60th Venice International Film Festival

Film festival

60th Venice International Film Festival
Festival Poster
Opening filmAnything Else
LocationVenice, Italy
Founded1932
AwardsGolden Lion: The Return
Festival date27 August – 6 September 2003
WebsiteWebsite
Venice Film Festival chronology

The 60th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 27 August to 6 September 2003.[1][2][3]

Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli was the Jury President of the main competition. The festival opened with Woody Allen's Anything Else.[4]

Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return was the Golden Lion winner.

Juries

The following people comprised the 2003 jury for the feature films of the main competition and for the short films of the official selection:[5][6]

Main Competition (Venezia 60)

  • Mario Monicelli, Italian filmmaker - Jury President
  • Stefano Accorsi, Italian actor
  • Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer
  • Ann Hui, Chinese director
  • Pierre Jolivet, French director, actor, screenwriter, and producer
  • Monty Montgomery, American actor and filmmaker
  • Assumpta Serna, Spannish actress

Upstream (Controcorrente)

The following people were selected to confer the San Marco Prize for best film, the Special Director's Award, an Upstream Prize for Best Actor, and one for Best Actress:[5][7]

  • Laure Adler, French Journalist - Jury President
  • Vito Amoruso
  • Samir Farid, Egyptian film critic
  • Rene Liu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter, actress, director and writer
  • Ulrich Tukur, German actor

Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Feature

Official Sections

In Competition

The following films were nominated to compete for the Golden Lion of the 60th edition of the festival:[8]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
21 Grams Alejandro González Iñárritu United States
Alila Amos Gitai Israel, France
Code 46 Michael Winterbottom United Kingdom
Feelings Les Sentiments Noémie Lvovsky France
The Floating Landscape 戀之風景 Miu-suet Lai Hong Kong
A Good Lawyer's Wife 바람난 가족 Im Sang-soo South Korea
Good Morning, Night Buongiorno, notte Marco Bellocchio Italy
Goodbye, Dragon Inn 不散 Ming-liang Tsai Taiwan
Imagining Argentina Christopher Hampton Spain, United Kingdom, United States
The Kite طيّارة من ورق Randa Chahal Lebanon
Loving Glances Sjaj u očima Srđan Karanović Serbia and Montenegro, United Kingdom
The Miracle Il Miracolo Edoardo Winspeare Italy
Pornografia Jan Jakub Kolski Poland, France
Raja Jacques Doillon France, Morocco
The Return Возвращение Andrey Zvyagintsev Russia
Rosenstrasse Margarethe von Trotta Germany, Netherlands
Secret File Segreti di Stato Paolo Benvenuti Italy
A Talking Picture Um Filme Falado Manoel de Oliveira Portugal
Twentynine Palms Bruno Dumont France, Germany, United States
Zatôichi 座頭市 Takeshi Kitano Japan
Highlighted title indicates the Golden Lion winner.

Out of Competition

The following films were screened as Out of Competition:[9]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country
Anything Else (opening film) Woody Allen United States
Coffee and Cigarettes Jim Jarmusch
Intolerable Cruelty Joel Coen
Le Divorce James Ivory United Kingdom, United States, France
Matchstick Men Ridley Scott United States, United Kingdom
Monsieur Ibrahim Monsieur Ibrahim et le fleurs du Coran François Dupeyron France
Once Upon a Time in Mexico Robert Rodriguez United States
The Dreamers Bernardo Bertolucci Italy, United Kingdom, France
The Human Stain Robert Benton United States, Germany
Special Events
The Blues - Feel Like Going Home Martin Scorsese United States
The Blues - Godfathers and Sons Marc Levin
The Blues - Red, White and Blues Mike Figgis
The Blues - The Road To Memphis Richard Pearce

Short Film Competition

The following films, whose length does not exceed 30 minutes, were selected for the short film competition:[10]

Title Director(s) Production country
In competition
El excusado Lorenza Manrique Mexico
From Where I'm Standing Annalise Patterson New Zealand
God's Kitchen Paki Smith Ireland
Hochbetrieb Andreas Krein Germany
Match Jef Nassenstein Netherlands
Neft (The Oil) Murad Ibragimbekov Russia, Azerbaijan
Neon Eyes Thomas Gerhold, Markus Wambsganss Germany
Ore 2 Calma Piatta Marco Pontecorvo Italy
Ritterschlag Sven Martin Germany
Solitaire Thor Bekkavik Norway
The Trumouse Show Julio Robledo Spain
Zippo Stefano Sollima Italy
Out of Competition
Destino Dominique Monféry France, United States
Le lion volatil Agnès Varda France
Highlighted title indicates the winner of the Silver Lion for Best Short Film.

Upstream (Controcorrente)

A section of the official selection for feature films that stand out for their "innovative intent, creative originality or alternative cinematographic languages"[11][12]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Antenna Antena Kazuyoshi Kumakiri Japan
Break Free Liberi Gianluca Maria Tavarelli Italy
Casa de los Babys John Sayles United States, Mexico
The Chimera of Heroes La quimera de los heroes Daniel Rosenfeld Argentina, France, Denmark
The First Letter Abjad Abolfazl Jalili Iran, France, Italy
The Five Obstructions De Fem Benspaend Jørgen Leth, Lars Von Trier Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, France
In the Forest... Again Abar Aranye Goutam Ghose India
Last Life in the Universe เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล Pen-ek Ratanaruang Thailand, Hong Kong, Netherlands, United States, Japan
Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola United States, Japan
Mud Çamur Derviş Zaim Italy, Cyprus
A Place Among the Living Une place parmi les vivants Raoul Ruiz France, Romania
The Python Pitons Laila Pakalnina Latvia
The Return of Cagliostro Il ritorno di Cagliostro Daniele Ciprì, Franco Maresco Italy
Schultze Gets the Blues Michael Schorr [de] Germany
Silence Between Two Thoughts Sokoote beine do fekr Babak Payami Iran
The Sun Assassinated Le soleil assassiné Abdelkrim Bahloul France
Travellers and Magicians ཆང་ཧུབ་ཐེངས་གཅིག་གི་འཁྲུལ་སྣང Khyentse Norbu Bhutan, United Kingdom
Vodka Lemon Hiner Saleem France, Italy, Switzerland, Armenia
Special Event
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp Peter Greenaway United Kingdom
Highlighted title indicates the San Marco Prize winner.

New Territories

The following films were selected for the New Territories (Nuovi Territori) section:[13][14][15][16][17][18]

Feature films - Fiction
English title Original title Director(s) Production country
N/A Pequeña paloma blanca Christian Barbe Chile, United Kingdom
Threads Khahit errouh Hakim Belabbes Morocco, United States
Vibrator Ryūichi Hiroki Japan
N/A L'ultimo piano Paolo Scarfò Italy
N/A Le dernier des immobiles Nicola Sornaga France
Chemical Hunger Fame chimica Antonio Bocola, Paolo Vari Italy, Switzerland
Feature films - Non Fiction
Mattatoio Akab (Gabriele Di Benedetto) Italy
L'uomo segreto Nino Bizzarri
Retour à Kotelnitch Emmanuel Carrère France
Mists Brumas Ricardo Costa Portugal
At School A scuola Leonardo Di Costanzo France, Italy
War Guerra Pippo Delbono Italy, Israel, Palestine
Italian sud est Fluid Video Crew Italy
Materiali a confronto Giuseppe M. Gaudino
Un instante en la vida ajena Jose Luis López-Linares Spain
Counter Site Contr@site Fausta Quattrini, Daniele Incalcaterra Argentina, Switzerland
Prisoner of the Iron Bars O Prisioneiro da Grade de Ferro Paulo Sacramento Brazil
On n'est pas des marques de vélo Jean-Pierre Thorn France
Barefoot to Herat Paberahne Ta Harat Majid Majidi Iran
Medium-length Films
United We Stand Matteo Barzini Italy
Un fils Amal Bedjaoui France
Sorriso amaro Matteo Bellizzi Italy, Finland, Switzerland
Segni particolari - Appunti per un film sull'Emilia Romagna Giuseppe Bertolucci Italy
My Father's Garden Matthew Brown Italy, South Africa
Il senso del mistero Paolo Brunatto Italy
Picciridda Alberto Castiglione
Stessa rabbia, stessa primavera Stefano Incerti
Maledetta mia Wilma Labate
The Malady of Death La Maladie de la Mort Asa Mader France, United States
Paesaggio a Sud Vincenzo Marra Italy
Margherita. Ritratto Confidenziale Giuseppe Piccioni
Senza tregua Marco Pozzi
Short Films
Poem Carlos Armella United Kingdom
Chaplin Aujourd'hui - The Kid Alain Bergala France
Japan-eno - Stornmi # 3 - Clessiquidre hz FX - China #4 FX - A...B...C...cletta - CoplanDesideri - Occhi di-visi Occhi di-versi Ermanno De Biagi Italy
The Time We Lost Tommaso Cammarano Italy, United States
Lo stuoino di pietra Gina Carducci
Pequeñas voces Eduardo Carrillo Colombia, United Kingdom, Spain
Ssst Pietro Durante, Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli Italy
Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution 1 Siegfried A. Fruhauf Austria
La recherche de ma mère Paola Gandolfi, Francesca Ravello Italy
Ne dites pas à ma mère Sarah Moon Howe Belgium, France
Libberato Davide Lombardi Italy
La spia che era in me Mario Materia
Prises de vues Sebastian Meise Austria
Relojes de arena José Francisco Ortuno, Laura Alvea Spain
The Affirmation of Jimmy Brown Robert Pasternak Canada
My McQueen Lourdes Portillo United States
Racconti per l'isola Costanza Quatriglio Italy
Grande anarca Alvise Renzini
Fantasmi di voce - Antonio Stagnoli Elisabetta Sgarbi
You Are Evil Louis Taylor Canada
Shen-Zi Nell Yen-ni Wang, Jin-yi Liu Taiwan
Special Events
The Agronomist Jonathan Demme United States
The Saddest Music in the World Guy Maddin Canada
Persona non grata Oliver Stone United States, France, Spain

Independent Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:[19]

Official Awards

The following Official Awards were conferred at the 60th edition:[7]

Golden Lion Honorary Award

Short Film Competition

  • Silver Lion for Best Short Film: Neft (The Oil) by Murad Ibragimbekov
  • UIP Award for Best European Short Film: The Trumouse Show by Julio Robledo
    • Special mention: Hochbetrieb by Andreas Krein

Independent Awards

The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[23]

FIPRESCI Award

References

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  15. ^ "60th Mostra - New Territories, Feature Films (Non-Fiction)". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2003. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
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  18. ^ "60th Mostra - New Territories - Special Events". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2003. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  19. ^ "18th International Film Critics' Week". sicvenezia.it. Archived from the original on 5 April 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  20. ^ Salvatore Mereu on IMDb
  21. ^ Marc Kim on IMDb
  22. ^ Frédéric Videau on IMDb
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  24. ^ "2003 Awards: Venice (Italy, August 27 – September 6, 2003)". FIPRESCI. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011.

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