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22nd Moscow International Film Festival

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Location
  
Moscow, Russia

Awards
  
Grand Prix

Website
  
Website

Founded
  
1959

Festival date
  
19 – 29 July 2000

The 22nd Moscow International Film Festival was held from 19 to 29 July 2000. The Golden St. George was awarded to the Polish-French film Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease directed by Krzysztof Zanussi.

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Jury

  • Theodoros Angelopoulos (Greece – President of the Jury)
  • Caroline Ducey (France)
  • Irvin Kershner (United States)
  • Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran)
  • Jiro Shindo (Japan)
  • Sergei Solovyov (Russia)
  • Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov (Tajikistan)
  • Zhang Yuan (China)

    • Films in competition

    The following films were selected for the main competition:

    Awards

  • Golden St. George: Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease by Krzysztof Zanussi
  • Special Silver St. George: The Garden Was Full of Moon by Vitali Melnikov
  • Silver St. George:
  • Best Director: Steve Suissa for Taking Wing
  • Best Actor: Clément Sibony for Taking Wing
  • Best Actress: Maria Simon for Angry Kisses
  • Prix FIPRESCI: Lunar Eclipse by Wang Quan'an
  • Special Mention: Taking Wing by Steve Suissa
  • Honorable Prize: For the contribution to cinema: Gleb Panfilov

    • References

    22nd Moscow International Film Festival Wikipedia
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