2001 Toronto International Film Festival

The 26th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 6 to September 15, 2001. There were 326 films (249 feature films, 77 short films) from 54 countries scheduled to be screened during the ten-day festival. During a hastily arranged press conference on September 11, Festival director Piers Handling and managing director Michelle Maheux announced that 30 public screenings and 20 press screenings would be cancelled during the sixth day of the festival due to the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.[1] The festival resumed for the final four days though some films were cancelled because the film prints could not reach Toronto due to flight restrictions.[2][3][4][5][6]

2001 Toronto International Film Festival
Festival poster
Opening filmLast Wedding
LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted byToronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films326 films
Festival dateSeptember 6, 2001 (2001-09-06)–September 15, 2001 (2001-09-15)
LanguageEnglish
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Awards
Award[7] Film Director
People's Choice Award Amélie Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Discovery Award Chicken Rice War Chee Kong Cheah
Best Canadian Feature Film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner Zacharias Kunuk
Best Canadian First Feature Film Inertia Sean Garrity
Best Canadian Short Film Film(dzama) Deco Dawson
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award Inch'Allah Dimanche Yamina Benguigui
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award - Special Mention Mein Stern Valeska Grisebach
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award - Special Mention Khaled Asghar Massombagi

Programmes

Viacom Galas

Canadian Open Vault

Contemporary World Cinema

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

Spotlight: Ulrich Seidl

Discovery

Jean Pierre Lefebvre: Vidéaste

Masters

Midnight Madness

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National Cinema Programme

Perspective Canada

Planet Africa

Real to Reel

Special Presentations

Wavelengths
  • ATOZ by Robert Breer
  • Automatic Writing by Fred Worden
  • Baby Dream II by Miles McKane
  • The Back Steps by Leighton Pierce
  • Color Study by Vincent Grenier
  • Les Coquelicots by Rose Lowder
  • The Dark Room by Minyong Jang
  • The Deformation of the Setting Sun by Joseph Leclerc
  • Didam by Olivier Fouchard and Mahine Rouhi
  • Emanance by Craig A. Lindley
  • Engram Sepals (Melodramas 1994–2000) by Lewis Klahr
  • Exposed by Siegfried A. Fruhauf
  • Interior: New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street by G.W. (Billy) Bitzer
  • Intrude Sanctuary by Hsiao Shuo-wen
  • L'Iris fantastique by Segundo de Chomón
  • The Last Lost Shot by Cécile Fontaine
  • Love's Refrain by Nathaniel Dorsky
  • Lovesong by Stan Brakhage
  • Marisa by Jacopo Quadri
  • Mist by Matthias Müller
  • Nipkow TV by Christian Hossner
  • Outermost by Stephanie Maxwell and Allan Schindler
  • Post Mortem by Catherine Tanitte
  • Premières images II by Étienne-Jules Marey
  • Le Roi des dollars by Segundo de Chomón
  • Schichtwechsel by Christian Hossner
  • Serpentine Dance by Annabelle by W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise
  • Shudder (Top and Bottom) by Michael Gitlin
  • Sliding Off the Edge of the World by Mark Street
  • Slit Scan Movie by Christian Hossner
  • Soundings by Sandra Gibson
  • Tree-line by Gunvor Nelson
  • Trees in Autumn by Kurt Kren
  • Wot the Ancient Sod by Diane Kitchen

Canada's Top Ten

In December 2001, TIFF introduced the Canada's Top Ten project to identify the year's ten best Canadian films as selected by festival programmers and film critics from across Canada.[9]

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References
  1. "Movies win role in a traumatized world ; Toronto film festival ended with hope for better future". Toronto Star, September 17, 2001.
  2. "26th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  3. "26th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  4. "September 11, 2001 At The Toronto International Film Festival: A Reminiscence". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  5. "Toronto Film Festival 2001 Before & After". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
  7. "Awards" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. tiff.net, October 11, 2013.
  8. "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme". Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  9. "Lists, lists and lists: Tops in video". Peterborough Examiner, December 20, 2001.
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