1998 Toronto International Film Festival

The 23rd Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 10 to September 19, 1998. A total of 311 films were screened during the ten-day festival, commencing with the opening gala, The Red Violin.

Gala Opening Night

 * The Red Violin by François Girard

Gala Closing Night

 * Antz by Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson

Gala Presentations

 * August 32nd on Earth by Denis Villeneuve
 * Central Station by Walter Salles
 * Dancing at Lughnasa by Pat O'Connor
 * Dog Park by Bruce McCulloch
 * Elizabeth by Shekhar Kapur
 * Hilary and Jackie by Anand Tucker
 * Judas Kiss by Sebastian Gutierrez
 * The School of Flesh by Benoît Jacquot
 * L.A. Without a Map by Mika Kaurismäki
 * Lautrec by Roger Planchon
 * Little Voice by Mark Herman
 * Living Out Loud by Richard LaGravenese
 * Pleasantville by Gary Ross
 * A Simple Plan by Sam Raimi
 * A Soldier's Sweetheart by Thomas Michael Donnelly
 * Without Limits by Robert Towne

Special Presentations

 * The Way We Laughed by Gianni Amelio
 * Am I Beautiful? by Doris Dörrie
 * Another Day in Paradise by Larry Clark
 * Apt Pupil by Bryan Singer
 * At Sachem Farm by John Huddles
 * Down in the Delta by Maya Angelou
 * Earth by Deepa Mehta
 * Finding Graceland by David Winkler
 * Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni
 * Pecker by John Waters
 * Permanent Midnight by David Veloz
 * Rushmore by Wes Anderson
 * A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries by James Ivory
 * Such a Long Journey by Sturla Gunnarsson
 * Summer of the Monkeys by Michael Anderson
 * The Giraffe by Dani Levy
 * The Mighty by Peter Chelsom
 * The Theory of Flight by Paul Greengrass
 * Touch of Evil by Orson Welles
 * Voleur de vie by Yves Angelo
 * Wide Prairie by Oscar Grillo

Masters

 * Besieged by Bernardo Bertolucci
 * Aprile by Nanni Moretti
 * Clouds by Fernando E. Solanas
 * Conte d'automne by Éric Rohmer
 * Divine by Arturo Ripstein
 * Dr. Akagi by Shōhei Imamura
 * Eternity and a Day by Theo Angelopoulos
 * Flowers of Shanghai by Hou Hsiao-hsien
 * The General by John Boorman
 * Anxiety by Manoel de Oliveira
 * My Name Is Joe by Ken Loach
 * Cabaret Balkan by Goran Paskaljević
 * The Silence by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
 * Tango by Carlos Saura
 * Tu Ridi by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

Perspective Canada

 * 2 secondes by Manon Briand
 * L'Amour L'Amour Shut the Door Por Favor by Valerie Buhagiar
 * Angel Walk by Mitchell Gabourie
 * Beauty Crowds Me by Julie Trimingham
 * Boy Meets Girl by Jerry Ciccoritti
 * Brakhage by Jim Shedden
 * Bridal Path by Cynthia Roberts
 * Clutch by Chris Grismer
 * Cold Feet by James Allodi
 * Crickets by Jane Eun-Hee Kim
 * Cupid by Wrik Mead
 * Les Dames du 9 by Catherine Martin
 * Death Threat by Zarqa Nawaz
 * Destroying Angel by Wayne Salazar, Philip Hoffman
 * Dirty by Bruce Sweeney
 * Echoes in the Rink: The Willie O'Ree Story by Errol Williams
 * Elimination Dance by Bruce McDonald
 * Elysian Fields by Leonardo Salvo
 * Eve-Olve! by Sandra Law
 * Extraordinary Visitor by John W. Doyle
 * The Falling by Raul Sanchez Inglis
 * Faultlines by Gary Popovich
 * Fish Bait by Anthony Seck
 * The Fisherman and His Wife by Jochen Schliessler
 * The Fishing Trip by Amnon Buchbinder
 * From Morning on I Waited Yesterday by Wiebke von Carolsfeld
 * God Comes as a Child by Jeremiah Hayes
 * Great Expectations (Not What You're Thinking) by Ann Marie Fleming
 * Harlan and Fiona by Gary Yates
 * The Herd by Peter Lynch
 * Hustle My Crush by Heidi Gerber
 * In the Future by Mike Hoolboom
 * Jack and Jill by John Kalangis
 * John Scott - Art & Justice by Michael McNamara
 * The Last Split Second by Judith Doyle
 * Last Night by Don McKellar
 * Leda and the Swan by Alexandra Gill
 * Le Lépidoptère by Chloë Mercier
 * Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles by Jennifer Baichwal
 * Mr. Aiello (La Déroute) by Paul Tana
 * Michel in the Suête by Neal Livingston
 * Moving Day by Chris Deacon
 * Nô by Robert Lepage
 * Now or Never (Aujourd'hui ou jamais) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
 * Phil Touches Flo by David Birdsell
 * A Place Called Chiapas by Nettie Wild
 * Rain, Drizzle and Fog by Rosemary House
 * Reaction Stick by John May
 * The Rogers' Cable by Jennifer Kierans
 * Rupert's Land by Jonathan Tammuz
 * Shoes Off! by Mark Sawers
 * Shrink by Tim Hamilton
 * The Sickroom by Serge Marcotte
 * Sploosh by Nathan Garfinkel
 * Streetheart (Le cœur au poing) by Charles Binamé
 * Le Succédané by Nicolas Frichot
 * Sway by Paul Carrière
 * Swell by Carolynne Hew
 * Under Chad Valley by Jeff Erbach
 * Until I Hear From You by Daniel MacIvor
 * When I Will Be Gone (L'Âge de braise) by Jacques Leduc
 * When Ponds Freeze Over by Mary Lewis

Contemporary World Cinema

 * À Vendre by Laetitia Masson
 * All the Little Animals by Jeremy Thomas
 * Bishonen by Yonfan
 * Bedrooms and Hallways by Rose Troche
 * The Book Of Life by Hal Hartley
 * Buttoners by Petr Zelenka
 * Caresses by Ventura Pons
 * The Celebration by Thomas Vinterberg
 * Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train by Patrice Chéreau
 * Christmas in August by Hur Jin-ho
 * The City by David Riker
 * Claire Dolan by Lodge Kerrigan
 * Clay Pigeons by David Dobkin
 * Curacha - A Woman Without Rest by Chito S. Roño
 * The Dance by Ágúst Guðmundsson
 * Dance of Dust by Abolfazl Jalili
 * Delivery of a Nation by Momir Matovic
 * Desert Blue by Morgan J. Freeman
 * Le Dîner de Cons by Francis Veber
 * F. est un salaud by Marcel Gisler
 * Fated Vocation by Nguyen Vu Chau
 * Fin août, début septembre by Olivier Assayas
 * Fiona by Amos Kollek
 * Fire-Eater by Pirjo Honkasalo
 * Full Moon Den by Karen Shakhnazarov
 * Gangland by Peque Gallaga, Lore Reyes
 * Happiness by Todd Solondz
 * Home Fries by Dean Parisot
 * The Hole by Tsai Ming-liang
 * I'm Losing You by Bruce Wagner
 * The Impostors by Stanley Tucci
 * In That Land by Lidia Bobrova
 * In the Navel of the Sea by Marilou Diaz-Abaya
 * Island, Alicia by Ken Yunome
 * The Inheritors by Stefan Ruzowitzky
 * J'Aimerais Pas Crever Un Dimanche by Didier Le Pêcheur
 * Jeanne Et Le Garçon Formidable by Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
 * Jerry and Tom by Saul Rubinek
 * Just One Time by Lane Janger
 * The Last Contract by Kjell Sundvall
 * Little Thieves, Big Thieves by Alejandro Saderman
 * Little Tropikana by Daniel Díaz Torres
 * Love Go Go by Chen Yu-hsun
 * Love Is the Devil by John Maybury
 * The Lovers of the Arctic Circle by Julio Médem
 * Lucia by Don Boyd
 * Luminous Motion by Bette Gordon
 * The Man with Rain in His Shoes by María Ripoll
 * Midnight by Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas
 * Motel Erotica by Ho Ping
 * My Rice Noodle Shop by Yang Xie
 * Night Train by John Lynch
 * No Support by Rene Castillo Rivera, Antonio Urrutia
 * Notes of Love by Mimmo Calopresti
 * Our Troubles Will Soon Be Over by Jorge Ramírez-Suárez
 * Passion by György Fehér
 * The Patriot by Paulo Thiago
 * The Poet by Casey L.Y. Chan
 * Rehearsal For War by Mario Martone
 * The Rose Seller by Víctor Gaviria
 * Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer
 * Seul Contre Tous by Gaspar Noé
 * Shattered Image by Raúl Ruiz
 * Snow by Eric Tretbar
 * Spanish Fly by Daphna Kastner
 * The Stolen Years by Fernando Colomo
 * Sweet Degeneration by Lin Cheng-sheng
 * This Is My Father by Paul Quinn
 * Three by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
 * Thursday by Skip Woods
 * Titanic Town by Roger Michell
 * Traffic by João Botelho
 * Trance by Michael Almereyda
 * Un Grand Cri D'amour by Josiane Balasko
 * Under A Spell by Carlos Carrera
 * Very Bad Things by Peter Berg
 * La Vie Rêvée Des Anges by Erick Zonca
 * Vigo by Julien Temple
 * Waking Ned Devine by Kirk Jones
 * Water Easy Reach by Bent Hamer
 * What Farocki Taught by Jill Godmilow
 * When Love Comes by Garth Maxwell
 * Where the Heart Is (À la place du cœur) by Robert Guédiguian
 * The Wounds by Srdjan Dragojevic

Discovery

 * The Apple by Samira Makhmalbaf
 * 23 by Hans-Christian Schmid
 * The Adopted Son by Aktan Abdikalikov
 * The Adventures of Sebastian Cole by Tod Williams
 * Bombay Boys by Kaizad Gustad
 * Broken Vessels by Scott Ziehl
 * Following by Christopher Nolan
 * Georgica by Sulev Keedus
 * Get Real by Simon Shore
 * Getting Off by Julie A. Lynch
 * Hair Shirt by Dean Paras
 * Hell's Kitchen by Tony Cinciripini
 * In the Winter Dark by James Bogle
 * Kenoma by Eliane Caffé
 * L'arrière Pays by Jacques Nolot
 * Long Time Since by Jay Anania
 * Mensaka by Salvador García Ruiz
 * The Pianist by Mario Gas
 * Porkkaalam by Cheran
 * Praise by John Curran
 * Radiance by Rachel Perkins
 * Rosie: The Devil In My Head by Patrice Toye
 * The Shoe by Laila Pakalniņa
 * The Sleepwalker by Fernando Spiner
 * Sombre by Philippe Grandrieux
 * Sweety Barrett by Stephen Bradley
 * The Terrorist by Santosh Sivan
 * Trans by Julian L. Goldberger
 * Une Minute De Silence by Florent Emilio Siri
 * West Beirut by Ziad Doueiri
 * Windhorse by Paul Wagner

Planet Africa

 * Ainsi Soit Il So Be It by Joseph Gaye Ramaka
 * Babymother by Julian Henriques
 * Bent Familia by Nouri Bouzid
 * Corps Plongés by Raoul Peck
 * Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland by Charles Burnett
 * La Vie Sur Terre by Abderrahmane Sissako
 * L'Onzième Commandement by Mama Keïta
 * Mixing Nia by Alison Swan
 * On The Edge by Newton I. Aduaka
 * Pièces D'indentités by Mwezé Ngangura
 * Secrets by Sheryl Lee Ralph
 * Silmande Tourbillon by S. Pierre Yameogo
 * Slam by Marc Levin
 * Souko Camera Box by Issiaka Konaté
 * Speak Like A Child by John Akomfrah
 * Take Your Bags by Camille Billops

Real to Reel

 * Angel On My Shoulder by Donna Deitch
 * The Cruise by Bennett Miller
 * Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance by Kevin Macdonald, Chris Rodley
 * The Filmmaker Of The Amazon by Aurélio Michiles
 * Fragments*Jerusalem by Ron Havilio
 * God Said, "Ha!" by Julia Sweeney
 * Megacities by Michael Glawogger
 * Richard Lester! by Stacy Cochran
 * State of Dogs by Peter Brosens, Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

 * Gone with the Wind by Victor Fleming
 * Boom! by Joseph Losey
 * Charulata by Satyajit Ray
 * Forty Guns by Samuel Fuller
 * The Four Feathers by Zoltan Korda
 * The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
 * Nazarín by Luis Buñuel
 * Othello by Orson Welles

New Beat of Japan

 * After Life by Hirokazu Kore-Eda
 * April Story by Shunji Iwai
 * Battles Without Honor and Humanity by Kinji Fukasaku
 * Beautiful Sunday by Tetsuya Nakashima
 * Bullet Ballet by Shinya Tsukamoto
 * Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
 * Detective Riko by Satoshi Isaka
 * Hadashi no pikunikku by Shinobu Yaguchi
 * The Goofball by Junji Sakamoto
 * Happy Go Lucky by Tetsuya Nakashima
 * Ikinai by Hiroshi Shimizu
 * Kichiku by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
 * Muscle Influenza by Keiji Ichikawa, Ken Arima
 * Paradise Sea by Koji Hagiuda
 * Ping Pong Bath Station by Gen Yamakawa
 * Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl by Katsuhito Ishii
 * Sunday Drive by Hisashi Saito
 * Unlucky Monkey by Sabu
 * Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald by Kōki Mitani

Spotlight: Darezhan Omirbaev

 * Cardiogram by Darezhan Omirbaev
 * July by Darezhan Omirbaev
 * Kairat by Darezhan Omirbaev
 * Killer by Darezhan Omirbaev
 * Life by Darezhan Omirbaev

Canadian Film Centre at 10

 * Blood & Donuts by Holly Dale
 * Dead Meat by Holly Dale
 * The Feeler by Colleen Murphy
 * House by Laurie Lynd
 * The Making of Monsters by John Greyson
 * Save My Lost Nigga Soul by Clement Virgo
 * Shoemaker by Colleen Murphy
 * Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould by François Girard
 * Zero Patience by John Greyson

Canadian Open Vault

 * Goin' Down the Road by Donald Shebib

Midnight Madness

 * The Acid House by Paul McGuigan
 * The Bystander From Hell by Matthew Harrison
 * Cascadeur - The Amber Chamber by Hardy Martins
 * Hang the DJ by Marco La Villa, Mauro La Villa
 * Heaven by Scott Reynolds
 * I Woke Up Early The Day I Died by Arlis Iliopulos
 * Mighty Peking Man by Ho Meng Hua
 * Night Time (film) by Peter Fratzscher
 * Perdita Durango by Álex de la Iglesia
 * Six-String Samurai by Lance Mungia