1993 Toronto International Film Festival

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1993 Toronto International Film Festival
1993 Toronto International Film Festival poster.jpg
Festival poster
Opening film M. Butterfly
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted byToronto International Film Festival Group
Festival dateSeptember 9, 1993 (1993-09-09)–September 18, 1993 (1993-09-18)
LanguageEnglish
Website tiff.net

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. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Forest Whitaker won FIPRESCI International Critics' Award for Strapped .

Awards

Award [4] [5] FilmDirector
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

Special presentations

World Cinema

Italian Section

Latin American Panorama

The Edge

Spotlight

Canadian Perspective

10 x 10

First Cinema

Midnight Madness

[7]

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. [8]

RankTitleYearDirector
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

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