1999 Toronto International Film Festival

The 24th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 9 to September 18, 1999. The festival opened with Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey and closed with Onegin by Martha Fiennes. A total of 318 films were screened in the 13 programmes.

Gala Opening Night

 * Felicia's Journey by Atom Egoyan

Gala Closing Night

 * Onegin by Martha Fiennes

Gala Presentations

 * American Beauty by Sam Mendes
 * Anywhere But Here by Wayne Wang
 * The Cider House Rules by Lasse Hallstrom
 * Est-ouest by Regis Wargnier
 * Jakob the Liar by Peter Kassovitz
 * Love in the Mirror (Amor nello specchio) by Salvatore Maira
 * Me Myself I by Pip Karmel
 * Mumford by Lawrence Kasdan
 * Music of the Heart by Wes Craven
 * La niña de tus ojos by Fernando Trueba
 * Orfeu by Carlos Diegues
 * Ride with the Devil by Ang Lee
 * Simpatico by Matthew Warchus
 * Snow Falling on Cedars by Scott Hicks
 * Sunshine by István Szabó
 * Sweet and Lowdown by Woody Allen

Special Presentations

 * Children of the Century by Diane Kurys
 * All the Rage by James D. Stern
 * Annaluise & Anton by Caroline Link
 * The Best Man by Malcolm D. Lee
 * The Big Kahuna by John Swanbeck
 * Black and White by James Toback
 * Breakfast of Champions by Alan Rudolph
 * Dogma by Kevin Smith
 * Forever Mine by Paul Schrader
 * Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai by Jim Jarmusch
 * Grass by Ron Mann
 * Gregory's Two Girls by Bill Forsyth
 * History is Made at Night by Ilkka Jarvilaturi
 * The Hurricane by Norman Jewison
 * Joe the King by Frank Whaley
 * Une liaison pornographique by Frederic Fonteyne
 * The Limey by Steven Soderbergh
 * The Luck of Ginger Coffey by Irvin Kershner
 * Mansfield Park by Patricia Rozema
 * A Map of the World by Scott Elliott
 * Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. by Errol Morris
 * Pas de scandale by Benoît Jacquot
 * Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki
 * The Third Miracle by Agnieszka Holland
 * To Walk with Lions by Carl Schultz
 * Tumbleweeds by Gavin O'Connor
 * Wayward Son by Randall Harris
 * Women Talking Dirty by Coky Giedroyc
 * Wonderland by Michael Winterbottom

Masters

 * 8½ Women by Peter Greenaway
 * L'Autre by Youssef Chahine
 * The Emperor and the Assassin by Chen Kaige
 * Goya in Bordeaux by Carlos Saura
 * Juha by Aki Kaurismäki
 * Kikujiro by Takeshi Kitano
 * The Legend of 1900 by Giuseppe Tornatore
 * La lettre by Manoel de Oliveira
 * Moloch by Alexandr Sokurov
 * Molokai: The Story of Father Damien by Paul Cox
 * No One Writes to the Colonel by Arturo Ripstein
 * The Wet-Nurse by Marco Bellocchio
 * The Wind Will Carry Us by Abbas Kiarostami

Perspective Canada

 * Babette's Feet by Harry Killas
 * Below the Belt by Laurie Colbert and Dominique Cardona
 * The Big Snake of the World (Le Grand serpent du monde) by Yves Dion
 * By This Parting by Mieko Ouchi
 * La Casa del Nonno by Lisa Sfriso
 * Discharge (Décharge) by Patrick Demers
 * Don't Think Twice by Sarah Polley
 * Dreamtrips by Kal Ng
 * Ecstasy by Mark Wihak
 * Eva Meets Felix by Heidi B. Gerber
 * Exhuming Tyler by Merlin Dervisevic
 * Fit by David Christensen
 * The Five Senses by Jeremy Podeswa
 * Fly by Jigar Talati
 * Four Days by Curtis Wehrfritz
 * Fries with That by Christopher McKay
 * Frog Pond by Bradley Walsh
 * Full Blast by Rodrigue Jean
 * A Girl is a Girl by Reginald Harkema
 * Here am I by Joshua Dorsey and Douglas Naimer
 * Hi, I'm Steve by Robert Kennedy
 * Je te salue by Hugo Brochu
 * Johnny by Carl Bessai
 * Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the 70's Generation by Catherine Annau
 * Karaoke by Stéphane Lafleur
 * Kokoro is for Heart by Philip Hoffman
 * The Life Before This by Jerry Ciccoritti
 * The Long Winter (Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore) by Michel Brault
 * Memories Unlocked (Souvenirs intimes) by Jean Beaudin
 * Mothers of Me by Alexandra Grimanis
 * My Father's Angel by Davor Marjanovic
 * My Father's Hands by David Sutherland
 * New Waterford Girl by Allan Moyle
 * The Offering by Paul Lee
 * Pamplemousse by Tink
 * Quiver by Scott Beveridge
 * Remembrance Dance by Chris Gilpin
 * Rollercoaster by Scott Smith
 * Sea Song by Richard Reeves
 * Second Date by James Genn
 * Set Me Free (Emporte-moi) by Léa Pool
 * So Beautiful by Jacob Wren
 * Soul Cages by Phillip Barker
 * Sparklehorse by Gariné Torossian
 * Subterranean Passage by Michael Crochetière
 * Switch by Hope Thompson
 * Top of the Food Chain by John Paizs
 * Tops & Bottoms: Sex, Power and Sadomasochism by Cristine Richey
 * Touched by Mort Ransen
 * Toy Soldiers by Jackie May
 * Tuba Girl by Michèle Muzzi
 * Undertow by Sarah Bachinski
 * Wedding Knives by Johanna Mercer
 * When the Day Breaks by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
 * Where Lies the Homo? by Jean-François Monette
 * Zyklon Portrait by Elida Schogt

Contemporary World Cinema

 * 1999 Madeleine by Laurent Bouhnik
 * Adrenaline Drive by Shinobu Yaguchi
 * After the Truth by Roland Suso Richter
 * Criminal Lovers by François Ozon
 * Andares in Time of War by Alejandra Jimenez Lopez
 * The Annihilation of Fish by Charles Burnett
 * Augustin, roi du Kung-fu by Anne Fontaine
 * Away with Words by Christopher Doyle
 * Beau travail by Claire Denis
 * Beautiful People by Jasmin Dizdar
 * The Big Brass Ring by George Hickenlooper
 * Le bleu des villes by Stephane Brize
 * Boys Don't Cry by Kimberly Peirce
 * Buddy Boy by Mark Hanlon
 * Bullets Over Summer by Wilson Yip
 * Burlesk King by Mel Chionglo
 * C'est quoi la vie? by François Dupeyron
 * Caravan by Eric Valli
 * The Color of Heaven by Majid Majidi
 * Les convoyeurs attendent by Benoit Mariage
 * Crane World by Pablo Trapero
 * The Cup by Khyentse Norbu
 * Dancing with Hydra by Takuji Suzuki
 * Darkness and Light by Chang Tso-chi
 * Un derangement considerable by Bernard Stora
 * Deterrence by Rod Lurie
 * East is East by Damien O'Donnell
 * Enthusiasm by Ricardo Larrain
 * Feeling Sexy by Davida Allen
 * From the Edge of the City by Constantinos Giannaris
 * Garage Olimpo by Marco Bechis
 * Gemini by Shinya Tsukamoto
 * Guinevere by Audrey Wells
 * Hans Warns – My 20th Century by Gordian Maugg
 * Happy, Texas by Mark Illsley
 * Harem Suare by Ferzan Özpetek
 * High Expectations by Evi Quaid
 * L'humanite by Bruno Dumont
 * Jesus' Son by Alison Maclean
 * Journey to the Sun by Yeşim Ustaoğlu
 * Judy Berlin by Eric Mendelsohn
 * julien donkey-boy by Harmony Korine
 * Kadosh by Amos Gitaï
 * The Last September by Deborah Warner
 * Lies by Jang Sun-woo
 * Luna Papa by Bakhityar Khudojnazarov
 * M/Other by Nobuhiro Suwa
 * Malli by Santosh Sivan
 * The Man-Eater by Aurelio Grimaldi
 * March of Happiness by Lin Cheng-Sheng
 * Mifune – Dogme 3 by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
 * Miss Julie by Mike Figgis
 * Nightfall (1999 German film) by Fred Kelemen
 * One Piece! by Shinobu Yaguchi and Takuji Suzuki
 * Peau neuve by Emilie Deleuze
 * The Personals by Chen Kuo-fu
 * Le petit voleur by Eric Zonca
 * Ratcatcher by Lynne Ramsay
 * Revenge by Andrés Wood
 * Rien a faire by Marion Vernoux
 * Romance by Catherine Breillat
 * A Room for Romeo Brass by Shane Meadows
 * Rosetta by Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
 * Show Me Love by Lukas Moodysson
 * Shower by Zhang Yang
 * Simon, The Magician by Ildiko Enyedi
 * So Close to Paradise by Wang Xiaoshuai
 * Soft Hearts by Joel Lamangan and Eric Quizon
 * Speedy Boys by James Herbert
 * Splendor by Gregg Araki
 * Split Wide Open by Dev Benegal
 * Sunburn by Nelson Hume
 * Tempting Heart by Sylvia Chang
 * Throne of Death by Murali Nair
 * Time Out by Sergio Cabrera
 * A Time to Love by Giacomo Campiotti
 * Two Streams by Carlos Reichenbach
 * Urban Feel by Jonathan Sagall
 * The Virgin by Diego Donnhofer
 * The War Zone by Tim Roth
 * Yesterday Children by Carlos Siguion-Reyna

Discovery

 * 30 Days by Aaron Harnick
 * Bloody Angels by Karin Julsrud
 * But Forever in My Mind by Gabriele Muccino
 * But I'm a Cheerleader by Jamie Babbit
 * Civilisees by Randa Chahal
 * The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion by Lav Diaz
 * Envy by Julie Money
 * Freak Weather by Mary Kuryla
 * Girls' Night Out by Im Sang-soo
 * A Glass of Rage by Aluízio Abranches
 * Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish by Kevin Jordan
 * Guts by Ron Termaat
 * Hidden River by Mercedes García Guevara
 * Human Traffic by Justin Kerrigan
 * I Could Read the Sky by Nichola Bruce
 * Idle Running by Janez Burger
 * Janice Beard: 45 WPM by Clare Kilner
 * The Joys of Smoking by Nick Katsapetses
 * The Junction by Urszula Urbaniak
 * Just One Time by Lane Janger
 * Kill by Inches by Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur Flam
 * Moonlight Whispers by Akihiko Shiota
 * Mr. I and Mrs. O by Valentina Leduc
 * Northern Skirts by Barbara Albert
 * Pictures and Butterfly by Yanko Del Pino
 * Return of the Idiot by Saša Gedeon
 * Rodents by Sebastián Cordero
 * Shadows in the Dark by Pankaj Butalia
 * Spring Forward by Tom Gilroy
 * This Year's Love by David Kane
 * Under California – The Limit of Time by Carlos Bolado
 * The Wall by Sergio Arau
 * Wheels by Djordje Milosavljevic
 * Yana's Friends by Arik Kaplun

Planet Africa

 * After the Rain by Ross Kettle
 * Chef! by Jean-Marie Teno
 * Compensation by Zeinabu irene Davis
 * Cry Me a Baby by Tamsin MacCarthy
 * La genèse by Cheick Oumar Sissoko
 * Harlem Aria by William Jennings
 * Hot-Irons by Andrew Dosunmu
 * Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 by Yvonne Welbon
 * Love and Action In Chicago by Dwayne Johnson-Cochran
 * Olivia's Story by Charles Burnett
 * La petite vendeuse de soleil by Djibril Diop Mambety
 * Portrait of a Young Man Drowning by Teboho Mahlatsi
 * Rage by Newton I. Aduaka
 * Rituals by Carol Mayes
 * Third World Cop by Chris Browne

Real to Reel

 * American Movie by Chris Smith
 * Barenaked in America by Jason Priestley
 * Berlin-Cinema (Titre Provisoire) by Samira Gloor-Fadel
 * Bread Day by Sergei Dvortsevoy
 * Coven by Mark Borchardt
 * Crazy English by Zhang Yuan
 * Highway by Sergei Dvortsevoy
 * Homo Sapiens 1900 by Peter Cohen
 * The Humiliated by Jesper Jargil
 * If You Only Understood by Rolando Diaz
 * Jam Session by Makoto Shinozaki
 * The Jaundiced Eye by Nonny de la Pena
 * Juan, I Forgot I Don't Remember by Juan Carlos Rulfo
 * The Making of a New Empire by Jos de Putter
 * Me & Isaac Newton by Michael Apted
 * My Best Fiend by Werner Herzog
 * Negative Space by Chris Petit
 * Pripyat by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
 * Shadow Boxers by Katya Bankowsky
 * The Specialist by Eyal Sivan
 * Sud by Chantal Akerman
 * Three by Issac Julien
 * Work and Progress by Vivian Ostrovsky and Yann Beauvais

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

 * The Awful Truth by Leo McCarey
 * Elephant by Alan Clarke
 * Hiroshima 28 by Patrick Lung Kong
 * Persona by Ingmar Bergman
 * Shadows by John Cassavetes
 * The Tales of Hoffmann by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
 * Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Michael Fengler
 * Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa

Indiscreet Charms: New Spanish Cinema

 * Solas by Benito Zambrano
 * Beloved/Friend by Ventura Pons
 * Between Your Legs by Manuel Gomez Pereira
 * Do You Really Wanna Know? by Jurdao Faemino, Blanco Faemino, Javier Jurdao and Pedro Blanco
 * Dying of Laughter by Álex de la Iglesia
 * Fading Memories by Enrique Gabriel
 * Flesh by Begona Vicario
 * Flowers from Another World by Icíar Bollaín
 * Frivolinas by Arturo Carballo
 * Golden Whore by Miquel Crespi
 * Havana Quartet by Fernando Colomo
 * Jealousy by Vicente Aranda
 * Lisbon by Antonio Hernández
 * The Mole and the Fairy by Grojo
 * Rapture by Iván Zulueta
 * Roulette by Roberto Santiago
 * Washington Wolves by Mariano Barroso

Spotlight: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

 * Barren Illusion by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
 * Charisma by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
 * Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
 * The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
 * Eyes of the Spider by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
 * License to Live by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
 * Serpent's Path by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Tribute: The Story of David Overbey

 * A Better Tomorrow by John Woo
 * Beyond Gravity by Garth Maxwell
 * Carne by Gaspar Noé
 * Distant Voices, Still Lives by Terence Davies
 * Dust in the Wind by Hou Hsiao-hsien
 * Insiang by Lino Brocka
 * Killer of Sheep by Charles Burnett
 * Tragedy of an Indian Farmer by Murali Nair

Midnight Madness

 * Born to Lose: The Last Rock and Roll Movie by Lech Kowalski
 * Fever by Alex Winter
 * Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby by Matthew Bright
 * Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris by Shusuke Kaneko
 * George Lucas in Love by Joe Nussbaum
 * The Item by Dan Clark
 * Komodo by Michael Lantieri
 * Possessed by Anders Rønnow Klarlund
 * Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes by Cass Paley
 * The Wisdom of Crocodiles by Po Chih Leong