51st Berlin International Film Festival
The 51st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 7 to 18, 2001. The festival opened with war-drama film Enemy at the Gates by Jean-Jacques Annaud. 70 mm restored version of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 Sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey was the closing film of the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to French-British film Intimacy directed by Patrice Chéreau. The retrospective dedicated to German-Austrian filmmaker, screenwriter Fritz Lang was shown at the festival. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: Bill Mechanic, producer (United States) - Jury President Jacqueline Bisset, actress (United Kingdom) Diego Galán, director and film critic (Spain) Kyoko Hirano, writer (Japan) Fatih Akın, director, screenwriter, producer and actor (Germany) Dario Argento, director, screenwriter and producer (Italy) Xie Fei, director and screenwriter (China) Héctor Babenco, director, screenwriter and producer (Brazil) Dominique Blanc, actress (France) In competition The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards: Key {| class="wikitable" width="550" colspan="1" | style="background:#ffdead; text-align:center;"| † |Winner of the main award for best film in its section |- | colspan="2"| The opening and closing films are screened during the opening and closing ceremonies respectively. |}