1979 Toronto International Film Festival

Awards

Programme

Gala Presentations

• ...And Justice for All. by Norman Jewison
• Black Jack by Ken Loach
• Fish Hawk by Donald Shebib
• The Heritage by Anders Refn
• Legend of the Mountain by King Hu
• Linus and the Mysterious Red Brick House by Vilgot Sjöman
• Magicians of the Silver Screen by Jiří Menzel
• The Magician of Lublin by Menahem Golan
• A Man, a Woman, and a Bank by Noel Black
• The Marriage of Maria Braun by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• The Onion Field by Harold Becker
• Orchestra Rehearsal by Federico Fellini
• Quadrophenia by Franc Roddam
• Something Short of Paradise by David Helpern
• The Tempest by Derek Jarman
• Time After Time by Nicholas Meyer
• Us Two by Claude Lelouch

  Critics Choice

• 50/50 by Uwe Brandner
• Bastien, Bastienne by Michel Andrieu
• Drugstore Romance by Paul Vecchiali
• Germany in Autumn by Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert and Bernhard Sinkel
• Knife in the Head by Reinhard Hauff
• Northern Lights by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson
• To an Unknown God by Jaime Chávarri
• To Be Sixteen by Jean Pierre Lefebvre

  New Directions

• America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story by John Edwards
• Arthur Miller on Home Ground by Harry Rasky
• Blue Winter by André Blanchard
• Radio On by Christopher Petit
• The Sailor's Return by Jack Gold
• Scum by Alan Clarke
• Summer's Children by Julius Kohanyi
• Title Shot by Les Rose

  Documentaries

• Best Boy by Ira Wohl
• Chiefs by Richard Leacock
• Chronicle of a Summer by Jean Rouch
• The Drugstore by Joris Ivens
• The Football Incident by Joris Ivens
• The Handmaidens of God by Diane Létourneau
• Juvenile Court by Frederick Wiseman
• Juvenile Liaison by Nick Broomfield
• La La, Making It in L.A. by Frank Mouris and Caroline Mouris
• Les Raquetteurs by Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx
• Salesman by Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
• Solzhenitsyn's Children Are Making a Lot of Noise in Paris by Michael Rubbo
• This Will Do for Today by Martin Lavut

  Special Screenings

• Dinner for Adele by Oldřich Lipský
• Let's Talk About Love by Jean-Claude Lord
• Molière by Ariane Mnouchkine
• Stone Cold Dead by George Mendeluk
• Tierra y libertad by Maurice Bulbulian

  Buried Treasures

• The Confessions of Amans by Gregory Nava
• Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! by Russ Meyer
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle by Peter Yates
• The Green Wall by Armando Robles Godoy
• Night Moves by Arthur Penn
• Ruby by Dick Bartlett
• The Scenic Route by Mark Rappaport
• The Super Inframan by Hua Shan
• Who's That Knocking at My Door by Martin Scorsese

  Swedish Cinema

• The Man on the Roof by Bo Widerberg
• Men Can't Be Raped by Jörn Donner
• Near and Far Away by Marianne Ahrne
• One and One by Erland Josephson, Sven Nykvist and Ingrid Thulin
• A Respectable Life by Stefan Jarl
• The Score by Christer Dahl
• Sven Klang's Combo by Stellan Olsson
• A Walk in the Sun by Hans Dahlberg
• The Walls of Freedom by Marianne Ahrne

  German Cinema

• Bye-Bye Bavaria! by Herbert Achternbusch
• The Expulsion from Paradise by Niklaus Schilling
• The Main Actor by Reinhard Hauff
• Moritz, Dear Moritz by Hark Bohm
• On the Move by Adolf Winkelmann

  Luce Guilbeault

• Denyse Benoît, comedienne by Luce Guilbeault
• D'abord ménagères by Luce Guilbeault
• Passages by Nesya Shapiro Blue
• Réjeanne Padovani by Denys Arcand
• Some American Feminists by Luce Guilbeault

  Marguerite Duras

• Destroy, She Said
• India Song
• The Lorry
• La Musica
• Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert