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.
Awards Award"TIFF Awards" . tiff.net, October 19, 2013. Film Director People's Choice Award Priest Antonia Bird Metro Media Award Heavenly Creatures Peter Jackson Best Canadian Feature Film Exotica Atom Egoyan Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation Double Happiness Mina Shum Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation Windigo Robert Morin Best Canadian Short Film Frank's Cock Mike Hoolboom Best Canadian Short Film - Special Jury Citation Technilogic Ordering Philip Hoffman Best Canadian Short Film - Special Jury Citation Make Some Noise Andrew Munger FIPRESCI International Critics' Award The Silences of the Palace Moufida Tlatli FIPRESCI International Critics' Award - Honorable Mention Fate (Verhängnis) Fred Kelemen
Programme
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 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 Fate (Verhängnis) — Fred Kelemen 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
References
External links Official site TIFF: A Reel History: 1976 - 2012 1994 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb