2004 Toronto International Film Festival

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox film festival The 29th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 9 through September 18. The festival screened 328 films of which 253 were features and 75 were shorts (148 of the films screened were in a language other than English).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Awards

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People's Choice Award Hotel Rwanda Terry George
Discovery Award Omagh Pete Travis
Best Canadian Feature Film It's All Gone Pete Tong Michael Dowse
Best Canadian Feature Film – Special Jury Citation Scared Sacred Velcrow Ripper
Best Canadian First Feature Film White Skin Daniel Roby
Best Canadian Short Film Man. Feel. Pain. Dylan Akio Smith
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award In My Father's Den Brad McGann

No first or second runners-up were officially named for the People's Choice Award; however, festival director Piers Handling did provide the media with a list of numerous other films that had been in the running, including Crash, Gunner Palace, I, Claudia, Up and Down, 3-Iron, Ma Mère, The Holy Girl, Red Dust, Brides, Saving Face and Sideways.<ref>Liam Lacey, "Hotel Rwanda wins top festival prize". The Globe and Mail, September 20, 2004.</ref>

Programmes

Canada First

Canadian Open Vault

Canadian Retrospective

Contemporary World Cinema

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

Discovery

Masters

Midnight Madness

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National Cinema Program

Planet Africa

Real to Reel

Short Cuts Canada

Special Presentations

Special events

Viacom Galas

Visions

Wavelengths

Canada's Top Ten

The festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list was announced in December.<ref>"Best films tells diverse stories; Top Ten Canadian movies honoured New filmmakers being recognized". Toronto Star, December 15, 2004.</ref>

Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time

In 2004 a new Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time list was made, an exercise previously carried out in 1984 and 1993.<ref>"Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time Template:Webarchive," The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2012, URL accessed 28 April 2013.</ref>

Rank Title Year Director
1 Mon oncle Antoine 1971 Claude Jutra
2 Jesus of Montreal 1989 Denys Arcand
3 Goin' Down the Road 1970 Don Shebib
4 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan
5 Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner 2002 Zacharias Kunuk
6 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg
7 Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) 1980 Francis Mankiewicz
8 Orders (Les Ordres) 1974 Michel Brault
9 The Decline of the American Empire 1986 Denys Arcand
10 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 Denys Arcand

References

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