1999 Toronto International Film Festival

The 1999 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 9 to September 18, 1999. The festival opened with Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey and closed with Onegin by Martha Fiennes. A total of 318 films were screened in the 13 programmes.

Galas

* "American Beauty" directed by Sam Mendes
* "Anywhere But Here" directed by Wayne Wang
* "The Cider House Rules" directed by Lasse Hallstrom
* "Est-Ouest" directed by Régis Wargnier
* "Felicia's Journey" directed by Atom Egoyan
* "The Girl of Your Dreams" directed by Fernando Trueba
* "Jakob the Liar" directed by Peter Kassovitz
* "Love in the Mirror" directed by Salvatore Maira
* "Me Myself I" directed by Pip Karmel
* "Mumford" directed by Lawrence Kasdan
* "Music of the Heart" directed by Wes Craven
* "Onegin" directed by Martha Fiennes
* "Orfeu" directed by Carlos Diegues
* "Ride with the Devil" directed by Ang Lee
* "Simpatico" directed by Matthew Warchus
* "Snow Falling on Cedars" directed by Scott Hicks
* "Sunshine" directed by István Szabó
* "Sweet and Lowdown" directed by Woody Allen

Masters

* "8½ Women" directed by Peter Greenaway
* "L'Autre" directed by Youssef Chahine
* "The Emperor and the Assassin" directed by Chen Kaige
* "Goya in Bordeaux" directed by Carlos Saura
* "Juha" directed by Aki Kaurismäki
* "Kikujiro" directed by Takeshi Kitano
* "The Legend of 1900" directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
* "La lettre" directed by Manoel de Oliveira
* "Moloch" directed by Alexandr Sokurov
* "Molokai: The Story of Father Damien" directed by Paul Cox
* "No One Writes to the Colonel" directed by Arturo Ripstein
* "The Wet-Nurse" directed by Marco Bellocchio
* "The Wind Will Carry Us" directed by Abbas Kiarostami

pecial Presentations

* "All the Rage" directed by James D. Stern
* "Annaluise & Anton" directed by Caroline Link
* "The Best Man" directed by Malcolm D. Lee
* "The Big Kahuna" directed by John Swanbeck
* "Black and White" directed by James Toback
* "Breakfast of Champions" directed by Alan Rudolph
* "Dogma" directed by Kevin Smith
* "Forever Mine" directed by Paul Schrader
* "" directed by Jim Jarmusch
* "Grass" directed by Ron Mann
* "Gregory's Two Girls" directed by Bill Forsyth
* "History is Made at Night" directed by Ilkka Jarvilaturi
* "The Hurricane" directed by Norman Jewison
* "Joe the King" directed by Frank Whaley
* "Une liaison pornographique" directed by Frederic Fonteyne
* "The Limey" directed by Steven Soderbergh
* "The Luck of Ginger Coffey" directed by Irvin Kershner
* "Manila" directed by Romuald Karmakar
* "Mansfield Park" directed by Patricia Rozema
* "A Map of the World" directed by Scott Elliott
* "" directed by Errol Morris
* "Pas de scandale" directed by Benoît Jacquot
* "Princess Mononoke" directed by Hayao Miyazaki
* "Third Miracle" directed by Agnieszka Holland
* "To Walk with Lions" directed by Carl Schultz
* "Tumbleweeds" directed by Gavin O'Connor
* "Wayward Son" directed by Randall Harris
* "Women Talking Dirty" directed by Coky Giedroyc
* "Wonderland" directed by Michael Winterbottom

Perspective Canada

* "Babette's Feet" directed by Harry Killas
* "Below the Belt" directed by Laurie Colbert and Dominique Cardona
* "By This Parting" directed by Mieko Ouchi
* "La Casa del Nonno" directed by Lisa Sfriso
* "Decharge" directed by Patrick Demers
* "Don't Think Twice" directed by Sarah Polley
* "Dreamtrips" directed by Kal Ng
* "Ecstasy" directed by Mark Wihak
* "Emporte-moi" directed by Léa Pool
* "Eva Meets Felix" directed by Heidi B. Gerber
* "Exhuming Tyler" directed by Merlin Dervisevic
* "Fit" directed by David Christensen
* "The Five Senses" directed by Jeremy Podeswa
* "Fly" directed by Jigar Talati
* "Four Days" directed by Curtis Wehrfritz
* "Fries with That" directed by Christopher McKay
* "Frog Pond" directed by Bradley Walsh
* "Full Blast" directed by Rodrigue Jean
* "A Girl is a Girl" directed by Reginald Harkema
* "Le grand serpent du monde" directed by Yves Dion
* "Here am I" directed by Joshua Dorsey and Douglas Naimer
* "Hi, I'm Steve" directed by Robert Kennedy
* "Je te salue" directed by Hugo Brochu
* "Johnny" directed by Carl Bessai
* "" directed by Catherine Annau
* "Karaoke" directed by Stéphane LaFleur
* "Kokoro is for Heart" directed by Philip Hoffman
* "The Life Before This" directed by Jerry Ciccoritti
* "Mothers of Me" directed by Alexandra Grimanis
* "My Father's Angel" directed by Davor Marjanovic
* "My Father's Hands" directed by David Sutherland
* "New Waterford Girl" directed by Allan Moyle
* "The Offering" directed by Paul Lee
* "Pamplemousse" directed by Tink
* "Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore" directed by Michel Brault
* "Quiver" directed by Scott Beveridge
* "Remembrance Dance" directed by Chris Gilpin
* "Rollercoaster" directed by Scott Smith
* "Sea Song" directed by Richard Reeves
* "Second Date" directed by James Genn
* "So Beautiful" directed by Jacob Wren
* "Soul Cages" directed by Phillip Barker
* "Souvenirs intimes" directed by Jean Beaudin
* "Sparklehorse" directed by Gariné Torossian
* "Subterranean Passage" directed by Michael Crochetiere
* "Switch" directed by Hope Thompson
* "Top of the Food Chain" directed by John Paizs
* "TOPS & bottoms" directed by Cristine Richey
* "Touched" directed by Mort Ransen
* "Toy Soldiers" directed by Jackie May
* "Tuba Girl" directed by Michèle Muzzi
* "Undertow" directed by Sarah Bachinski
* "Wedding Knives" directed by Johanna Mercer
* "When the Day Breaks" directed by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
* "Where Lies the Homo?" directed by Jean-François Monette
* "Zyklon Portrait" directed by Elida Schogt

Contemporary World Cinema

* "1999 Madeleine" directed by Laurent Bouhnik
* "Adrenaline Drive" directed by Shinobu Yaguchi
* "After the Truth" directed by Roland Suso Richter
* " _fr. Les amants criminels" directed by François Ozon
* "Andares in Time of War" directed by Alejandra Jimenez Lopez
* "The Annihilation of Fish" directed by Charles Burnett
* " _fr. Augustin, roi du kung-fu" directed by Anne Fontaine
* "Away with Words" directed by Christopher Doyle
* "Le beau travail" directed by Claire Denis
* "Beautiful People" directed by Jasmin Dizdar
* "The Big Brass Ring" directed by George Hickenlooper
* " _fr. Le bleu des villes" directed by Stephane Brize
* "Boys Don't Cry" directed by Kimberly Peirce
* "Buddy Boy" directed by Mark Hanlon
* "Bullets Over Summer" directed by Wilson Yip
* "Burlesk King" directed by Mel Chionglo
* " _fr. C'est quoi la vie?" directed by François Dupeyron
* "Caravan" directed by Eric Valli
* "The Color of Heaven" directed by Majid Majidi
* " _fr. Les convoyeurs attendent" directed by Benoit Mariage
* "Crane World" directed by Pablo Trapero
* "The Cup" directed by Khyentse Norbu
* "Dancing with Hydra" directed by Takuji Suzuki
* "Darkness and Light" directed by Chang Tso-chi
* " _fr. Un derangement considerable" directed by Bernard Stora
* "Deterrence" directed by Rod Lurie
* "La donna lupo" directed by Aurelio Grimaldi
* "East is East" directed by Damien O'Donnell
* "Enthusiasm" directed by Ricardo Larrain
* "Feeling Sexy" directed by Davida Allen
* "From the Edge of the City" directed by Constantinos Giannaris
* "Garage Olimpo" directed by Marco Bechis
* "Gemini" directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
* "Guinevere" directed by Audrey Wells
* "Hans Warns - My 20th Century" directed by Gordian Maugg
* "Happy, Texas" directed by Mark Illsley
* "Harem Suare" directed by Ferzan Ozpetek
* "High Expectations" directed by Evi Quaid
* "L'humanite" directed by Bruno Dumont
* "Jesus' Son" directed by Alison Maclean
* "Journey to the Sun" directed by Yesim Ustaoglu
* "Judy Berlin" directed by Eric Mendelsohn
* "julien donkey-boy" directed by Harmony Korine
* "Kadosh" directed by Amos Gitaï
* "The Last September" directed by Deborah Warner
* "Lies" directed by Jang Sun Woo
* "Luna Papa" directed by Bakhityar Khudojnazarov
* "M/Other" directed by Nobuhiro Suwa
* "Malli" directed by Santosh Sivan
* "March of Happiness" directed by Lin Cheng-Sheng
* "Mifune - Dogme 3" directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
* "Miss Julie" directed by Mike Figgis
* "Nightfall" directed by Fred Kelemen
* "One Piece!" directed by Shinobu Yaguchi and Takuji Suzuki
* "Peau neuve" directed by Emilie Deleuze
* "The Personals" directed by Chen Kuo-fu
* "Le petit voleur" directed by Eric Zonka
* "Ratcatcher" directed by Lynne Ramsay
* "Revenge" directed by Andrés Wood
* "Rien a faire" directed by Marion Vernoux
* "Romance" directed by Catherine Breillat
* "A Room for Romeo Brass" directed by Shane Meadows
* "Rosetta" directed by Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
* "Show Me Love" directed by Lukas Moodysson
* "Shower" directed by Zhang Yang
* "Simon, The Magician" directed by Ildiko Enyedi
* "So Close to Paradise" directed by Wang Xiaoshuai
* "Soft Hearts" directed by Joel Lamangan and Eric Quizon
* "Speedy Boys" directed by James Herbert
* "Splendor" directed by Gregg Araki
* "Split Wide Open" directed by Dev Benegal
* "Sunburn" directed by Nelson Hume
* "Tempting Heart" directed by Sylvia Chang
* "Throne of Death" directed by Murali Nair
* "Time Out" directed by Sergio Cabrera
* "A Time to Love" directed by Giacomo Campiotti
* "Two Streams" directed by Carlos Reichenbach
* "Urban Feel" directed by Jonathan Sagall
* "The Virgin" directed by Diego Donnhofer
* "The War Zone" directed by Tim Roth
* "Yesterday Children" directed by Carlos Siguion-Reyna

Discovery

* "30 Days" directed by Aaron Harnick
* "Bloody Angels " directed by Karin Julsrud
* "But Forever in My Mind" directed by Gabriele Muccino
* "But I'm a Cheerleader" directed by Jamie Babbit
* "Civilisees" directed by Randa Chahal Sabbag
* "The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion" directed by Lav Diaz
* "Envy" directed by Julie Money
* "Freak Weather" directed by Mary Kuryla
* "Girls' Night Out" directed by Im Sang-Soo
* "A Glass of Rage" directed by Aluízio Abranches
* "Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish" directed by Kevin Jordan
* "Guts" directed by Ron Termaat
* "Hidden River" directed by Mercedes García Guevara
* "Human Traffic" directed by Justin Kerrigan
* "I Could Read the Sky" directed by Nichola Bruce
* "Idle Running" directed by Janez Burger
* "Janice Beard: 45 WPM" directed by Clare Kilner
* "The Joys of Smoking" directed by Nick Katsapetses
* "The Junction" directed by Urszula Urbaniak
* "Just One Time" directed by Lane Janger
* "Kill by Inches" directed by Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur Flam
* "Moonlight Whispers" directed by Akihiko Shiota
* "Mr. I and Mrs. O" directed by Valentina Leduc
* "Northern Skirts" directed by Barbara Albert
* "Pictures and Butterfly" directed by Yanko Del Pino
* "Return of the Idiot" directed by Sa1a Gedeon
* "Rodents" directed by Sebastián Cordero
* "Shadows in the Dark" directed by Pankaj Butalia
* "Spring Forward" directed by Tom Gilroy
* "This Year's Love" directed by David Kane
* "Under California - The Limit of Time" directed by Carlos Bolado
* "The Wall" directed by Sergio Arau
* "Wheels" directed by Djordje Milosavljevic
* "Yana's Friends" directed by Arik Kaplun

Planet Africa

* "After the Rain" directed by Ross Kettle
* "Chef! " directed by Jean-Marie Teno
* "Compensation" directed by Zeinabu irene Davis
* "Cry Me a Baby" directed by Tamsin MacCarthy
* "La genèse" directed by Cheick Oumar Sissoko
* "Harlem Aria" directed by William Jennings
* "Hot-Irons" directed by Andrew Dosunmu
* "Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100" directed by Yvonne Welbon
* "Love and Action In Chicago" directed by Dwayne Johnson-Cochran
* "Olivia's Story" directed by Charles Burnett
* "La petite vendeuse de soleil" directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
* "Portrait of a Young Man Drowning" directed by Teboho Mahlatsi
* "Rage" directed by Newton I. Aduaka
* "Rituals" directed by Carol Mayes
* "Third World Cop" directed by Chris Browne

Real to Reel

* "American Movie" directed by Chris Smith
* "Barenaked in America" directed by Jason Priestley
* "Berlin-Cinema (Titre Provisoire) " directed by Samira Gloor-Fadel
* "Bread Day" directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy
* "Coven" directed by Mark Borchardt
* "Crazy English" directed by Zhang Yuan
* "Highway" directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy
* "Homo Sapiens 1900" directed by Peter Cohen
* "The Humiliated" directed by Jesper Jargil
* "If You Only Understood" directed by Rolando Diaz
* "Jam Session" directed by Makoto Shinozaki
* "The Jaundiced Eye" directed by Nonny de la Pena
* "Juan, I Forgot I Don't Remember" directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo
* "The Making of a New Empire" directed by Jos de Putter
* "Me & Isaac Newton" directed by Michael Apted
* "My Best Fiend" directed by Werner Herzog
* "negative space" directed by Chris Petit
* "Pripyat" directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
* "Shadow Boxers" directed by Katya Bankowsky
* "The Specialist" directed by Eyal Sivan
* "Sud" directed by Chantal Akerman
* "Three" directed by Issac Julien
* "Work and Progress" directed by Vivian Ostrovsky and Yann Beauvais

Indiscreet Charms: New Spanish Cinema

* "Alone" directed by Benito Zambrano
* "Beloved/Friend" directed by Ventura Pons
* "Between Your Legs" directed by Manuel Gomez Pereira
* "Do You Really Wanna Know? " directed by Jurdao Faemino, Blanco Faemino, Javier Jurdao and Pedro Blanco
* "Dying of Laughter" directed by Alex de la Iglesia
* "Fading Memories" directed by Enrique Gabriel
* "Flesh" directed by Begona Vicario
* "Flowers from Another World " directed by Icíar Bollaín
* "Frivolinas" directed by Arturo Carballo
* "Golden Whore" directed by Miquel Crespi Traveria
* "Havana Quartet" directed by Fernando Colomo
* "Jealousy" directed by Vicente Aranda
* "Lisbon" directed by Antonio Hernandez
* "The Mole and the Fairy" directed by Eduardo Gimenez Rojo
* "Rapture" directed by Iván Zulueta
* "Roulette" directed by Roberto Santiago
* "Washington Wolves" directed by Mariano Barroso

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

* "The Awful Truth" directed by Leo McCarey
* "Elephant" directed by Alan Clarke
* "Hiroshima 28" directed by Patrick Lung Kong
* "Persona" directed by Ingmar Bergman
* "Shadows" directed by John Cassavetes
* "The Tales of Hoffmann" directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
* "Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?" directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Michael Fengler
* "Yojimbo" directed by Akira Kurosawa

potlight: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

* "Barren Illusion" directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
* "Charisma" directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
* "Cure" directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
* "The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl" directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
* "Eyes of the Spider" directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
* "License to Live" directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
* "Serpent's Path" directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Tribute: The David O. Story

* "A Better Tomorrow" directed by John Woo
* "Beyond Gravity" directed by Garth Maxwell
* "Carne" directed by Gaspar Noé
* "Distant Voices, Still Lives" directed by Terence Davies
* "Dust in the Wind" directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
* "Insiang" directed by Lino Brocka
* "Killer of Sheep" directed by Charles Burnett
* "Tragedy of an Indian Farmer" directed by Murali Nair

Midnight Madness

* "" directed by Lech Kowalski
* "Fever" directed by Alex Winter
* "" directed by Matthew Bright
* "" directed by Shusuke Kaneko
* "George Lucas in Love" directed by Joe Nussbaum
* "The Item" directed by Dan Clark
* "Komodo" directed by Michael Lantieri
* "Possessed" directed by Anders Rønnow-Klarlund
* "Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes" directed by Cass Paley
* "The Wisdom of Crocodiles" directed by Po Chih Leong