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60th Venice International Film Festival

Italian film festival in 2003


Italian film festival in 2003

FieldValue
name60th Venice International Film Festival
imageVeniceFilmFestival60poster.jpg
captionFestival Poster
opening*Anything Else*
locationVenice, Italy
founded1932
awardsGolden Lion:
*The Return*
date27 August – 6 September 2003
website[Website](http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/)
chronologyVenice Film Festival
preceded_by[59th](59th-venice-international-film-festival)
followed_by[61st](61st-venice-international-film-festival)

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 titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country
*[21 Grams](21-grams)*Alejandro González IñárrituUnited States
*Alila*Amos GitaiIsrael, France
*Code 46*Michael WinterbottomUnited Kingdom
*Feelings**Les Sentiments*Noémie LvovskyFrance
*The Floating Landscape*戀之風景Carol LaiHong Kong, France
*A Good Lawyer's Wife*바람난 가족Im Sang-sooSouth Korea
*Good Morning, Night**Buongiorno, notte*Marco BellocchioItaly
*Goodbye, Dragon Inn*不散Tsai Ming-liangTaiwan
*Imagining Argentina*Christopher HamptonSpain, United Kingdom, United States
*The Kite*طيّارة من ورقRanda Chahal SabagLebanon
*Loving Glances**Sjaj u očima*Srđan KaranovićSerbia and Montenegro, United Kingdom
*The Miracle**Il Miracolo*Edoardo WinspeareItaly
*Pornografia*Jan Jakub KolskiPoland, France
*Raja*Jacques DoillonFrance, Morocco
***The Return*****Возвращение****Andrey Zvyagintsev****Russia**
*Rosenstrasse*Margarethe von TrottaGermany, Netherlands
*Secret File**Segreti di Stato*Paolo BenvenutiItaly
*A Talking Picture**Um Filme Falado*Manoel de OliveiraPortugal
*Twentynine Palms*Bruno DumontFrance, Germany, United States
*Zatôichi*座頭市Takeshi KitanoJapan

Out of Competition

The following films were screened as Out of Competition:

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countrySpecial Events
*Anything Else* (opening film)Woody AllenUnited States
*Coffee and Cigarettes*Jim Jarmusch
*Intolerable Cruelty*Joel Coen
*Le Divorce*James IvoryUnited Kingdom, United States, France
*Matchstick Men*Ridley ScottUnited States, United Kingdom
*Monsieur Ibrahim**Monsieur Ibrahim et le fleurs du Coran*François DupeyronFrance
*Once Upon a Time in Mexico*Robert RodriguezUnited States
*The Dreamers*Bernardo BertolucciItaly, United Kingdom, France
*The Human Stain*Robert BentonUnited States, Germany
*The Blues* - *Feel Like Going Home*Martin ScorseseUnited 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 titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countrySpecial Event
*Antenna**Antena*Kazuyoshi KumakiriJapan
*The Assassinated Sun **Le soleil assassiné*Abdelkrim BahloulFrance
*Break Free**Liberi*Gianluca Maria TavarelliItaly
*Casa de los babys*John SaylesUnited States, Mexico
*The Chimera of Heroes**La quimera de los heroes*Daniel RosenfeldArgentina, France, Denmark
*The First Letter**Abjad*Abolfazl JaliliIran, France, Italy
*The Five Obstructions**De Fem Benspaend*Jørgen Leth and Lars Von TrierDenmark, Switzerland, Belgium, France
*In the Forest... Again**Abar Aranye*Goutam GhoseIndia
*Last Life in the Universe*เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาลPen-ek RatanaruangThailand, Hong Kong, Netherlands, United States, Japan
*Lost in Translation*Sofia CoppolaUnited States, Japan
*Mud**Çamur*Derviş ZaimItaly, Cyprus
*A Place Among the Living**Une place parmi les vivants*Raoul RuizFrance, Romania
*The Python**Pitons*Laila PakalninaLatvia
*The Return of Cagliostro**Il ritorno di Cagliostro*Daniele Ciprì, Franco MarescoItaly
*Schultze Gets the Blues*Germany
*Silence Between Two Thoughts**Sokoote beine do fekr*Babak PayamiIran
*Travellers and Magicians*ཆང་ཧུབ་ཐེངས་གཅིག་གི་འཁྲུལ་སྣངKhyentse NorbuBhutan, United Kingdom
***Vodka Lemon*****Hiner Saleem****France, Italy, Switzerland, Armenia**
*The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp*Peter GreenawayUnited Kingdom

New Territories

The following films were selected for the New Territories (Nuovi Territori) section:

Feature films - FictionEnglish titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countryFeature films - Non FictionMedium-length FilmsShort FilmsSpecial Events
*Pequeña paloma blanca*Christian BarbeChile, United Kingdom
*Threads**Khahit errouh*Hakim BelabbesMorocco, United States
*Vibrator*ヴァイブレータRyūichi HirokiJapan
*L'ultimo piano*Paolo ScarfòItaly
*Le dernier des immobiles*Nicola SornagaFrance
*Chemical Hunger**Fame chimica*Antonio Bocola, Paolo VariItaly, Switzerland
*Mattatoio*Akab (Gabriele Di Benedetto)Italy
*L'uomo segreto*Nino Bizzarri
*Back to Kotelnich**Retour à Kotelnitch*Emmanuel CarrèreFrance
*Mists**Brumas*Ricardo CostaPortugal
*At School**A scuola*Leonardo Di CostanzoFrance, Italy
*War**Guerra*Pippo DelbonoItaly, Israel, Palestine
*Italian sud est*Fluid Video CrewItaly
*Materiali a confronto*Giuseppe M. Gaudino
*Un instante en la vida ajena*Jose Luis López-LinaresSpain
*Counter Site**Contr@site*Fausta Quattrini, Daniele IncalcaterraArgentina, Switzerland
*Prisoner of the Iron Bars**O Prisioneiro da Grade de Ferro*Paulo SacramentoBrazil
*On n'est pas des marques de vélo*Jean-Pierre ThornFrance
*Barefoot to Herat**Paberahne Ta Harat*Majid MajidiIran
*United We Stand*Matteo BarziniItaly
*Un fils*Amal BedjaouiFrance
*Sorriso amaro*Matteo BellizziItaly, Finland, Switzerland
*Segni particolari - Appunti per un film sull'Emilia Romagna*Giuseppe BertolucciItaly
*My Father's Garden*Matthew BrownItaly, South Africa
*Il senso del mistero*Paolo BrunattoItaly
*Picciridda*Alberto Castiglione
*Stessa rabbia, stessa primavera*Stefano Incerti
*Maledetta mia*Wilma Labate
*The Malady of Death**La Maladie de la Mort*Asa MaderFrance, United States
*Paesaggio a Sud*Vincenzo MarraItaly
*Margherita. Ritratto Confidenziale*Giuseppe Piccioni
*Senza tregua*Marco Pozzi
*Poem*Carlos ArmellaUnited Kingdom
*Chaplin Aujourd'hui - The Kid*Alain BergalaFrance
*Japan-eno - Stornmi # 3 - Clessiquidre hz FX - China #4 FX - A...B...C...cletta - CoplanDesideri - Occhi di-visi Occhi di-versi*Ermanno De BiagiItaly
*The Time We Lost*Tommaso CammaranoItaly, United States
*Lo stuoino di pietra*Gina Carducci
*Pequeñas voces*Eduardo CarrilloColombia, United Kingdom, Spain
*Ssst*Pietro Durante, Lisa Ferlazzo NatoliItaly
*Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution 1*Siegfried A. FruhaufAustria
*La recherche de ma mère*Paola Gandolfi, Francesca RavelloItaly
*Ne dites pas à ma mère*Sarah Moon HoweBelgium, France
*Libberato*Davide LombardiItaly
*La spia che era in me*Mario Materia
*Prises de vues*Sebastian MeiseAustria
*Relojes de arena*José Francisco Ortuno, Laura AlveaSpain
*The Affirmation of Jimmy Brown*Robert PasternakCanada
*My McQueen*Lourdes PortilloUnited States
*Racconti per l'isola*Costanza QuatriglioItaly
*Grande anarca*Alvise Renzini
*Fantasmi di voce - Antonio Stagnoli*Elisabetta Sgarbi
*You Are Evil*Louis TaylorCanada
*Shen-Zi*Nell Yen-ni Wang, Jin-yi LiuTaiwan
*The Agronomist*Jonathan DemmeUnited States
*The Saddest Music in the World*Guy MaddinCanada
*Persona non grata*Oliver StoneUnited States, France, Spain

Short Film Competition

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

TitleDirector(s)Production countryIn competitionOut of Competition
*El excusado*Lorenza ManriqueMexico
*From Where I'm Standing*Annalise PattersonNew Zealand
*God's Kitchen*Paki SmithIreland
*Hochbetrieb*Andreas KreinGermany
*Match*Jef NassensteinNetherlands
***Neft* (*The Oil*)****Murad Ibragimbekov****Russia, Azerbaijan**
*Neon Eyes*Thomas Gerhold, Markus WambsganssGermany
*Ore 2 Calma Piatta*Marco PontecorvoItaly
*Ritterschlag*Sven MartinGermany
*Solitaire*Thor BekkavikNorway
*The Trumouse Show*Julio RobledoSpain
*Zippo*Stefano SollimaItaly
*Destino*Dominique MonféryFrance, United States
*Le lion volatil*Agnès VardaFrance

Independent Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened In Competition for this section:

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country
*[15](15-film)*Royston TanSingapore
*Ana and the Others**Ana y los otros*Celina MurgaArgentina
*Matrubhoomi*Manish JhaIndia
*Mr. Butterfly**Nabi*Kim Hyeon-SeongSouth Korea
*Three-Step Dance**Ballo a tre passi*Salvatore MereuItaly
*Twist*Jacob Daniel TierneyCanada
*Variété Française*Frédéric VideauFrance

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

  1. "The 60th Mostra pays homage to Katharine Hepburn". labiennale.org.
  2. "VENICE – 2003 GOLDEN LIONS AND OTHER HOT STUFF".
  3. (19 April 2010). "The 2000s".
  4. "Woody Allen to open 60th Mostra". labiennale.org.
  5. "60th Mostra - Sections, Juries and Awards". labiennale.org.
  6. "Juries for the 2000s".
  7. "Official Awards of the 60th Mostra". labiennale.org.
  8. "Venice 60 - in competition". labiennale.org.
  9. "60th Mostra - Out of Competition". labiennale.org.
  10. "60th Mostra - Upstream (films)". labiennale.org.
  11. "60th Mostra - Upstream (about)". labiennale.org.
  12. "60th Mostra - New Territories (about)". labiennale.org.
  13. "60th Mostra - New Territories, Feature Films (Fiction)". labiennale.org.
  14. "60th Mostra - New Territories, Feature Films (Non-Fiction)". labiennale.org.
  15. "60th Mostra - New Territories - Medium-length films". labiennale.org.
  16. "60th Mostra - New Territories - Short Films". labiennale.org.
  17. "60th Mostra - New Territories - Special Events". labiennale.org.
  18. "60th Mostra - Upstream". labiennale.org.
  19. "18th International Film Critics' Week". sicvenezia.it.
  20. [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1503387/ Salvatore Mereu on IMDb]
  21. "Collateral prizes of the 60th Mostra". labiennale.org.
  22. "2003 Awards: Venice (Italy, August 27 – September 6, 2003)". [[FIPRESCI]].
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