Winter 1991 

• Retrospectives: Cocteau & Cie; A Tribute to Dirk Bogarde; Radical Realities: Documentaries of the 1980s, Part 1, including films by Chris Marker, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Su Friedrich, Joris Ivens, Daniel Schmid and Jean-Pierre Gorin; The Essentials; The Winnipeg Film Group; Films from Soviet Kazakhstan; Hou Hsiao-hsien; The Early Films of Stanley Kubrick; Theo Angelopoulos; Yvonne Rainer; Idrissa Ouedraogo.
• Toronto Premiere: Yvonne Rainer's KRISTINA TALKING PICTURES.
• Guests: Guy Maddin, Greg Klymkiw, John Paizs.
• Location: Backstage Cinema.

Spring 1991  

• Retrospectives: The Passions of Performance: Documentaries of the 80s, Part II; The Essentials; Luchino Visconti; The Discreet Charm of Delphine Seyrig; André Forcier; Shohei Imamura; The Films of Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and Arturo Ripstein; The Glory of Mozart; Recent Films from L.I.F.T.; Free screenings (films by Mitchell Leisen and Ernst Lubitsch; and films with Marlene Dietrich).
• Toronto Premiere: Shohei Imamura's ZEGEN.
• Guests: Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.
• Location: Backstage Cinema.

Fall 1991  

• Retrospectives: Jane Campion; Aki Kaurismäki; The Essentials; Derek Jarman; Robert Bresson; Harun Farocki; Denys Arcand; John Cassavetes; Dutch Filmmaking (Max Ophuls, Joris Ivens, Johan van der Keuken); Young Japanese Cinema (Go Takamine, Shinya Tsukamoto, Kaizo Hayashi, Go Riju); Barbara Sternberg Carte Blanche; and John Greyson Carte Blanche.
• Toronto Premieres: Jane Campion's PEEL, A GIRL'S OWN STORY, PASSIONLESS MOMENTS and TWO FRIENDS.
• English Premieres: Denys Arcand's LE CONFORT ET L'INDIFFÉRENCE and ON EST AU COTON.
• Guests: Denys Arcand; Barbara Sternberg; John Greyson; Harun Farocki.
• Location: Backstage Cinema.