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60th Venice International Film Festival
Italian film festival in 2003
Italian film festival in 2003
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 60th Venice International Film Festival |
| image | VeniceFilmFestival60poster.jpg |
| caption | Festival Poster |
| opening | Anything Else |
| location | Venice, Italy |
| founded | 1932 |
| awards | Golden Lion: |
| The Return | |
| date | 27 August – 6 September 2003 |
| website | Website |
| chronology | Venice Film Festival |
| preceded_by | 59th |
| followed_by | 61st |
The Return
The 60th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 27 August to 6 September 2003, at Venice Lido in Italy.
Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion was awarded to The Return by Andrey Zvyagintsev.
The festival opened with Anything Else by Woody Allen.
Juries
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, Spanish 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:
- Laure Adler, French Journalist - Jury President
- Vito Amoruso, Italian literary critic
- Samir Farid, Egyptian film critic
- Rene Liu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter, actress, director and writer
- Ulrich Tukur, German actor
''Luigi De Laurentiis'' Award for a Debut Feature
- Lia van Leer, Israeli founder of the Haifa Cinematheque, the Jerusalem Cinematheque's Israel Film Archive, and the Jerusalem Film Festival - Jury President
- Jannike Ahlund, Swedish film critic
- Pierre-Henri Deleau, French film producer and actor
- Stefan Kitanov, Bulgarian film producer
- Peter Scarlet, executive director of Tribeca Festival
Official Sections
In Competition
The following films were nominated to compete for the Golden Lion of the 60th edition of the festival:
| 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 | Carol Lai | Hong Kong, France |
| 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 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
| Imagining Argentina | Christopher Hampton | Spain, United Kingdom, United States | |
| The Kite | طيّارة من ورق | Randa Chahal Sabag | 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 |
Out of Competition
The following films were screened as Out of Competition:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | Special Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| 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 |
Upstream (''Controcorrente'')
A section of the official selection for feature films that stand out for their "innovative intent, creative originality or alternative cinematographic languages"
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | Special Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antenna | Antena | Kazuyoshi Kumakiri | Japan | |
| The Assassinated Sun | Le soleil assassiné | Abdelkrim Bahloul | France | |
| 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 and 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 | Germany | |||
| Silence Between Two Thoughts | Sokoote beine do fekr | Babak Payami | Iran | |
| Travellers and Magicians | ཆང་ཧུབ་ཐེངས་གཅིག་གི་འཁྲུལ་སྣང | Khyentse Norbu | Bhutan, United Kingdom | |
| *Vodka Lemon* | Hiner Saleem | France, Italy, Switzerland, Armenia | ||
| The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp | Peter Greenaway | United Kingdom |
New Territories
The following films were selected for the New Territories (Nuovi Territori) section:
| Feature films - Fiction | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | Feature films - Non Fiction | Medium-length Films | Short Films | Special Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pequeña paloma blanca | Christian Barbe | Chile, United Kingdom | ||||||
| Threads | Khahit errouh | Hakim Belabbes | Morocco, United States | |||||
| Vibrator | ヴァイブレータ | Ryūichi Hiroki | Japan | |||||
| L'ultimo piano | Paolo Scarfò | Italy | ||||||
| Le dernier des immobiles | Nicola Sornaga | France | ||||||
| Chemical Hunger | Fame chimica | Antonio Bocola, Paolo Vari | Italy, Switzerland | |||||
| Mattatoio | Akab (Gabriele Di Benedetto) | Italy | ||||||
| L'uomo segreto | Nino Bizzarri | |||||||
| Back to Kotelnich | 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 | |||||
| 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 | |||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| The Agronomist | Jonathan Demme | United States | ||||||
| The Saddest Music in the World | Guy Maddin | Canada | ||||||
| Persona non grata | Oliver Stone | United States, France, Spain |
Short Film Competition
The following films, whose length does not exceed 30 minutes, were selected for the short film competition:
| Title | Director(s) | Production country | In competition | Out of 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 | ||
| Destino | Dominique Monféry | France, United States | ||
| Le lion volatil | Agnès Varda | France |
Independent Sections
Venice International Film Critics' Week
The following feature films were selected to be screened In Competition for this section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | Royston Tan | Singapore | ||
| Ana and the Others | Ana y los otros | Celina Murga | Argentina | |
| Matrubhoomi | Manish Jha | India | ||
| Mr. Butterfly | Nabi | Kim Hyeon-Seong | South Korea | |
| Three-Step Dance | Ballo a tre passi | Salvatore Mereu | Italy | |
| Twist | Jacob Daniel Tierney | Canada | ||
| Variété Française | Frédéric Videau | France |
Official Awards
- Golden Lion:The Return by Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Silver Lion for Best Director: Takeshi Kitano for Zatōichi
- Grand Special Jury Prize: The Kite by Randa Chahal
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Sean Penn for 21 Grams
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Katja Riemann for Rosenstrasse
- Marcello Mastroianni Award: Najat Benssallem for Raja
[[Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement|Golden Lion Honorary Award]]
- Dino De Laurentiis
- Omar Sharif
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:
[[FIPRESCI]] Award
- Venezia 60: Goodbye Dragon Inn by Tsai Ming-liang
- Parallel Section: Matrubhoomi by Manish Jha
References
References
- "The 60th Mostra pays homage to Katharine Hepburn". labiennale.org.
- "VENICE – 2003 GOLDEN LIONS AND OTHER HOT STUFF".
- (19 April 2010). "The 2000s".
- "Woody Allen to open 60th Mostra". labiennale.org.
- "60th Mostra - Sections, Juries and Awards". labiennale.org.
- "Juries for the 2000s".
- "Official Awards of the 60th Mostra". labiennale.org.
- "Venice 60 - in competition". labiennale.org.
- "60th Mostra - Out of Competition". labiennale.org.
- "60th Mostra - Upstream (films)". labiennale.org.
- "60th Mostra - Upstream (about)". labiennale.org.
- "60th Mostra - New Territories (about)". labiennale.org.
- "60th Mostra - New Territories, Feature Films (Fiction)". labiennale.org.
- "60th Mostra - New Territories, Feature Films (Non-Fiction)". labiennale.org.
- "60th Mostra - New Territories - Medium-length films". labiennale.org.
- "60th Mostra - New Territories - Short Films". labiennale.org.
- "60th Mostra - New Territories - Special Events". labiennale.org.
- "60th Mostra - Upstream". labiennale.org.
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- [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1503387/ Salvatore Mereu on IMDb]
- "Collateral prizes of the 60th Mostra". labiennale.org.
- "2003 Awards: Venice (Italy, August 27 – September 6, 2003)". [[FIPRESCI]].
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