History

From 3^rd to 12^th Sep­tem­ber 1999.
This year, the Fes­ti­val hon­oured the tal­ents of actors Al Paci­no, Michael Caine, and Robin Williams, direc­tor Ang Lee and com­pos­er Mau­rice Jarre. Robin Williams, more­over, dur­ing his trib­ute, gave the sole press con­fer­ence in the Festival’s his­to­ry that was com­plete­ly untrans­lat­able in any lan­guage! The Cin­e­ma Work­shop fea­tured direc­tor Ran­da Haines. The fes­ti­val­go­ers dis­cov­ered pre­mieres from promis­ing young direc­tors: Spike Jonze, Amos Kollek, Doug Liman, Michael Pol­ish, Marc Levin…