SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Dan Doody (and a 2001 Print Traffic Manager), Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, and Associate Director, Carl Spence
Relive the 27th Seattle International Film Festival. Read key details, flip through the full Festival catalog, see photos and other media, and find a full list of feature-length films presented at the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 24–June 17, 2001
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Broadway Performance Hall, Cinerama, Egyptian Theatre, 5th Avenue Theatre, Harvard Exit Theater, Pacific Place Cinemas
Opening Night: The Anniversary Party at 5th Avenue Theatre
Closing Night: Investigating Sex at Pacific Place Cinemas
Tribute: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Emerging Masters: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Marcelo Pineyro, Jerzy Stuhr, Ricky Tognazzi
On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS
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SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Dan Doody (and a 2001 Print Traffic Manager), Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, and Associate Director, Carl Spence
Best Film
Finder's Fee (dir. Jeff Probst, USA)
Best Director
Tim Blake Nelson (O, USA)
Best Actress
Thora Birch (Ghost World)
Best Actor
John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
Best Short
Boychick (dir. Glen Gaylord, USA)
Best Documentary
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (dir. George Butler, USA)
New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Together (dir. Lukas Moodysson, 2000, Sweden/Italy)
New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Jackpot (dir. Michael Polish, 2001, USA)
101 Reykjavik - dir. Baltasar Kormàkur, 2000, Iceland
6ixtynin9 - dir. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2000, Thailand
The Adventures of Felix - dir. Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau, 1999, France
Ali Zaoua - dir. Nabil Ayouch, 2000, Morocco
All Over the Guy - dir. Julie Davis, 2001, USA
American Astronaut - dir. Cory McAbee, 2001, USA
Amy’s Orgasm - dir. Julie Davis, 2000, USA
L’amour, L’argent, L’amour - dir. Philip Gröning, 2000, Germany
Angels of the Universe - dir. Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, 2000, Iceland
Animal - dir. Sergio Bizzio, 2001, Argentina
Anita Takes a Chance - dir. Ventura Pons, 2000, Spain
The Anniversary Party - dir. Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh, 2001, USA
The Attic Expeditions - dir. Jeremy Kasten, 2000, USA
Baise-Moi (Rape Me) - dir. Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi, 2000, France
Bangkok: Dangerous - dir. Oxide Pang, Danny Pang, 2000, Thailand
Bang Rajan - dir. Thanit Jiynukul, 2001, Thailand
A Banquet at Tetlapayac - dir. Olivier Debroise, 1999, Mexico
Baraka - dir. Ron Fricke, 1992, USA
Barking Dogs Never Bite - dir. Bong Joon-Hu, 2000, South Korea
Bartleby - dir. Jonathan Parker, 2001, USA
Battle Royale - dir. Kinji Fukasaku, 2000, Japan
Before the Storm - dir. Reza Parsa, 2000, Sweden
Better Than Sex - dir. Jonathan Teplitzky, 2000, Australia/France
Betty Blue L’Integral - dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1986/1991, France
The Big Animal - dir. Jerzy Stuhr, 2000, Poland
Blink - dir. Elizabeth Thompson, 1999, USA
The Blue Diner - dir. Jan Egleson, 2000, USA
Body and Soul - dir. Oscar Micheaux, 1925, USA
Born in Absurdistan - dir. Houchang Allahyari, 1999, Austria
Born Romantic - dir. David Kane, 2000, Great Britain
Borstal Boy - dir. Peter Sheridan, 2001, Ireland/Great Britain
Brave New Land - dir. Lúcia Murat, 2000, Brazil
Bread and Tulips - dir. Silvio Soldini, 1999, Italy/Germany
Breaking the Silence - dir. Zhou Sun, 1999, China
Bronx-Barbes - dir. Eliane De Latour, 2000, France
Brother - dir. Takeshi Kitano, 2000, Japan/USA
Burnt Money - dir. Marcelo Piñeyro, 2000, Argentina
The Business of Strangers - dir. Patrick Stettner, 2001, USA
Camp Scott Ladies - dir. Jeff Werner, Susan Koch, 2001, USA
Canone Inverso – Making Love - dir. Ricky Tognazzi, 2000, Italy
The Captain’s Daughter - dir. AleksandrProshkin, 2000, Russia/France
Chain Camera - dir. Kirby Dick, 2001, USA
Chopper dir. Andrew Dominik, 2000, Australia
Chronically Unfeasible - dir. Sérgio Bianchi, 2000, Brazil
City of Lost Souls - dir. Takashi Miike, 2000, Japan
The Closet - dir. Francis Veber, 2000, France
Come Undone - dir. Sébastien Lifshitz, 2000, France
Coronation - dir. Silvio Caiozzi, 2000, Chile
Crazy - dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, 2000, Germany
The Crimson Rivers - dir. Mathieu Kassowitz, 2000, France
Cure - dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997, Japan
Dead or Alive - dir. Takashi Miike, 1999, Japan
Devils on the Doorstep - dir. Wen Jiang, 2000, China
Diary of a Chambermaid - dir. Luis Buñuel, 1964, France
The Dinosaur Hunter - dir. Rick Stevenson, 2000, Canada
Dirt Boy - dir. Jay Frasco, 2001, USA
Disco Pigs - dir. Kirsten Sheridan, 2001, Ireland/UK
Diva - dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981, France
Divided We Fall - dir. Jan Hrebejk, 2000, Czech Republic
Dog Food - dir. Carlos Siguion-Reyna, 2000, Philippines
Dora-Heita - dir. Kon Ichikawa, 1999, Japan
e-Dreams - dir. Wonsuk Chin, 2001, USA
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition - dir. George Butler, 2000, USA
England! - dir. Achim Von Borries, 2000, Germany
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story - dir. Andrea Weiss, Wieland Speck, 2000, Great Britain/Germany
Everybody‘s Famous! - dir. Dominique Deruddere, 2000, Belgium/Netherlands/France
Exploding Oedipus - dir. Marc Lafia, 2001, USA
Faat-Kine - dir. Ousmane Sembene, 2000, Senegal
Family Pack - dir. Chris Vander Stappen, 2000, Belgium/France/Canada/Switzerland
Famous - dir. Griffin Dunne, 2000, USA
Farewell to Harry - dir. Garrett Bennett, 2001, USA
Film Noir - dir. Masahiro Kobayashi, 2000, Japan
Final - dir. Campbell Scott, 2001, USA
Finder’s Fee - dir. Jeff Probst, 2001, USA
Fleeing by Night - dir. Li-kung Hsu, Chi Yin, 2000, Taiwan
The Foul King - dir. Ji-woon Kim, 2000, South Korea
Fugitives - dir. Miguel Hermoso, 2000, Spain
Gaudi Afternoon - dir. Susan Seidelman, 2001, USA/Spain
Gen-X Cops - dir. Benny Chan, 1999, Hong Kong
Ghost World - dir. Terry Zwigoff, 2001, USA
Ginger Snaps - dir. John Fawcett, 2000, Canada
Glamour - dir. Frigyes Gödrös, 2000, Hungary/Germany/Switzerland
Go Tigers! - dir. Kenneth A. Carlson, 2001, USA
Haiku Tunnel - dir. Jacob Kornbluth, Josh Kornbluth, 2001, USA
Hamlet - dir. Campbell Scott, Eric Simonson, 2001, USA
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - dir. John Cameron Mitchell, 2001, USA
Hotoke - dir. Tsuji Jinsei, 2000, Japan
Hybrid - dir. Monteith McCollum, 2000, USA
If… - dir. Lindsay Anderson, 1968, Great Britain
If I Could - dir. Patti Obrow White, 2000, USA
Ignorant Fairies - dir. Ferzan Ozpetek, 2001, Italy/France
I Love Beijing - dir. Ning Ying, 2001, China
Innocence - dir. Paul Cox, 2000, Australia
Inugami - dir. Masato Harada, 2000, Japan
Investigating Sex - dir. Alan Rudolph, 2001, USA
IP5: Island of the Pachyderms - dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1992, France
I Prefer the Sound of the Sea - dir. Mimmo Calopresti, 2000, Italy/France
Iron Ladies - dir. Yongyooth Thongkongtoon, 2000, Thailand
Jackpot - dir. Michael Polish, 2001, USA
Jack the Dog - dir. Bobby Roth, 2001, USA
Jalla! Jalla! - dir. Josef Fares, 2000, Sweden
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade - dir. Hiroyuki Okiura, 1998, Japan
Joint Security Area - dir. Chan-wook Park, 2000, South Korea
Jump Tomorrow - dir. Joel Hopkins, 2001, USA
The King Is Alive - dir. Kristian Levring, 2000, Denmark
The King Is Dancing - dir. Gérard Corbiau, 2000, France/Germany/Belgium
Kisses for Everyone - dir. Jaime Chavarri, 2000, Spain
KM.0 - dir. Yolanda Garcia Serrano, Juan Luis Iborra, 2001, Spain
LaLee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton - dir. Susan Frömke, Deborah Dickson, 2001, USA
The Left Side of the Fridge - dir. Philippe Falardeau, 2000, Canada
Liam - dir. Stephen Frears, 2000, Great Britain
Lift - dir. DeMane Davis, Khari Streeter, 2001, USA
Little Crumb - dir. Maria Peters, 1999, Netherlands
Little Otik - dir. Jan Svankmajer, 2000, Czech Republic/Great Britain
Little Senegal - dir. Rachid Bouchareb, 2000, Algeria
Live Blood - dir. Edoardo Winspeare, 2000, Italy
Lost and Delirious - dir. Léa Pool, 2001, Canada
Love Inventory - dir. David Fisher (Reshimat Ahara), 2000, Israel
MacArthur Park - dir. Billy Wirth, 2001, USA
Maîtresse - dir. Barbet Schroeder, 1976, France
Manhood and Other Modern Dilemmas - dir. Ronan Girre, 2000, France
Manic - dir. Jordan Melamed, 2001, USA
Marshal Tito’s Spirit, dir. Vinko Bresan, 2000, Croatia
A Matter of Taste - dir. Bernard Rapp, 2000, France
Mechanism - dir. Djordje Milosavljevic, 2000, Yugoslavia
The Melancholy Chicken - dir. Jaroslav Brabec, 2000, Czech Republic
Memento Mori - dir. Min Kyu-Dong, Kim Tae-Yong, 2000, South Korea
Middle Passage - dir. Guy Deslauriers, 2000, Martinique/France
Miracles - dir. Jackie Chan, 1989, Hong Kong
Monkey’s Mask - dir. Samantha Lang, 2000 , Australia
Mortal Transfer - dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix , 2000, France
Moscow - dir. Aleksandr Zeldovich, 2000, Russia
My First Mister - dir. Christine Lahti, 2001, USA
Nang Nak - dir. Nonzee Nimibutr, 1999, Thailand
National 7 - dir. Jean-Pierre Sinapi, 2000, France
The New Country - dir. Geir Hansteen Jörgensen, 2001, Sweden
Night Shift - dir. Philippe Le Guay, 2001, France
No Place to Go - dir. Oskar Roehler , 2000, Germany
O - dir. Tim Blake Nelson, 2001, USA
Odd Little Man - dir. Stein Leikanger, 2000, Norway
O Fantasma - dir. João Pedro Rodrigues, 2000, Portugal
The Other Girls - dir. Caroline Vignal, 2000, France
Our Lady of the Assassins - dir. Barbet Schroeder, 2000, Colombia
Out of the Closet, Off The Screen: The William Haines Story - dir. Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, 2001, USA
Parsley Days - dir. Andrea Dorfman, 2000, Canada
Peaches - dir. Nick Grosso, 2000, Ireland/Great Britain
The Perfect Son - dir. Leonard Farlinger, 2000, Canada
A Place Nearby - dir. Kaspar Rostrup, 2000, Denmark
Plenilunio - dir. Imanol Uribe, 2000, Spain
Possible Loves - dir. Sandra Werneck, 2000, Brazil
Princesa - dir. Henrique Goldman, 2000, Italy/Germany/Brazil
The Princess and the Warrior - dir. Tom Tykwer, 2000, Germany
The Punishment - dir. Goran Rebic, 1999, Austria
Ramayana: Prince of Light - dir. Ram Mohan, Yugo Sako, Koichi Saski, 1999, Japan/India
Le Rat - dir. Christophe Ali, Nicolas Bonilauri, 2000, France
A Real Young Girl - dir. Catherine Breillat, 1975, France
Reef Hunters - dir. Marilou Diaz-Abaya, 2000, Philippines
Rennie’s Landing - dir. Marc Fusco, 2001, USA
Ring 0 - dir. Norio Tsuruta, 2000, Japan
The Road Home - dir. Zhang Yimou, 2000, China
Rock And Roll Won’t Wait - dir. James Bazan, 2000, USA
Roselyne and the Lions - dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1989, France
A Run for the Money - dir. Reha Erdem, 2000, Turkey
A Sad Flower in the Sand - dir. Jan Louter, 2001, Netherlands/USA
Sandstorm - dir. Jagmohan, 2000, India
Saroja - dir. Somaratne Dissanayake, 2000, Sri Lanka
Scout’s Honor - dir. Tom Shepard, 2001, USA
Scratch - dir. Doug Pray, 2001, USA
Séance - dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2000, Japan
Second Coming - dir. Darren Campbell, Steve Rees, 2001, USA
Sentimental Destiny - dir. Olivier Assayas, 2000, France
Seven Men from Now - dir. Budd Boetticher, 1956, USA
Sex, Shame & Tears - dir. Antonio Serrano, 1999, Mexico
Sidewalks of New York - dir. Ed Burns, 2001, USA
Sky Hook - dir. Ljubisa Samardzic, 1999, Yugoslavia/Italy
Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine - dir. Bahman Farmanara, 2000, Iran
Song of Tibet - dir. Xie Fei, 2000, China
Southern Comfort - dir. Kate Davis, 2001, USA
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures - dir. Jan Harlan, 2001, Great Britain
Startup.com - dir. Chris Hegedus, Jehane Noujaim, 2001, USA
Steamboat Bill Jr. - dir. Charles Reisnier, Buster Keaton (Uncredited), 1928, USA
The Stranger - dir. Götz Spielmann, Roger Frappier, 2000, Austria
Stranger Inside - dir. Cheryl Dunye, 2001, USA
Strangled Lives - dir. Ricky Tognazzi, 1996, Italy
Strictly Sinatra - dir. Peter Capaldi, 2000, Great Britain
Such Is Life - dir. Arturo Ripstein, 2000, Mexico/Spain/France
Sun Alley - dir. Leander Haußmann, 2000, Germany
Tears of the Black Tiger - dir. Wisit Sasanatieng, 2000, Thailand
Teeth - dir. Gabriele Salvatores, 2000, Italy
The Testimony of Taliesin Jones - dir. Martin Duffy, 2000, Wales/Great Britain
That the Women Live - dir. Laurent Bécue-Renard, 2001, France
Things Behind the Sun - dir. Allison Anders, 2001, USA
This Is My Moon - dir. Asoka Handagama, 2000, Sri Lanka
Thomas in Love - dir. Pierre-Paul Renders, 2000, Belgium/France
Together - dir. Lukas Moodysson, 2000, Sweden/Italy
Top of the Food Chain - dir. John Paizs, 1999, Canada
Tortilla Soup - dir. María Ripoli, 2001, USA
Treading Water - dir. Lauren Himmel, 2001, USA
Tuna - dir. Robert Byington, USA
Turandot Project - dir. Allan Miller, 2000, USA/Germany
Under the Sand - dir. François Ozon, 2000, France
Vanaprastham: The Last Dance - dir. Shaji Karun, 2000, India
Vengo - dir. Tony Gatlif, 2001, France/Spain
Vertical Ray of the Sun - dir. Tran Anh Hung, 2000, Vietnam/France
Virgil Bliss - dir. Joe Maggio, 2001, USA
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors - dir. Hong Sang-soo, 2000, South Korea
Viva Las Nowhere - dir. Jason Bloom, 2001 , USA
Way Out West - dir. Fred Niblo, 1930, USA
Webcam Boys - dir. RADD, 2001, USA
The Wedding - dir. Pavel Lungin, 2000, Russia/France
A Week in the Life of a Man - dir. Jerzy Stuhr, 1999, Poland
The Weight of Water - dir. Kathryn Bigelow, 2000, USA/France
Wendigo - dir. Larry Fessenden, 2001, USA
Wild Horses - dir. Marcelo Piñeyro, 1995, Argentina
Wild Zero - dir. Tetsuro Takeuchi, 2000, Japan
WillFull - dir. Rebel Penfold-Russell, 2001, Australia
A Woman’s a Helluva Thing - dir. Karen Leigh Hopkins, 2001, USA
The Young and the Dead - dir. Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman, 2000, USA
2001: A Film Odyssey, The 7th Annual Filmmakers Forum - included Is Digital the Death of Cinema?, What is the Black Experience on Film?, What’s a Documentary For?, Dragons on the Doorstep: New Asian Cinema, The Tarantino Tutorial: Quentin Tarantino Celebrates Unsung American Master William Witney, Part I-IV - seminar guests included Quentin Tarantino, Richard T. Jameson, Whatever Happened to Talking Pictures?, What’s a Film Critic For?, Fly Filmmaking
Asian Beat: Focus on Thailand Special Presentation Tears of the Black Tiger
Asian Beat: Focus on Thailand - included 6ixtynin9, Bang Rajan, Nang Nak, Iron Ladies
Archival Treasures - included Baraka, Diary of a Chambermaid, If…, Miracles, A Real Young Girl
Black Experience on Film - included Lift, Body and Soul, Bronx-Barbes, Faat-Kine, Little Senegal, MacArthur Park, Middle Passage, Stranger Inside
Edge of Midnight: Adrenaline Rush - included City of Lost Souls, Wild Zero, Dead or Alive, Battle Royale
Edge of Midnight: Erotic City - included Maîtresse, 0 Fantasma, A Real Young Girl, Baise-moi (Rape Me)
Documentaries: Truth with an Attitude - included 23 feature films
Drive-in Party - included Top of the Food Chain, The American Astronaut
Films4Families - included The Dinosaur Hunter, Little Crumb, Ramayana: Prince of Light, The Testimony of Taliesin Jones
Gala Screening: 0
Gala Screening: Liam
Gala Screening: Ghost World
Gala Screening: Tortilla Soup
Golden Space Needle Award
New American Cinema - included 31 feature films
New Directors Showcase - included 12 feature films
On location: Shooting in Seattle - included Farewell to Harry, Cityscapes, Emotional Landscapes, Where Worlds Collide
Secret Festival
Shorts programs - included Mind Games, Oddballs, Eccentrics and Misfits, A Sense of Dislocation, Animation Extravaganza, Modern Sex and Romance, Queersville
The Silent Movie Poster Auction
Special Archival Presentation - included Steamboat Bill, Jr. Accompanied by Boston’s Alloy Orchestra, Seven Men from Now
Special Benefit Presentation: The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Tribute to Jean-Jacques Beineix - included Mortal Transfer, IP5: Island of the Pachyderms, Roselyne and the Lions, Betty Blue L’Integral, Diva