The 9th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 6 and September 15, 1984.
The festival screened 225 feature films and more than half of them were Canadian films. This included the introduction of the dedicated Perspective stream, which remained in place until the 2010s as the festival's primary platform for new Canadian films, as well as Front and Centre, a special retrospective program of historically and artistically significant Canadian films, and Late Night, Great Nights, a late-night program of Canadian genre and cult films resembling the festival's later Midnight Madness program.Bart Testa, "Gamble on an orgy of Canadiana pays off". The Globe and Mail, September 15, 1984.
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."Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time ," The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2012, URL accessed October 18, 2013.
Awards Award"TIFF Awards" . tiff.net, October 16, 2013. Film Director 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 In addition to the film programs noted below, a special tribute event was held to honour actor Warren Beatty for his career, including a special presentation of his films Bonnie and Clyde and Shampoo.Jay Scott, "Festival of Festivals to honor reclusive star: Beatty selected for Tribute". The Globe and Mail, July 10, 1984.
Gala Presentations English title Original title Director(s) Production country All of Me Carl Reiner United States The Bay Boy Daniel Petrie Canada The Brother from Another Planet John Sayles United States Carmen Francesco Rosi France, Italy Full Moon in Paris Les nuits de la pleine lune Éric Rohmer France The Hit Stephen Frears United Kingdom The Holy Innocents Los santos inocentes Mario Camus Spain Paris, Texas Wim Wenders West Germany, France Places in the Heart Robert Benton United States A Soldier's Story Norman Jewison United States Stop Making Sense Jonathan Demme United States
Contemporary World Cinema English title Original title Director(s) Production country Another Country Marek Kanievska United Kingdom Banana Cop Ying lun pi pa Po-Chih Leong Hong Kong, United Kingdom Before Dawn Di 8 dian Clarence Fok Hong Kong Bless Their Little Hearts Billy Woodberry United States Blood Simple Joel Coen and Ethan Coen United States Boy Meets Girl Leos Carax France Choose Me Alan Rudolph United States The Company of Wolves Neil Jordan United Kingdom Constance Bruce Morrison New Zealand The Courage of Others Le Courage des autres Christian Richard Burkina Faso, France Diary for My Children Napló gyermekeimnek Márta Mészáros Hungary Embers Glut Thomas Koerfer Switzerland, West Germany A Flash of Green Victor Nuñez United States Flight to Berlin Chris Petit West Germany, United Kingdom Funny Dirty Little War No habrá más penas ni olvido Héctor Olivera Argentina Ghost Dance Ken McMullen United Kingdom Giovanni Annette Apon Netherlands The Gold Diggers Sally Potter United Kingdom The Goodbye People Herb Gardner United States Hotel New York Jackie Raynal United States The Illusionist De illusionist Jos Stelling Netherlands Lothar Lambert Trio: Fraulein Berlin, Paso Doble, Drama in Blonde Lothar Lambert West Germany Love Is the Beginning of All Terror Der beginn aller schrecken ist die liebe Helke Sander West Germany Man Without Memory Mann ohne Gedächtnis Kurt Gloor Switzerland The Manbird De vogelmens Casper Verbrugge Netherlands Memed, My Hawk Peter Ustinov United Kingdom, Yugoslavia Mixed Blood Paul Morrissey United States Naughty Boys Eric de Kuyper Belgium, Netherlands Old Enough Marisa Silver United States On Guard Susan Lambert Australia Orinoko, New World Orinoko, nuevo mundo Diego Rísquez Venezuela Our Story Notre histoire Bertrand Blier France Paris Seen By... 20 Years After Paris vu par... 20 ans après Chantal Akerman, Bernard Dubois, Philippe Garrel, Frédéric Mitterrand, Vincent Nordon, Philippe Venault France Paweogo (The Emigrant) L'Émigrant Kollo Sanou Burkina Faso The Power of Emotion Die Macht der Gefühle Alexander Kluge West Germany The Ruins Khandhar Mrinal Sen India Salome Laurice Guillen Philippines Secret Honor Robert Altman United States Secret Places Zelda Barron United Kingdom The Stilts Los Zancos Carlos Saura Spain Stranger Than Paradise Jim Jarmusch United States Swann in Love Un amour de Swann / Eine Liebe von Swann Volker Schlöndorff France, West Germany The Terence Davies Trilogy: Children, Madonna and Child, Death and Transfiguration Terence Davies United Kingdom Three Crowns of the Sailor Les trois couronnes du matelot Raúl Ruiz France Voro-Nova Dirk Rijneke, Mildred Van Leeuwaarden Netherlands The Voyage Le Voyage Michel Andrieu France White Madness De Witte Waan Adriaan Ditvoorst Netherlands White Trash Kanakerbraut Uwe Schrader West Germany Wildrose John Hanson United States
Canadian Perspective English title Original title Director(s) Production country Abortion: Stories From North and South Gail Singer Canada Alex Colville: The Splendour of Order Don Hutchison Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair Paul Cowan The Future Interior Le futur intérieur Yolaine Rouleau, Jean Chabot Hey Babe! Rafal Zielinski The International Style John Paizs Le jour S... Jean Pierre Lefebvre Listen to the City Ron Mann Low Visibility Patricia Gruben Mario Jean Beaudin The Masculine Mystique Giles Walker, John N. Smith Next of Kin Atom Egoyan The Obsession of Billy Botski John Paizs Revolutions, at Last, Forever and Ever Révolutions, d'ébats amoureux, éperdus, douloureux Jean-Marc Larivière Rock & Rule Clive A. Smith Snowscreen Michael Snow Sonatine Micheline Lanctôt Springtime in Greenland John Paizs Unfinished Business Don Owen Walls Tom Shandel A Woman in Transit La Femme de l'hôtel Léa Pool The Years of Dreams and Revolt Les Années de rêves Jean-Claude Labrecque
Stranger Than Fiction: Documentaries English title Original title Director(s) Production country Before Stonewall Robert Rosenberg, Greta Schiller, John Scagliotti United States Beyond Sorrow, Beyond Pain Smärtgränsen Agneta Elers-Jarleman Sweden Burroughs Howard Brookner United States Father and Son Vater und Sohn Thomas Mitscherlich West Germany The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, Sam Sills United States The Gospel According to Al Green Robert Mugge United States Hell's Kitchen Chronicle Maren Erskine, Reed Erskine United States I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes, the Man and His Work Michael Ventura United States Improper Conduct Mauvaise conduite Néstor Almendros, Orlando Jiménez Leal France In Heaven There Is No Beer? Les Blank United States Notes from Under the Volcano Gary Conklin United States Orson Welles at the Cinemathèque Orson Welles à la Cinémathèque française Pierre-André Boutang, Guy Seligmann France Patu! Merata Mita New Zealand Robert Frank: The Image of Poetry Robert Frank: l'immagine della poesia Giampiero Tartagni Switzerland Room 666 Chambre 666 Wim Wenders France, West Germany Shadows from Light Stephen Dwoskin United Kingdom Sprout Wings and Fly Les Blank United States Style Wars Tony Silver United States Ten Days in Calcutta 10 Tage in Calcutta Reinhard Hauff West Germany The Times of Harvey Milk Rob Epstein United States Twenty Years of African Cinema Caméra d'Afrique Férid Boughedir Tunisia Vietnam: The Secret Agent Jacki Ochs United States War Lab Kriegslabor Monica Maurer West Germany
Two-Way Streets Formerly known as Culture Under Pressure, this program features films about social and political interaction between different cultures.
English title Original title Director(s) Production country Another Time, Another Place Michael Radford United Kingdom Argie Jorge Blanco Argentina, France Dog Race Hunderennen Bernard Safarik Switzerland The Estonians: For the Record Tiina Soomet Canada Incident at Restigouche Alanis Obomsawin Canada The Princes Les Princes Tony Gatlif France A Season in Hakkari Hakkâri'de Bir Mevsim Erden Kıral Turkey Silver City Sophia Turkiewicz Australia Skyline La línea del cielo Fernando Colomo Spain Spadina David Troster Canada The Taking of Samiland Mo Sámi váldet Skule Eriksen, Kåre Tannvik Norway Where the Green Ants Dream Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen Werner Herzog West Germany
Front & Centre Front & Centre was a special one-off program, which screened culturally and artistically important films from throughout the entire history of Canadian cinema.Jay Scott, "Mon Oncle Antoine No. 1 with critics". The Globe and Mail, August 2, 1984.
English title Original title Director(s) Production country Back to God's Country (1919) David Hartford Canada The Bitter Ash (1963) Larry Kent Blue Winter (1979) L'hiver bleu André Blanchard The Cat in the Bag (1964) Le chat dans le sac Gilles Groulx Convicted (1937) Leon Barsha Dirty Money (1972) La Maudite Galette Denys Arcand Don't Let It Kill You (1967) Il ne faut pas mourir pour ça Jean Pierre Lefebvre Dream Life (1972) La Vie rêvée Mireille Dansereau Gina (1975) Denys Arcand Goin' Down the Road (1970) Donald Shebib Good Riddance (1980) Les Bons débarras Francis Mankiewicz High (1967) Larry Kent J.A. Martin Photographer (1977) J.A. Martin photographe Jean Beaudin The Last Betrothal (1973) Les dernières fiançailles Jean Pierre Lefebvre Little Aurore's Tragedy (1952) La petite Aurore: l'enfant martyre Jean-Yves Bigras Lucky Corrigan (1936) Lewis D. Collins A Married Couple (1969) Allan King Montreal Main (1974) Frank Vitale The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (1977) Le Vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort Jean Pierre Lefebvre The Only Thing You Know (1971) Clarke Mackey Orders (1974) Les Ordres Michel Brault Paperback Hero (1973) Peter Pearson Pour la suite du monde (1963) Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière, Pierre Perrault Proxyhawks (1971) Jack Darcus Réjeanne Padovani (1973) Denys Arcand The River Schooners (1968) Les Voitures d'eau Pierre Perrault The Rowdyman (1971) Peter Carter A Scream from Silence (1979) Mourir à tue-tête Anne Claire Poirier Skip Tracer (1977) Zale Dalen Stations (1983) William D. MacGillivray The Time of the Hunt (1972) Le Temps d'une chasse Francis Mankiewicz The Times That Are (1966) Le règne du jour Pierre Perrault The True Nature of Bernadette (1972) La Vraie nature de Bernadette Gilles Carle Wedding in White (1972) William Fruet When Tomorrow Dies (1965) Larry Kent Whispering City (1947) Fedor Ozep Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977) Silvio Narizzano Winter Kept Us Warm (1965) David Secter
Eyes Write Programmed in collaboration with the Harbourfront Centre, Eyes Write featured a selection of film adaptations of Canadian and international literature.William French, "Golfing pollsters tried to stymie Hitler's war plan". The Globe and Mail, September 4, 1984.
English title Original title Director(s) Production country The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Ted Kotcheff Canada Back to Beulah Eric Till Canada The Blood of Others Le Sang des autres Claude Chabrol France, Canada, United States The Crime of Ovide Plouffe Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe Denys Arcand Canada Gentle Sinners Eric Till Canada Now That April's Here William Davidson Canada Snowbird Peter Pearson Canada The Wars Robin Phillips Canada
Border Crossings Films which represent some form of collaboration between the Canadian and international film industries, such as international actors and filmmakers working in Canada, or Canadians working on international films.