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2003 Toronto International Film Festival

{{short description|2003 film festival edition}}

{{Infobox film festival

| name = 2003 Toronto International Film Festival

| image = 2003 Toronto International Film Festival poster.jpg

| caption = Festival poster

| host = Toronto International Film Festival Group

| number = 336 films

| opening = The Barbarian Invasions{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/tiff-openers/|title=TIFF: A history of opening nights|accessdate=October 19, 2013 | work=CBC News}}

| closing = Danny Deckchair{{cite web|url=http://www.reelviews.net/tiff2003/tiff2003_10.html|title=2003 TIFF Update #10: "Last Rites"|accessdate=October 19, 2013}}

| location = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

| language = English

| date = {{Start date|2003|09|04}}–{{End date|2003|09|13}}

| website = {{URL|tiff.net}}

}}

The 28th 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.{{cite web|url=http://tiff.net/pdfs/TIFF2003AnnualReport.pdf|title=2003 Toronto International Film Festival Annual report|accessdate=October 11, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalhit.com/fest/tiff/2003/2003films.shtml |title=28th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films (TIFF 2003) |publisher=DigitalHit.com |date=2003-08-19 |accessdate=2011-08-02| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070928104654/http://www.digitalhit.com/fest/tiff/2003/2003films.shtml| archivedate=September 28, 2007| url-status= live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/2003_toronto_international_film_festival_selects_252_feature_films|title=2003 Toronto International Film Festival Selects 252 Feature Films|accessdate=October 11, 2013}}

Awards

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Award[http://tiff.net/thefestival/festivalawards/awardsarchive "Awards"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927032100/http://tiff.net/thefestival/festivalawards/awardsarchive |date=2012-09-27 }}. tiff.net, October 11, 2013.

! Film

! Director

People's Choice Award

| Zatōichi

| Takeshi Kitano{{cite web|url=http://web-jpn.org/trends/arts/art031111.html|title=SILVER SCREEN SUCCESS|accessdate=October 11, 2013|archive-date=January 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170122152501/http://web-jpn.org/trends/arts/art031111.html|url-status=dead}}

Discovery Award

| Rhinoceros Eyes

| Aaron Woodley

Best Canadian Feature Film

| The Barbarian Invasions

| Denys Arcand

Best Canadian First Feature Film

| Love, Sex and Eating the Bones

| Sudz Sutherland

Best Canadian Short Film

| Aspiration

| Constant Mentzas

FIPRESCI International Critics' Award

| Noviembre

| Achero Mañas

Programmes

=Viacom Galas=

=Canadian Open Vault=

=Canadian Retrospective=

=Contemporary World Cinema=

=Dialogues: Talking With Pictures=

=Spotlight=

=Discovery=

=Masters=

=Midnight Madness=

{{cite web|url=http://www.ultra8.ca/content2/mmhistory.html|title=History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme|accessdate=October 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019173241/http://www.ultra8.ca/content2/mmhistory.html|archive-date=2013-10-19|url-status=dead}}

=National Cinema=

=Perspective Canada=

=Planet Africa=

=Real to Reel=

=Special Presentations=

=Visions=

=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

Canada's Top Ten

TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list, its national critics and festival programmers poll of the ten best feature and short films of the year, was released in December 2003."Canada's Top 10 films". Peterborough Examiner, December 18, 2003.

References

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External links

  • [http://www.tiff.net Official site]
  • [https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000659/2003 2003 Toronto International Film Festival] at IMDb

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