Jury

• Milos Forman
  Miloš Forman
  Jan Tomáš Forman , better known as Miloš Forman , is a Czech-American director, screenwriter, professor, and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, are among the most celebrated in the history of film, both gaining him the Academy Award for...
  
   (head of jury)
• Jennifer Jason Leigh
  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American film and stage actress, best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Georgia and Short Cuts...
  
  
• Samira Makhmalbaf
  Samira Makhmalbaf
  Samira Makhmalbaf is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and script writer. She is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film director and writer. Samira Makhmalbaf belongs to the New Wave movement within Iranian cinema...
  
  
• Tahar Ben Jelloun
  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan poet and writer. The entirety of his work is written in French, although his first language is Arabic.-Life:...
  
  
• Giuseppe Bertolucci
• Claude Chabrol
  Claude Chabrol
  Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...
  
  
• Andreas Kilb (film critic)

Films in competition

• Before Night Falls
  Before Night Falls (film)
  Before Night Falls is a 2000 film directed by Julian Schnabel. The screenplay is based on the autobiography of the same name of Reinaldo Arenas, which was published in English in 1993. The screenplay was written by Schnabel, Cunningham O'Keefe, and Lázaro Gómez Carriles...
  
  by Julian Schnabel
  Julian Schnabel
  Julian Schnabel is an American artist and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates....
  
  
• I cento passi
  One Hundred Steps
  I Cento Passi is an Italian film released in 2000, directed by Marco Tullio Giordana about the life of Giuseppe “Peppino” Impastato, a political activist who opposed the Mafia in Sicily. The story takes place in the small town of Cinisi in the province of Palermo, the home town of the Impastato...
  
  by Marco Tullio Giordana
  Marco Tullio Giordana
  Marco Tullio Giordana is an Italian director and scriptwriter. His film Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Director:*Maledetti, vi amerò...
  
  
• Comédie de l'innocence
  Comedy of Innocence
  Comedy of Innocence is a 2000 French drama film directed by Raúl Ruiz and starring Isabelle Huppert.-Cast:* Isabelle Huppert - Ariane* Jeanne Balibar - Isabella* Charles Berling - Serge* Edith Scob - Laurence* Nils Hugon - Camille...
  
  by Raoul Ruiz
  Raoul Ruiz
  Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino was a Chilean filmmaker.Ruiz spent some years at the Catholic University of Santa Fe, Argentina's cinema school. Back in Chile, he directed his first feature film Tres tristes tigres in the late 1960s, winning the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival...
  
  
• Dayereh by Jafar Panahi
  Jafar Panahi
  Jafar Panahi is an Iranian filmmaker and is one of the most influential filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave movement. He has gained recognition from film theorists and critics worldwide and received numerous awards including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the Silver Bear at the...
  
  
• Denti by Gabriele Salvatores
  Gabriele Salvatores
  Gabriele Salvatores , is an Italian Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in Naples, Salvatores debuted as a theatre director in 1972, founding in Milan the Teatro dell'Elfo, for which he directed several avant-garde pieces until 1989.In that year, he directed his...
  
  
• Dr. T & the Women
  Dr. T & the Women
  Dr. T & the Women is a 2000 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Altman. It stars Richard Gere as wealthy gynecologist Dr. Sullivan Travis and Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Shelley Long, Tara Reid, Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler as the various "women" that encompass his everyday...
  
  by Robert Altman
  Robert Altman
  Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.His films MASH , McCabe and...
  
  
• O Fantasma
  O Fantasma
  O Fantasma is a 2000 Portuguese explicit gay-themed film directed by João Pedro Rodrigues and produced at the independent production company Rosa Filmes.-Synopsis:...
  
  by João Pedro Rodrigues
  João Pedro Rodrigues
  João Pedro Rodrigues is a Portuguese film director whose activity started in 1997.Having studied at the School of Theatre and Cinema of Portugal, João Pedro Rodrigues started his career as an assistant director and editor in several features, directed, for example, by Alberto Seixas Santos and...
  
  
• Freedom by Sharunas Bartas
• The Goddess of 1967
  The Goddess of 1967
  The Goddess of 1967 is a 2000 Australian film directed by Macau-born Australian Clara Law, who wrote the script with her husband Eddie Ling-Ching Fong....
  
  by Clara Law
  Clara Law
  Clara Law is a Hong Kong Second Wave film director, now having relocated to Australia before the 1997 Hong Kong handover....
  
  
• Liam by Stephen Frears
  Stephen Frears
  Stephen Arthur Frears is an English film director.-Early life:Frears was born in Leicester, England to Ruth M., a social worker, and Dr Russell E. Frears, a general practitioner and accountant. He did not find out that his mother was Jewish until he was in his late 20s...
  
  
• La Lingua del santo by Carlo Mazzacurati
  Carlo Mazzacurati
  Carlo Mazzacurati is an Italian film director and screenwriter born in Padua. He started his cinema career in 1980.His better known film include Il Toro and La lingua del santo...
  
  
• Liulian piao piao
  Durian Durian
  Durian Durian is a 2000 Hong Kong film directed by Fruit Chan. The film portrays the experiences of a young girl and her sex worker neighbour in Hong Kong.-Plot:...
  
  by Fruit Chan
  Fruit Chan
  Fruit Chan Gor is an independent Hong Kong Second Wave screenwriter, filmmaker and producer, who is best known for his style of film reflecting the everyday life of Hong Kong people. He is well known for using amateur actors in his films...
  
  
• The Man Who Cried
  The Man Who Cried
  The Man Who Cried is an 2000 Anglo-French film, written and directed by Sally Potter. The film stars Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, Harry Dean Stanton, and John Turturro....
  
  by Sally Potter
  Sally Potter
  Charlotte Sally Potter is an English film director and screenwriter.-Career:Having left school at sixteen to become a filmmaker, Potter joined the London Film-Makers' Co-op and started making experimental short films, including Jerk and Play...
  
  
• Palavra e Utopia by Manoel de Oliveira
  Manoel de Oliveira
  Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira, GCSE is a Portuguese film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He began working on films in the late 1920s, but did not receive international recognition until the early 1970s. Since the late 1980s he has been one of the most prolific working film directors and...
  
  
• Il Partigiano Johnny by Guido Chiesa
• Selon Matthieu by Xavier Beauvois
  Xavier Beauvois
  Xavier Beauvois is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His film Don't Forget You're Going to Die was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize....
  
  
• Seom
  The Isle
  The Isle is a 2000 South Korean film written and directed by Kim Ki-duk. The film was the fifth film made by Kim, and the first to receive wider international acclaim for his recognizable style...
  
  by Ki-duk Kim
• Uttara
  Uttara (film)
  Uttara is a 2000 Bengali language drama film thriller directed by Bengali poet Buddhadev Dasgupta. The film, based on a short story by Samaresh Bose stars Jaya Seal as Uttara, Tapas Pal and Shankar Chakraborty and Raisul Islam Asad as a Christian missionary....
  
  by Buddhadev Dasgupta
• La virgen de los sicarios
  Our Lady of the Assassins (film)
  Our Lady of the Assassins is a film by Barbet Schroeder about a Colombian author in his fifties who returns to his hometown of Medellín after 30 years of absence to find himself trapped in an atmosphere of violence and murder caused by drug cartel warfare...
  
  by Barbet Schroeder
  Barbet Schroeder
  Barbet Schroeder is a Franco-Swiss movie director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working together with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Zhantai by Jia Zhangke
  Jia Zhangke
  Jia Zhangke is a Chinese film director. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan....
  
  

External links

• Venice Film Festival:2000 at Internet Movie Database
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