The 26th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 6 to September 15, 2001. There were 326 films (249 feature films, 77 short films) from 54 countries scheduled to be screened during the ten-day festival. During a hastily arranged press conference on September 11, Festival director Piers Handling and managing director Michelle Maheux announced that 30 public screenings and 20 press screenings would be cancelled during the sixth day of the festival due to the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. The festival resumed for the final four days though some films were cancelled because the film prints could not reach Toronto due to flight restrictions.

Awards

Programmes

Viacom Galas

Cet Amour-là by Josée Dayan

Dark Blue World by Jan Sverák

Enigma by Michael Apted

From Hell by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes

Hearts in Atlantis by Scott Hicks

Lantana by Ray Lawrence

The Last Kiss by Gabriele Muccino

Last Orders by Fred Schepisi

Last Wedding by Bruce Sweeney

Life as a House by Irwin Winkler

Monsoon Wedding by Mira Nair

No Man's Land by Danis Tanovic

Novocaine by David Atkins

Serendipity by Peter Chelsom

Taking Sides by István Szabó

Tosca by Benoît Jacquot

Training Day by Antoine Fuqua

The Triumph of Love by Clare Peploe

Canadian Open Vault

The Grey Fox by Phillip Borsos

Contemporary World Cinema

À ma soeur! by Catherine Breillat

Abandoned by Árpád Sopsits

Absolutely Fabulous (Absolument fabuleux) by Gabriel Aghion

Address Unknown by Kim Ki-duk

All About Lily Chou-Chou by Shunji Iwai

Après la réconciliation by Anne-Marie Miéville

Asoka by Santosh Sivan

Ball in the House by Tanya Wexler

Baran by Majid Majidi

Beijing Bicycle by Wang Xiaoshuai

The Believer by Henry Bean

Big Bad Love by Arliss Howard

Birthday Girl by Jez Butterworth

Brainstorm by Laís Bodanzky

Broken Silence by Montxo Armendáriz

The Business of Strangers by Patrick Stettner

C'est la vie by Jean-Pierre Améris

La Ciénaga by Lucrecia Martel

La Commune (Paris, 1871) by Peter Watkins

The Daughter of Keltoum by Mehdi Charef

The Days Between by Maria Speth

Deathrow by Joel Lamangan

Delbaran by Abolfazl Jalili

Distance by Hirokazu Kore-Eda

A Dog's Day by Murali Nair

Drift by Michiel van Jaarsveld

Dust by Milcho Manchevski

Eden by Amos Gitaï

L'Emploi du temps by Laurent Cantet

The Fluffer by Richard Glatzer and Wash West

Get a Life by João Canijo

The Grey Zone by Tim Blake Nelson

Harmful Insect by Akihiko Shiota

Hi, Tereska by Robert Glinski

The Hired Hand by Peter Fonda

Honey For Oshún by Humberto Solás

How Harry Became a Tree by Goran Paskaljević

Hush! by Ryosuke Hashiguchi

Ignorant Fairies by Ferzan Özpetek

Jan Dara by Nonzee Nimibutr

The Jimmy Show by Frank Whaley

Kissing Jessica Stein by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld

Lagaan by Ashutosh Gowariker

Le Lait de la tendresse humaine by Dominique Cabrera

Lan Yu by Stanley Kwan

Late Marriage by Dover Kosashvili

Latitude Zero by Toni Venturi

Light of My Eyes by Giuseppe Piccioni

Loco Fever by Andrés Wood

Loin by André Téchiné

Lovely & Amazing by Nicole Holofcener

Lovely Rita by Jessica Hausner

The Man from Elysian Fields by George Hickenlooper

Manic by Jordan Melamed

Margarita Happy Hour by Ilya Chaiken

Markova: Comfort Gay by Gil M. Portes

Maya by Digvijay Singh

Mirror Image by Hsiao Ya-chuan

Musa - The Warrior by Kim Sung-su

My Kingdom by Don Boyd

Nine Queens by Fabián Bielinsky

No Shame by Joaquín Oristrell

The Only Journey of His Life by Lakis Papastathis

The Orphan of Anyang by Wang Chao

Otilia by Dana Rotberg

Passport by Péter Gothár

Pauline et Paulette by Lieven Debrauwer

Piñero by Leon Ichaso

Le Pornographe by Bertrand Bonello

The Quickie by Sergei Bodrov

Quitting by Zhang Yang

Rain by Christine Jeffs

Reines d'un jour by Marion Vernoux

Revolution#9 by Tim McCann

The Road by Darezhan Omirbaev

Samsara by Pan Nalin

Secret Ballot by Babak Payami

Sex and Lucia by Julio Médem

Silent Partner by Alkinos Tsilimidos

2001 Toronto International Film Festival