Toronto International Film Festival Coverage:2000:List of Films
25th Toronto International Film Festival Coverage: List of Films
Hey, you can’t see ‘em all, but here’s the complete list of films that will be presented at the 25th Toronto International Film Festival.
| 25th Anniversary Special Events | |
| Film Title | Director |
| 25 x 25 | various |
| Alexander Nevsky | Sergei Eisenstein |
| The Bloomberg Tribute to Stephen Frears | |
| Dangerous Liaisons | Stephen Frears |
| The Grifters | Stephen Frears |
| The Hit | Stephen Frears |
| My Beautiful Laundrette | Stephen Frears |
| Prick Up Your Ears | Stephen Frears |
| Sammy and Rosie Get Laid | Stephen Frears |
| Beckett On Film | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Act Without Words 1 | Karel Reisz |
| Catastrophe | David Mamet |
| Endgame | Conor McPherson |
| Happy Days | Patricia Rozema |
| Krapp's Last Tape | Atom Egoyan |
| Not I | Neil Jordan |
| Play | Anthony Minghella |
| Rockaby | Sir Richard Eyre |
| Rough For Theatre 1 | Kieron J. Walsh |
| What Where | Damien O'Donnell |
| Canadian Open Vault | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Tit-Coq | Gratien Gélinas, René Delacroix |
| Contemporary World Cinema | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Aberdeen | Hans Petter Moland |
| Amores Perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| Angels of the Universe | Fridrik Thór Fridriksson |
| April Captains | Maria de Medeiros |
| Attraction | Russell DeGrazier |
| Better Than Sex | Jonathan Teplitzky |
| Billy Elliott | Stephen Daldry |
| Blackboards | Samira Makhmalbaf |
| Born Romantic | David Kane |
| Brave New Land | Lúcia Murat |
| Burnt Money | Marcelo Piñeyro |
| Chasing Sleep | Michael Walker |
| The Circle | Jafar Panahi |
| Clouds of May | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| Collision Course | Roberval Duarte |
| Daily Bread | Ane Muñoz Mitxelena |
| The Debt | Krzysztof Krauze |
| Les Destinées Sentimentales | Olivier Assayas |
| Djomeh | Hassan Yektapanah |
| Dog Food | Carlos Siguion-Reyna |
| Durian Durian | Fruit Chan |
| Eisenstein | Renny Bartlett |
| Eureka | Shinji Aoyama |
| Face | Junji Sakamoto |
| Farewell | Jan Schütte |
| Fast Food, Fast Women | Amos Kollek |
| The Film Biker | Mel Chionglo |
| Flower of Manila | Joel Lamangan |
| Freedom | Sharunas Bartas |
| Friends Have Reasons | Gerardo Herrero |
| Girlfight | Karyn Kusama |
| The Goddess of 1967 | Clara Law |
| Gojoe | Sogo lshii |
| Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien | Dominik Moll |
| Hey! Ram | Kamal Haasan |
| Holdup | Florian Flicker |
| Hunters in the Snow | Michael Kreihsl |
| The Isle | Kim Kiduk |
| Juliet in Love | Wilson Yip |
| kaza-hana | Shinji Somai |
| Kimono | Hal Hartley |
| The King is Alive | Kristian Levring |
| Kippur | Amos Gitaï |
| Krámpack | Cesc Gay |
| À la verticale de l'été | Tran Anh Hung |
| Landscape | Martin Sulík |
| The Last Resort | Paul Pawlikowski |
| Little Cheung | Fruit Chan |
| Lockdown | John Luessenhop |
| Manila | Romuald Karmakar |
| Me, You, Them | Andrucha Waddington |
| The Mechanism | Djordje Milosavljevic |
| Memento | Christopher Nolan |
| La moitié du ciel | Alain Mazars |
| The Monkey's Mask | Samantha Lang |
| The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz | Ben Hopkins |
| No Place to Go | Oskar Roehler |
| Nuts for Love | Alberto Lecchi |
| Peppermint | Costas Kapakas |
| Petite chérie | Anne Villacèque |
| Placido Rizzotto | Pasquale Scimeca |
| Platform | Jia Zhang-ke |
| The Price of Milk | Harry Sinclair |
| Requiem for a Dream | Darren Aronofsky |
| Risk | Alan White |
| A Rumor of Angels | Peter O'Fallon |
| Sade | Benoît Jacquot |
| Samia | Philippe Faucon |
| Seance | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Seven Songs From the Tundra | Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio |
| Shadow Magic | Ann Hu |
| Signs and Wonders | Jonathan Nossiter |
| Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine | Bahman Farmanara |
| Songs From the Second Floor | Roy Andersson |
| The Stranger | Götz Spielmann |
| Suzhou River | Lou Ye |
| Swedish Beauty | Daniel Fridell |
| Teeth | Gabriele Salvatores |
| Thomas est amoureux | Pierre-Paul Renders |
| A Time for Drunken Horses | Bahman Ghobadi |
| To Die (Or Not) | Ventura Pons |
| The Truth About Tully | Hilary Birmingham |
| Two Family House | Raymond De Felitta |
| Urbania | Jon Shear |
| Vengo | Tony Gatlif |
| La ville est tranquille | Robert Guédiguian |
| Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors | Hong Sang-soo |
| Une vraie jeune fille | Catherine Breillat |
| Waiting for the Messiah | Daniel Burman |
| Waiting List | Juan Carlos Tabío |
| Walk the Talk | Shirley Barrett |
| The Wedding | Pavel Lounguine |
| When Brendan Met Trudy | Kieron J. Walsh |
| When the Sky Falls | John MacKenzie |
| Wild Blue: Notes for Several Voices | Thierry Knauff |
| With Closed Eyes | Mansur Madavi |
| Dialogues: Talking With Pictures | |
| Film Title | Director |
| The Bicycle Thief | Vittorio de Sica |
| Blue Velvet | David Lynch |
| Do The Right Thing | Spike Lee |
| Performance | Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell |
| Raven's End | Bo Widerberg |
| The Sacrifice | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Discovery | |
| Film Title | Director |
| 10 Minutes | Juan Carlos Rulfo |
| 101 Reykjavik | Baltasar Kormákur |
| 19 | Kazushi Watanabe |
| Aïe | Sophie Fillières |
| alaska.de | Esther Gronenborn |
| Baise-moi | Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi |
| Bangkok Dangerous | Oxide Pang, Danny Pang |
| Bunny | Mia Trachinger |
| Chill Out | Andreas Struck |
| Chopper | Andrew Dominik |
| City Loop | Belinda Chayko |
| Compassionate Sex | Laura Mañá |
| The Day I Became A Woman | Marziyeh Meshkini |
| Dust to Dust | Juan Carlos de Llaca |
| Les filles ne savent pas nager | Anne-Sophie Birot |
| George Washington | David Gordon Green |
| The Girl | Sande Zeig |
| In God We Trust | Jason Reitman |
| Interstate 84 | Ross Partridge |
| The Iron Ladies | Yongyooth Thongkonthun |
| Loners | David Ondrícek |
| The Low Down | Jamie Thraves |
| The Most Fertile Man in Ireland | Dudi Appleton |
| Night Kiss | Boris Rodriguez Arroyo |
| The Red One: Triumph | Oleg Pogodin, Vladimir Alenikov |
| Scarlet Diva | Asia Argento |
| Scout Man | Masato Ishioka |
| Vulgar | Bryan Johnson |
| The Young Unknowns | Catherine Jelski |
| Gala Presentations | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Almost Famous | Cameron Crowe |
| Best In Show | Christopher Guest |
| Bread and Tulips | Silvio Soldini |
| The Contender | Rod Lurie |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Ang Lee |
| The Dish | Rob Sitch |
| Dr. T and the Women | Robert Altman |
| The House of Mirth | Terence Davies |
| How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog | Michael Kalesniko |
| In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai |
| The Luzhin Defence | Marleen Gorris |
| Men of Honor | George Tillman Jr. |
| Pandaemonium | Julien Temple |
| Sexy Beast | Jonathan Glazer |
| Stardom | Denys Arcand |
| La Veuve de Saint-Pierre | Patrice Leconte |
| The Weight of Water | Kathryn Bigelow |
| Masters | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Bread and Roses | Ken Loach |
| Brother | Takeshi Kitano |
| La Captive | Chantal Akerman |
| Chunhyang | Im Kwontaek |
| Code Inconnu | Michael Haneke |
| Comédie de l'innocence | Raoul Ruiz |
| Gohatto | Nagisa Oshima |
| The Legends of Rita | Volker Schlöndorff |
| Merci pour le chocolat | Claude Chabrol |
| My Generation | Barbara Kopple |
| Such is Life | Arturo Ripstein |
| Turbulence | Ruy Guerra |
| Werckmeister Harmonies | Béla Tarr |
| The Wrestlers | Buddhadeb Dasgupta |
| YI YI (A One and a Two) | Edward Yang |
| Midnight Madness | |
| Film Title | Director |
| 6ixtynin9 | Pen-ek Ratanaruang |
| The American Nightmare | Adam Simon |
| The City of Lost Souls | Miike Takashi |
| The Foul King | Kim Jeewoon |
| The Irrefutable Truth about Demons | Glenn Standring |
| The Mission | Johnnie To Kei-Fung |
| Quartered at Dawn | Norbert Keil |
| Tell Me Something | Chang Youn hyun |
| Time and Tide | Tsui Hark |
| Wild Zero | Tetsuro Takeuchi |
| Perspective Canada | |
| Film Title | Director |
| 3 Stories From the End of Everything | Semi Chellas |
| Abe's Manhood | Aubrey Nealon |
| After Eden | John Price |
| Atomic Saké | Louise Archambault |
| The Basement Girl | Midi Onodera |
| Bowie: One in a Million | Janis Cole |
| Le Chapeau | Michèle Cournoyer |
| Clean Rite Cowboy | Michael Downing |
| De l'art et la manière chez Denys Arcand | Georges Dufaux |
| Deeply | Sheri Elwood |
| Desire | Colleen Murphy |
| Dinky Menace | Robert Kennedy |
| Ernest | Keith Behrman |
| FILM(lode) | deco dawson |
| Foxy Lady, Wild Cherry | Ines Buchli |
| Ginger Snaps | John Fawcett |
| Hindsight | Susan Shipton |
| Landscaping | Paul Carrière |
| The Law of Enclosures | John Greyson |
| Like a Dream that Vanishes | Barbara Sternberg |
| The Lost Bundefjord Expedition | Matt Holm |
| Love Come Down | Clement Virgo |
| Low Self Esteem Girl | Blaine Thurier |
| Maelström | Denis Villeneuve |
| Marine Life | Anne Wheeler |
| La Moitié gauche du frigo | Philippe Falardeau |
| Monday with the Martins | Jeffery Erbach |
| Moon Palace | David Weaver |
| New Neighbours | Anita McGee |
| Parsley Days | Andrea Dorfman |
| Passengers | Francine Zuckerman |
| The Perfect Son | Leonard Farlinger |
| Poe | Gregory Nixon |
| red deer | Anthony Couture |
| Rocks at Whiskey Trench | Alanis Obomsawin |
| Saint Jude | John L'Ecuyer |
| Sea in the Blood | Richard Fung |
| Subrosa | Helen Lee |
| Suspicious River | Lynne Stopkewich |
| Take-Out | Jean-François Monette |
| Traces dans le rocher du lontain | Majdi El-Omari |
| Two Thousand and None | Arto Paragamian |
| The Uncles | Jim Allodi |
| Via Crucis | Serge Denoncourt |
| The Walnut Tree | Elida Schogt |
| waydowntown | Gary Burns |
| We All Fall Down | Martin Cummins |
| What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band | Zev Asher |
| When Morning Comes | Charles Officer |
| Planet Africa | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Adanggaman | Roger Gnoan M'Bala |
| Ali Zaoua | Nabil Ayouch |
| Are You Cinderella? | Charles Hall |
| Auguy | Munga Tunda Djo |
| Bàttu | Cheick Oumar Sissoko |
| Bye Bye Africa | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun |
| Christmas With Granny | Dumisani Phakathi |
| The Elevator | Alrick Riley |
| En Face | Zina Modiano, Mehdi Ben Attia |
| Hijack Stories | Oliver Schmitz |
| El Medina (La Ville) | Yousry Nasrallah |
| One Week | Carl Seaton |
| Passage du milieu | Guy Deslauriers |
| La saison des hommes | Moufida Tlatli |
| La Squale | Fabrice Genestal |
| The Station | Aaron Woolfolk |
| Tourbillons | Alain Gomis |
| Vacances Au Pays | Jean-Marie Teno |
| Preludes | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Camera | David Cronenberg |
| The Line | Atom Egoyan |
| Congratulations | Mike Jones |
| See You in Toronto | Jean Pierre Lefebvre |
| The Heart of the World | Guy Maddin |
| A Word From the Management | Don McKellar |
| 24fps | Jeremy Podeswa |
| This Might Be Good | Patricia Rozema |
| Prelude | Michael Snow |
| Legs Apart | Anne Wheeler |
| Real to Reel | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Asylum | Chris Petit, Iain Sinclair |
| Breathe In/Breathe Out | Beth B |
| Calle 54 | Fernando Trueba |
| Crazy | Heddy Honigmann |
| Erik Bruhn: I'm the Same- Only More | Lennart Pasborg |
| Fighter | Amir Bar-Lev |
| The First and the Last... | Momir Matovic |
| Gaea Girls | Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams |
| Les glaneurs et la glaneuse | Agnès Varda |
| Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Mark Jonathan Harris |
| jour de nuit | Dieter Fahrer, Bernhard Nick |
| Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch | Chris Marker |
| Kalamandalam Gopi | Adoor Gopalakrishnan |
| Keep the River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale | Laurie Gwen Shapiro, David Shapiro |
| The Long Holiday | Johan van der Keuken |
| The Man Who Bought Mustique | Joseph Bullman |
| The Natural History of the Chicken | Mark Lewis |
| Paragraph 175 | Rob Epstein, Jeffery Friedman |
| The Prince is Back | Marina Goldovskaya |
| La règle du je | Françoise Romand |
| Soldiers in the Army of God | Marc Levin, Daphne Pinkerson |
| The Turandot Project | Allan Miller |
| Unchain | Toyoda Toshiaki |
| Robert Beavers Spotlight | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Amor | Robert Beavers |
| From the Notebook of... | Robert Beavers |
| The Painting | Robert Beavers |
| Ruskin | Robert Beavers |
| Sotiros | Robert Beavers |
| The Stoas | Robert Beavers |
| Wingseed | Robert Beavers |
| Work Done | Robert Beavers |
| Special Presentations | |
| Film Title | Director |
| Beautiful | Sally Field |
| Before Night Falls | Julian Schnabel |
| Chinese Coffee | Al Pacino |
| Dancing at the Blue Iguana | Michael Radford |
| Duets | Bruce Paltrow |
| Faithless | Liv Ullmann |
| Greenfingers | Joel Hershman |
| Innocence | Paul Cox |
| ivansxtc. (To Live and Die in Hollywood) | Bernard Rose |
| Liam | Stephen Frears |
| Lumumba | Raoul Peck |
| Pollock | Ed Harris |
| Possible Worlds | Robert Lepage |
| Princes et Princesses | Michel Ocelot |
| The Princess and the Warrior | Tom Tykwer |
| Shadow of the Vampire | E. Elias Merhige |
| A Shot at Glory | Michael Corrente |
| Sous le sable | François Ozon |
| State and Main | David Mamet |
| Tigerland | Joel Schumacher |
| The Yards | James Gray |
| You Can Count on Me | Kenneth Lonergan |
| Year 1 | |
| Film Title | Director |
| The Context | Francesco Rosi |
| Cousin, Cousine | Jean-Charles Tacchella |
| Dersu Uzala | Akira Kurosawa |
| The Devil's Playground | Fred Schepisi |
| L' eau chaude l'eau frette | André Forcier |
| Grey Gardens | Albert Maysles, David Maysles |
| Harlan County U.S.A. | Barbara Kopple |
| Kings of the Road | Wim Wenders |