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Opening film | Cousin Cousine [1] |
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Closing film | Queen of the Gypsies [2] |
Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Hosted by | Toronto International Film Festival Group |
No. of films | 127 feature films |
Festival date | October 18, 1976[2] | –October 24, 1976
Language | English |
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The 1st Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place at Windsor Arms Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada between October 18 and October 24, 1976. [2] Initially its name was Festival of Festivals, which remained until 1994 after which it became the Toronto International Film Festival. [3] [4] It showcased 127 feature films from 30 different countries with the audience of 35,000. It featured some of the best films from film festivals around the world. [5] [6] [7] [8] Most of the Hollywood studios later withdrew their submissions citing reason that Toronto audiences would be too parochial for their films. [9] Cousin Cousine, a French film directed by Jean-Charles Tacchella was selected as the opening film and screened at Ontario Place Cinesphere [1] [10] [11] [12] and Queen of the Gypsies was the closing film. [2] German cinema was focused upon, with films from German directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog. [6]
Producer Dino De Laurentiis, screened a 90-second preview of his then-unreleased King Kong at the festival. [13]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Cousin Cousine | Jean-Charles Tacchella | France | |
Illustrious Corpses | Cadaveri eccellenti | Francesco Rosi | Italy, France |
Death Race 2000 | Paul Bartel | United States | |
Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven | Табор уходит в небо | Emil Loteanu | Soviet Union |
Lumière | Jeanne Moreau | France, Italy | |
Dersu Uzala | Akira Kurosawa | Soviet Union, Japan | |
Adoption | Örökbefogadás | Márta Mészáros | Hungary |
Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven | Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
The Devil's Playground | Fred Schepisi | Australia | |
Bernice Bobs Her Hair | Joan Micklin Silver | United States | |
The Best Way to Walk | La meilleure façon de marcher | Claude Miller | France |
Kings of the Road | Im Lauf der Zeit | Wim Wenders | West Germany |
Heart of Glass | Herz aus Glas | Werner Herzog | West Germany |
Wellspring of My World | Herfra min verden går | Christian Braad Thomsen | Denmark |
Wives | Hustruer | Anja Breien | Norway |
Cantata de Chile | Humberto Solás | Cuba | |
Submission | Scandalo | Salvatore Samperi | Italy |
Harvest: 3,000 Years | ምርት ሦስት ሺህ ዓመት | Haile Gerima | Ethiopia |
Independence Day | Bobby Roth | United States |
The Canadian Cinema program had been slated to include Don Owen's film Partners, but it was pulled from the festival at the last minute after a dispute with the Ontario Censor Board about a brief sex scene in the film. [14]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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The Absence | L'Absence | Brigitte Sauriol | Canada |
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane | Nicolas Gessner | France, Canada | |
A Pacemaker and a Sidecar | L'Eau chaude, l'eau frette | André Forcier | Canada |
The Supreme Kid | Peter Bryant | Canada |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Grey Gardens | Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer | United States | |
Harlan County, USA | Barbara Kopple | United States | |
Hollywood on Trial | David Helpern | United States | |
Not a Pretty Picture | Martha Coolidge | United States |