50th Berlin International Film Festival
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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]
Juries
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The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:[9]
Main Competition
[edit]- Gong Li, Chinese actress - Jury President
- Lissy Bellaiche, Danish member of the Det Danske Filminstitut
- Peter W. Jansen, German scholar and journalist
- Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Canadian filmmaker
- Marisa Paredes, Spanish actress
- Jean-Louis Piel, French producer
- Walter Salles, Brazilian filmmaker and producer
- Maria Schrader, German actress
- Andrzej Wajda, Polish filmmaker
Official Sections
[edit]Main Competition
[edit]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 |
Official Awards
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Main Competition
[edit]The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:[6]
- Golden Bear: Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson
- Silver Bear Jury Prize: The Million Dollar Hotel by Wim Wenders
- Silver Bear Special Jury Prize: The Road Home by Zhang Yimou
- Silver Bear for Best Director: Miloš Forman for Man on the Moon
- Silver Bear for Best Actress: Bibiana Beglau and Nadja Uhl for The Legend of Rita
- Silver Bear for Best Actor: Denzel Washington for The Hurricane
- Silver Bear for an Outstanding Artistic Contribution: The Cast of Paradiso: Seven Days with Seven Women
- Alfred Bauer Prize: Boy's Choir by Akira Ogata
Berlinale Camera
[edit]- Kon Ichikawa
- Wolfgang Jacobsen
Independent Awards
[edit]Blue Angel Award
[edit]- Of Woman and Magic by Claude Miller
References
[edit]- ^ a b "PROGRAMME 2000". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- ^ "50th Berlin International Film Festival". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2012-10-20.
- ^ "Magnolia Blooms in Berlin". nitrateonline.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
- ^ "The tension between cinematic vision and life itself". wsws.org. 26 February 2000. Archived from the original on 25 August 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
- ^ "'Magnolia' blooms in Berlin". wsws.org. Archived from the original on 25 June 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
- ^ a b "PRIZES & HONOURS 2000". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- ^ "Berlinale 2000 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
- ^ "Berlinale beginnings". 8 February 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
- ^ "JURIES 2000". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2014.