Jafar Panahi won the Golden Lion that year
The 57th Venice International Film Festival took place from August 30th to September 9th, 2000.
The following jury was appointed for the competition: Miloš Forman (jury president), Jennifer Jason Leigh , Samira Makhmalbaf , Tahar Ben Jelloun , Giuseppe Bertolucci , Claude Chabrol and Andreas Kilb .
competition
The following films took part in the festival competition:
| Movie title
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Director
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Country of production
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Actor (selection)
|
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100 steps
|
Marco Tullio Giordana
|
Italy
|
Luigi Lo Cascio , Luigi Maria Burruano , Lucia Sardo
|
|
Before Night Falls
|
Julian Schnabel
|
United States
|
Javier Bardem , Olivier Martinez , Johnny Depp
|
|
Comédie de l'innocence
|
Raul Ruiz
|
France
|
Isabelle Huppert , Jeanne Balibar
|
|
Denti
|
Gabriele Salvatores
|
Italy
|
Sergio Rubini , Anouk Grinberg
|
|
Dr. T and the Women
|
Robert Altman
|
USA , Germany
|
Richard Gere , Helen Hunt , Farrah Fawcett
|
|
O fantasy
|
João Pedro Rodrigues
|
Portugal
|
Ricardo Meneses , Beatriz Torkato
|
|
The boss's wife
|
Xavier Beauvois
|
France
|
Benoît Magimel , Nathalie Baye
|
|
Freedom
|
Sarūnas Bartas
|
France , Portugal , Lithuania
|
Valentinas Masalskis , Axel Neumann
|
|
In stormy times
|
Sally Potter
|
UK , France
|
Christina Ricci , Cate Blanchett , Johnny Depp
|
|
The Japanese and the goddess
|
Clara Law
|
Australia
|
Rose Byrne , Rikiya Kurokawa
|
|
The circle *
|
Jafar Panahi
|
Iran , Italy , Switzerland
|
|
|
Liam
|
Stephen Frears
|
UK , Germany , France
|
Ian Hart , Claire Hackett
|
|
La lingua del santo
|
Carlo Mazzacurati
|
Italy
|
Antonio Albanese , Fabrizio Bentivoglio
|
|
Liulian piao piao
|
Fruit chan
|
Hong Kong , France , China
|
Hailu Qin , Wai fan Mak
|
|
The Madonna of the Murderers
|
Barbet Schroeder
|
Spain , France , Colombia
|
Germán Jaramillo , Anderson Ballesteros
|
|
Palavra e Utopia
|
Manoel de Oliveira
|
Spain , Italy , France , Brazil , Portugal
|
Lima Duarte , Luís Miguel Cintra
|
|
Il partigiano Johnny
|
Guido Chiesa
|
Italy
|
Stefano Dionisi , Andrea Prodan
|
|
The beautiful Uttara
|
Buddhadeb Dasgupta
|
India
|
Jaya Seal
|
|
Seom - the island
|
Kim Ki-duk
|
South Korea
|
Suh Jung , Kim Yoosuk
|
|
Zhantai
|
Jia Zhangke
|
Hong Kong, China , Japan , France
|
Hongwei Wang , Tao Zhao
|
* = Golden lion
Award winners
Javier Bardem won the Best Actor Award
Further prices
- Best Short Film: A Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow by Peter Long (Australia)
- Luigi De Laurentiis Award: La faute à Voltaire by Abdel Kechiche
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FIPRESCI Prize : The Circle of Jafar Panahi (Best Film); Thomas is in love of Pierre-Paul Renders (Best Debut Film)
- OCIC Award: Liam by Stephen Frears
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UNICEF Award: The Circle of Jafar Panahi
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