Seattle International Film Festival 2000 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 2000

Relive the 26th Seattle International Film Festival. Read key details, flip through the full Festival catalog, see photos and other media, and find a full list of feature-length films presented at the 2000 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: May 18–June 11, 2000
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Broadway Performance Hall, Cinerama, Consolidated Works, Egyptian Theatre, Harvard Exit Theater, Pacific Place Cinemas, The Paramount Theatre, Valley Drive-In Theatres

Opening Night: Love’s Labour’s Lost at The Paramount Theatre
Closing Night: Rumor of Angels at Cinerama
Tribute: Peter Weir
Emerging Masters: Santosh Sivan, Erick Zonca, Zhang Yang, Iciar Bollain


FESTIVAL CATALOG

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

SIFF staff, including Maryna Albert/Ajaja (front row, far left), a member of the programming staff through 2022, and festival founder, Darryl Macdonald (far right)

SIFF staff, including Maryna Albert/Ajaja (front row, far left), a member of the programming staff through 2022, and festival founder, Darryl Macdonald (far right)

SIFF staff, including Maryna Albert/Ajaja (front row, far left), a member of the programming staff through 2022, and festival founder, Darryl Macdonald (far right)

SIFF staff, including Maryna Albert/Ajaja (front row, far left), a member of the programming staff through 2022, and festival founder, Darryl Macdonald (far right)

Venus Beauty Institute
Venus Beauty Institute
Shower
Shower
Rumor Of Angels
Rumor Of Angels
Love's Labour's Lost
Love's Labour's Lost
Kirikou And The Sorceress
Kirikou And The Sorceress
Le Beau Travail
Le Beau Travail
Audition
Audition

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
Shower (dir. Zhang Yang, China)

Best Director
Zhang Yang (Shower, China)

Best Actress
Nathalie Baye (Venus Beauty Institute)

Best Actor
Dan Futterman (Urbania)

Best Short
In God We Trust (dir. Jason Reitman, USA)

Best Documentary
Trade Off (dir. Shaya Mercer, USA)

Juried Competition Awards

New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
The Mutants (dir. Teresa Villaverde, 1998, Portugal/France)

New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
The Magic of Marciano (dir. Tony Barbieri, 2000, USA)

List of Feature-Length Films

2 Seconds - dir. Manon Briand, 1999, Canada

An Affair of Love - dir. Frederic Fonteyne, 1999, Belgium/France/Luxembourg

Aimee and Jaguar - dir. Max Farberbock, 1998, Germany

Amargosa - dir. Todd Robinson, 1999, USA

Asfalto - dir. Daniel Calparsoro, 1999, Spain

At Midnight and a Half - dir. Marite Ugas, Mariana Rondon, 1999, Venezuela/Peru

The Atrocity Exhibition - dir. Jonathan Weiss, 2000, USA

Audition - dir. Takashi Miike, 1999, Japan

Ave Maria - dir. Eduardo Rossoff, 1999, Spain/Mexico

Bad Company - dir. Jean-Pierre Ameris, 1999, France

The Ballad of Ramblin’ Jack - dir. Aiyana Elliott, 2000, USA

Le Beau Travail - dir. Claire Denis, 1999, France

Benjamin Smoke - dir. Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen, 1999, USA

Beresina or the Last Days of Switzerland - dir. Daniel Schmid, 1999, Switzerland/Germany/Austria

The Black House - dir. Yoshimitsu Morita, 1999, Japan

Blood Simple - dir. Joel Coen, 1984, USA

Bossa Nova - dir. Bruno Barreto, 1999, Brazil

Bride of Fire - dir. Khosrow Sinai, 2000, Iran

A Bridge Between Two Shores - dir. Gerard Depardieu, Frederic Auburtin, 1999 , France

Burning Man–The Burning Sensation - dir. Alex Nohe, 2000, USA

But Forever In My Mind - dir. Gabriele Muccino, 1999, Italy

But I’m A Cheerleader - dir. Jamie Babbit, 2000, USA

Butterfly - dir. Jose Luis Cuerda, 1999, Spain

Bye Bye Africa - dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 1998, Chad/France

The Carriers are Waiting - dir. Benoit Mariage, 1999, Belgium

The Cars That Ate Paris - dir. Peter Weir, 1974, Australia

Chuck & Buck - dir. Miguel Arteta, 2000, USA

Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment - dir. Peter Wintonick, 1999, Canada

The Cinerama Adventure - dir. David Strohmaier, 2000, USA

Close to Love - dir. Andras Salamon, 1999, Hungary

The Cloud and the Rising Sun - dir. Mahmoud Kalari, 1998, Iran

Coming to Light, Edward S. Curtis and The North American Indians - dir. Anne Makepeace, 2000, USA

The Convent - dir. Mike Mendez, 2000, USA

Cosy Dens - dir. Jan Hrebejk, 1999, Czech Republic

Crane World - dir. Pablo Trapero, 1999, Argentina

Criminal Lovers - dir. Francois Ozon, 1999, France/Japan

The Crossing - dir. Yoichi Higashi, 1999, Japan

Cut - dir. Kimble Rendall, 1999, Australia

Dark Days - dir. Marc Singer, 2000, USA

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - dir. Luis Bunuel, 1972, France

Divorce, Italian Style - dir. Pietro Germi, 1962, Italy

The Dreamlife Of Angels - dir. Erick Zonca, 1998, France

East of A - dir. Amy Goldstein, 2000, USA

Eve - dir. Joseph Losey, 1962, France/Italy

Eye of Glass - dir. Lily Brik, Vitaly Zhemchuzhny, 1929, Russia

The Eyes of Tammy Faye - dir. Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, 2000, USA

Fearless - dir. Peter Weir, 1993, USA

Ferocious Saint Lord of the Gobi - dir. I. Nyamgavaa, 1998, Mongolia

A Fight to the Finish: Stories of Polio - dir. Ken Mandel, 2000, USA

The Five Senses - dir. Jeremy Podeswa, 1999, Canada

Flowers from Another World - dir. Iciar Bollain, 1999, Spain

A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict - dir. Steve York, 1999, USA

Four Dogs Playing Poker - dir. Paul Rachman, 2000, USA

The Frame - dir. Satoshi Isaka, 1999, Japan

Freak Weather - dir. Mary Kuryla, 1999, USA

Full Blast - dir. Rodrigue Jean, 1999, Canada

Gallipoli - dir. Peter Weir, 1981, USA

Gigantic - dir. Sebastian Schipper, 1999, Germany

Girlfight - dir. Karyn Kusama, 2000, USA

Girl on the Bridge - dir. Patrice Leconte, 1999, France

Goya in Bordeaux - dir. Carlos Saura, 1999, Spain/Italy

Le Grand Blanc De Lambarene - dir. Bassek ba Kobhio, 1995, Cameroon/France

Grass - dir. Ron Mann, 1999, Canada

Green Desert - dir. Anno Saul, 1999, Germany

Groove - dir. Greg Harrison, 2000, USA

Halo - dir. Santosh Sivan, 1994, India

The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story - dir. Leslie Iwerks, 1999, USA

Happy Accidents - dir. Brad Anderson, 2000, USA

Harem Suare - dir. Ferzan Ozpetek, 1999, Turkey/France/Italy

Herod’s Law - dir. Luis Estrada, 1999, Mexico

Hidden River - dir. Mercedes García Guevara, 1999, Argentina

Hola, Esta Sola? - dir. Iciar Bollain, 1995, Spain

Hometown Blue - dir. Stephane Brize, 1999, France

Honour of the House - dir. Gudny Halldorsdottir, 1999, Iceland/Sweden/Denmark

How the West Was Won - dir. John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe, 1962, USA

Human Resources - dir. Laurent Cantet, 1999, France

Iditarod…a far distant place - dir. Alice Dungan Bouvrie, 1999, USA

Idle Running - dir. Janez Burger, 1999, Slovenia

I’ll Take You There - dir. Adrienne Shelly, 1999, USA

I’m the One That I Want - dir. Lionel Coleman, 2000, USA

In the Rye - dir. Roman Vavra, 1999, Czech Republic

It All Starts Today - dir. Bertrand Tavernier, 1998, France

Janice Beard 45 WPM - dir. Clare Kilner, 1999, Great Britain

Jesus’ Son - dir. Alison Maclean, 1999, USA

Journey to the Sun - dir. Yesim Ustaoglu, 1999, Turkey/Netherlands/Germany

The Junction - dir. Urszula Urbaniak, 1999, Poland

Just, Melvin - dir. James Ronald Whitney, 2000, USA

Just One Time - dir. Lane Janger, 1999, USA

Keep the River on your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale - dir. David Shapiro, Laurie Shapiro, 2000, USA

Khroustaliov, My Car! - dir. Alexei Guerman, 1998, Russia/France

Kikujiro - dir. Takeshi Kitano, 1999, Japan

Kirikou and the Sorceress - dir. Michel Ocelot, 1998, France/Belgium/Luxembourg

The Lady - dir. Dariush Mehrjui, 1999, Iran

The Lady of Hamre - dir. Katrine Wiedemann, 2000, Denmark

The Lake - dir. Kakhaber Kikabidze, 1999, Georgia

The Last Wave - dir. Peter Weir, 1977, Australia

Lies - dir. Jang Sun Woo, 1999, South Korea

Life Tastes Good - dir. Philip Kan Gotanda, 1999, USA

The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun - dir. Djibril Diop Mambety, 1999, Senegal/Switzerland/France

The Little Thief - dir. Erick Zonca, 1999, France

Living in Paradise - dir. Bourlem Guerdjou, 1998, Algeria /France/Belgium/Norway

Long Night’s Journey into Day - dir. Frances Reid, Deborah Hoffmann, 2000, USA/South Africa

Looking for Alibrandi - dir. Kate Woods, 2000, Australia

Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel - dir. Julia Jay Pierrepont II, 2000, USA

Love and Sex - dir. Valerie Breiman, 2000, USA

Lovers - dir. Jean-Marc Barr, 1999, France

Love’s Labour’s Lost - dir. Kenneth Branagh, 2000, Great Britain

L + R - dir. Edgar Honetschlager, 2000, Austria

The Magic of Marciano - dir. Tony Barbieri, 2000, USA

Making of a New Empire - dir. Jos de Putter, 1999, Chechnya/Netherlands

Malli - dir. Santosh Sivan, 1999, India

Manolito Four Eyes - dir. Miguel Albaladejo, 1999, Spain

El Medina - dir. Yousry Nasrallah, 1999, Egypt

Me & Isaac Newton - dir. Michael Apted, 1999, USA

Milk - dir. William Brookfield, 1999, Great Britain

The Mission - dir. Johnnie To, Johnnie To Kei Fung, 1999, Hong Kong/China

Mobutu, King of Zaire - dir. Thierry Michel, 1999, Belgium/France

Moloch - dir. Aleksandr Sokurov, 1999, Russia/Germany/France

Monday - dir. Sabu, 1999, Japan

The Mosquito Coast - dir. Peter Weir, 1986, USA

M/Other - dir. Suwa Nobuhiro, 1999, Japan

Mr. Rice’s Secret - dir. Nicholas Kendall, 1999, Canada

The Mutants - dir. Teresa Villaverde, 1998, Portugal/France

The Nameless - dir. Jaume Balaguero, 1999, Spain

Nobody Knows Anybody - dir. Mateo Gil, 1999, Spain

Nora - dir. Pat Murphy, 1999, Ireland/Germany

Not of this World - dir. Giuseppe Piccioni, 1998, Italy

No Trains, No Planes - dir. Jos Stelling, 1999, Netherlands

Nowhere to Hide - dir. Lee Myung-Se, 1999, South Korea

Of Civil Wrongs & Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story - dir. Eric Paul Fournier, 1999, USA

One More Kiss - dir. Vadim Jean, 1999, Great Britain

On Tiptoe: The Music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo - dir. Eric Simonson, 2000, USA

The Opportunists - dir. Myles Connell, 2000, USA

Orator - dir. Yusup Razykov, 1999, Uzbekistan

Our Song - dir. Jim McKay, 2000, USA

Passion - dir. Peter Duncan, 1999, Australia/USA

Passion of Mind - dir. Alain Berliner, 1999, USA

Peppermint - dir. Costas Kapakas, 1999, Greece

The Personals - dir. Chen Kuo-fu, 1998, Taiwan

The Pink Panther - dir. Blake Edwards, 1964, USA

The Polish Bride - dir. Karim Traidia, 1998, Netherlands

Possessed - dir. Anders Ronnow-Klarlund, 1999, Denmark

Preston Tylk - dir. Jon Bokenkamp, 2000, USA

The Prompter - dir. Hilde Heier, 1999, Norway

Psycho Beach Party - dir. Robert Lee King, 2000, USA

Punks - dir. Patrik-Ian Polk, 2000, USA

Purple Storm - dir. Teddy Chen, 1999, Hong Kong

Raging Bull - dir. Martin Scorsese, 1980, USA

Rata, Ratones, Rateros - dir. Sebastian Cordero, 1999, Ecuador

Rebels With a Cause - dir. Helen Garvy, 2000, USA

Red Dirt - dir. Tag Purvis, 2000, USA

Rembrandt - dir. Charles Matton, 1999, France/Germany/Netherlands

Return of the Idiot - dir. Sasa Gedeon, 1999, Czech Republic

Rien A Faire - dir. Marion Vernoux, 1999, France

Rollercoaster - dir. Scott Smith, 1999, Canada

A Rumor of Angels - dir. Peter O’Fallon, 2000, USA

Rupert’s Land - dir. Jonathan Tammuz, 1999, Canada

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - dir. Karel Reisz, 1960, Great Britain

Saving Grace - dir. Nigel Cole, 2000, Great Britain

Scratches in the Table - dir. Ineke Houtman, 1999, Netherlands

Seven Songs from the Tundra - dir. Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio, 2000, Finland

Seventeen Years - dir. Zhang Yuan, 1999, China/Italy

Shikoku - dir. Shunichi Nagasaki, 1999, Japan

Shiri - dir. Kang Je-gyu, 1999, South Korea

Shower - dir. Zhang Yang, 1999, China

Silence! - dir. Gregg Lachow, 2000, USA

Skipped Parts - dir. Tamra Davis, 2000, USA

Solas - dir. Benito Zambrano, 1999, Spain

Solomon and Gaenor - dir. Paul Morrison, 1999, Wales

Sordid Lives - dir. Del Shores, 1999, USA

Sound and Fury - dir. Josh Aronson, 1999, USA

Spellbound - dir. Masato Harada, 1999, Japan

Spicy Love Soup - dir. Zhang Yang, 1998, China

Sri - dir. Marselli Sumarno, 1999, Indonesia

Straight from the Heart - dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 1999, India

Strange Planet - dir. Emma-Kate Croghan, 1999, Australia

Sunshine - dir. Istvan Szabo, 1999, Hungary/Germany/Canada/Austria

Suzhou River - dir. Lou Ye, 2000, China/Germany

Sweet Agony - dir. Ali-Reza Davudnezhad, 1999, Iran

Swimming - dir. Robert J. Siegel, 1999, USA

The Tao of Steve - dir. Jenniphr Goodman, 2000, USA

The Teardrop Pearl - dir. Huu Phan Nguyen, Vu Tran, 1995, Vietnam/Hong Kong

This Is Cinerama - dir. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Walter Thompson, Michael Todd, 1952, USA

Throne of Death - dir. Murali Nair, 1999, India

Time Regained - dir. Raul Ruiz, 1999, France/Italy

To Die (Or Not) - dir. Ventura Pons, 2000, Spain

Tour Abroad - dir. Ayse Polat, 1999, Germany

Trade Off - dir. Shaya Mercer, 2000, USA

The Tree of Life - dir. Farhad Mehranfar, 1998, Iran

Trixie - dir. Alan Rudolph, 2000, USA

Tsatsiki, Mum and the Policeman - dir. Ella Lemhagen, 2000, Sweden/Norway/Denmark/Iceland

Tuvalu - dir. Veit Helmer, 1999, Germany

Twilight: Los Angeles - dir. Marc Levin, 1999, USA

Under the Sun - dir. Colin Nutley, 1999, Sweden

Urbania - dir. Jon Shear, 2000, USA

Venus Beauty Institute - dir. Tonie Marshall, 1999, France

Very Mean Men - dir. Tony Vitale, 2000, USA

Vulcan Junction - dir. Eran Riklis, 1999, Israel

Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes - dir. Cass Paley, 1999, USA

Water Drops on Burning Rocks - dir. François Ozon, 2000, France

The Weekend - dir. Brian Skeet, 2000, USA

The Wet Nurse - dir. Marco Bellocchio, 1999, Italy

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? - dir. Ian Mune, 1999, New Zealand

What’s Cooking - dir. Gurinder Chadha, 1999, Great Britain

When the Rain Lifts - dir. Takashi Koizumi, 1999, Japan

Where A Good Man Goes - dir. Johnnie To, Kei Fung, 1999, Hong Kong/China

The Wisdom of Crocodiles - dir. Po Chih Leong, 1999, Great Britain

Wojaczek - dir. Lech Majewski, 1999, Poland

The Woman Chaser - dir. Robinson Devor, 1999, USA

Wonderland - dir. Michael Winterbottom, 1999, Great Britain

Yara - dir. Yilmaz Arslan, 1998, Germany/Turkey/Switzerland

The Year of Living Dangerously - dir. Peter Weir, 1982, USA

Yesterday Children - dir. Carlos Siguion–Reyna, 1999, Philippines

The Young Lady and the Hooligan - dir. Yevageni Slavinsky, 1918, Russia

Special Programs & Events

Archival Treasures - included Eye of Glass, The Young Lady and the Hooligan, Blood Simple, Eve, Divorce, Italian Style, Raging Bull, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Cinema In Transition: The 6th Annual Filmmakers Forum - included Making Movies in Seattle: A Guide to the City’s Formidable Resources, We’ll Fix It in Post, In the Beginning, There Was the Word, Scene-By-Scene with Peter Weir, Shooting Digital: Practical and Aesthetic Ways of Capturing Digital Images, Selling Your Shorts: …Without Selling Yourself Short, Storytelling in the Digital Age, New Horizons: A Peek into the Technology that is Revolutionizing the Industry, An Arranged Marriage: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Distributors and Critics, Performing Artists: High Profile Character Actors and Emerging Stars, Cinema in Transition: Inside Filmmakers Hold Forth on the State of the Industry, FLY FILMMAKING

Cinerama Day - included How the West Was Won, The Cinerama Adventure, This Is Cinerama

Curiously Strong Midnighters - included The Cars That Ate Paris, Cut, The Convent, Enough To Drive One Mad, The Mission, Possessed, Purple Storm, The Wisdom of Crocodiles

Documentaries / Truth with an Attitude - included 26 feature films 

Drive-In Party - included The Convent, Psycho Beach Party 

Emerging Masters / Erick Zonca - included The Little Thief, The Dreamlife Of Angels Emerging Masters / Iciar Bollain - included Flowers from Another World, Hola, Esta Sola?

Emerging Masters / Santosh Sivan - included Malli, Halo

Emerging Masters / Zhang Yang - included Shower, Spicy Love Soup

Films4Families - included Kirikou and the Sorceress, The Pink Panther, Mr. Rice’s Secret, Tzatziki, Mum and the Policeman

Gala Bride of Fire
Gala Looking For Alibrandi

Gala Passion of Mind

Golden Space Needle Awards

New American Cinema - included 32 feature films

New Directors Showcase - included 12 feature films

Passport to the World - included 19 feature films

Poster Auction 2000

Secret Festival

Shorts Programs - included Age of Discovery, Animation Celebration, Cinema in Motion: New Experimental Films, Enough To Drive One Mad, Boys and Girls Shorts, International Shorts, Northwest Shorts, On the Threshold of Life

Special Gala Presentation Silence!

A Tribute to Peter Weir - included The Cars That Ate Paris, The Last Wave, Gallipoli, The Year of Living Dangerously, The Mosquito Coast, Fearless