Seattle International Film Festival 2001 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 2001

Relive the 27th 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 2001 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: May 24–June 17, 2001
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Broadway Performance Hall, Cinerama, Egyptian Theatre, 5th Avenue Theatre, Harvard Exit Theater, Pacific Place Cinemas

Opening Night: The Anniversary Party at 5th Avenue Theatre
Closing Night: Investigating Sex at Pacific Place Cinemas
Tribute: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Emerging Masters: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Marcelo Pineyro, Jerzy Stuhr, Ricky Tognazzi


FESTIVAL CATALOG

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Dan Doody (and a 2001 Print Traffic Manager), Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, and Associate Director, Carl Spence

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Dan Doody (and a 2001 Print Traffic Manager), Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, and Associate Director, Carl Spence

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Dan Doody (and a 2001 Print Traffic Manager), Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, and Associate Director, Carl Spence

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Dan Doody (and a 2001 Print Traffic Manager), Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, and Associate Director, Carl Spence

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
Finder's Fee (dir. Jeff Probst, USA)

Best Director
Tim Blake Nelson (O, USA)

Best Actress
Thora Birch (Ghost World)

Best Actor
John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)

Best Short
Boychick (dir. Glen Gaylord, USA)

Best Documentary
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (dir. George Butler, USA)

Juried Competition Awards

New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Together (dir. Lukas Moodysson, 2000, Sweden/Italy)

New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Jackpot (dir. Michael Polish, 2001, USA)

List of Feature-Length Films

101 Reykjavik - dir. Baltasar Kormàkur, 2000, Iceland

6ixtynin9 - dir. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2000, Thailand

The Adventures of Felix - dir. Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau, 1999, France

Ali Zaoua - dir. Nabil Ayouch, 2000, Morocco

All Over the Guy - dir. Julie Davis, 2001, USA

American Astronaut - dir. Cory McAbee, 2001, USA

Amy’s Orgasm - dir. Julie Davis, 2000, USA

L’amour, L’argent, L’amour - dir. Philip Gröning, 2000, Germany

Angels of the Universe - dir. Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, 2000, Iceland

Animal - dir. Sergio Bizzio, 2001, Argentina

Anita Takes a Chance - dir. Ventura Pons, 2000, Spain

The Anniversary Party - dir. Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh, 2001, USA

The Attic Expeditions - dir. Jeremy Kasten, 2000, USA

Baise-Moi (Rape Me) - dir. Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi, 2000, France

Bangkok: Dangerous - dir. Oxide Pang, Danny Pang, 2000, Thailand

Bang Rajan - dir. Thanit Jiynukul, 2001, Thailand

A Banquet at Tetlapayac - dir. Olivier Debroise, 1999, Mexico

Baraka - dir. Ron Fricke, 1992, USA

Barking Dogs Never Bite - dir. Bong Joon-Hu, 2000, South Korea

Bartleby - dir. Jonathan Parker, 2001, USA

Battle Royale - dir. Kinji Fukasaku, 2000, Japan

Before the Storm - dir. Reza Parsa, 2000, Sweden

Better Than Sex - dir. Jonathan Teplitzky, 2000, Australia/France

Betty Blue L’Integral - dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1986/1991, France

The Big Animal - dir. Jerzy Stuhr, 2000, Poland

Blink - dir. Elizabeth Thompson, 1999, USA

The Blue Diner - dir. Jan Egleson, 2000, USA

Body and Soul - dir. Oscar Micheaux, 1925, USA

Born in Absurdistan - dir. Houchang Allahyari, 1999, Austria

Born Romantic - dir. David Kane, 2000, Great Britain

Borstal Boy - dir. Peter Sheridan, 2001, Ireland/Great Britain

Brave New Land - dir. Lúcia Murat, 2000, Brazil

Bread and Tulips - dir. Silvio Soldini, 1999, Italy/Germany

Breaking the Silence - dir. Zhou Sun, 1999, China

Bronx-Barbes - dir. Eliane De Latour, 2000, France

Brother - dir. Takeshi Kitano, 2000, Japan/USA

Burnt Money - dir. Marcelo Piñeyro, 2000, Argentina

The Business of Strangers - dir. Patrick Stettner, 2001, USA

Camp Scott Ladies - dir. Jeff Werner, Susan Koch, 2001, USA

Canone Inverso – Making Love - dir. Ricky Tognazzi, 2000, Italy

The Captain’s Daughter - dir. AleksandrProshkin, 2000, Russia/France

Chain Camera - dir. Kirby Dick, 2001, USA

Chopper dir. Andrew Dominik, 2000, Australia

Chronically Unfeasible - dir. Sérgio Bianchi, 2000, Brazil

City of Lost Souls - dir. Takashi Miike, 2000, Japan

The Closet - dir. Francis Veber, 2000, France

Come Undone - dir. Sébastien Lifshitz, 2000, France

Coronation - dir. Silvio Caiozzi, 2000, Chile

Crazy - dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, 2000, Germany

The Crimson Rivers - dir. Mathieu Kassowitz, 2000, France

Cure - dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997, Japan

Dead or Alive - dir. Takashi Miike, 1999, Japan

Devils on the Doorstep - dir. Wen Jiang, 2000, China

Diary of a Chambermaid - dir. Luis Buñuel, 1964, France

The Dinosaur Hunter - dir. Rick Stevenson, 2000, Canada

Dirt Boy - dir. Jay Frasco, 2001, USA

Disco Pigs - dir. Kirsten Sheridan, 2001, Ireland/UK

Diva - dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981, France

Divided We Fall - dir. Jan Hrebejk, 2000, Czech Republic

Dog Food - dir. Carlos Siguion-Reyna, 2000, Philippines

Dora-Heita - dir. Kon Ichikawa, 1999, Japan

e-Dreams - dir. Wonsuk Chin, 2001, USA

The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition - dir. George Butler, 2000, USA

England! - dir. Achim Von Borries, 2000, Germany

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story - dir. Andrea Weiss, Wieland Speck, 2000, Great Britain/Germany

Everybody‘s Famous! - dir. Dominique Deruddere, 2000, Belgium/Netherlands/France

Exploding Oedipus - dir. Marc Lafia, 2001, USA

Faat-Kine - dir. Ousmane Sembene, 2000, Senegal

Family Pack - dir. Chris Vander Stappen, 2000, Belgium/France/Canada/Switzerland

Famous - dir. Griffin Dunne, 2000, USA

Farewell to Harry - dir. Garrett Bennett, 2001, USA

Film Noir - dir. Masahiro Kobayashi, 2000, Japan

Final - dir. Campbell Scott, 2001, USA

Finder’s Fee - dir. Jeff Probst, 2001, USA

Fleeing by Night - dir. Li-kung Hsu, Chi Yin, 2000, Taiwan

The Foul King - dir. Ji-woon Kim, 2000, South Korea

Fugitives - dir. Miguel Hermoso, 2000, Spain

Gaudi Afternoon - dir. Susan Seidelman, 2001, USA/Spain

Gen-X Cops - dir. Benny Chan, 1999, Hong Kong

Ghost World - dir. Terry Zwigoff, 2001, USA

Ginger Snaps - dir. John Fawcett, 2000, Canada

Glamour - dir. Frigyes Gödrös, 2000, Hungary/Germany/Switzerland

Go Tigers! - dir. Kenneth A. Carlson, 2001, USA

Haiku Tunnel - dir. Jacob Kornbluth, Josh Kornbluth, 2001, USA

Hamlet - dir. Campbell Scott, Eric Simonson, 2001, USA

Hedwig and the Angry Inch - dir. John Cameron Mitchell, 2001, USA

Hotoke - dir. Tsuji Jinsei, 2000, Japan

Hybrid - dir. Monteith McCollum, 2000, USA

If… - dir. Lindsay Anderson, 1968, Great Britain

If I Could - dir. Patti Obrow White, 2000, USA

Ignorant Fairies - dir. Ferzan Ozpetek, 2001, Italy/France

I Love Beijing - dir. Ning Ying, 2001, China

Innocence - dir. Paul Cox, 2000, Australia

Inugami - dir. Masato Harada, 2000, Japan

Investigating Sex - dir. Alan Rudolph, 2001, USA

IP5: Island of the Pachyderms - dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1992, France

I Prefer the Sound of the Sea - dir. Mimmo Calopresti, 2000, Italy/France

Iron Ladies - dir. Yongyooth Thongkongtoon, 2000, Thailand

Jackpot - dir. Michael Polish, 2001, USA

Jack the Dog - dir. Bobby Roth, 2001, USA

Jalla! Jalla! - dir. Josef Fares, 2000, Sweden

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade - dir. Hiroyuki Okiura, 1998, Japan

Joint Security Area - dir. Chan-wook Park, 2000, South Korea

Jump Tomorrow - dir. Joel Hopkins, 2001, USA

The King Is Alive - dir. Kristian Levring, 2000, Denmark

The King Is Dancing - dir. Gérard Corbiau, 2000, France/Germany/Belgium

Kisses for Everyone - dir. Jaime Chavarri, 2000, Spain

KM.0 - dir. Yolanda Garcia Serrano, Juan Luis Iborra, 2001, Spain

LaLee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton - dir. Susan Frömke, Deborah Dickson, 2001, USA

The Left Side of the Fridge - dir. Philippe Falardeau, 2000, Canada

Liam - dir. Stephen Frears, 2000, Great Britain

Lift - dir. DeMane Davis, Khari Streeter, 2001, USA

Little Crumb - dir. Maria Peters, 1999, Netherlands

Little Otik - dir. Jan Svankmajer, 2000, Czech Republic/Great Britain

Little Senegal - dir. Rachid Bouchareb, 2000, Algeria

Live Blood - dir. Edoardo Winspeare, 2000, Italy

Lost and Delirious - dir. Léa Pool, 2001, Canada

Love Inventory - dir. David Fisher (Reshimat Ahara), 2000, Israel

MacArthur Park - dir. Billy Wirth, 2001, USA

Maîtresse - dir. Barbet Schroeder, 1976, France

Manhood and Other Modern Dilemmas - dir. Ronan Girre, 2000, France

Manic - dir. Jordan Melamed, 2001, USA

Marshal Tito’s Spirit, dir. Vinko Bresan, 2000, Croatia

A Matter of Taste - dir. Bernard Rapp, 2000, France

Mechanism - dir. Djordje Milosavljevic, 2000, Yugoslavia

The Melancholy Chicken - dir. Jaroslav Brabec, 2000, Czech Republic

Memento Mori - dir. Min Kyu-Dong, Kim Tae-Yong, 2000, South Korea

Middle Passage - dir. Guy Deslauriers, 2000, Martinique/France

Miracles - dir. Jackie Chan, 1989, Hong Kong

Monkey’s Mask - dir. Samantha Lang, 2000 , Australia

Mortal Transfer - dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix , 2000, France

Moscow - dir. Aleksandr Zeldovich, 2000, Russia

My First Mister - dir. Christine Lahti, 2001, USA

Nang Nak - dir. Nonzee Nimibutr, 1999, Thailand

National 7 - dir. Jean-Pierre Sinapi, 2000, France

The New Country - dir. Geir Hansteen Jörgensen, 2001, Sweden

Night Shift - dir. Philippe Le Guay, 2001, France

No Place to Go - dir. Oskar Roehler , 2000, Germany

O - dir. Tim Blake Nelson, 2001, USA

Odd Little Man - dir. Stein Leikanger, 2000, Norway

O Fantasma - dir. João Pedro Rodrigues, 2000, Portugal

The Other Girls - dir. Caroline Vignal, 2000, France

Our Lady of the Assassins - dir. Barbet Schroeder, 2000, Colombia

Out of the Closet, Off The Screen: The William Haines Story - dir. Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, 2001, USA

Parsley Days - dir. Andrea Dorfman, 2000, Canada

Peaches - dir. Nick Grosso, 2000, Ireland/Great Britain

The Perfect Son - dir. Leonard Farlinger, 2000, Canada

A Place Nearby - dir. Kaspar Rostrup, 2000, Denmark

Plenilunio - dir. Imanol Uribe, 2000, Spain

Possible Loves - dir. Sandra Werneck, 2000, Brazil

Princesa - dir. Henrique Goldman, 2000, Italy/Germany/Brazil

The Princess and the Warrior - dir. Tom Tykwer, 2000, Germany

The Punishment - dir. Goran Rebic, 1999, Austria

Ramayana: Prince of Light - dir. Ram Mohan, Yugo Sako, Koichi Saski, 1999, Japan/India

Le Rat - dir. Christophe Ali, Nicolas Bonilauri, 2000, France

A Real Young Girl - dir. Catherine Breillat, 1975, France

Reef Hunters - dir. Marilou Diaz-Abaya, 2000, Philippines

Rennie’s Landing - dir. Marc Fusco, 2001, USA

Ring 0 - dir. Norio Tsuruta, 2000, Japan

The Road Home - dir. Zhang Yimou, 2000, China

Rock And Roll Won’t Wait - dir. James Bazan, 2000, USA

Roselyne and the Lions - dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1989, France

A Run for the Money - dir. Reha Erdem, 2000, Turkey

A Sad Flower in the Sand - dir. Jan Louter, 2001, Netherlands/USA

Sandstorm - dir. Jagmohan, 2000, India

Saroja - dir. Somaratne Dissanayake, 2000, Sri Lanka

Scout’s Honor - dir. Tom Shepard, 2001, USA

Scratch - dir. Doug Pray, 2001, USA

Séance - dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2000, Japan

Second Coming - dir. Darren Campbell, Steve Rees, 2001, USA

Sentimental Destiny - dir. Olivier Assayas, 2000, France

Seven Men from Now - dir. Budd Boetticher, 1956, USA

Sex, Shame & Tears - dir. Antonio Serrano, 1999, Mexico

Sidewalks of New York - dir. Ed Burns, 2001, USA

Sky Hook - dir. Ljubisa Samardzic, 1999, Yugoslavia/Italy

Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine - dir. Bahman Farmanara, 2000, Iran

Song of Tibet - dir. Xie Fei, 2000, China

Southern Comfort - dir. Kate Davis, 2001, USA

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures - dir. Jan Harlan, 2001, Great Britain

Startup.com - dir. Chris Hegedus, Jehane Noujaim, 2001, USA

Steamboat Bill Jr. - dir. Charles Reisnier, Buster Keaton (Uncredited), 1928, USA

The Stranger - dir. Götz Spielmann, Roger Frappier, 2000, Austria

Stranger Inside - dir. Cheryl Dunye, 2001, USA

Strangled Lives - dir. Ricky Tognazzi, 1996, Italy

Strictly Sinatra - dir. Peter Capaldi, 2000, Great Britain

Such Is Life - dir. Arturo Ripstein, 2000, Mexico/Spain/France

Sun Alley - dir. Leander Haußmann, 2000, Germany

Tears of the Black Tiger - dir. Wisit Sasanatieng, 2000, Thailand

Teeth - dir. Gabriele Salvatores, 2000, Italy

The Testimony of Taliesin Jones - dir. Martin Duffy, 2000, Wales/Great Britain

That the Women Live - dir. Laurent Bécue-Renard, 2001, France

Things Behind the Sun - dir. Allison Anders, 2001, USA

This Is My Moon - dir. Asoka Handagama, 2000, Sri Lanka

Thomas in Love - dir. Pierre-Paul Renders, 2000, Belgium/France

Together - dir. Lukas Moodysson, 2000, Sweden/Italy

Top of the Food Chain - dir. John Paizs, 1999, Canada

Tortilla Soup - dir. María Ripoli, 2001, USA

Treading Water - dir. Lauren Himmel, 2001, USA

Tuna - dir. Robert Byington, USA

Turandot Project - dir. Allan Miller, 2000, USA/Germany

Under the Sand - dir. François Ozon, 2000, France

Vanaprastham: The Last Dance - dir. Shaji Karun, 2000, India

Vengo - dir. Tony Gatlif, 2001, France/Spain

Vertical Ray of the Sun - dir. Tran Anh Hung, 2000, Vietnam/France

Virgil Bliss - dir. Joe Maggio, 2001, USA

Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors - dir. Hong Sang-soo, 2000, South Korea

Viva Las Nowhere - dir. Jason Bloom, 2001 , USA

Way Out West - dir. Fred Niblo, 1930, USA

Webcam Boys - dir. RADD, 2001, USA

The Wedding - dir. Pavel Lungin, 2000, Russia/France

A Week in the Life of a Man - dir. Jerzy Stuhr, 1999, Poland

The Weight of Water - dir. Kathryn Bigelow, 2000, USA/France

Wendigo - dir. Larry Fessenden, 2001, USA

Wild Horses - dir. Marcelo Piñeyro, 1995, Argentina

Wild Zero - dir. Tetsuro Takeuchi, 2000, Japan

WillFull - dir. Rebel Penfold-Russell, 2001, Australia

A Woman’s a Helluva Thing - dir. Karen Leigh Hopkins, 2001, USA

The Young and the Dead - dir. Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman, 2000, USA

Special Programs & Events

2001: A Film Odyssey, The 7th Annual Filmmakers Forum - included Is Digital the Death of Cinema?, What is the Black Experience on Film?, What’s a Documentary For?, Dragons on the Doorstep: New Asian Cinema, The Tarantino Tutorial: Quentin Tarantino Celebrates Unsung American Master William Witney, Part I-IV - seminar guests included Quentin Tarantino, Richard T. Jameson, Whatever Happened to Talking Pictures?, What’s a Film Critic For?, Fly Filmmaking 

Asian Beat: Focus on Thailand Special Presentation Tears of the Black Tiger

Asian Beat: Focus on Thailand - included 6ixtynin9, Bang Rajan, Nang Nak, Iron Ladies

Archival Treasures - included Baraka, Diary of a Chambermaid, If…, Miracles, A Real Young Girl

Black Experience on Film - included Lift, Body and Soul, Bronx-Barbes, Faat-Kine, Little Senegal, MacArthur Park, Middle Passage, Stranger Inside 

Edge of Midnight: Adrenaline Rush - included City of Lost Souls, Wild Zero, Dead or Alive, Battle Royale

Edge of Midnight: Erotic City - included Maîtresse, 0 Fantasma, A Real Young Girl, Baise-moi (Rape Me) 

Documentaries: Truth with an Attitude - included 23 feature films

Drive-in Party - included Top of the Food Chain, The American Astronaut

Films4Families - included The Dinosaur Hunter, Little Crumb, Ramayana: Prince of Light, The Testimony of Taliesin Jones

Gala Screening: 0

Gala Screening: Liam 

Gala Screening: Ghost World 

Gala Screening: Tortilla Soup

Golden Space Needle Award 

New American Cinema - included 31 feature films

New Directors Showcase - included 12 feature films

On location: Shooting in Seattle - included Farewell to Harry, Cityscapes, Emotional Landscapes, Where Worlds Collide 

Secret Festival 

Shorts programs - included Mind Games, Oddballs, Eccentrics and Misfits, A Sense of Dislocation, Animation Extravaganza, Modern Sex and Romance, Queersville

The Silent Movie Poster Auction

Special Archival Presentation - included Steamboat Bill, Jr. Accompanied by Boston’s Alloy Orchestra, Seven Men from Now

Special Benefit Presentation: The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition 

Tribute to Jean-Jacques Beineix - included Mortal Transfer, IP5: Island of the Pachyderms, Roselyne and the Lions, Betty Blue L’Integral, Diva

But I'm A Cheerleader
But I'm A Cheerleader
The Anniversary Party
The Anniversary Party
Finder's Fee
Finder's Fee
Ghost World
Ghost World
Hedwig And The Angry Inch
Hedwig And The Angry Inch
Tortilla Soup
Tortilla Soup
Mortal Transfer
Mortal Transfer
Liam
Liam
Together
Together