2000 Toronto International Film Festival

2000 Toronto International Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film	Stardom[1]
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by	Toronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films	330 films and 25 shorts
Festival date	September 7, 2000 (2000-09-07)–September 16, 2000 (2000-09-16)
Language	English
Website	web.archive.org/web/20010203223900/http://e.bell.ca/filmfest/2000/index.asp

The 2000 Toronto International Film Festival, the 25th annual festival, ran from September 7 to September 16, 2000. Along with special events to commemorate the anniversary, there were a total of 330 films screened. There was a special screening of Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky featuring musical accompaniment by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Also, 25 digital video shorts were made by attending filmmakers.^[2][3][4]

Awards[]

Award[5][6][7][8]	Film	Director
People's Choice Award	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Ang Lee
Discovery Award (tie)	George Washington	David Gordon Green
Discovery Award (tie)	101 Reykjavík	Baltasar Kormákur
Best Canadian Feature Film	Waydowntown	Gary Burns
Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation	Maelström	Denis Villeneuve
Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation	Ginger Snaps	Karen Walton (writer)
Best Canadian First Feature Film	The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge	Philippe Falardeau
Best Canadian First Feature Film - Special Jury Citation	Red Deer	Anthony Couture
Best Canadian Short Film	The Hat (Le Chapeau)	Michèle Cournoyer
Best Canadian Short Film - Special Mention	Ernest	Keith Behrman
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award	Bangkok Dangerous	Pang Fat & Oxide Pang Chun

Programmes[]

Gala Presentations[]

• Almost Famous by Cameron Crowe
• Best In Show by Christopher Guest
• Bread and Tulips by Silvio Soldini
• The Contender by Rod Lurie
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee
• The Dish by Rob Sitch
• Dr. T and the Women by Robert Altman
• The House of Mirth by Terence Davies
• How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog by
• In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar-wai
• The Luzhin Defence by Marleen Gorris
• Men of Honor by George Tillman Jr.
• Pandaemonium by Julien Temple
• Sexy Beast by Jonathan Glazer
• Stardom by Denys Arcand
• La Veuve de Saint-Pierre by Patrice Leconte
• The Weight of Water by Kathryn Bigelow

Special Presentations[]

• Beautiful by Sally Field
• Before Night Falls by Julian Schnabel
• Chinese Coffee by Al Pacino
• Dancing at the Blue Iguana by Michael Radford
• Duets by Bruce Paltrow
• Faithless by Liv Ullmann
• Greenfingers by Joel Hershman
• Innocence by Paul Cox
• ivansxtc. (To Live and Die in Hollywood) by Bernard Rose
• Liam by Stephen Frears
• Lumumba by Raoul Peck
• Pollock by Ed Harris
• Possible Worlds by Robert Lepage
• Princes et princesses by Michel Ocelot
• The Princess and the Warrior by Tom Tykwer
• Shadow of the Vampire by E. Elias Merhige
• A Shot at Glory by Michael Corrente
• Sous le sable by François Ozon
• State and Main by David Mamet
• Tigerland by Joel Schumacher
• The Yards by James Gray
• You Can Count on Me by Kenneth Lonergan

Masters[]

• Bread and Roses by Ken Loach
• Brother by Takeshi Kitano
• La Captive by Chantal Akerman
• Chunhyang by Im Kwontaek
• Code Inconnu by Michael Haneke
• Comédie de l'innocence by Raoul Ruiz
• Gohatto by Nagisa Oshima
• The Legends of Rita by Volker Schlöndorff
• Merci pour le chocolat by Claude Chabrol
• My Generation by Barbara Kopple
• Such is Life by Arturo Ripstein
• Turbulence by Ruy Guerra
• Werckmeister Harmonies by Béla Tarr
• The Wrestlers by Buddhadeb Dasgupta
• Yi Yi (A One and a Two) by Edward Yang

Perspective Canada[]

• by Semi Chellas
• by Aubrey Nealon
• by
• Atomic Saké by Louise Archambault
• by Midi Onodera
• by Janis Cole
• by Michael Downing
• by Georges Dufaux
• Deeply by Sheri Elwood
• Desire by Colleen Murphy
• by Robert Kennedy
• by Keith Behrman
• by Deco Dawson
• by
• Ginger Snaps by John Fawcett
• The Hat (Le Chapeau) by Michèle Cournoyer
• Hindsight by Susan Shipton
• by
• The Law of Enclosures by John Greyson
• The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge by Philippe Falardeau
• by Barbara Sternberg
• by
• Love Come Down by Clement Virgo
• Low Self-Esteem Girl by Blaine Thurier
• Maelström by Denis Villeneuve
• Marine Life by Anne Wheeler
• by
• Moon Palace by David Weaver
• by Anita McGee
• Parsley Days by Andrea Dorfman
• by
• The Perfect Son by Leonard Farlinger
• by
• Red Deer by
• Rocks at Whiskey Trench by Alanis Obomsawin
• by John L'Ecuyer
• by Richard Fung
• by Helen Lee
• Suspicious River by Lynne Stopkewich
• by
• by
• Two Thousand and None by Arto Paragamian
• The Uncles by James Allodi
• by
• by
• Waydowntown by Gary Burns
• We All Fall Down by Martin Cummins
• by Zev Asher
• by Charles Officer

Contemporary World Cinema[]

• Aberdeen by Hans Petter Moland
• Amores Perros by Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Angels of the Universe by Fridrik Thór Fridriksson
• April Captains by Maria de Medeiros
• by Russell DeGrazier
• Better Than Sex by Jonathan Teplitzky
• Billy Elliot by Stephen Daldry
• by Samira Makhmalbaf
• Born Romantic by
• Brave New Land by Lúcia Murat
• Burnt Money by Marcelo Piñeyro
• Chasing Sleep by Michael Walker
• The Circle by Jafar Panahi
• Clouds of May by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Collision Course by
• by
• The Debt by Krzysztof Krauze
• Les Destinées Sentimentales by Olivier Assayas
• Djomeh by Hassan Yektapanah
• Dog Food by
• Durian Durian by Fruit Chan
• Eistenstein by Renny Bartlett
• Eureka by Shinji Aoyama
• Face by Junji Sakamoto
• Farewell by Jan Schütte
• Fast Food, Fast Women by Amos Kollek
• by Mel Chionglo
• by Joel Lamangan
• Freedom by Sharunas Bartas
• by Gerardo Herrero
• Girlfight by Karyn Kusama
• The Goddess of 1967 by Clara Law
• by Sogo Ishii
• Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien by Dominik Moll
• Hey Ram by Kamal Haasan
• by
• Hunters in the Snow by
• The Isle by Kim Ki-duk
• by Wilson Yip
• by Shinji Somai
• Kimono by Hal Hartley
• The King is Alive by Kristian Levring
• Kippur by Amos Gitaï
• Krámpack by Cesc Gay
• À la verticale de l'été by Tran Anh Hung
• Landscape by Martin Sulík
• The Last Resort by Paul Pawlikowski
• by Fruit Chan
• Lockdown by John Luessenhop
• by Romuald Karmakar
• Me, You, Them by Andrucha Waddington
• The Mechanism by
• Memento by Christopher Nolan
• by
• The Monkey's Mask by Samantha Lang
• The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz by Ben Hopkins
• No Place to Go by Oskar Roehler
• Nuts for Love by Alberto Lecchi
• Peppermint by
• by
• Placido Rizzotto by Pasquale Scimeca
• Platform by Jia Zhangke
• The Price of Milk by Harry Sinclair
• Requiem for a Dream by Darren Aronofsky
• Risk by
• A Rumor of Angels by Peter O'Fallon
• Sade by Benoît Jacquot
• by Philippe Faucon
• Seance by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio
• Shadow Magic by
• Signs & Wonders by Jonathan Nossiter
• Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine by Bahman Farmanara
• Songs from the Second Floor by Roy Andersson
• The Stranger by Götz Spielmann
• Suzhou River by Lou Ye
• by Daniel Fridell
• Teeth by Gabriele Salvatores
• by Pierre-Paul Renders
• A Time for Drunken Horses by Bahman Ghobadi
• by Ventura Pons
• by
• Two Family House by Raymond De Felitta
• Urbania by
• Vengo by Tony Gatlif
• La ville est tranquille by Robert Guédiguian
• Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors by Hong Sang-soo
• Une vraie jeune fille by Catherine Breillat
• Waiting for the Messiah by Daniel Burman
• Waiting List by Juan Carlos Tabío
• Walk the Talk by Shirley Barrett
• The Wedding by
• When Brendan Met Trudy by
• When the Sky Falls by John Mackenzie
• by
• With Closed Eyes by

Discovery[]

• by Juan Carlos Rulfo
• 101 Reykjavík by Baltasar Kormákur
• 19 by Kazushi Watanabe
• by Sophie Fillières
• alaska.de by Esther Gronenborn
• Baise-moi by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi
• Bangkok Dangerous by Oxide Pang and Danny Pang
• Bunny by
• by
• Chopper by Andrew Dominik
• City Loop by
• Compassionate Sex by Laura Mañá
• The Day I Became A Woman by Marziyeh Meshkini
• Dust to Dust by
• by
• George Washington by David Gordon Green
• The Girl by Sande Zeig
• by Jason Reitman
• by Ross Partridge
• The Iron Ladies by Yongyoot Thongkongtoon
• by
• by Jamie Thraves
• The Most Fertile Man in Ireland by Dudi Appleton
• by
• by Oleg Pogodin and
• Scarlet Diva by Asia Argento
• Scoutman by Masato Ishioka
• Vulgar by Bryan Johnson
• by

Planet Africa[]

• Adanggaman by Roger Gnoan M'Bala
• Ali Zaoua by Nabil Ayouch
• by
• by
• by Cheick Oumar Sissoko
• Bye Bye Africa by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
• by
• by Alrick Riley
• by and
• Hijack Stories by Oliver Schmitz
• by Yousry Nasrallah
• by
• Passage du milieu by
• La saison des hommes by Moufida Tlatli
• by
• The Station by Aaron Woolfolk
• by Alain Gomis
• by Jean-Marie Teno

Real to Reel[]

• by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair
• by
• Calle 54 by Fernando Trueba
• Crazy by Heddy Honigmann
• by
• Fighter by Amir Bar-Lev
• by
• by Kim Longinotto and
• Les glaneurs et la glaneuse by Agnès Varda
• Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport by Mark Jonathan Harris
• by and
• One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich by Chris Marker
• Kalamandalam Gopi by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
• Keep the River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale by Laurie Gwen Shapiro and David Shapiro
• The Long Holiday by Johan van der Keuken
• by Joseph Bullman
• by Mark Lewis
• Paragraph 175 by Rob Epstein and
• by Marina Goldovskaya
• by Françoise Romand
• by Marc Levin and Daphne Pinkerson
• The Turandot Project by Allan Miller
• by

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures[]

• The Bicycle Thief by Vittorio de Sica
• Blue Velvet by David Lynch
• Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee
• Performance by Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell
• Raven's End by Bo Widerberg
• The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky

25th Anniversary Special Events[]

• 25 x 25 (twenty-five digital video shorts made by attending filmmakers)
• Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Eisenstein

The Bloomberg Tribute to Stephen Frears

• Dangerous Liaisons by Stephen Frears
• The Grifters by Stephen Frears
• The Hit by Stephen Frears
• My Beautiful Laundrette by Stephen Frears
• Prick Up Your Ears by Stephen Frears
• Sammy and Rosie Get Laid by Stephen Frears

Year 1[]

• The Context by Francesco Rosi
• Cousin, cousine by Jean-Charles Tacchella
• Dersu Uzala by Akira Kurosawa
• The Devil's Playground by Fred Schepisi
• by André Forcier
• Grey Gardens by Albert Maysles and David Maysles
• Harlan County, USA by Barbara Kopple
• Kings of the Road by Wim Wenders

Beckett on Film[]

• Act Without Words 1 by Karel Reisz
• Catastrophe by David Mamet
• Endgame by Conor McPherson
• Happy Days by Patricia Rozema
• Krapp's Last Tape by Atom Egoyan
• Not I by Neil Jordan
• Play by Anthony Minghella
• Rockaby by Sir Richard Eyre
• Rough For Theatre 1 by
• What Where by Damien O'Donnell

Preludes[]

Preludes was a special one-off program of ten short films by Canadian film directors, commissioned by TIFF to celebrate its 25th anniversary.^[9] The Preludes films were also subsequently screened on the web separately from their screenings at TIFF, on a platform funded by Bell Canada.^[10]

• Camera by David Cronenberg
• The Line by Atom Egoyan
• Congratulations by Mike Jones
• See You in Toronto by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• The Heart of the World by Guy Maddin
• A Word from the Management by Don McKellar
• 24fps by Jeremy Podeswa
• This Might Be Good by Patricia Rozema
• Prelude by Michael Snow
• Legs Apart by Anne Wheeler

Spotlight: Robert Beavers[]

• Amor by Robert Beavers
• by Robert Beavers
• The Painting by Robert Beavers
• by Robert Beavers
• by Robert Beavers
• by Robert Beavers
• by Robert Beavers
• by Robert Beavers

Canadian Open Vault[]

• Tit-Coq by Gratien Gélinas and

Midnight Madness[]

• 6ixtynin9 by Pen-ek Ratanaruang
• The American Nightmare by Adam Simon
• The City of Lost Souls by Miike Takashi
• The Foul King by Kim Jeewoon
• The Irrefutable Truth about Demons by Glenn Standring
• The Mission by Johnnie To Kei-Fung
• by
• Tell Me Something by
• Time and Tide by Tsui Hark
• Wild Zero by

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References[]

External links[]

• Official site
• 2000 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb