The 12th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 10 and September 19, 1987. I've Heard the Mermaids Singing by Patricia Rozema was selected as the opening film.
The Princess Bride by Rob Reiner won the People's Choice Award at the festival. André the Giant, one of the stars of the film, sat on a girth constructed especially for him during the premiere of the film at the festival.
Awards
Programme
Galas
Aria by Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge and Julien Temple Boyfriends and Girlfriends by Eric Rohmer Dark Eyes by Nikita Mikhalkov The Glass Menagerie by Paul Newman I've Heard the Mermaids Singing by Patricia Rozema Night Zoo by Jean-Claude Lauzon Orphans by Alan J. Pakula The Princess Bride by Rob Reiner Sammy and Rosie Get Laid by Stephen Frears Too Outrageous! by Richard Benner
Special Presentations
Baby Boom by Charles Shyer
Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll by Taylor Hackford
Sister, Sister by Bill Condon
The Thief of Baghdad by Raoul Walsh
Contemporary World Cinema
Babette's Feast by Gabriel Axel
Barfly by Barbet Schroeder
The Belly of an Architect by Peter Greenaway
Big Shots by Robert Mandel
Comrades by Bill Douglas
A Death in the Family by Stewart Main and Peter Wells
Diary for My Lovers by Márta Mészáros
Dudes by Penelope Spheeris
Dust in the Wind by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Field of Honor by Jean-Pierre Denis
Five Corners by Tony Bill
A Flame in My Heart by Alain Tanner
Gaby: A True Story by Luis Mandoki
Good Morning, Babylon by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani
Half of Heaven by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Jean de Florette by Claude Berri
Julia and Julia by Peter Del Monte
Keep Your Right Up by Jean-Luc Godard
King Lear by Jean-Luc Godard
Magdalena Viraga by Nina Menkes
Matewan by John Sayles
Maurice by James Ivory
Mauvais Sang by Leos Carax
Near Dark by Kathryn Bigelow
Night of the Pencils by Héctor Olivera
Paradise by Doris Dörrie
Personal Services by Terry Jones
A Prayer for the Dying by Mike Hodges
Repentance by Tengiz Abuladze
Slam Dance by Wayne Wang
Sorceress by Suzanne Schiffman
South of Reno by Mark Rezyka
A Successful Man by Humberto Solás
A Taxing Woman by Juzo Itami
The Theme by Gleb Panfilov
Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer
Travelling avant by Jean-Charles Tacchella
Under the Sun of Satan by Maurice Pialat
Wish You Were Here by David Leland
Perspectives Canada
And Then You Die by Francis Mankiewicz
Candy Mountain by Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer
The Climb by Don Shebib
The Critical Years by Gerald L'Ecuyer
Deaf to the City by Mireille Dansereau
Eva: Guerrillera by Jacqueline Levitin
Family Viewing by Atom Egoyan
In the Shadow of the Wind by Yves Simoneau
Juju Music by Jacques Holender
The Last Straw by Giles Walker
Life Classes by William D. MacGillivray
Le Lys cassé by André Melançon
The Secret by Leuten Rojas
Seductio by Bashar Shbib
So Many Miracles by Saul Rubinek
Taking Care by Clarke Mackey
To Hurt and to Heal by Laura Sky
Train of Dreams by John N. Smith
Too Outrageous! by Richard Benner
Undivided Attention by Chris Gallagher
A Winter Tan by Jackie Burroughs, Louise Clark, John Frizzell, John Walker and Aerlyn Weissman World Dreams by Niv Fichman