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

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Award[5][6][7][8] | Film  | Director

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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

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### Gala Presentations

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* 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 Michael Kalesniko
* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* Abe's Manhood by Aubrey Nealon
* After Eden by John Price
* Atomic Saké by Louise Archambault
* The Basement Girl by Midi Onodera
* Bowie: One in a Million by Janis Cole
* Clean Rite Cowboy by Michael Downing
* De l'art et la manière chez Denys Arcand by Georges Dufaux
* Deeply by Sheri Elwood
* Desire by Colleen Murphy
* Dinky Menace by Robert Kennedy
* Ernest by Keith Behrman
* FILM(lode) by Deco Dawson
* Foxy Lady, Wild Cherry by Ines Buchli
* Ginger Snaps by John Fawcett
* The Hat (Le Chapeau) by Michèle Cournoyer
* Hindsight by Susan Shipton
* Landscaping by Paul Carrière
* The Law of Enclosures by John Greyson
* The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge by Philippe Falardeau
* Like a Dream that Vanishes by Barbara Sternberg
* The Lost Bundefjord Expedition by Matt Holm
* Love Come Down by Clement Virgo
* Low Self-Esteem Girl by Blaine Thurier
* Maelström by Denis Villeneuve
* Marine Life by Anne Wheeler
* Monday with the Martins by Jeffery Erbach
* Moon Palace by David Weaver
* New Neighbours by Anita McGee
* Parsley Days by Andrea Dorfman
* Passengers by Francine Zuckerman
* The Perfect Son by Leonard Farlinger
* Poe by Gregory Nixon
* Red Deer by Anthony Couture
* Rocks at Whiskey Trench by Alanis Obomsawin
* Saint Jude by John L'Ecuyer
* Sea in the Blood by Richard Fung
* Subrosa by Helen Lee
* Suspicious River by Lynne Stopkewich
* Take-Out by Jean-François Monette
* Three Stories from the End of Everything by Semi Chellas
* Traces on the Rock of Elsewhere (Traces dans le rocher du lointain) by Majdi El-Omari
* Two Thousand and None by Arto Paragamian
* The Uncles by James Allodi
* Via Crucis by Serge Denoncourt
* The Walnut Tree by Elida Schogt
* Waydowntown by Gary Burns
* We All Fall Down by Martin Cummins
* What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band by Zev Asher
* When Morning Comes by Charles Officer

### Contemporary World Cinema

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* 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
* Attraction by Russell DeGrazier
* Better Than Sex by Jonathan Teplitzky
* Billy Elliot by Stephen Daldry
* Blackboards by Samira Makhmalbaf
* Born Romantic by David Kane
* 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 Roberval Duarte
* Daily Bread by Ane Muñoz Mitxelena
* The Debt by Krzysztof Krauze
* Les Destinées Sentimentales by Olivier Assayas
* Djomeh by Hassan Yektapanah
* Dog Food by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
* 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
* The Film Biker by Mel Chionglo
* Flower of Manila by Joel Lamangan
* Freedom by Sharunas Bartas
* Friends Have Reasons by Gerardo Herrero
* Girlfight by Karyn Kusama
* The Goddess of 1967 by Clara Law
* Gojoe by Sogo Ishii
* Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien by Dominik Moll
* Hey Ram by Kamal Haasan
* Holdup by Florian Flicker
* Hunters in the Snow [de] by Michael Kreihsl [de]
* The Isle by Kim Ki-duk
* Juliet in Love by Wilson Yip
* Kaza-hana 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
* Little Cheung by Fruit Chan
* Lockdown by John Luessenhop
* Manila [de] by Romuald Karmakar
* Me, You, Them by Andrucha Waddington
* The Mechanism by Djordje Milosavljevic
* Memento by Christopher Nolan
* La moitié du ciel by Alain Mazars
* 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 Costas Kapakas
* Petite chérie by Anne Villacèque
* 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 Alan White
* A Rumor of Angels by Peter O'Fallon
* Sade by Benoît Jacquot
* Samia by Philippe Faucon
* Seance by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
* Seven Songs From the Tundra by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio
* Shadow Magic by Ann Hu
* 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
* Swedish Beauty by Daniel Fridell
* Teeth by Gabriele Salvatores
* Thomas est amoureux by Pierre-Paul Renders
* A Time for Drunken Horses by Bahman Ghobadi
* To Die (Or Not) by Ventura Pons
* The Truth About Tully by Hilary Birmingham
* Two Family House by Raymond De Felitta
* Urbania by Jon Shear
* 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 Pavel Lounguine
* When Brendan Met Trudy by Kieron J. Walsh
* When the Sky Falls by John Mackenzie
* Wild Blue: Notes for Several Voices by Thierry Knauff
* With Closed Eyes by Mansur Madavi

### Discovery

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* 10 Minutes by Juan Carlos Rulfo
* 101 Reykjavík by Baltasar Kormákur
* 19 by Kazushi Watanabe
* Aïe 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 Mia Trachinger
* Chill Out by Andreas Struck
* Chopper by Andrew Dominik
* City Loop by Belinda Chayko
* Compassionate Sex by Laura Mañá
* The Day I Became A Woman by Marziyeh Meshkini
* Dust to Dust by Juan Carlos de Llaca
* Les filles ne savent pas nager by Anne-Sophie Birot
* George Washington by David Gordon Green
* The Girl by Sande Zeig
* In God We Trust by Jason Reitman
* Interstate 84 by Ross Partridge
* The Iron Ladies by Yongyoot Thongkongtoon
* Loners by David Ondrícek
* The Low Down by Jamie Thraves
* The Most Fertile Man in Ireland by Dudi Appleton
* Night Kiss by Boris Rodriguez Arroyo
* The Red One: Triumph by Oleg Pogodin and Vladimir Alenikov
* Scarlet Diva by Asia Argento
* Scoutman by Masato Ishioka
* Vulgar by Bryan Johnson
* The Young Unknowns by Catherine Jelski

### Planet Africa

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* Adanggaman by Roger Gnoan M'Bala
* Ali Zaoua by Nabil Ayouch
* Are You Cinderella? by Charles Hall
* Auguy by Munga Tunda Djo
* Bàttu by Cheick Oumar Sissoko
* Bye Bye Africa by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
* Christmas With Granny by Dumisani Phakathi
* The Elevator by Alrick Riley
* En Face by Zina Modiano and Mehdi Ben Attia
* Hijack Stories by Oliver Schmitz
* El Medina by Yousry Nasrallah
* One Week by Carl Seaton
* Passage du milieu by Guy Deslauriers
* La saison des hommes by Moufida Tlatli
* La Squale by Fabrice Genestal
* The Station by Aaron Woolfolk
* Tourbillons by Alain Gomis
* Vacances Au Pays by Jean-Marie Teno

### Real to Reel

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* Asylum by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair
* Breathe In/Breathe Out by Beth Billingsly
* Calle 54 by Fernando Trueba
* Crazy by Heddy Honigmann
* Erik Bruhn: I'm the Same- Only More by Lennart Pasborg
* Fighter by Amir Bar-Lev
* The First and the Last... by Momir Matovic
* Gaea Girls by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams
* Les glaneurs et la glaneuse by Agnès Varda
* Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport by Mark Jonathan Harris
* Jour de nuit by Dieter Fahrer and Bernhard Nick
* 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
* The Man Who Bought Mustique by Joseph Bullman
* The Natural History of the Chicken by Mark Lewis
* Paragraph 175 by Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman
* The Prince is Back by Marina Goldovskaya
* La règle du je by Françoise Romand
* Soldiers in the Army of God by Marc Levin and Daphne Pinkerson
* The Turandot Project by Allan Miller
* Unchain by Toyoda Toshiaki

### Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

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* 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

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* 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

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* The Context by Francesco Rosi
* Cousin, cousine by Jean-Charles Tacchella
* Dersu Uzala by Akira Kurosawa
* The Devil's Playground by Fred Schepisi
* L'eau chaude l'eau frette 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

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* 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 Kieron J. Walsh
* What Where by Damien O'Donnell

### Preludes

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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

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* Amor by Robert Beavers
* From the Notebook of... by Robert Beavers
* The Painting by Robert Beavers
* Ruskin by Robert Beavers
* Sotiros by Robert Beavers
* The Stoas by Robert Beavers
* Wingseed by Robert Beavers
* Work Done by Robert Beavers

### Canadian Open Vault

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* Tit-Coq by Gratien Gélinas and René Delacroix

### Midnight Madness

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* 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
* Quartered at Dawn by Norbert Keil
* Tell Me Something by Chang Youn hyun
* Time and Tide by Tsui Hark
* Wild Zero by Tetsuro Takeuchi

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## References

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1. ^ "2000 TIFF Festival Daily Update #1: "The Fall Through Summer's Back Door: An Overview of the 2000 TIFF"". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
2. ^ "TORONTO 2000: 25th Toronto Fest Announces Lineup: Bigger, Longer and Uncut". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
3. ^ "25th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
4. ^ "25th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
5. ^ "2000 Awards" (Press release). Toronto International Film Festival. 2000-09-17. Archived from the original on 2001-05-28. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
6. ^ "Awards" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. tiff.net, October 11, 2013.
7. ^ Tamsen Tillson (2000-09-18). "'Tiger' takes Toronto aud kudos". Variety. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
8. ^ "TORONTO 2000 UPDATE: 25th Toronto International Film Festival Award Winners". Retrieved October 11, 2013.
9. ^ Marc Glassman, "Preludes". Take One, Vol. 30 (Winter 2001). pp. 43-44.
10. ^ Peter Howell, "Downstreaming without a paddle; Fest shorts on the Web ain't nothing like the real thing". Toronto Star, November 15, 2000.
11. ^ "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme". Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved October 19, 2013.

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