For the courageous and realistic way of dealing with a difficult subject.

Tied with Paddy Considine for Last Resort (2000).

Tied with Misel Maticevic for Lost Killers (2000).

For its visual excellence.

For its calm, cool and amusingly collected, utterly cinematic look at an urgent international reality.

For the homogeneous and literary treating of complicated contemporary sexual relationships with a sense of humour.

For its cinematic, documentary approach and respectful vision of a harsh social reality.

For its intelligent, sensitive and stylish approach, presenting a recent political topic as an existential problem.

Tied with To spiti tou Kain (2000).

Tied with Agelastos petra (2000).