2000 Toronto International Film Festival

Official poster for the 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.[1]

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 Eisenstein

The 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
• Gojoe 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
• YI YI (A One and a Two) 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
• Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport 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

Special 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