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.
Awards Award"TIFF Awards" . tiff.net, October 19, 2013. Film Director People's Choice Award The Snapper Stephen Frears Metro Media Award Naked Mike Leigh Best Canadian Feature Film Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance Alanis Obomsawin Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould François Girard Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation Zero Patience John Greyson Best Canadian Short Film Save My Lost Nigga Soul Clement Virgo Best Canadian Short Film - Special Jury Citation Me, Mom and Mona Mina Shum FIPRESCI International Critics' Award Strapped Forest Whitaker
Programme
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 (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
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."Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time ," The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2012, URL accessed 28 April 2013.
Rank Title Year Director 1 Mon oncle Antoine 1971 Claude Jutra 2 Jesus of Montreal 1989 Denys Arcand 3 Goin' Down the Road 1970 Don Shebib 4 The Decline of the American Empire 1986 Denys Arcand 5 Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) 1980 Francis Mankiewicz 6 Orders (Les Ordres) 1974 Michel Brault 7 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 1974 Ted Kotcheff 8 The Grey Fox 1983 Phillip Borsos 9 I've Heard the Mermaids Singing 1987 Patricia Rozema 10 The Adjuster 1991 Atom Egoyan
References
External links Official site TIFF: A Reel History: 1976 - 2012 1993 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb