2004 Toronto International Film Festival
The 29th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 9 through September 18. The festival screened 328 films of which 253 were features and 75 were shorts.
Awards
No first or second runners-up were officially named for the People's Choice Award; however, festival director Piers Handling did provide the media with a list of numerous other films that had been in the running, including Crash, Gunner Palace, I, Claudia, Up and Down, 3-Iron, Ma Mère, The Holy Girl, Red Dust, Brides, Saving Face and Sideways.Programme
Canada First
CQ2 (Seek You Too) I, Claudia Ill Fated It's All Gone Pete Tong Jimmywork Phil the Alien Saint Ralph Seven Times Lucky Tideline- ''White Skin''
Canadian Open Vault
- ''The Rowdyman''
Canadian Retrospective
Attiuk — René BonnièreLand Without Trees, or the Mouchouânipi — Pierre PerraultPour la suite du monde — Pierre Perrault, Michel BraultThe River Schooners — Pierre PerraultThe Shimmering Beast — Pierre PerraultThe Times That Are — Pierre PerraultWake Up, mes bons amis — Pierre PerraultWhalehead — René BonnièreWinter Crossing at l'Isle-aux-Coudres — Réne BonnièreContemporary World Cinema
3-Iron After the Day Before Almost Brothers The Alzheimer Case Antares As Follows BOMBÓN – El Perro Breaking News Brodeuses Brothers Cool Crónicas Days and Hours Dead Man's Shoes Dear Frankie Duck Season Earth and Ashes L'Équipier La Femme de Gilles Ferpect Crime Hidden Flaws The Holy Girl Hotel The Keys to the House Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants Inconscientes Innocent Voices Lila dit ça The Limb Salesman Little Sky Ma Mère Male Fantasy Mon père est ingénieur My Summer of Love Mysterious Skin Niceland Nobody Knows Oldboy Our Own Plastic Flowers Quill Real Life Rois et reine Rolling Family Shiza Siblings Somersault Spider Forest Stray Dogs The Tuner Turtles Can Fly Two Great Sheep Up and Down Walk on Water Whisky Wilby Wonderful The Woodsman- ''The World''
Dialogues: Talking with Pictures
The Brood Diary of a Country Priest Heaven's Gate La Noire De... Sweet Smell of Success This Sporting Life- ''Withnail and I''
Discovery
Astronauts Automne Boats out of Watermelon Rinds The Buffalo Boy Le Cou de la girafe Crying? Electric Shadows The Forest for the Trees Hari Om Harvest Time In My Father's Den Innocence Mirage Off Beat Omagh On the Outs The Overture Oyster Farmer Private Producing Adults Les Revenants Saving Face Summer Storm Symmetry Uno Vento di Terra A Way of LifeMasters
10 on Ten 10e Chambre, instants d'audiences À tout de suite Bad Education Brides Café Lumière Chased by Dreams Cinévardaphoto Demain on déménage Eros Five Human Touch Land of Plenty Low Life Midwinter Night's Dream Moolaadé The Ninth Day Notre Musique Salvador Allende Sucker Free CityMidnight Madness
Calvaire Creep Dead Birds Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence Kontroll The Machinist Rahtree: Flower of the Night The Raspberry Reich Saw- ''Zebraman''
National Cinema Program
Cape of Good Hope Drum Forgiveness Max and Mona Mozart - The Music of the Violin A South African Love Story - Walter and Albertina Sisulu- ''Zulu Love Letter''
Planet Africa
Aïcha above & beneath Bullet Boy Gardiens de la Mémoire Le Grand Voyage The Hero Kounandi La Nuit de la vérité Off Duty On the Verge of a Fever One Flight Stand A Spoonful of Sugar- ''Time Out''
Real to Reel
Andrew and Jeremy Get Married Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat Darwin's Nightmare Double Dare Le Fantôme d'Henri Langlois Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry Gunner Palace I Died in Childhood... Kings of the Sky The Last Victory Letters to Ali Lightning in a Bottle Mondovino Scared Sacred Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire Small Mall Tell Them Who You Are Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family Touch the Sound Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson A Whale of a Tale White Tower Writer of O The Year of the YaoShort Cuts Canada
The Accordion Almost Forgot My Bones Between Science and Garbage Birdlings Two Black Ink on Blue Sky Boyclops The Bridge Build choke. Corps étrangers Desastre Deux Enfants qui fument Elephant Shoe Elliot Smelliot Filth The Finite Girl Cleans Sink Groomed The Hill Hogtown Blues Hotel Saudade The Human Kazoo Man. Feel. Pain. mary/me Milo 55160 More Sensitive Mothers, Fathers and Other Strangers My Old Man Pigeon Rodéo Ryan The Sadness of Johnson Joe Jangles Sissy Boy Slap Party Sombra Dolorosa Stronger Superhero Wannabe A Tale of Bad Luck Trouser Accidents- ''white out''
Special Presentations
5x2 The Assassination of Richard Nixon Bluebird Childstar Les Choristes Crash A Dirty Shame Enduring Love The General Haven Head in the Clouds Hotel Rwanda Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal Keane Kung Fu Hustle Ladies in Lavender The Libertine The Merchant of Venice Millions Noel P.S. Palindromes Promised Land The Sea Inside Shadows of Time Sideways Silver City Steamboy Throw Down When Will I Be Loved Yes- ''Yesterday''
Special events
Celebrating Brian Linehan — Live tribute event at the Winter Garden Theatre to Canadian entertainment journalist and interviewer Brian Linehan, following his death earlier in 2004. Hosted by Roger Ebert, with celebrity guests including Martin Short.Viacom Galas
Arsène Lupin Being Julia Beyond the Sea Clean Der Untergang Five Children and It A Good Woman House of Flying Daggers I Heart Huckabees Imaginary Heroes An Italian Romance Jiminy Glick in Lalawood Kinsey Modigliani The Motorcycle Diaries Ray Red Dust Return to Sender Shark Tale- ''Stage Beauty''
Visions
9 Songs A Hole in My Heart Acapulco Gold Anatomie de l'enfer Art Project: Role PlayBlood Días de Santiago Evolution of a Filipino Family The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things I Like It a Lot L'Intrus A Letter to True The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess Los Muertos Primer Tarnation Thème Trauma Tropical Malady Undertow Vital ZERO the inside story- ''SMARTERCHILD''
Wavelengths
( ) --- ------ (a.k.a. Short Line Long Line) Anaconda Targets Ber-Lin 99/00 Bouquets 26-27 Chateau/Poyet Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature Daylight Moon (A Quartet) Enid's Idyll Le Fantôme de l'opératrice Flushing Meadows Free To Go (Interlude) Golden Gate Bridge Exposure: Poised for Parabolas It's Not My Memory of It - Three Recollected Documents Line Describing a Cone Mirror Mouths of Ash The Observatory Phantom Play Rose Hobart Skagafjördur St. Ignatius Church Exposure: Lenten Light Conversions Terrace 49- ''Williamsburg, Brooklyn''
Canada's Top Ten
The festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list was announced in December.- Childstar — Don McKellar
- The Five of Us — Ghyslaine Côté
- I, Claudia — Chris Abraham
- It's All Gone Pete Tong — Michael Dowse
- Ryan — Chris Landreth
- Saint Ralph — Michael McGowan
- Scared Sacred — Velcrow Ripper
- Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire — Peter Raymont
- What Remains of Us — François Prévost, Hugo Latulippe
- White Skin — Daniel Roby