1984 Toronto International Film Festival

Festival poster

Location| Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by| Toronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films| 225 feature films
Festival date| September 6, 1984 (1984-09-06)–September 15, 1984 (1984-09-15)
Language| English
Website| tiff.net

The 9th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 6 and September 15, 1984. The festival introduced Perspective Canada programme, devoted to Canadian films.[1][2] The festival screened 225 feature films and more than half of them were Canadian films.[3]

In 1984 Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time list was released. It was created by the votes of film critics, professors, fans and festival staff.[3][4]

## Awards

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Award[5][6] | Film  | Director

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People's Choice Award  | Places in the Heart | Robert Benton
Best Canadian Feature Film  | A Woman in Transit | Léa Pool
International Critics' Award  | Choose Me | Alan Rudolph

## Programme

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### Gala Presentation

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* Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders
* Places in the Heart by Robert Benton
* Stranger Than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch
* Blood Simple by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
* Where the Green Ants Dream by Werner Herzog
* Boy Meets Girl by Leos Carax
* Another Country by Marek Kanievska
* Funny Dirty Little War by Héctor Olivera
* Diary for My Children by Márta Mészáros
* The Gold Diggers by Sally Potter
* Wildrose by John Hanson
* Choose Me by Alan Rudolph
* The Company of Wolves by Neil Jordan

### Canadian Perspective

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* Abortion: Stories From North and South by Gail Singer
* Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair by Paul Cowan
* Le jour S... by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
* Low Visibility by Patricia Gruben
* Mario by Jean Beaudin
* The Masculine Mystique by Giles Walker and John N. Smith
* Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh by Demitrios Estdelacropolis
* Next of Kin by Atom Egoyan
* The Obsession of Billy Botski by John Paizs
* The International Style by John Paizs
* Springtime in Greenland by John Paizs
* Revolution by Jean-Marc Larivière
* Sonatine by Micheline Lanctôt
* Unfinished Business by Don Owen
* Walls by Tom Shandel
* A Woman in Transit by Léa Pool
* The Years of Dreams and Revolt by Jean-Claude Labrecque

### Front & Centre

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Front & Centre was a special one-off program, which screened culturally and artistically important films from throughout the entire history of Canadian cinema.[7]

* Back to God's Country by David Hartford (1919)
* Lucky Corrigan by Lewis D. Collins (1936)
* Convicted by Leon Barsha (1937)
* Whispering City by Fedor Ozep (1947)
* The Bitter Ash by Larry Kent (1963)
* The Cat in the Bag by Gilles Groulx (1964)
* When Tomorrow Dies by Larry Kent (1965)
* Winter Kept Us Warm by David Secter (1965)
* The Times That Are by Pierre Perrault (1966)
* Don't Let It Kill You by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (1967)
* High by Larry Kent (1967)
* The River Schooners by Pierre Perrault (1968)
* A Married Couple by Allan King (1969)
* The Only Thing You Know by Clarke Mackey (1971)
* Proxyhawks by Jack Darcus (1971)
* The Rowdyman by Peter Carter (1971)
* The Time of the Hunt by Francis Mankiewicz (1972)
* Wedding in White by William Fruet (1972)
* Dream Life by Mireille Dansereau (1972)
* Dirty Money by Denys Arcand (1972)
* Réjeanne Padovani by Denys Arcand (1973)
* The Last Betrothal by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (1973)
* Paperback Hero by Peter Pearson (1973)
* Skip Tracer by Zale Dalen (1977)
* The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (1977)
* Why Shoot the Teacher? by Silvio Narizzano (1977)
* Blue Winter by André Blanchard (1979)
* A Scream from Silence by Anne Claire Poirier (1979)
* Stations by William D. MacGillivray (1983)

### Documentaries

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* In Heaven There Is No Beer? by Les Blank
* Before Stonewall by Robert Rosenberg, Greta Schiller and John Scagliotti

## Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time

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Rank | Title | Year | Director

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1 | Mon oncle Antoine | 1971 | Claude Jutra
2 | Goin' Down the Road | 1970 | Don Shebib
3 | Good Riddance | 1980 | Francis Mankiewicz
4 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | 1974 | Ted Kotcheff
5 | The Grey Fox | 1983 | Phillip Borsos
6 | Orders | 1974 | Michel Brault
7 | J.A. Martin Photographer | 1977 | Jean Beaudin
8 | Pour la suite du monde | 1963 | Pierre Perrault
9 | Nobody Waved Goodbye | 1964 | Don Owen
10 | The True Nature of Bernadette | 1972 | Gilles Carle

## References

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1. ^ "TIFF History". Archived from the original on 2013-10-15. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
2. ^ "Taking a look back at TIFF". Archived from the original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved October 18, 2013.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
3. ^ a b "Toronto film fest spotlights early greats of Canadian cinema". CBC News. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
4. ^ "Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time Archived 2013-07-03 at the Wayback Machine," The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2012, URL accessed October 18, 2013.
5. ^ "TIFF Awards" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. tiff.net, October 16, 2013.
6. ^ "TIFF People's Choice prize heralds film industry kudos". CBC News. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
7. ^ Jay Scott, "Mon Oncle Antoine No. 1 with critics". The Globe and Mail, August 2, 1984.

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* Official site
* TIFF: A Reel History: 1976 - 2012
* 1984 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb

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