60th Venice International Film Festival
Film festival
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 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 , 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:[ 5] [ 7]
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
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]
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
Pequeña paloma blanca
Christian Barbe
Chile, United Kingdom
Threads
Khahit errouh
Hakim Belabbes
Morocco, United States
Vibrator
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
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 In Competition for this section:[ 19]
Official Awards
The following Official Awards were conferred at the 60th edition:[ 7]
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]
References
External links
Awards Independent awards By year