The 2002 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 5 to September 17 and screened 343 films from 50 countries. Of these 263 were feature films, of which 141 were in a language other than English. The ten-day festival opened with Atom Egoyan's Ararat and closed with Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale.
Read more about 2002 Toronto International Film Festival: Galas, Masters, Visions, Special Presentations, Dialogues: Talking With Pictures, Discovery, Real To Reel, Midnight Madness, Wavelengths, Canadian Open Vault, Perspective Canada, Contemporary World Cinema, Planet Africa, National Cinema Lineup -- Harvest: South Korean Renaissance, Canadian Retrospective -- Allan King, Director's Spotlight -- Robert Guédiguian, Two Feet, One Angel: A Tribute To Ramiro Puerta
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