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)
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
On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS
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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)
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)
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)
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
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