1994 Toronto International Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film	Whale Music
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by	Toronto International Film Festival Group
Festival date	September 8, 1994 (1994-09-08)–September 17, 1994 (1994-09-17)
Language	English
Website	tiff.net

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.^[1][2][3]

Awards

Programme

Gala Presentation

• The Ascent — Donald Shebib
• Ashes of Time — Wong Kar-wai
• Blue Sky — Tony Richardson
• 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
• Fate (Verhängnis) — Fred Kelemen
• 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

• 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

Contemporary World Cinema

• Dead Tired (Grosse Fatigue) — Michel Blanc
• Glitterbug — Derek Jarman
• Heavenly Creatures — Peter Jackson
• Movie Days — Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
• Moving the Mountain — Michael Apted

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

Short Cuts

• Leftovers — Janine Fung
• Make Some Noise — Andrew Munger
• Technilogic Ordering — Philip Hoffman