2000 Toronto International Film Festival

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. [http://www.tiffg.ca/content/divisions/postmillenium.asp]

Galas

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

25th Anniversary Special Events

* "25 x 25" (twenty-five digital video shorts made by attending filmmakers)
* "Alexander Nevsky" directed by Sergei EisensteinThe Bloomberg Tribute to Stephen Frears
* "Dangerous Liaisons" directed by Stephen Frears
* "The Grifters" directed by Stephen Frears
* "The Hit" directed by Stephen Frears
* "My Beautiful Laundrette" directed by Stephen Frears
* "Prick Up Your Ears" directed by Stephen Frears
* "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" directed by Stephen Frears

Year 1

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

Beckett on Film

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

Canadian Open Vault

* "Tit-Coq" directed by Gratien Gélinas and René Delacroix

Contemporary World Cinema

* "Aberdeen" directed by Hans Petter Moland
* "Amores Perros" directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
* "Angels of the Universe" directed by Fridrik Thór Fridriksson
* "April Captains" directed by Maria de Medeiros
* "Attraction" directed by Russell DeGrazier
* "Better Than Sex" directed by Jonathan Teplitzky
* "Billy Elliot" directed by Stephen Daldry
* "Blackboards" directed by Samira Makhmalbaf
* "Born Romantic" directed by David Kane
* "Brave New Land" directed by Lúcia Murat
* "Burnt Money" directed by Marcelo Piñeyro
* "Chasing Sleep" directed by Michael Walker
* "The Circle" directed by Jafar Panahi
* "Clouds of May" directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
* "Collision Course" directed by Roberval Duarte
* "Daily Bread" directed by Ane Muñoz Mitxelena
* "The Debt" directed by Krzysztof Krauze
* "Les Destinées Sentimentales" directed by Olivier Assayas
* "Djomeh" directed by Hassan Yektapanah
* "Dog Food" directed by Carlos Siguion-Reyna
* "Durian Durian" directed by Fruit Chan
* "Eisenstein" directed by Renny Bartlett
* "Eureka" directed by Shinji Aoyama
* "Face" directed by Junji Sakamoto
* "Farewell" directed by Jan Schütte
* "Fast Food, Fast Women" directed by Amos Kollek
* "The Film Biker" directed by Mel Chionglo
* "Flower of Manila" directed by Joel Lamangan
* "Freedom" directed by Sharunas Bartas
* "Friends Have Reasons" directed by Gerardo Herrero
* "Girlfight" directed by Karyn Kusama
* "The Goddess of 1967" directed by Clara Law
* "" directed by Sogo Ishii
* "Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien" directed by Dominik Moll
* "Hey! Ram" directed by Kamal Haasan
* "Holdup" directed by Florian Flicker
* "Hunters in the Snow" directed by Michael Kreihsl
* "The Isle" directed by Kim Ki-duk
* "Juliet in Love" directed by Wilson Yip
* "kaza-hana" directed by Shinji Somai
* "Kimono" directed by Hal Hartley
* "The King is Alive" directed by Kristian Levring
* "Kippur" directed by Amos Gitaï
* "Krámpack" directed by Cesc Gay
* "À la verticale de l'été" directed by Tran Anh Hung
* "Landscape" directed by Martin Sulík
* "The Last Resort" directed by Paul Pawlikowski
* "Little Cheung" directed by Fruit Chan
* "Lockdown" directed by John Luessenhop
* "Manila" directed by Romuald Karmakar
* "Me, You, Them" directed by Andrucha Waddington
* "The Mechanism" directed by Djordje Milosavljevic
* "Memento" directed by Christopher Nolan
* "La moitié du ciel" directed by Alain Mazars
* "The Monkey's Mask" directed by Samantha Lang
* "The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz" directed by Ben Hopkins
* "No Place to Go" directed by Oskar Roehler
* "Nuts for Love" directed by Alberto Lecchi
* "Peppermint" directed by Costas Kapakas
* "Petite chérie" directed by Anne Villacèque
* "Placido Rizzotto" directed by Pasquale Scimeca
* "Platform" directed by Jia Zhangke
* "The Price of Milk" directed by Harry Sinclair
* "Requiem for a Dream" directed by Darren Aronofsky
* "Risk" directed by Alan White
* "A Rumor of Angels" directed by Peter O'Fallon
* "Sade" directed by Benoît Jacquot
* "Samia" directed by Philippe Faucon
* "Seance" directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
* "Seven Songs From the Tundra" directed by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio
* "Shadow Magic" directed by Ann Hu
* "Signs & Wonders" directed by Jonathan Nossiter
* "Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine" directed by Bahman Farmanara
* "Songs from the Second Floor" directed by Roy Andersson
* "The Stranger" directed by Götz Spielmann
* "Suzhou River" directed by Lou Ye
* "Swedish Beauty" directed by Daniel Fridell
* "Teeth" directed by Gabriele Salvatores
* "Thomas est amoureux" directed by Pierre-Paul Renders
* "A Time for Drunken Horses" directed by Bahman Ghobadi
* "To Die (Or Not)" directed by Ventura Pons
* "The Truth About Tully" directed by Hilary Birmingham
* "Two Family House" directed by Raymond De Felitta
* "Urbania" directed by Jon Shear
* "Vengo" directed by Tony Gatlif
* "La ville est tranquille" directed by Robert Guédiguian
* "Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors" directed by Hong Sang-soo
* "Une vraie jeune fille" directed by Catherine Breillat
* "Waiting for the Messiah" directed by Daniel Burman
* "Waiting List" directed by Juan Carlos Tabío
* "Walk the Talk" directed by Shirley Barrett
* "The Wedding" directed by Pavel Lounguine
* "When Brendan Met Trudy" directed by Kieron J. Walsh
* "When the Sky Falls" directed by John Mackenzie
* "Wild Blue: Notes for Several Voices" directed by Thierry Knauff
* "With Closed Eyes" directed by Mansur Madavi

Dialogues: Talking With Pictures

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

Discovery

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

Masters

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

Midnight Madness

* "6ixtynin9" directed by Pen-ek Ratanaruang
* "The American Nightmare" directed by Adam Simon
* "The City of Lost Souls" directed by Miike Takashi
* "The Foul King" directed by Kim Jeewoon
* "The Irrefutable Truth about Demons" directed by Glenn Standring
* "The Mission" directed by Johnnie To Kei-Fung
* "Quartered at Dawn" directed by Norbert Keil
* "Tell Me Something" directed by Chang Youn hyun
* "Time and Tide" directed by Tsui Hark
* "Wild Zero" directed by Tetsuro Takeuchi

Perspective Canada

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

Planet Africa

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

Preludes

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

Real to Reel

* "Asylum" directed by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair
* "Breathe In/Breathe Out" directed by Beth Billingsly
* "Calle 54" directed by Fernando Trueba
* "Crazy" directed by Heddy Honigmann
* "Erik Bruhn: I'm the Same- Only More" directed by Lennart Pasborg
* "Fighter" directed by Amir Bar-Lev
* "The First and the Last..." directed by Momir Matovic
* "Gaea Girls" directed by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams
* "Les glaneurs et la glaneuse" directed by Agnès Varda
* "" directed by Mark Jonathan Harris
* "jour de nuit" directed by Dieter Fahrer and Bernhard Nick
* "One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich" directed by Chris Marker
* "Kalamandalam Gopi" directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
* "Keep the River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale" directed by Laurie Gwen Shapiro and David Shapiro
* "The Long Holiday" directed by Johan van der Keuken
* "The Man Who Bought Mustique" directed by Joseph Bullman
* "The Natural History of the Chicken" directed by Mark Lewis
* "Paragraph 175" directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman
* "The Prince is Back" directed by Marina Goldovskaya
* "La règle du je" directed by Françoise Romand
* "Soldiers in the Army of God" directed by Marc Levin and Daphne Pinkerson
* "The Turandot Project" directed by Allan Miller
* "Unchain" directed by Toyoda Toshiaki

Robert Beavers Spotlight

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

pecial Presentations

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