1986 Toronto International Film Festival

Annual Canadian film festival 1986 Toronto International Film Festival 1986 Toronto International Film Festival poster.jpg Festival poster by Voytek Gorczynski Toronto International Film Festival Group The Decline of the American Empire Toronto, Ontario, Canada English 1986 09 04–1986 09 13 tiff.net 1985 1987 The 11th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 4 and September 13, 1986.Sid Adilman, "Cue celebrities — we're ready to roll". Toronto Star, September 5, 1986. The Decline of the American Empire by Denys Arcand was selected as the opening film.Noel Taylor, "Festival lineups announced". Ottawa Citizen, June 28, 1986. It won both the People's Choice and Best Canadian Film awards at the festival."Quebec film Le declin tops in T.O.; Arcands sex comedy wows public and jury". Montreal Gazette, September 15, 1986. It was the first film ever to win both prizes, and the first Canadian film ever to win People's Choice. Awards Award Film Director Ref People's Choice The Decline of the American Empire Denys Arcand Best Canadian Film The Decline of the American Empire Denys Arcand Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation Sitting in Limbo John N. Smith Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation Dancing in the Dark Martha Henry (for acting) International Critics' Award Man Facing Southeast Eliseo Subiela Programme Gala Presentations English title Original title Director(s) Production country Children of a Lesser God Randa Haines United States The Decline of the American Empire Le Déclin de l'empire américain Denys Arcand Canada Down by Law Jim Jarmusch United States Kangaroo Tim Burstall Australia Malandro Ópera do Malandro Ruy Guerra Brazil, France 'night, Mother Tom Moore United StatesShtei Etzbaot MiTzidon Eli Cohen Israel Round Midnight Bertrand Tavernier United States That's Life Blake Edwards United States Where the River Runs Black Christopher Cain United States Canadian Perspective English title Original title Director(s) Production country 21-87 Arthur Lipsett Canada The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood Andy Jones, Michael Jones Along the Road to Altamira David Rimmer Anne Trister Léa Pool As Seen on TV David Rimmer The Big Adventure Colin Strayer Birds at Sunrise Joyce Wieland The Climb Donald Shebib Close to Home Rick Beairsto Confidential Bruce Pittman Dancing in the Dark Leon Marr The Dead Father Guy Maddin Divine Solitude Jean-Marc Larivière L'Élue Louise Lamarre Evixion Bashar Shbib The Final Battle Donald Brittain Fluxes Arthur Lipsett La Fuite Robert Cornellier Garbagemen Les Vidangeurs Camille Coudari Henri François Labonté Her Soil Is Gold Annette Mangaard Intimate Power Pouvoir intime Yves Simoneau It's a Party! Peg Campbell A Judgement in Stone Ousama Rawi Canada, United Kingdom Knock! Knock! Bruce McDonald Canada Linda Joy Linda Joy Busby, William D. MacGillivray Little Brother Watches Back Tom Thibault Loyalties Anne Wheeler Memory Lapse at the Waterfront Carol McBride Men: A Passion Playground Atom Egoyan N-Zone Arthur Lipsett Nion in the Kabaret de La Vita Jeremy Podeswa O, Dad! Jonathan Amitay ?O, Zoo!: The Making of a Fiction Film Philip Hoffman Overnight Jack Darcus Passiflora Fernand Bélanger, Dagmar Teufal Passion and Gasoline Mark Forler Ranch: The Alan Wood Ranch Project Steven DeNure, Chris Lowry Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child Alanis Obomsawin Sitting in Limbo John N. Smith Sonia Paule Baillargeon There Is a Rally Keith Hlady A Trip Down Memory Lane Arthur Lipsett Triptych Bev Brigham Turbo Concerto Martin Barry Up Against the Looking Glass Bruce Worrall Urban Menace Patricia Rozema Very Nice, Very Nice Arthur Lipsett The Wake Carolyn McLuskie Welcome to the Parade Stuart Clarfield White Museum Mike Hoolboom Contemporary World Cinema English title Original title Director(s) Production country 40 Square Meters of Germany 40 Quadratmeter Deutschland Tevfik Başer West Germany Abel Alex van Warmerdam Netherlands Almacita, Soul of Desolato Almacita di desolato Felix de Rooy Netherlands Amorosa Mai Zetterling Sweden Black and White Noir et Blanc Claire Devers France The Blind Director Alexander Kluge West Germany Beautiful Weather, but Storms in the Afternoon Beau temps mais orageux en fin de journée Gérard Frot-Coutaz France Blue Velvet David Lynch United States Butterfly and Flowers Phisuea Lae Dokmai Euthana Mukdasanit Thailand Cactus Paul Cox Australia Caravaggio Derek Jarman United Kingdom Desert of Love Die Liebeswüste Lothar Lambert West Germany Devil in the Flesh Il diavolo in corpo Marco Bellocchio Italy Eat the Peach Peter Ormrod Ireland Evening Dress Tenue de soirée Bertrand Blier France Fatherland Ken Loach United Kingdom Flight North Flucht in den Norden Ingemo Engström West Germany, Finland Genesis Mrinal Sen India Golden Eighties Chantal Akerman Belgium, France, Switzerland Gonza the Spearman Yari no gonza Masahiro Shinoda Japan How I Was Systematically Destroyed by an Idiot Kako sam sistematski uništen od idiota Slobodan Šijan Yugoslavia, France In the Wild Mountains Ye Shan Xueshu Yan China Infatuation 1/2 Duan qing Louis Tan Hong Kong Jumping Springen Jean-Pierre De Decker Belgium The Last Emperor Huo long Li Han-hsiang Hong Kong, Taiwan The Last Rendezvous Das letze rendezvous İsmet Elçi West Germany The Legend of Suram Fortress Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze Soviet Union (Georgia) Love Brewed in the African Pot Kwaw Ansah Ghana Max Havelaar Fons Rademakers Netherlands Mulberry Ppong Lee Doo-yong South Korea My Sweet Little Village Vesničko má středisková Jiří Menzel Czechoslovakia Nanou Conny Templeman France, United Kingdom Noisy Martha Nicht nichts ohne Dich Pia Frankenberg West Germany Now or Never Auf immer und Ewig Christel Buschmann West Germany N'tturudu Umbañ U Kset Guinea-Bissau On Valentine's Day Ken Harrison United States Place of Weeping Afrika - Land der Hoffnung Darrell Roodt South Africa A Portuguese Goodbye Um Adeus Português João Botelho Portugal The Ppperformer De kKKomediant Casper Verbrugge Netherlands Red Kiss Rouge baiser Véra Belmont France River's Edge Tim Hunter United States Rosa the Rose, Streetwalker Rosa la rose, fille publique Paul Vecchiali France The Sacrifice Offret Andrei Tarkovsky Sweden, United Kingdom, France Scene of the Crime Le lieu du crime André Téchiné France Sexmission Seksmisja Juliusz Machulski Poland Shadey Philip Saville United Kingdom Shadow of Victory In de schaduw van de overwinning Ate de Jong Netherlands Sharp Like a Stone Kerikil-Kerikil Tajam Sjumandjaja Indonesia Shoot for the Sun Ian Knox United Kingdom Sid and Nancy Alex Cox United Kingdom Sleepwalk Sara Driver United States The Smile of the Lamb Hiuch HaGdi Shimon Dotan Israel Steaming Joseph Losey United Kingdom Summer Le Rayon vert Éric Rohmer France Super Citizen 超級市民 Wan Jen Taiwan Tampopo Juzo Itami Japan Thérèse Alain Cavalier France Time of Silence Tiempo de Silencio Vicente Aranda Spain The Unknown Soldier Tuntematon sotilas Rauni Mollberg Finland Welcome in Vienna Wohin und zurück - Teil 3: Welcome in Vienna Axel Corti Austria What Can I Do with a Male Nude? Ron Peck United States Who Kisses Too Much Qui trop embrasse Jacques Davila France Wives – Ten Years After Hustruer – ti år etter Anja Breien Norway The Wolf Girl Die Wolfsbraut Dagmar Beiersdorf West Germany Working Girls Lizzie Borden United States A Zed & Two Noughts Peter Greenaway United Kingdom, Netherlands Zina Ken McMullen United Kingdom Documentaries English title Original title Director(s) Production country 1/2 Man 1/2 Mensch Gakuryu Ishii Japan And the Pursuit of Happiness La poursuite du bonheur Louis Malle United States Are We Winning, Mommy? America and the Cold War Barbara Margolis United States China: The Arts – The People China. Die Künste – der Alltag Ulrike Ottinger West Germany Dead End Kids JoAnne Akalaitis United States Father Balweg, Rebel Priest Tikoy Aguiluz Philippines Film Before Film Was geschah wirklich zwischen den Bildern? Werner Nekes West Germany Forest of Bliss Robert Gardner United States Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age Dennis O'Rourke Australia Hitchcock: The Thrill of Genius Hitchcock: Il Brivido Del Genio Francesco Bortolini, Claudio Masenza Italy Jimi Plays Monterey D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus United States Krebs Bruce Krebs United States Lily Tomlin Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill United States Mix-Up Mix-Up ou Méli-mélo Françoise Romand France Mother Teresa Ann Petrie, Jeanette Petrie United States My Life for Zarah Leander Christian Blackwood United States Nik and Murray: The Dances of Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Christian Blackwood United States Partisans of Vilna Joshua Waletzky United States Routine Pleasures Jean-Pierre Gorin United Kingdom, France, West Germany Sera Posible El Sur Stefan Paul West Germany Sherman's March Ross McElwee United States Shoah Claude Lanzmann France The Thousand and One Daisies Les mille et une marguerites Pierre Philippe France Tosca's Kiss Il Bacio di Tosca Daniel Schmid Switzerland 20/20 English title Original title Director(s) Production country Alpine Fire Höhenfeuer Fredi M. Murer Switzerland El amor brujo Carlos Saura Spain The Assault De aanslag Fons Rademakers Netherlands Belizaire the Cajun Glen Pitre United States Betty Blue 37°2 le matin Jean-Jacques Beineix France Big Trouble John Cassavetes United States Burke & Wills Graeme Clifford Australia Come and See Elem Klimov Soviet Union (Belarus) Comic Magazine Komikku zasshi nanka iranai! Yōjirō Takita Japan Defence of the Realm David Drury United Kingdom A Great Wall 北京故事 Peter Wang United States I Hate Actors Je hais les actors Gérard Krawczyk France Jive After Five Crispin Reece United Kingdom Let's Hope It's a Girl Speriamo che sia femmina Mario Monicelli Italy Malcolm Nadia Tass Australia Men... Männer... Doris Dörrie West Germany The More Things Change... Robyn Nevin Australia My Life as a Dog Mitt liv som hund Lasse Hallström Sweden Rosa Luxemburg Margarethe von Trotta West Germany She's Gotta Have It Spike Lee United States Seize the Day Fielder Cook United States Stammheim: The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial Stammheim – Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe vor Gericht Reinhard Hauff West Germany Latin America: Winds of Change English title Original title Director(s) Production country Acta General de Chile Miguel Littín Chile The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin Las aventuras de Juan Quin Quin Julio García Espinosa Cuba ...And God Created Them Díos los Cría... Jacobo Morales Puerto Rico Avaete, Seed of Revenge Avaeté: Semente da Vingança Zelito Viana Brazil Barren Lives Vidas secas Nelson Pereira dos Santos Brazil The Battle of Chile La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin armas Patricio Guzmán Chile Black God, White Devil Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol Glauber Rocha Brazil Blood of the Condor Sangre de cóndor Jorge Sanjinés Bolivia The Brickmakers Chiracles Marta Rodriguez, Jorge Silva Colombia Canoa: A Shameful Memory Canoa: memoria de un hecho vergonzoso Felipe Cazals Mexico Carlos Mario Handler Uruguay The Center Fielder El center fielder Ramiro Lacayo-Deshon Nicaragua Children of the Cold War Hijos de la guerra fría Gonzalo Justiniano Chile Chronicle of a Boy Alone Crónica de un niño solo Leonardo Favio Argentina Chuquiago Antonio Eguino Bolivia The City and the Dogs La ciudad y los perros Francisco José Lombardi Peru The Conspirators Os Inconfidentes Joaquim Pedro de Andrade Brazil The Courage of the People El coraje del pueblo Jorge Sanjinés Bolivia The Days of June Los dias de junio Alberto Fischerman Argentina Death of a Bureaucrat La muerte de un burócrata Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Cuba Diamond Diamante Gerardo Lara Mexico Dona Herlinda and Her Son Doña Herlinda y su hijo Jaime Humberto Hermosillo Mexico El Salvador: The People Will Win El Salvador: El pueblo vencerá Diego de la Texera El Salvador Elecciones Mario Handler Uruguay Entranced Earth Terra em Transe Glauber Rocha Brazil The Fall A Queda Ruy Guerra, Nelson Xavier Brazil The First Charge of the Machete La primera carga al machete Manuel Octavio Gómez Cuba Flooded Out Los inundados Fernando Birri Argentina For the First Time Por Primera Vez Octavio Cortazar Cuba Frida Still Life Frida, naturaleza viva Paul Leduc Mexico Gaijin: Roads to Freedom Gaijin – Caminhos da Liberdade Tizuka Yamasaki Brazil Gamín Ciro Durán Colombia Ganga Zumba Carlos Diegues Brazil The General's Daughter De todos modos Juan te llamas Marcela Fernandez Violante Mexico Gregorio Fernando Espinoza Peru The Guns Os Fuzis Ruy Guerra Brazil Hanoi: Tuesday the 13th Hanoi, Martes 13 Santiago Alvarez Cuba The Hour of the Furnaces La hora de los hornos Octavio Getino, Fernando Solanas Argentina Hour of the Star A Hora da Estrela Suzana Amaral Brazil The House of Water La casa de agua Jacobo Penzo Venezuela In the Jungle There Is Much to Do En la selva hay mucho por hacer Walter Tournier Uruguay An Island for Miguel Una isla para Miguel Sara Gómez Cuba Jackal of Nahueltoro El Chacal de Nahueltoro Miguel Littín Chile Julio Begins in July Julio comienza en julio Silvio Caiozzi Chile LBJ Santiago Alvarez Cuba Little Revenge Pequeña revancha Olegario Barrera Monteverde Venezuela Love Around the Corner Amor a la vuelta de la esquina Alberto Cortés Mexico Love Me Forever or Never Eu sei que vou te amar Arnaldo Jabor Brazil Lucía Humberto Solás Cuba Macario Roberto Gavaldón Mexico Malabrigo Alberto Durant Peru Man Facing Southeast Hombre mirando al sudeste Eliseo Subiela Argentina A Man of Principle Cóndores no entierran todos los días Francisco Norden Colombia Mary My Dearest María de mi corazón Jaime Humberto Hermosillo Mexico Memoirs of Prison Memórias do Cárcere Nelson Pereira dos Santos Brazil Memories of Underdevelopment Memorias del Subdesarrollo Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Cuba Mexican Bus Ride Subida al cielo Luis Buñuel Mexico Miss Mary María Luisa Bemberg Argentina Missing Children Niños desaparecidos Estela Bravo Cuba The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo Susana Blaustein Muñoz, Lourdes Portillo Argentina Murder in the Senate Asesinato en el senado de la nación Juan José Jusid Argentina Nobody's Wife Señora de nadie María Luisa Bemberg Argentina Now Santiago Alvarez Cuba One Way or Another De Cierta Manera Sara Gómez Cuba An Ordinary Day Nicolás y los demás Jacobo Morales Puerto Rico The Other Francisco El otro Francisco Sergio Giral Cuba Parting of the Ways Lejania Jesús Díaz Cuba The Party Is Over Fin de fiesta Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Argentina Patakin Means Fable ¡Patakín! quiere decir ¡fábula! Manuel Octavio Gómez Cuba Pedro Páramo Carlos Velo Mexico A Photograph Goes Around the World Una foto recorre el mundo Pedro Chaskel Cuba Poor Butterfly Pobre mariposa Raúl de la Torre Argentina Portrait of Teresa Retrato de Teresa Pastor Vega Cuba The Promised Land La tierra prometida Miguel Littín Chile Rebellion in Patagonia La Patagonia rebelde Héctor Olivera Argentina Reed: Insurgent Mexico Reed, México insurgente Paul Leduc Mexico Revolution Revolución Jorge Sanjinés Bolivia Rio, 100 Degrees F. Rio, 40 Graus Nelson Pereira dos Santos Brazil S. Bernardo São Bernardo Leon Hirszman Brazil The Smoking Fish El Pez que Fuma Román Chalbaud Venezuela Story of a Battle Historia de una batalla Manuel Octavio Gómez Cuba Tangos, the Exile of Gardel Tangos, el exilio de Gardel Fernando Solanas Argentina, France Those Will Pass Estós Si Pasarán Rossana Lacayo Nicaragua Three Times Ana Tres veces Ana David José Kohon Argentina Time for Revenge Tiempo de revancha Adolfo Aristarain Argentina Time of the Wolves Tiempo de lobos Alberto Isaac Mexico Time to Die Tiempo de morir Jorge Alí Triana Colombia Toss Me a Dime Tire dié Fernando Birri Argentina The Traitors Los Traidores Raymundo Gleyzer Argentina The Twelve Chairs Las doce sillas Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Cuba We Will Never Surrender Nunca nos rendiremos Fernando Somarriba Nicaragua The Wedding La Boda Thaelman Urguelles Venezuela Open Vault English title Original title Director(s) Production country Bullfighter and the Lady Budd Boetticher United States The Desert Song Robert Florey United States Doctor X Michael Curtiz United States For the Term of His Natural Life Norman Dawn Australia Lost Horizon Frank Capra United States Mystery of the Wax Museum Michael Curtiz United States Oedipus Rex Tyrone Guthrie Canada Paid Sam Wood United States Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans F. W. Murnau United States You'll Never Get Rich Sidney Lanfield United States Close Encounters A new program introduced this year, which featured talks by filmmakers about their work.Greg Burliuk, "Toronto festival is a movie buff's dream". Kingston Whig-Standard, August 22, 1986. Richard Edlund Gabriel Figueroa Milos Forman John Schlesinger References External links Official site TIFF: A Reel History: 1976 - 2012 1986 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb 1986 Category:1986 film festivals Category:1986 in Toronto Category:1986 in Canadian cinema Category:September 1986 in Canada