2001 Toronto International Film Festival

2001 Toronto International Film Festival
	Festival poster
Opening film	Last Wedding
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by	Toronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films	326 films
Festival date	September 6, 2001–September 15, 2001
Language	English
Website	tiff.net

The 26th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 6 to September 15, 2001. There were 326 films (249 feature films, 77 short films) from 54 countries scheduled to be screened during the ten-day festival. During a hastily arranged press conference on September 11, Festival director Piers Handling and managing director Michelle Maheux announced that 30 public screenings and 20 press screenings would be cancelled during the sixth day of the festival due to the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.^[1] The festival resumed for the final four days though some films were cancelled because the film prints could not reach Toronto due to flight restrictions.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Awards

Award^[7]	Film	Director
People's Choice Award	Amélie	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Discovery Award	Chicken Rice War	Chee Kong Cheah
Best Canadian Feature Film	Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner	Zacharias Kunuk
Best Canadian First Feature Film	Inertia	Sean Garrity
Best Canadian Short Film	FILM(dzama)	Deco Dawson
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award	Inch'Allah Dimanche	Yamina Benguigui
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award - Special Mention	Mein Stern	Valeska Grisebach
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award - Special Mention	Khaled	Asghar Massombagi

Programmes

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

Spotlight: Ulrich Seidl

Animal Love by Ulrich Seidl
Dog Days by Ulrich Seidl
Loss Is To Be Expected by Ulrich Seidl
Models by Ulrich Seidl

Discovery

Absolute Hundred by Srdan Golubović
Asuddelsole by Pasquale Marrazzo
The Bank by Robert Connolly
Be My Star by Valeska Grisebach
Blue Spring by Toyoda Toshiaki
Bread and Milk by Jan Cvitkovič
The Butterfly by Moon Seung-wook
Le Café de la plage by Benoît Graffin
Chicken Rice War by Chee Kong Cheah
Everybody Says I'm Fine! by Rahul Bose
Happy Man by Malgorzata Szumowska
Magonia by Ineke Smits
Mostly Martha by Sandra Nettelbeck
Mr In-Between by Paul Sarossy
Le Souffle by Damien Odoul
La Spagnola by Steve Jacobs

Jean Pierre Lefebvre: Vidéaste

L'Âge des images I: Le Pornolithique by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
L'Âge des images II: L'Écran invisible by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
L'Âge des images III: Comment filmer Dieu by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
L'Âge des images IV: Mon chien n'est pas mort by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
L'Âge des images V: La Passion de l'innocence by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
The House of Light (La Chambre blanche) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Le jour S... by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
My Friend Pierrette (Mon amie Pierrette) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (Le Vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre

Masters

Éloge de l'amour by Jean-Luc Godard
L' Anglaise et le duc by Éric Rohmer
Buñuel and King Solomon's Table by Carlos Saura
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky by Paul Cox
Je rentre à la maison by Manoel de Oliveira
Millennium Mambo by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Mulholland Drive by David Lynch
The Navigators by Ken Loach
La Pianiste by Michael Haneke
The Profession of Arms by Ermanno Olmi
Pulse by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Son's Room by Nanni Moretti
The Sun Behind the Moon by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Trouble Every Day by Claire Denis
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge by Shōhei Imamura

Midnight Madness

The American Astronaut by Cory McAbee
Antinome by Grégory Morin
Bang Rajan The Legend of the Village Warriors by Thanit Jitnukul
The Bunker by Rob Green
Clip Cult (Vol. 1) by Chris Cunningham, Hiroyuki Nokomo, Kouji Morimoto, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Mark Adcock and Antoine Bardou Jaquet
Dogtown and Z-Boys by Stacy Peralta
Eat by Bill Plympton
Electric Dragon 80,000 V by Sogo Ishii
Full Time Killer by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai
Ichi the Killer by Takashi Miike
Le Pacte des loups by Christophe Gans
Versus by Ryuhei Kitamura

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National Cinema Programme

As White as in Snow by Jan Troell
Cabin Fever by Mona J. Hoel
Cool and Crazy by Knut Erik Jensen
Earth by Veikko Aaltonen
Elling by Petter Næss
Fiasco by Ragnar Bragason
Gossip by Colin Nutley
The Icelandic Dream by Róbert I. Douglas
Italian for Beginners by Lone Scherfig
Jalla! Jalla! by Josef Fares
Kira's Reason - A Love Story by Ole Christian Madsen
Ode to a Hunter by Per Fronth
The River by Jarmo Lampela
A Song for Martin by Bille August
You Really Got Me by Pål Sletaune

Perspective Canada

Black Soul by Martine Chartrand
1:1 by Richard Reeves
After by Byron Lamarque
Un Arbre avec un chapeau by Pascal Sanchez
The Art of Woo by Helen Lee
Century Hotel by David Weaver
Charlie Noir by Keith Davidson
Cyberman by Peter Lynch
FILM(dzama) by Deco Dawson
The Frank Truth by Rick Caine
A Fresh Start by Jason Buxton
The Green by Paul Carrière
I Shout Love by Sarah Polley
In Memoriam by Aubrey Nealon
Inertia by Sean Garrity
Inséparables by Normand Bergeron
Instant Soup by Bridget Hill
Jean Laliberté: A Man, His Vision and a Whole Lot of Concrete by Philippe Falardeau
The Judgment by Serge Marcotte
Khaled by Asghar Massombagi
Lilith on Top by Lynne Stopkewich
Lip Service: A Mystery by Ann Marie Fleming
Lola by Carl Bessai
Lollipops by Graham Tallman
Mariages by Catherine Martin
On Their Knees by Anais Granofsky
Rare Birds by Sturla Gunnarsson
Remembrance by Stephanie Morgenstern
Romain et Juliette by Frédéric Lapierre
Scènes d'enfants by Lara Fitzgerald
Self: (Portrait/Fulfillment) A Film By the Blob Thing by Brian Stockton
Sight Under Construction by John Kneller
Silent Song by Elida Schogt
Soft Shell Man by André Turpin
Soowitch by Jean-François Rivard
Strange Invaders by Cordell Barker
Suddenly Naked by Anne Wheeler
Tar Angel by Denis Chouinard
Three Sisters on Moon Lake by Julia Kwan
The Topic of Cancer by Ramiro Puerta
Touch by Jeremy Podeswa
Treed Murray by William Phillips
Walk Backwards by Laurie Maria Baranyay
Westray by Paul Cowan
The Woman Who Drinks by Bernard Émond

Planet Africa

É Minha Cara by Thomas Allen Harris
100 Days by Nick Hughes
L'Afrance by Alain Gomis
Bintou by Fanta Regina Nacro
The Father by Ermias Woldeamlak
Inch'Allah Dimanche by Yamina Benguigui
Karmen Geï by Joseph Gaï Ramaka
The Killing Yard by Euzhan Palcy
Malunde by Stefanie Sycholt
Mouka by Adama Roamba
Paris: XY by Zeka Laplaine
Snipes by Richard Murray
Surrender by Celine Gilbert

Real to Reel

Carving Out Our Name by Tony Zierra
El Caso Pinochet by Patricio Guzmán
Chop Suey by Bruce Weber
Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers: In Public by Jia Zhangke, Digitopia by John Akomfrah and A Conversation With God by Tsai Ming-liang
Facing the Music by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson
Fidel by Estela Bravo
Grateful Dawg by Gillian Grisman
Hell House by George Ratliff
How's Your News? by Arthur Bradford
It's About Time by Ayelet Menahemi and Elona Ariel
James Ellroy's Feast of Death by Vikram Jayanti
Japanese Devils by Minoru Matsui
Missing Young Woman by Lourdes Portillo
Much Ado About Something by Michael Rubbo
Nazareth 2000 by Hany Abu-Assad
Okie Noodling by Bradley Beesley
Privé by Heddy Honigmann
Promises by Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg and Carlos Bolado
The Struma by Simcha Jacobovici
The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins by Geoff Bowie
Warrior of Light by Monika Treut

Special Presentations

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner by Zacharias Kunuk
Buffalo Soldiers by Gregor Jordan
La Chambre des officiers by François Dupeyron
Christmas Carol: The Movie by Jimmy T. Murakami
Comment j'ai tué mon père by Anne Fontaine
The Devil's Backbone by Guillermo del Toro
Emil and the Detectives by Franziska Buch
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Focus by Neal Slavin
Heist by David Mamet
Hotel by Mike Figgis
In the Bedroom by Todd Field
Joy Ride by John Dahl
Ma femme est une actrice by Yvan Attal
Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror by F. W. Murnau
Picture Claire by Bruce McDonald
Prozac Nation by Erik Skjoldbjærg
The Safety of Objects by Rose Troche
Sidewalks of New York by Edward Burns
Sur mes lèvres by Jacques Audiard
Tape by Richard Linklater
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing by Jill Sprecher
Waking Life by Richard Linklater
Who is Cletis Tout? by Chris Ver Wiel
World Traveler by Bart Freundlich

Wavelengths

ATOZ by Robert Breer
Automatic Writing by Fred Worden
Baby Dream II by Miles McKane
The Back Steps by Leighton Pierce
Color Study by Vincent Grenier
Les Coquelicots by Rose Lowder
The Dark Room by Minyong Jang
The Deformation of the Setting Sun by Joseph Leclerc
Didam by Olivier Fouchard and Mahine Rouhi
Emanance by Craig A. Lindley
Engram Sepals (Melodramas 1994–2000) by Lewis Klahr
Exposed by Siegfried A. Fruhauf
Interior: New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street by G.W. (Billy) Bitzer
Intrude Sanctuary by Hsiao Shuo-wen
L'Iris fantastique by Segundo de Chomón
The Last Lost Shot by Cécile Fontaine
Love's Refrain by Nathaniel Dorsky
Lovesong by Stan Brakhage
Marisa by Jacopo Quadri
Mist by Matthias Müller
Nipkow TV by Christian Hossner
Outermost by Stephanie Maxwell and Allan Schindler
Post Mortem by Catherine Tanitte
Premières images II by Étienne-Jules Marey
Le Roi des dollars by Segundo de Chomón
Schichtwechsel by Christian Hossner
Serpentine Dance by Annabelle by W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise
Shudder (Top and Bottom) by Michael Gitlin
Sliding Off the Edge of the World by Mark Street
Slit Scan Movie by Christian Hossner
Soundings by Sandra Gibson
Tree-line by Gunvor Nelson
Trees in Autumn by Kurt Kren
Wot the Ancient Sod by Diane Kitchen

Canada's Top Ten

In December 2001, TIFF introduced the Canada's Top Ten project to identify the year's ten best Canadian films as selected by festival programmers and film critics from across Canada.^[9]

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner by Zacharias Kunuk
Ginger Snaps by John Fawcett
The Heart of the World by Guy Maddin
Khaled by Asghar Massombagi
Last Wedding by Bruce Sweeney
Marriages by Catherine Martin
Parsley Days by Andrea Dorfman
Soft Shell Man by André Turpin
The Woman Who Drinks by Bernard Émond
The Uncles by James Allodi

References

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