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Opening film | The Million Dollar Hotel |
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Closing film | Bossa Nova |
Location | Berlin, Germany |
Founded | 1951 |
Awards | Golden Bear: Magnolia |
No. of films | 240 films [1] |
Festival date | 9–20 February 2000 |
Website | http://www.berlinale.de |
The 50th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 9 to 20, 2000. [2] The festival opened with The Million Dollar Hotel by Wim Wenders. [3] [4] Bossa Nova by Bruno Barreto, screened out of competition was the closing film of the festival. [5]
The Golden Bear was awarded to Magnolia directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. [6] The retrospective titled Artificial People and dedicated to artificial beings and machines in the films was shown at the festival, screening films like The Golem: How He Came into the World and The Terminator . [7] On its 50th anniversary the premieres of the films in competition at the festival moved from Zoo Palast to Theater am Potsdamer Platz located at Potsdamer Platz. [8]
The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: [9]
The following films were selected for the main competition: [1]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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Any Given Sunday | Oliver Stone | United States | |
The Beach | Danny Boyle | United States, United Kingdom | |
Boy's Choir | 独立少年合唱団 | Akira Ogata | Japan |
Clouds of May | Mayis Sikintisi | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey |
First Light of Dawn | Prime luci dell'alba | Lucio Gaudino | Italy |
The Hurricane | Norman Jewison | United States | |
The Island Tales | 有时跳舞 | Stanley Kwan | Japan, Hong Kong, China |
The Legend of Rita | Die Stille nach dem Schuß | Volker Schlöndorff | Germany |
Love Me | Laetitia Masson | France | |
Magnolia | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States | |
Man on the Moon | Miloš Forman | United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan | |
The Million Dollar Hotel | Wim Wenders | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | |
Of Woman and Magic | La chambre des magiciennes | Claude Miller | France |
The Road Home | 我的父亲母亲 | Zhang Yimou | China |
Paradiso: Seven Days with Seven Women | Paradiso – Sieben Tage mit sieben Frauen | Rudolf Thome | Germany |
Russkiy bunt | Русский бунт | Aleksandr Proshkin | Russia, France |
The Sea | El mar | Agustí Villaronga | Spain |
Signs and Wonders | Jonathan Nossiter | France | |
Sky Hook | Небеска удица | Ljubiša Samardžić | Yugoslavia, Italy |
The Talented Mr. Ripley | Anthony Minghella | United States | |
Water Drops on Burning Rocks | Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes | François Ozon | France |
The following prizes were awarded by the Jury: [6]
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