto by Jim McBride
 * The Spanish Prisoner by David Mamet
 * Suicide Kings by Peter O'Fallon
 * The Tango Lesson by Sally Potter
 * Two Girls and a Guy by James Toback
 * Welcome to Sarajevo by Michael Winterbottom
 * Year of the Horse by Jim Jarmusch

Masters

 * Das Schloß by Michael Haneke
 * Iruvar by Mani Ratnam
 * Esmeralda Comes by Night by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
 * Funny Games by Michael Haneke
 * Voyage to the Beginning of the World by Manoel de Oliveira
 * Keep Cool by Zhang Yimou
 * Mon oncle Antoine by Claude Jutra
 * Moon Over Broadway by Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker
 * Mother and Son by Alexander Sokurov
 * The Scar by Krzysztof Kieślowski
 * The Eel by Shōhei Imamura

Perspective Canada

 * The Absent One by Céline Baril
 * Across by Cara Morton
 * Anna à la lettre C by Hugo Brochu
 * The Big Pickle by Gary Yates
 * bp: pushing the boundaries by Brian Nash
 * Breakfast with Gus by Siobhan Devine
 * Bury Me Happy by Brian McPhail
 * City of Dark by Bruno Lazaro
 * The Countess of Baton Rouge by André Forcier
 * Cosmos by Manon Briand, André Turpin, Marie-Julie Dallaire, Denis Villeneuve, Jennifer Alleyn, Arto Paragamian
 * Cotton Candy by Roshell Bissett
 * Cube by Vincenzo Natali
 * Dance with Me by Cassandra Nicolaou
 * Drive, She Said by Mina Shum
 * Drowning in Dreams by Tim Southam
 * Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality by Maya Gallus
 * Fresh Off the Boat by Peter Demas
 * Gerrie & Louise by Sturla Gunnarsson
 * Grace Eternal by Neil Burns
 * Guise by Wrik Mead
 * Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight by Noam Gonick
 * The Hanging Garden by Thom Fitzgerald
 * Hayseed by Josh Levy and Andrew Hayes
 * The Hazards of Falling Glass by John Martins-Manteiga
 * Incantation by Cara Morton
 * Kid Nerd by Shereen Jerrett
 * Kitchen Party by Gary Burns
 * Linear Dreams by Richard Reeves
 * The Mao Lounge by Chad Derrick
 * Men with Guns by Kari Skogland
 * Museum by Chris Walsh
 * 1919 by Noam Gonick
 * Permission by Daniel MacIvor
 * Pitch by Spencer Rice and Kenny Hotz
 * The Planet of Junior Brown by Clement Virgo
 * Question of Reality by Barry Gibson
 * The Seat of the Soul by Olivier Asselin
 * Shift by Shaun Cathcart
 * Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas by Ali Kazimi
 * Shopping for Fangs by Quentin Lee, Justin Lin
 * The Skating Party by Marcia Connolly, Janet Hawkwood
 * The Swimming Lesson by Sheri Elwood
 * Tu as crié: Let me go by Anne Claire Poirier
 * Twilight of the Ice Nymphs by Guy Maddin
 * Two Feet, One Angel by Ramiro Puerta
 * Uncut by John Greyson
 * La vie arrêtée by Martine Allard
 * We Are Experiencing... by John Kneller
 * What Goes Around by Lloyd Surdi
 * White Cloud, Blue Mountain by Keith Behrman
 * Zie 37 Stagen by Sylvain Guy

Contemporary World Cinema

 * The Assistant by Daniel Petrie
 * Bird Watching by Shinobu Yaguchi
 * Blinded by Daniel Calparsoro
 * Brain Holiday by Hineki Mito
 * Brother by Aleksei Balabanov
 * Love, Math and Sex by Charlotte Silvera
 * Character by Mike van Diem
 * Clandestins by Denis Chouinard, Nicolas Wadimoff
 * Close To by David Ottenhouse
 * Conceiving Ada by Lynn Hershman Leeson
 * Delirium by Peque Gallaga, Lore Reyes
 * Devil's Island by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
 * Doing Time for Patsy Cline by Chris Kennedy
 * East Palace, West Palace by Zhang Yuan
 * Four Days in September by Bruno Barreto
 * A Friend of the Deceased by Viatcheslav Krichtofovitch, Leonid Boyko
 * Un frère... by Sylvie Verheyde
 * The Girl with Brains in Her Feet by Roberto Bangura
 * Gummo by Harmony Korine
 * Hanoi-Winter 1946 by Đặng Nhật Minh
 * Happy Together by Wong Kar-wai
 * Heaven's Burning by Craig Lahiff
 * Homesick Eyes by Hsu Hsiao-ming
 * I Think I Do by Brian Sloan
 * Silvester Countdown by Oskar Roehler
 * Inside/Out by Robert Tregenza
 * Insomnia by Erik Skjoldbjærg
 * The James Gang by Mike Barker
 * Junk Food by Masashi Yamamoto
 * Junk Mail by Pål Sletaune
 * Keep the Aspidistra Flying by Robert Bierman
 * Kiss or Kill by Bill Bennett
 * Labyrinth of Dreams by Gakuryū Ishii
 * The Leading Hand by Masahiro Muramatsu
 * Long Twilight by Attila Janisch
 * Love and Death on Long Island by Richard Kwietniowski
 * Ma vie en rose by Alain Berliner
 * Majorettes in Space by David Fourier
 * The Maker by Tim Hunter
 * The Man in Her Life by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
 * Marius and Jeannette by Robert Guédiguian
 * Metroland by Philip Saville
 * The Mirror by Jafar Panahi
 * Misfortune's End by Vu Xuan Hung
 * Murmur of Youth by Lin Cheng-sheng
 * The Myth of Fingerprints by Bart Freundlich
 * Nettoyage à sec by Anne Fontaine
 * No Child of Mine by Peter Kosminsky
 * Obsession by Peter Sehr
 * Okke-ke Bibirobos by Takuji Suzuki
 * Onibi by Rokurō Mochizuki
 * Our Boy by David Evans
 * The Oyster and the Wind by Walter Lima, Jr.
 * Ashes of Paradise by Marcelo Piñeyro
 * Passage by Juraj Herz
 * Port Djema by Eric Heumann
 * After Sex by Brigitte Roüan
 * Private Confessions by Liv Ullmann
 * Rizal sa Dapitan by Tikoy Aguiluz
 * The Rocking Horse Winner by Michael Almereyda
 * The Soong Sisters by Mabel Cheung
 * Stolen Moments by Oscar Barney Finn
 * Sue Lost in Manhattan by Amos Kollek
 * Suzaku by Naomi Kawase
 * Telling Lies in America by Guy Ferland
 * Their Last Love Affair by Lee Myung-se
 * They Call Me Joy by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
 * Thirteen by David D. Williams
 * Touch Me by H. Gordon Boos
 * Touch Me Not by Dimitrios Yatzouzakis
 * La Vérité si je mens ! by Thomas Gilou
 * Vertical Love by Arturo Sotto Díaz
 * La Vie de Jésus by Bruno Dumont
 * Le voleur de diagonale by Jean Darrigol
 * We All Fall Down by Davide Ferrario
 * Western by Manuel Poirier
 * Winter Sleepers by Tom Tykwer
 * The Witman Boys by János Szász
 * Wolves Cry Under the Moon by Ho Ping
 * Yours and Mine by Wang Shaudi

Discovery

 * Bandits by Katja von Garnier
 * Belly Up by Beto Brant
 * Clockwatchers by Jill Sprecher
 * First Love, Last Rites by Jesse Peretz
 * Guilt Free by Marcel Sisniega Campbell
 * The Impostor by Alejandro Maci
 * In Praise of Older Women by Manuel Lombardero
 * Life According to Muriel by Eduardo Milewicz
 * The Life of Stuff by Simon Donald
 * Lover Girl by Lisa Addario, Joe Syracuse
 * Marie Baie des Anges by Manuel Pradal
 * Martha's Garden by Peter Liechti
 * Perfumed Ball by Lírio Ferreira, Paulo Caldas
 * Scars by James Herbert
 * Somersault in a Coffin by Derviş Zaim
 * The Sticky Fingers of Time by Hilary Brougher
 * Stone, Scissors, Paper by Stephen Whittaker
 * Traveler from the South by Parviz Shahbazi
 * Twenty Four Seven by Shane Meadows
 * Under the Skin by Carine Adler
 * Unmade Beds by Nicholas Barker
 * Who the Hell Is Juliette? by Carlos Marcovich
 * Words of Wisdom by Susanna Fogel

Planet Africa

 * Breeze by Barbara Sanon
 * Buud Yam by Gaston Kaboré
 * The Draughtsmen Clash by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
 * Dancehall Queen by Don Letts, Rick Elgood
 * Destiny by Youssef Chahine
 * Fools by Ramadan Suleman
 * Hav Plenty by Christopher Scott Cherot
 * Honey and Ashes by Nadia Farès
 * Martin Luther King: Days of Hope by John Akomfrah
 * Mossane by Safi Faye
 * Sabriya by Abderrahmane Sissako
 * Taafé Fanga by Adama Drabo
 * Through the Door of No Return by Shirikiana Aina
 * To Be a Black Man by Nelson George

Real to Reel

 * Best Man: 'Best Boy' and All of Us Twenty Years Later by Ira Wohl
 * Chile, Obstinate Memory by Patricio Guzmán
 * HHH - Un portrait de Hou Hsiao-Hsien by Olivier Assayas
 * Didn't Do It for Love by Monika Treut
 * Exile in Sarajevo by Tahir Cambis, Alma Sahbaz
 * Exile Shanghai by Ulrike Ottinger
 * From Son to Salsa by Rigoberto López
 * Full Tilt Boogie by Sarah Kelly
 * Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember by Anna Maria Tatò
 * My House Is on Fire by Ariel Dorfman, Rodrigo Dorfman
 * As Time Goes By by Ann Hui, Vincent Chui
 * Still Love You After All These by Stanley Kwan
 * Robinson in Space by Patrick Keiller

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

 * Detour by Edgar G. Ulmer, presented by Errol Morris
 * The Devil-Doll by Tod Browning, presented by Guy Maddin
 * Dont Look Back by D. A. Pennebaker, presented by Chris Hegedus
 * F for Fake by Orson Welles, presented by James Toback
 * The Fireman's Ball by Miloš Forman, presented by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
 * Les Girls by George Cukor, presented by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
 * One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Miloš Forman, presented by Chow Yun-fat
 * The Organizer by Mario Monicelli, presented by John Sayles
 * A Matter of Life and Death by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, presented by Sally Potter

Balkan Cinema: Home Truths

 * Across the Lake by Antonio Mitrikeski
 * The Awkward Age by Nenad Dizdarević
 * Belated Full Moon by Eduard Zahariev
 * The Days on Earth Are Flowing by Goran Paskaljević
 * The End of the War by Dragan Kresoja
 * An Unforgettable Summer by Lucian Pintilie
 * Felix by Božo Šprajc
 * The Goat Horn by Metodi Andonov
 * How the War Started on My Island by Vinko Brešan
 * The Perfect Circle by Ademir Kenović
 * Petria's Wreath by Srđan Karanović
 * Pretty Village, Pretty Flame by Srđan Dragojević
 * Thalassa, Thalassa by Bogdan Dumitrescu
 * Tired Companions by Zoran Solomun
 * Tito and Me by Goran Marković
 * Underground by Emir Kusturica
 * Vukovar Poste Restante by Boro Drašković
 * Who's Singin' Over There? by Slobodan Šijan
 * W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism by Dušan Makavejev

Spotlight: Benoît Jacquot

 * The Musician Killer
 * Corps et biens
 * La désenchantée
 * A Single Girl
 * Marianne
 * Seventh Heaven

Nathan Phillips Square Outdoor Screening

 * Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Howard Hawks

Midnight Madness

 * A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation by Andrew Chan
 * Fudoh: The New Generation by Takashi Miike
 * I Married a Strange Person! by Bill Plympton
 * Love God by Frank Grow
 * Office Killer by Cindy Sherman
 * Orgazmo by Trey Parker
 * SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist by Kirby Dick
 * The Ugly by Scott Reynolds