1977 Toronto International Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film	J.A. Martin Photographer[1]
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by	Toronto International Film Festival Group
Festival date	September 9, 1977 (1977-09-09)–September 18, 1977 (1977-09-18)
Language	English
Website	tiff.net

The 2nd Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 9 and September 18, 1977. Retrospective of Quebec cinema was introduced and also Greek cinema was emphasized.^[2][3] J.A. Martin Photographer directed by Jean Beaudin was selected as the opening film.^[1]

Chantal Akerman's film Je, tu, il, elle was pulled out of the festival by the Ontario Censor Board, over the objections of festival organizers, because of a scene featuring a kiss between two women.^[4]

• The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye) — Larisa Shepitko (Soviet Union)
• Bobby Deerfield — Sydney Pollack (United States)
• The Innocent (L'Innocente) — Luchino Visconti (Italy)
• J.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin photographe) — Jean Beaudin (Canada)
• Jacob the Liar (Jakob der Lügner) — Frank Beyer (Germany)
• Joseph Andrews — Tony Richardson (United Kingdom)
• One Man — Robin Spry (Canada)
• One Sings, the Other Doesn't (L'une chante, l'autre pas) — Agnès Varda (France)
• Outrageous! — Richard Benner (Canada)
• Solemn Communion (La Communion solemnelle) — René Féret (France)

• Caught
• The Earrings of Madame de...
• The Exile
• Letter from an Unknown Woman
• Liebelei
• Lola Montès
• Le Plaisir
• The Reckless Moment
• La Ronde

• The Bitter Tea of General Yen
• It Happened One Night
• It's a Wonderful Life
• The Miracle Woman
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Important historical films from Quebec, curated by Jean-Paul Bastien of the Cinémathèque québécoise.^[5]

• 15 novembre — Michel Brault
• À tout prendre — Claude Jutra
• Bar Salon — André Forcier
• The Cat in the Bag (Le Chat dans le sac) — Gilles Groulx
• Don't Let It Kill You (Il ne faut pas mourir pour ça) — Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• The Last Betrothal (Les derniers fiançailles) — Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• Little Tougas (Ti-Cul Tougas) — Jean-Guy Noël
• Manouane River Lumberjacks (Bûcherons de la Manouane) — Arthur Lamothe
• Ordinary Tenderness (Tendresse ordinaire) — Jacques Leduc
• Pour la suite du monde — Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière, Pierre Perrault
• The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl (Le Viol d'une jeune fille douce) — Gilles Carle
• Réjeanne Padovani — Denys Arcand
• The River Schooners (Les Voitures d'eau) — Pierre Perrault
• The True Nature of Bernadette (La Vraie Nature de Bernadette) — Gilles Carle
• The Vultures (Les Vautours) — Jean-Claude Labrecque
• Whispering City (La Forteresse) — Fedor Ozep

• O.K. ... Laliberté — Marcel Carrière

• Alice or the Last Escapade (Alice ou la dernière fugue) — Claude Chabrol
• The Ambassadors (Les Ambassadeurs) — Naceur Ktari
• Anatomy of a Relationship (Anatomie d'un rapport) — Luc Moullet, Antonietta Pizzorno
• Beluga Days (Le Beau plaisir) — Pierre Perrault, Michel Brault, Bernard Gosselin
• The Best Way to Walk (La meilleure façon de marcher) — Claude Miller
• Between the Lines — Joan Micklin Silver
• Born to Win — Ivan Passer
• Boudu Saved from Drowning (Boudu sauvé des eaux) — Jean Renoir
• Burn! (Queimada) — Gillo Pontecorvo
• But What Do They Want? (Mais qu'est-ce qu'elles veulent) — Coline Serreau
• The Cars That Ate Paris — Peter Weir
• La Cecilia — Jean-Louis Comolli
• Charlie and His Two Chicks (Charlie et ses deux nénettes) — Joël Séria
• Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette) — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• The Colors of Iris — Nikos Panayotopoulos
• Dance Squared (Danse carrée) — René Jodoin
• Diary of a Lover (Tagebuch eines Liebenden) — Sohrab Shahid-Saless
• Duel — Steven Spielberg
• Erica Minor — Bertrand Van Effenterre
• Essai à la mille — Jean-Claude Labrecque
• Eugénie de Sade — Jesús Franco
• Father (Apa) — István Szabó
• Gizmo! — Howard Smith
• The Fire Within (Le Feu follet) — Louis Malle
• The Fox and the Crow (Le Corbeau et le renard) — Pierre Hébert, Yves Leduc, Francine Desbiens, Michèle Pauzé
• The Gold of Naples (L'oro di Napoli) — Vittorio De Sica
• Happy Day — Pantelis Voulgaris
• Hell No Longer (Le mépris n'aura qu'un temps) — Arthur Lamothe
• Here Is Your Life (Här har du ditt liv) — Jan Troell
• Hollywood on Trial — David Helpern
• I Wish to Speak (Proshu slova) — Gleb Panfilov
• Images of China (Images de Chine) — Auguste François
• Iphigenia — Michael Cacoyannis
• Jean Carignan, Fiddler (Jean Carignan, violoneux) — Bernard Gosselin
• Jill Johnston October 1975-6 — Kay Armatage, Lydia Wazana
• Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff (Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff) — Yves Boisset
• Lions Love — Agnès Varda
• Mindscape (Le Paysagiste) — Jacques Drouin
• The Misfits — John Huston
• Monsieur Pointu — André Leduc, Bernard Longpré
• Mother of Many Children — Alanis Obomsawin
• The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (La Nuit de Saint-Germain-des-Prés) — Bob Swaim
• Nights of Cabiria — Federico Fellini
• Nine Months (Kilenc hónap) — Márta Mészáros
• Op Hop - Hop Op — Pierre Hébert
• Percé on the Rocks — Gilles Carle
• Planet Venus (Pianeta Venere) — Elda Tattoli
• La poulette grise — Norman McLaren
• Québec en silence — Gilles Gascon
• The Reason Why — Tasos Psarras
• Rhapsody in Two Languages — Gordon Sparling
• The Ride — Gerald Potterton
• Serpico — Sidney Lumet
• The Snowshoers (Les Raquetteurs) — Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx
• Steamboat Bill, Jr. — Charles Reisner
• La Strada — Federico Fellini
• Stroszek — Werner Herzog
• The Travelling Players (O Thiasos) — Theo Angelopoulos
• Umberto D. — Vittorio De Sica
• Such a Simple Game (Un jeu si simple) — Gilles Groulx
• Waterloo — Sergei Bondarchuk
• When Joseph Returns (Ha megjön József) — Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács
• When the Poppies Bloom Again (Dokter Pulder zaait papavers) — Bert Haanstra
• Wrestling (La lutte) — Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière, Claude Fournier, Claude Jutra

• Official site
• TIFF: A Reel History: 1976 – 2012