2000 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Winner and Nominees

The Circle

Jafar Panahi

Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.

Before Night Falls

Julian Schnabel

Comedy of Innocence

Raoul Ruiz

Dr. T & the Women

Robert Altman

Durian Durian

Fruit Chan

Freedom

Sharunas Bartas

Holy Tongue

Carlo Mazzacurati

Johnny the Partisan

Guido Chiesa

Liam

Stephen Frears

O Fantasma

João Pedro Rodrigues

One Hundred Steps

Marco Tullio Giordana

Our Lady of the Assassins

Barbet Schroeder

Platform

Zhangke Jia

Teeth

Gabriele Salvatores

The Goddess of 1967

Clara Law

The Isle

Ki-duk Kim

The Man Who Cried

Sally Potter

The Wrestlers

Buddhadev Dasgupta

To Matthieu

Xavier Beauvois

Word and Utopia

Manoel de Oliveira