2000 Cannes Film Festival

2000 Cannes Film Festival
The 53rd Cannes Film Festival started on 14 May and ran until 25 May 2000. French film director, screenwriter, and producer Luc Besson was the Jury President. The Palme d'Or went to the Danish film Dancer in the Dark by Lars von Trier.
The festival opened with Vatel, directed by Roland Joffé and closed with Stardom, directed by Denys Arcand. Virginie Ledoyen was the mistress of ceremonies.
Juries
Main competition
The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2000 Official Selection:
Luc Besson, French filmmaker - Jury President
Jonathan Demme, American filmmaker
Nicole Garcia, French actress
Jeremy Irons, British actor
Mario Martone, Italian filmmaker
Patrick Modiano, French novelist
Arundhati Roy, Indian author
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Spanish actress
Kristin Scott Thomas, British actress
Barbara Sukowa, German actress
Un Certain Regard
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 2000 Un Certain Regard:
Jane Birkin, British-French actress
Jan Schulz-Ojala
José Maria Prado, Director of the Filmoteca Española
Marc Voinchet, critic
Marie-Noëlle Tranchant, critic
Noël Tinazzi, critic
Cinéfondation and Short Film Competition
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the Cinéfondation and short films competition:
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, Belgian filmmakers - Jury Presidents
Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritanian filmmaker
Claire Denis, French filmmaker
Francesca Comencini, Italian filmmaker
Mira Sorvino, American actress
Camera d'Or
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 2000 Camera d'Or:
Otar Iosseliani, Georgian filmmaker - Jury President
Caroline VIe-Toussaint, French journalist
Céline Panzolini, French cinephile
Eric Moulin, French representative of the technical industries
Fabienne Bradfer, French critic
Martial Knaebel, German critic
Sólveig Anspach, Icelandic-French director
Yorgos Arvanitis, Greek cinematographer
Official selection
In competition - Feature film
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
Un Certain Regard
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:
Mùa hè chiều thẳng đứng by Tran Anh Hung
Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer by Jan Schütte
Así es la vida by Arturo Ripstein
Capitães de Abril by Maria de Medeiros
Djomeh by Hassan Yektapanah
Eu tu eles by Andrucha Waddington
Famous by Griffin Dunne
I Dreamed of Africa by Hugh Hudson
Jacky by Brat Ljatifi, Fow Pyng Hu
La saison des hommes by Moufida Tlatli
Le premier du nom by Sabine Franel
Lista de Espera by Juan Carlos Tabío
Lost Killers by Dito Tsintsadze
Nichiyobi wa Owaranai by Yōichirō Takahashi
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors by Hong Sang-soo
Preferisco il rumore del mare by Mimmo Calopresti
Saint-Cyr by Patricia Mazuy
The King Is Alive by Kristian Levring
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her by Rodrigo García
Tierra del fuego by Miguel Littín
Wild Blue, notes à quelques voix by Thierry Knauff
Woman on Top by Fina Torres
Films out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
A Conversation With Gregory Peck by Barbara Kopple
April by Otar Iosseliani
Cecil B. Demented by John Waters
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee
Honest by David A. Stewart
The Gleaners and I by Agnès Varda
Mission to Mars by Brian De Palma
Requiem for a Dream by Darren Aronofsky
Stardom by Denys Arcand
Under Suspicion by Stephen Hopkins
Vatel by Roland Joffé
Cinéfondation
The following films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:
Ascension by Malgoska Szumowska (Poland)
Course de nuit by Chuyên Bui Thac (Vietnam)
De janela pro cinema by Quia Rodrígues (Brazil)
Dessert by (Kinu'ach) Amit Sakomski (Israel)
Don't Miss the Killer by Anastas Haralampidis (Greece)
Five Feet High and Rising by Peter Sollett (United States)
Indien by Pernille Fischer Christensen (Denmark)
Kiss It Up to God by Caran Hartsfield (United States)
Le vent souffle où il veut by Claire Doyon (France)
Leben 1, 2, 3 by (Germany)
Nocturnal by Anna Viduleja (Latvia)
Breathing Under Water (Respirar (Debaixo d'água)) by António Ferreira (Portugal)
Shoot the Dog by Ariko Kimura (Japan)
Short film competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
3 Minutes by Ana Luiza Azevedo
Shadows (Anino) by Raymond Red- Short Film Palme d'Or winner
Des morceaux de ma femme by Frédéric Pelle
Shut the Door by Jens Lien
Mieux ou moins bien ? by Jocelyn Cammack
S'Arretent by Anthony Mullins
Parallel sections
International Critics' Week
The following films were screened for the 39th International Critics' Week (39e Semaine de la Critique):
Feature film competition
Amores perros by Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico)
Hidden Whisper by Vivian Chang (Taiwan)
Krampack by Cesc Gay (Spain)
De l'histoire ancienne by Orso Miret (France)
Good Housekeeping by Frank Novak (United States)
Happy End by Jung Ji-woo (South Korea)
Les Autres filles by Caroline Vignal (France)
Short film competition
Faux contact by Eric Jameux (France)
To Be Continued... by Linus Tunström (Sweden)
The Hat (Le Chapeau) by Michèle Cournoyer (Canada)
Les méduses by Delphine Gleize (France)
The Artist's Circle by Bruce Marchfelder (Canada)
Not I by Neil Jordan (Ireland, United Kingdom)
Le Dernier rêve by Emmanuel Jespers (Belgium)
Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 2000 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
27 Missing Kisses by Nana Djordjadze
L'Affaire Marcorelle by Serge Le Péron
La Captive by Chantal Akerman
Cuba Feliz by Karim Dridi
Billy Elliot (Dancer) by Stephen Daldry
Bread and Tulips (Pane e tulipani) by Silvio Soldini
La Chambre obscure by Marie-Christine Questerbert
Downtown 81 by Edo Bertoglio
En avant ! (director not stated, 60 min.)
Faites comme si je n’étais pas là by Olivier Jahan
Film noir (Koroshi) by Masahiro Kobayashi
Girlfight by Karyn Kusama
Grüezi wohl Frau Stirnimaa by Sonja Wyss
Jocelyne by Valérie Mréjen
Le Secret by Virginie Wagon
Lumumba by Raoul Peck
Mallboy by Vincent Giarrusso
No Place to Go (Die Unberührbare) by Oskar Roehler
Peppermint Candy by Lee Chang-dong
Petite Chérie by Anne Villacèque
Purely Belter by Mark Herman
Shadow of the Vampire by E. Elias Merhige
Some Voices by Simon Cellan Jones
The Three Madeleines (Les fantômes des Trois Madeleine) by Guylaine Dionne
A Time for Drunken Horses (Zamani barayé masti asbha) by Bahman Ghobadi
Tout va bien, on s’en va by Claude Mouriéras
Werckmeister Harmoniak by Béla Tarr
Short films
A corps perdu by Isabelle Broué (France)
C’est bien la société by Valérie Pavia (France)
C'est pas si compliqué by Xavier De Choudens (France)
Derailed - extract from Phœnix Tape by Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller (Germany)
Des larmes de sang by Valérie Mréjen (France)
Elisabeth by Valérie Mréjen (France)
Ferment by Tim Macmillan (Great Britain)
Flying Boys by Didier Seynave (Belgium)
Furniture Poetry (and Other Rhymes for the Camera) by Paul Bush (Great Britain)
Ghost by Steve Hawley (Great Britain)
Grüezi Wohl Fraü Stirnimaa… or Malou möter Ingmar Bergman och Erland Josephson by Sonja Wyss (Switzerland - Netherlands)
Head Stand by Lisa Robinson (United States)
In Absentia by The Brothers Quay (Great Britain)
Jocelyne by Valérie Mréjen (France)
La Brèche de Roland by Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu
La Poire by Valérie Mréjen (France)
La Pomme, la Figue et l’Amande by Joël Brisse
La Vie heureuse by Valérie Pavia (France)
Le mur by Faouzi Bensaïdi (France)
Les Oiseaux en cage ne peuvent pas voler by Luis Briceño (France)
Look at Me by Peter Stel (Netherlands)
Love is All by Oliver Harrison (Great Britain)
L'Epouvantail or Pugalo by Alexander Kott (Russia)
Collision Course by Roberval Duarte (Brazil)
Rue Francis by François Vogel (France)
Salam by Souad El-Bouhati (France)
Still Life by Pekka Sassi (Finland)
The Morphology of Desire by Robert Arnold (United States)
Awards
Official awards
The following films and people received the 2000 Official selection awards:
In Competition
Palme d'Or: Dancer in the Dark by Lars von Trier
Grand Prix: Devils on the Doorstep (Guizi lai le) by Jiang Wen
Best Director: Edward Yang for Yi Yi
Best Screenplay: Nurse Betty by James Flamberg and John C. Richards
Best Actress: Björk for Dancer in the Dark
Best Actor: Tony Leung Chiu Wai for Fa yeung nin wa
Jury Prize:
Songs from the Second Floor (Sånger från andra våningen) by Roy Andersson
Blackboards (Takhté siah) by Samira Makhmalbaf
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard Award: Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her by Rodrigo Garcia
Un Certain Regard - Special Mention: Me You Them (Eu tu eles) by Andrucha Waddington
Cinéfondation
First Prize: Five Feet High and Rising by Peter Sollett
Second Prize:
Dessert (Kinu'ach) by Amit Sakomski
Kiss It Up to God by Caran Hartsfield
Third Prize:
Course de nuit by Chuyên Bui Thac
Indien by Pernille Fischer Christensen
Golden Camera
Caméra d'Or:
Djomeh by Hassan Yektapanah
A Time for Drunken Horses (Zamani barayé masti asbha) by Bahman Ghobadi
Short Films
Short Film Palme d'Or: Shadows (Anino) by Raymond Red
Independent awards
FIPRESCI Prizes
Eureka (Yurîka) by Shinji Aoyama (In competition)
A Time for Drunken Horses (Zamani barayé masti asbha) by Bahman Ghobadi (Directors' Fortnight)
Commission Supérieure Technique
Technical Grand Prize: Christopher Doyle & Mark Lee Ping Bin (cinematography), William Chang (editing) in In the Mood for Love
Ecumenical Jury
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Eureka (Yurîka) by Shinji Aoyama
Award of the Youth
Foreign Film: Girlfight by Karyn Kusama
French Film: Saint-Cyr by Patricia Mazuy
Special Award: Krámpack by Cesc Gay
Awards in the frame of International Critics' Week
Canal+ Award: To Be Continued... by Linus Tunström
Young Critics Award - Best Short: Faux contact by Eric Jameux
Young Critics Award - Best Feature: Amores perros by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Awards in the frame of Directors' Fortnight
Kodak Short Film Award: Salam by Souad El-Bouhati
Kodak Short Film Award - Special Mention C'est pas si compliqué by Xavier De Choudens
Gras Savoye Award: Le mur by Faouzi Bensaïdi
Association Prix François Chalais
François Chalais Award: Kippur by Amos Gitai
References
Media
INA: Opening of the 2000 Festival (commentary in French)
INA: List of winners of the 2000 festival and interviews (commentary in French)
External links
2000 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
Official website Retrospective 2000
Cannes Film Festival 2000 at Internet Movie Database
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