57th Venice International Film Festival

57th Venice International Film Festival

Festival poster
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion: The Circle
Festival date	30 August – 9 September 2000
Website	Website
Venice Film Festival chronology
58th 56th

The 57th annual Venice International Film Festival was held between 30 August to 9 September 2000. ^[1]

Czech filmmaker Miloš Forman was the Jury President of the main competition.

The Golden Lion was awarded to the Iranian film The Circle, directed by Jafar Panahi. ^[2] American filmmaker and actor Clint Eastwood was the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

Jury

The following people comprised the 2000 jury: ^{[3] [4]}

Main Competition

• Miloš Forman, Czech filmmaker - Jury President
• Tahar Ben Jelloun, Moroccan writer
• Giuseppe Bertolucci, Italian director
• Claude Chabrol, French filmmaker
• Andreas Kilb, Italian film critic
• Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
• Samira Makhmalbaf, Iranian filmmaker

Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Feature

• Atom Egoyan, Armenian-Canadian director - Jury President
• Mimmo Calopresti, Italian director
• Bill Krohn, American critic
• Chiara Mastroianni, French actress
• Peter Mullan, Scottish actor and director

Short Films Competition

• Georges Bollon, French founder of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
• Giuseppe Piccioni, Italian director
• Nina Proll, Austrian actress

Official Sections

In Competition

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Before Night Falls		Julian Schnabel	United States
The Circle	دایره	Jafar Panahi	Iran, Italy, Switzerland
Comedy of Innocence	Comédie de l'innocence	Raoul Ruiz	France
Teeth	Denti	Gabriele Salvatores	Italy
Dr. T & the Women		Robert Altman	United States, Germany
Durian Durian	榴槤飄飄	Fruit Chan	Hong Kong
The Phantom / The Ghost	O Fantasma	João Pedro Rodrigues	Portugal
Freedom	Laisvė	Sharunas Bartas	Lithuania, France, Portugal
The Goddess of 1967		Clara Law	Australia
Holy Tongue	La lingua del santo	Carlo Mazzacurati	Italy
The Isle	섬	Ki-duk Kim	South Korea
Johnny the Partisan	Il partigiano Johnny	Guido Chiesa	Italy
Liam		Stephen Frears	United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France
The Man Who Cried		Sally Potter	United Kingdom, France
One Hundred Steps	I cento passi	Marco Tullio Giordana	Italy
Our Lady of the Assassins	La virgen de los sicarios	Barbet Schroeder	Colombia, Spain, France
Platform	站台	Jia Zhangke	China
To Matthieu	Selon Matthieu	Xavier Beauvois	France
Uttara	উত্তরা	Buddhadev Dasgupta	India
Word and Utopia	Palavra e Utopia	Manoel de Oliveira	Portugal

Out of Competition

The following films were screened out of competition: ^[5]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Brother	ブラザー	Takeshi Kitano	Japan, France, United States, United Kingdom
Calle 54		Fernando Trueba	Spain
My Voyage to Italy	Il mio viaggio in Italia	Martin Scorsese	Italy, United States
Nightcap	Merci pour le Chocolat	Claude Chabrol	France
Small Time Crooks		Woody Allen	United States
Vengo		Tony Gatlif	France, Spain, Germany, Japan

Cinema del Presente

An official selection of films that stand out for their "attempt at innovation, originality or innovative film style". ^[6]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Adanggaman		Roger Gnoan M'Bala	Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Switzerland, Italy, France
Animali che attraversano la strada		Isabella Sandri	Italy
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows		Bruce Ricker	United States
Everybody's Famous!	Iedereen Beroemd!	Dominique Deruddere	Belgium
Last Resort		Paweł Pawlikowski	United Kingdom
Memento		Christopher Nolan	United States
Moscow	Moskva	Alexander Zeldovich	Russia
My Generation		Barbara Kopple	United States
Little Otik	Otesánek	Jan Svankmajer	Czech Republic, United Kingdom
Placido Rizzotto		Pasquale Scimeca	Italy
Pollock		Ed Harris	United States
Possible Worlds		Robert Lepage	Canada
Roman Summer	Estate romana	Matteo Garrone	Italy
Samia		Philippe Faucon	France
Suspicious River		Lynne Stopkewich	Canada
The Prime Gig		Gregory Mosher	United States
The State I Am In	Die Innere Sicherheit	Christian Petzold	Germany
The Town Is Quiet	La ville est tranquille	Robert Guédiguian	France
Thomas in Love	Thomas est amoureux	Pierre-Paul Renders	Belgium, France
Together	Tillsammans	Lukas Moodysson	Sweden, Denmark, Italy
Waiting for the Messiah	Esperando al Mesías	Daniel Burman	Argentina

Dreams and Visions

The following films were selected for the section "Dreams and Visions" ('Sogni e Visioni'): ^[7]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Burnt Money	Plata quemada	Marcelo Piñeyro	Argentina
The Cell		Tarsem Singh	United States
The Princess and the Warrior	Der Krieger und die Kaiserin	Tom Tykwer	Germany
Sade		Benoît Jacquot	France
Sud Side Stori		Roberta Torre	Italy
Time and Tide	Shun Liu Ni Liu	Tsui Hark	Hong Kong
U-571		Jonathan Mostow	United States, France
What Lies Beneath		Robert Zemeckis	United States

New Territories

The following films were selected for the section "New Territories" ('Nuovi Territori'): ^[8]

• Branca de Neve directed by João César Monteiro (Portugal)
• Endgame directed by Conor McPherson (United Kingdom)
• Tales of an Island (Dastan Hay-e Jazireh) directed by Dariush Mehrjui, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Shahabodin Farokh Yar (Iran)
• Fare la vita directed by Tonino De Bernardi (Italy)
• Happy Days directed by Patricia Rozema (Ireland)
• Invocación directed by Héctor Faver (Spain)
• MacBeth sangrador directed by Leonardo Henríquez (Venezuela)
• Mones com la Becky directed by Joaquím Jordá, Núria Villazán (Spain)
• O Rap do Pequeno Príncipe Contra as Almas Sebosas directed by Paulo Caldas, Marcelo Luna (Brasil)
• Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story directed by Shelly Dunn Fremont, Vincent Fremont (United States)
• The Young and the Dead directed by Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini (United States)
• Une Vie de Chiens directed by Michko Netchak (France)

Non-fiction ^[9]

• Currency and Blonde directed by Rokuro Mochizuki (Japan)
• Die Wahlkämpferin directed by Helmut Grasser (Austria)
• Oshima'99 directed by Naoe Gozu (Japan)

Independent Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section: ^[10]

• Merry Christmas (Felicidades) by Lucho Bender (Argentina) ^[11]
• Poetical Refugee (La Faute à Voltaire) by Abdellatif Kechiche (France)
• Pictures Deep in One's Eyes (Lontano in fondo agli occhi) by Giuseppe Rocca (Italy) ^[12]
• Nights (Noites) by Cláudia Tomaz (Portugal) ^[13]
• The Day I Became a Woman (Roozi ke zan shodam) by Marzieh Meshkini (Iran)
• Scoutman (Pain) by Masato Ishioka (Japan)
• You Can Count on Me by Kenneth Lonergan (United States)

Official Awards

Main Competition

• Golden Lion: The Circle by Jafar Panahi
• Grand Special Jury Prize: Before Night Falls by Julian Schnabel
• Silver Lion: Uttara by Buddhadev Dasgupta
• Golden Osella for Outstanding Technical Contribution (screenplay): Claudio Fava, Marco Tullio Giordana and Monica Zapelli for One Hundred Steps
• Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Javier Bardem for Before Night Falls
• Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Rose Byrne for The Goddess of 1967
• Special Mention Best Short Film: Faouzi Bensaïdi for The Rain Line
• Special Mention Best Short Film: Sandro Aguilar for Sem Movimento
• Marcello Mastroianni Award: Megan Burns for Liam

Luigi De Laurentis Award for Debut Feature

• Poetical Refugee by Abdellatif Kechiche

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

• Clint Eastwood

Independent Awards

The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal

• Our Lady of the Assassin by Barbet Schroeder

FIPRESCI Prize

• Best First Feature: Thomas in Love by Pierre-Paul Renders
• Best Feature: The Circle by Jafar Panahi

OCIC Award

• Liam by Stephen Frears
  • Honorable Mention: Before Night Falls by Julian Schnabel
  • Honorable Mention: The Circle by Jafar Panahi

Netpac Award

• Platform by Jia Zhangke
  • Special Mention: Seom by Ki-duk Kim

Don Quixote Award

• Protagonisti, i diritti del '900 by Daniele Segre

UNICEF Award

• The Circle by Jafar Panahi

UNESCO Award

• The Day i Became a Woman by Marzieh Meshkini

Pasinetti Award

• Best Film: I cento passi by Marco Tullio Giordana
• Best Actor: Antonio Albanese and Fabrizio Bentivoglio for Holy Tongue
• Best Actress: Fereshteh Sadre Orafaee, Fatemeh Naghavi, Nargess Mamizadeh, Maryiam Palvin Almani, Mojgan Faramarzi, Elham Saboktakin, Monir Arab, Maedeh Tahmasebi, Maryam Shayegan, Khadijeh Moradi, Negar Ghadyani and Solmaz Panahi for The Circle

Pietro Bianchi Award

• Gillo Pontecorvo

Isvema Award

• The Day i Became a Woman by Marzieh Meshkini

FEDIC Award

• Placido Rizzotto by Pasquale Scimeca

Little Golden Lion

• I cento passi by Marco Tullio Giordana

Cult Network Italia Prize

• Noites by Cláudia Tomaz

FilmCritica "Bastone Bianco" Award

• Word and Utopia by Manoel de Oliveira

Future Film Festival Digital Award

• Time and Tide by Tsui Hark
  • Special Mention: Denti by Gabriele Salvatores

Laterna Magica Prize

• Thomas in Love by Pierre-Paul Renders

Sergio Trasatti Award

• The Circle by Jafar Panahi

CinemAvvenire Award

• Best Film on the Relationship Man-Nature: Freedom by Šarūnas Bartas
• Best Film: I cento passi by Marco Tullio Giordana
• Best First Film: Roozi ke zan shodam by Marzieh Meshkini
• Cinema for Peace Award: Poetical Refugee by Abdellatif Kechiche

Children and Cinema Award

• Johnny the Partisan by Guido Chiesa

Rota Soundtrack Award

• Before Night Falls by Carter Burwell

Special Director's Award

• The Wrestlers by Buddhadeb Dasgupta

References

1. "The 2000s". 19 April 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
2. "OF GOLDEN LIONS – VENICE 2000" . Retrieved 6 October 2013.
3. "Juries for the 2000s". Archived from the original on 4 August 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
4. "57. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica". labiennale.org. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
5. "59. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica - Fuori Concorso". asac.labiennale.org (in Italian). Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
6. "57th Mostra - Cinema del Presente". labiennale.org. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
7. "57th Mostra - Sogni e visioni". labiennale.org. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
8. "57º Mostra - Nuovi Territori". labiennale.org. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
9. "57º Mostra - Nuovi Territori No ficcion". labiennale.org. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
10. "15th International Film Critics' Week". sicvenezia.it. Archived from the original on 4 April 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
11. Lucho Bender on IMDb
12. Giuseppe Rocca on IMDb
13. Cláudia Tomaz on IMDb

External links

• Official website
• Venice Film Festival 2000 Awards on IMDb