2003 Toronto International Film Festival

The 2003 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 4 to September 13, 2003. A total of 336 films (252 feature length and 84 short films) from 55 countries were screened during the festival. Of the feature films, 73% were world, international, or North American premieres. [http://www.digitalhit.com/fest/tiff/2003/2003films.shtml]

Viacom Galas

* "Bon Voyage" directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
* "The Boys from County Clare" directed by John Irvin
* "Code 46" directed by Michael Winterbottom
* "The Company" directed by Robert Altman
* "Danny Deckchair" directed by Jeff Balsmeyer
* "Girl with a Pearl Earring" directed by Peter Webber
* "Good Morning, Night" directed by Marco Bellocchio
* "The Human Stain" directed by Robert Benton
* "In the Cut" directed by Jane Campion
* "Les Invasions barbares" directed by Denys Arcand
* "Mambo Italiano" directed by Émile Gaudreault
* "Matchstick Men" directed by Sir Ridley Scott
* "Nathalie..." directed by Anne Fontaine
* "Out of Time" directed by Carl Franklin
* "The Republic of Love" directed by Deepa Mehta
* "Rosenstrasse" directed by Margarethe von Trotta
* "The School of Rock" directed by Richard Linklater
* "Veronica Guerin" directed by Joel Schumacher

Canadian Open Vault

* "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" directed by Ted Kotcheff

Canadian Retrospective

* "Back to God's Country" directed by David M. Hartford
* "A Bear, a Boy and a Dog" directed by Bert Van Tuyle
* "The Grub Stake" directed by Bert Van Tuyle and Nell Shipman
* "The Light on Lookout" directed by Bert Van Tuyle and Nell Shipman
* "Something New" directed by Nell Shipman and Bert Van Tuyle
* "The Story of Mr. Hobbs" directed by Lorenzo Alagio
* "The Trail of the North Wind" directed by Nell Shipman
* "White Water" directed by Bert Van Tuyle and Nell Shipman

Contemporary World Cinema

* "Abjad" directed by Abolfazl Jalili
* "Alexandra's Project" directed by Rolf de Heer
* "Antenna (film)" directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
* "At Five in the Afternoon" directed by Samira Makhmalbaf
* "B-Happy" directed by Gonzalo Justiniano
* "Bright Young Things" directed by Stephen Fry
* "Broken Wings" directed by Nir Bergman
* "Crimson Gold" directed by Jafar Panahi
* "Depuis qu'Otar est parti" directed by Julie Bertuccelli
* "Drifters" directed by Wang Xiaoshuai
* "Dummy" directed by Greg Pritikin
* "Errance" directed by Damien Odoul
* "The Event" directed by Thom Fitzgerald
* "Evil" directed by Mikael Håfström
* "Facing Window" directed by Ferzan Ozpetek
* "Forest" directed by Benedek Fliegauf
* "Free Radicals" directed by Barbara Albert
* "Fuse" directed by Pjer Žalica
* "The Galíndez File" directed by Gerardo Herrero
* "Golden Chicken" directed by Samson Chiu
* "Good Bye, Lenin!" directed by Wolfgang Becker
* "A Good Lawyer's Wife" directed by Im Sang-soo
* "Grimm" directed by Alex van Warmerdam
* "Gun-shy" directed by Dito Tsintsadze
* "A Heart Elsewhere" directed by Pupi Avati
* "The Hours of the Day" directed by Jaime Rosales
* "I'm Not Scared" directed by Gabriele Salvatores
* "Identity Kills" directed by Sören Voigt
* "In the City" directed by Cesc Gay
* "Intermission" directed by John Crowley
* "Interview" directed by Theo van Gogh
* "James' Journey to Jerusalem" directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
* "Japanese Story" directed by Sue Brooks
* "Kamchatka" directed by Marcelo Piñeyro
* "Kitchen Stories" directed by Bent Hamer
* "Last Life in the Universe" directed by Pen-ek Ratanaruang
* "The Last Virgin" directed by Joel Lamangan
* "Loving Glances" directed by Srdjan Karanovic
* "The Magic Gloves" directed by Martín Rejtman
* "Les Mains vides" directed by Marc Recha
* "Memories of Murder" directed by Bong Joon-ho
* "Milwaukee, Minnesota" directed by Allan Mindel
* "The Mother" directed by Roger Michell
* "My Life Without Me" directed by Isabel Coixet
* "Nói albinói" directed by Dagur Kari
* "Nicotina" directed by Hugo Rodríguez
* "Nos enfants chéris" directed by Benoît Cohen
* "Osama" directed by Siddiq Barmak
* "Pieces of April" directed by Peter Hedges
* "Prey for Rock & Roll" directed by Alex Steyermark
* "The Principles of Lust" directed by Penny Woolcock
* "Prosti" directed by Erik Matti
* "PTU" directed by Johnnie To
* "Pupendo" directed by Jan Hrebejk
* "Purple Butterfly" directed by Lou Ye
* "Qui a tué Bambi?" directed by Gilles Marchand
* "Ramblers" directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita
* "Remember Me" directed by Gabriele Muccino
* "The Return" directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
* "Secret File" directed by Paolo Benvenuti
* "Shara" directed by Naomi Kawase
* "Silence Between Two Thoughts" directed by Babak Payami
* "So Far Away" directed by Juan Carlos Tabío
* "South from Granada" directed by Fernando Colomo
* "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring" directed by Kim Ki-duk
* "Stander" directed by Bronwen Hughes
* "Stormy Weather" directed by Sólveig Anspach
* "Struggle" directed by Ruth Mader
* "SuperTex" directed by Jan Schütte
* "Testosterone" directed by David Moreton
* "Toutes ces belles promesses" directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac
* "Travellers and Magicians" directed by Khyentse Norbu
* "Vibrator" directed by Ryuichi Hiroki
* "Vodka Lemon" directed by Hiner Saleem
* "What the Eye Doesn't See" directed by Francisco J. Lombardi
* "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself" directed by Lone Scherfig
* "Wonderland" directed by James Cox
* "Young Adam" directed by David Mackenzie

Dialogues: Talking With Pictures

* "Alien" directed by Sir Ridley Scott
* "Bad Timing" directed by Nicolas Roeg
* "Ikiru" directed by Akira Kurosawa
* "Nashville" directed by Robert Altman
* "One from the Heart" directed by Francis Ford Coppola
* "Twenty Years Later" directed by Eduardo Coutinho

Director's Spotlight

* "Clouds of May" directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
* "Confession" directed by Zeki Demirkubuz
* "Distant" directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
* "Encounter" directed by Ömer Kavur
* "Fate" directed by Zeki Demirkubuz
* "Motherland Hotel" directed by Ömer Kavur
* "The Secret Face" directed by Ömer Kavur
* "The Small Town" directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
* "The Third Page" directed by Zeki Demirkubuz

Discovery

* "" directed by Greg Marcks
* "16 Years of Alcohol" directed by Richard Jobson
* "Ana and the Others" directed by Celina Murga
* "Christmas" directed by Gregory King
* "Les Corps impatients" directed by Xavier Giannoli
* "Dallas 362" directed by Scott Caan
* "Easy" directed by Jane Weinstock
* "The Green Butchers" directed by Anders Thomas Jensen
* "I Love Your Work" directed by Adam Goldberg
* "Jeux d'enfants" directed by Yann Samuell
* "Koktebel" directed by Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei Popogrebsky
* "The Last Customer" directed by Nanni Moretti
* "Madness and Genius" directed by Ryan Eslinger
* "Maqbool" directed by Vishal Bharadwaj
* "My Father and I" directed by Xu Jinglei
* "My Town" directed by Marek Lechki
* "A Nation Without Women" directed by Manish Jha
* "November" directed by Achero Mañas
* "Rhinoceros Eyes" directed by Aaron Woodley
* "Rick" directed by Curtiss Clayton
* "Sexual Dependency" directed by Rodrigo Bellott
* "A Smile" directed by Park Kyung-hee
* "Summer in the Golden Valley" directed by Srdjan Vuletic
* "This Little Life" directed by Sarah Gavron
* "The Triggerstreet.com Project"

Masters

* "Casa de los Babys" directed by John Sayles
* "Chokher Bali, A Passion Play" directed by Rituparno Ghosh
* "Come and Go" directed by João César Monteiro
* "Dying at Grace" directed by Allan King
* "Elephant" directed by Gus Van Sant
* "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" directed by Mike Hodges
* "A Talking Picture" directed by Manoel de Oliveira
* "Le Temps du Loup" directed by Michael Haneke
* "Zatoichi" directed by Takeshi Kitano

Midnight Madness

* "Cypher" directed by Vincenzo Natali
* "" directed by Jim Fields and Michael Gramaglia
* "Gozu" directed by Takashi Miike
* "" directed by Takashi Shimizu
* "Haute Tension" directed by Alexandre Aja
* "" directed by Prachya Pinkaew
* "Save the Green Planet!" directed by Jang Jun-hwan
* "Undead" directed by Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig
* "Underworld" directed by Len Wiseman

National Cinema

* "Bus 174" directed by José Padilha
* "Carandiru" directed by Hector Babenco
* "God Is Brazilian" directed by Carlos Diegues
* "The Man of the Year" directed by José Henrique Fonseca
* "Margarette's Feast" directed by Renato Falcão
* "The Middle of the World" directed by Vicente Amorim
* "The Storytellers" directed by Eliane Caffé

Perspective Canada

* "20h17, rue Darling" directed by Bernard Émond
* "Animal Nightmares" directed by Peter Lynch
* "Aspiration" directed by Constant Mentzas
* "Bager" directed by Tomi Grgicevic
* "The Big Charade" directed by Jesse McKeown
* "The Bread Maker" directed by Anita McGee
* "The Corporation" directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
* "Déformation Personnelle" directed by Jean-François Asselin
* "Defile in Veil" directed by Deco Dawson
* "DNA" directed by Jack Blum
* "The Dog Walker" directed by James Genn
* "Emile" directed by Carl Bessai
* "Exposures" directed by Matt Sinclair-Foreman
* "An Eye for an Eye" directed by David Rimmer
* "Falling Angels" directed by Scott Smith
* "The Fever of the Western Nile" directed by Deco Dawson
* "Flyerman" directed by Jeff Stephenson and Jason Tan
* "The Garden" directed by Jason Buxton
* "Gaz Bar Blues" directed by Louis Bélanger
* "Grotesque" directed by Wrik Mead
* "Guest Room" directed by Skander Halim
* "her carnal longings" directed by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
* "Hollywood North" directed by Peter O'Brian
* "Imitations of Life" directed by Mike Hoolboom
* "In the Dark" directed by Mike Hoolboom
* "Jours en fleurs" directed by Louise Bourque
* "The Last Night" directed by Mathieu Guez
* "A Little Life" directed by Elizabeth Murray
* "Love, Sex and Eating the Bones" directed by Sudz Sutherland
* "The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam" directed by Ann Marie Fleming
* "Mardi (Quel jour était-ce?)" directed by Lyne Charlebois
* "Moccasin Flats" directed by Randy Redroad
* "Noël Blank" directed by Jean-François Rivard
* "Not a Fish Story" directed by Anita Doron
* "Nothing" directed by Vincenzo Natali
* "On the Corner" directed by Nathaniel Geary
* "Passages" directed by John Price
* "Perfect" directed by Boris Rodriguez
* "Pop Song" directed by Charles Officer
* "A Problem with Fear" directed by Gary Burns
* "Proteus" directed by John Greyson
* "Saskatchewan Part 2" directed by Brian Stockton
* "The School" directed by Ezra Krybus and Matthew Miller
* "She Was Cuba" directed by Ho Tam
* "Shooting Star" directed by Jason Britski
* "Sometimes a Voice" directed by Simon Davidson
* "Song of Wreckage" directed by Ryan Redford
* "Terminal Venus" directed by Alexandre Franchi
* "Todd and the Book of Pure Evil" directed by Craig D. Wallace
* "Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole" directed by Gil Cardinal
* "The Truth about Head" directed by Dale Heslip
* "Twist" directed by Jacob Tierney
* "Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner" directed by Jamie Travis
* "Wildflowers" directed by Geoffrey Uloth
* "X Man" directed by Christopher Hinton

Planet Africa

* "" directed by James Spooner
* "Dark" directed by D.A. Bullock
* "His/Her Story" directed by Nzinga Kemp
* "Histoire de Tresses" directed by Jacqueline Kalimunda
* "How to Get the Man's Foot Out of Your Ass" directed by Mario Van Peebles
* "Mille Mois" directed by Faouzi Bensaïdi
* "Moi et mon blanc" directed by S. Pierre Yaméogo
* "One Love" directed by Rick Elgood and Don Letts
* "Outcry" directed by Destau Damtou
* "Short on Sugar" directed by Joseph Anaya
* "Le Silence de la forêt" directed by Didier Ouénangaré and Bassek ba Kobhio
* "The Sky in Her Eyes" directed by Ouida Smit and Madoda Ncayiyana
* "Soldiers of the Rock" directed by Norman Maake
* "Strange & Charmed" directed by Shari Frilot
* "Valley of the Innocent" directed by Branwen Okpako
* "Les Yeux secs" directed by Narjiss Nejjar

Real to Reel

* "The Agronomist" directed by Jonathan Demme
* "" directed by Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill
* "The Blonds" directed by Albertina Carri
* "Bright Leaves" directed by Ross McElwee
* "Destiny's Children" directed by Pimmi Pândé
* "Dream Cuisine" directed by Li Ying
* "Enquête sur le monde invisible" directed by Jean Michel Roux
* "Festival Express" directed by Bob Smeaton
* "The Five Obstructions" directed by Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth
* "" directed by Vikram Jayanti
* "Jesus, You Know" directed by Ulrich Seidl
* "Los Angeles Plays Itself" directed by Thom Andersen
* "Mayor of the Sunset Strip" directed by George Hickenlooper
* "Molly & Mobarak" directed by Tom Zubrycki
* "The Passion of María Elena" directed by Mercedes Moncada
* "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" directed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain
* "S21, La Machine de mort Khmère Rouge" directed by Rithy Panh
* "The Story of the Weeping Camel" directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni
* "" directed by Tom Peosay
* "Tom Dowd and the Language of Music" directed by Mark Moormann
* "" directed by Wang Bing
* "" directed by Wang Bing
* "" directed by Wang Bing
* "The Yes Men" directed by Dan Ollman, Sarah Price and Chris Smith

pecial Presentations

* "21 Grams" directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
* "Alila" directed by Amos Gitaï
* "The Best of Youth" directed by Marco Tullio Giordana
* "Cheeky" directed by David Thewlis
* "Coffee and Cigarettes" directed by Jim Jarmusch
* "The Cooler" directed by Wayne Kramer
* "Dogville" directed by Lars von Trier
* "La face cachée de la lune" directed by Robert Lepage
* "The Fog of War" directed by Errol Morris
* "Go Further" directed by Ron Mann
* "The Gospel of John" directed by Philip Saville
* "La Grande Séduction" directed by Jean-François Pouliot
* "L' Histoire de Marie et Julien" directed by Jacques Rivette
* "Lost in Translation" directed by Sofia Coppola
* "Love Actually" directed by Richard Curtis
* "The Merry Widow" directed by Erich von Stroheim
* "Monsieur Ibrahim" directed by François Dupeyron
* "Père et fils" directed by Michel Boujenah
* "Raja" directed by Jacques Doillon
* "The Saddest Music in the World" directed by Guy Maddin
* "Les Sentiments" directed by Noémie Lvovsky
* "Shattered Glass" directed by Billy Ray
* "The Singing Detective" directed by Keith Gordon
* "The Snow Walker" directed by Charles Martin Smith
* "The Station Agent" directed by Tom McCarthy
* "Touching the Void" directed by Kevin Macdonald
* "Valentín" directed by Alejandro Agresti
* "Zhou Yu's Train" directed by Sun Zhou

Visions

* "Bright Future" directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
* "The Brown Bunny" directed by Vincent Gallo
* "Cremaster 3" directed by Matthew Barney
* "Good Bye, Dragon Inn" directed by Tsai Ming-liang
* "Greendale" directed by Bernard Shakey a.k.a. Neil Young
* "In This World" directed by Michael Winterbottom
* "Nine Souls" directed by Toshiaki Toyoda
* "Des Plumes dans la tête" directed by Thomas de Thier
* "Sansa" directed by Siegfried
* "The Tesseract" directed by Oxide Pang
* "Les Triplettes de Belleville" directed by Sylvain Chomet
* "The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Episode 3. Antwerp" directed by Peter Greenaway
* "The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1. The Moab Story" directed by Peter Greenaway
* "Twentynine Palms" directed by Bruno Dumont

Wavelengths

* "Bouquet 25" directed by Rose Lowder
* "Chinese Series" directed by Stan Brakhage
* "Cocteau Cento" directed by Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino
* "Early Monthly Segments" directed by Robert Beavers
* "Fear of Blushing" directed by Jennifer Reeves
* "The Ground" directed by Robert Beavers
* "He Walked Away" directed by Jennifer Reeves
* "The Hedge Theater" directed by Robert Beavers
* "Horizontal Boundaries Second Projection" directed by Pat O'Neill
* "In the Garden" directed by Ute Aurand and Bärbel Freund
* "Interior" directed by Jim Jennings
* "Let's Make a Sandwich" directed by Pat O'Neill
* "Meditations on Revolution, Part V: Foreign City" directed by Robert Fenz
* "Megalopolis" directed by Jim Jennings
* "No" directed by Sharon Lockhart
* "Noor" directed by Deborah Phillips
* "Outline" directed by Sandra Gibson
* "Psalm III: "Night of the Meek" directed by Phil Solomon
* "Quadro" directed by Lotte Schreiber
* "Rolling in My Ears" directed by Barry Gerson
* "Seasons" directed by Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage
* "Stan's Window and Work in Progress" directed by Stan Brakhage
* "System of Transitions" directed by Johannes Hammel
* "Translucent Appearances" directed by Barry Gerson
* "The Visitation" directed by Nathaniel Dorsky