2000, Seen By...

2000, Seen By... (French: 2000 vu par...) was a 1998 international film project initiated by the French company Haut et Court to produce films depicting the approaching turn of the millennium seen from the perspectives of 10 different countries.^[1]

The idea was conceived by producers Caroline Benjo and Carole Scotta, who took the idea to Pierre Chevalier of the French-German TV station Arte. They envisioned each film to be one hour long, made for the cost of four to five million francs, by promising directors.^[2]

Ten films were produced as a result of the project:

Title	Director	Country	Notes
The Book of Life (1998)[3]	Hal Hartley	United States
Frankfurt Millennium (1998)[4]	Romuald Karmakar	Germany
The Hole (1998)[5]	Tsai Ming-liang	Taiwan	Entered into the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.[6]
La primera noche de mi vida (1998)[4]	Miguel Albaladejo	Spain
Last Night (1998)[7]	Don McKellar	Canada	Winner of the Award of the Youth at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
La Vie Sur Terre (1998)[8]	Abderrahmane Sissako	Mali
Les Sanguinaires (1998)[2]	Laurent Cantet	France
Midnight (1998)[9]	Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas	Brazil	2000 Ariel Award for Best Latin-American Film.[10]
Tamas and Juli (1998)[4]	Ildikó Enyedi	Hungary
The Wall (1998)[11]	Alain Berliner	Belgium