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61st Venice International Film Festival

Italian film festival in 2004


Italian film festival in 2004

FieldValue
name61st Venice International Film Festival
imageVeniceFilmFestival61poster.jpg
captionFestival poster
opening*The Terminal*
closing*Steamboy*
locationVenice, Italy
founded1932
awardsGolden Lion:
*Vera Drake*
date1–11 September 2004
website[Website](http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/)
chronologyVenice Film Festival
preceded_by[60th](60th-venice-international-film-festival)
followed_by[62nd](62nd-venice-international-film-festival)

Vera Drake

The 61st annual Venice International Film Festival, was held from 1 and 11 September 2004, at Venice Lido in Italy.

British filmmaker John Boorman was the jury president for the main competition. The Golden Lion was awarded to Vera Drake, directed by Mike Leigh.

On this edition, a new independent section, Venice Days (Giornate degli autori), was created "for free cinema, new talents and new stories". This section is organized by the ANAC (National Association of Cinematographic Authors) and the API (Independent Authors & Producers).

Also in this edition, The Secret History of Italian Cinema was launched, a new official retrospective section, with the aim of restoring and systematically rediscovering sides of the Italian cinema that have been "forgotten, invisible, unknown or misunderstood". The retrospective was planned for the following four editions (61st to 64th editions), later was extended with the These Phantoms: Italian Cinema Rediscovered (65th edition), and the Italian Comedy Retrospective (66th edition). The Fondazione Prada was the main sponsor/partner of this section.

The festival opened with The Terminal by Steven Spielberg, and closed with Steamboy by Katsuhiro Otomo.

Juries

Main Competition (''Venezia 61'')

  • John Boorman, British filmmaker - Jury President
  • Wolfgang Becker, German filmmaker
  • Mimmo Calopresti, Italian director
  • Hsu Feng, Taiwanese actress and producer
  • Scarlett Johansson, American actress
  • Spike Lee, American filmmaker, actor and producer
  • Dusan Makavejev, Serbian filmmaker
  • Helen Mirren, British actress
  • Pietro Scalia, Italian editor

''[[Orizzonti]]''

  • Nicolas Philibert, French director - Jury President
  • Brian Helgeland, American director
  • Fiorella Infascelli, Italian director

Venezia Cinema Digitale

  • Mike Figgis, British filmmaker and composer - Jury President
  • Shozo Ichiyama, Japanese film producer
  • Claire Simon, French filmmaker

Official Sections

In Competition

The following films were selected for the main competition:

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country
*[3-Iron](3-iron)*빈집Kim Ki-dukSouth Korea, Japan
*[5x2](5x2)**Cinq fois deux*François OzonFrance
*Another Life**Ovunque sei*Michele PlacidoItaly
*Birth*Jonathan GlazerUnited States
*Café Lumière*珈琲時光Hou Hsiao-hsienJapan, Taiwan
*Delivery*Nicos PanayotopoulosGreece
*Howl's Moving Castle*ハウルの動く城Hayao MiyazakiJapan
*The Intruder**L'intrus*Claire DenisFrance
*The Keys to the House**Le chiavi di casa*Gianni AmelioItaly, France, Germany
*Kings and Queen*Rois et reineArnaud DesplechinFrance
*Land of Plenty*Wim WendersUnited States
*Low Life*하류인생Im Kwon-taekSouth Korea
*One Long Winter Without Fire* †*Tout un hiver sans feu*Greg ZglinskiSwitzerland
*Palindromes*Todd SolondzUnited States
*Promised Land*הארץ המובטחתAmos GitaiIsrael, France
*Remote Access*Удалённый доступSvetlana ProskurinaRussia
*The Sea Inside**Mar adentro*Alejandro AmenábarSpain, France, Italy
*Stray Dogs**Sag-haye velgard*Marzieh MeshkiniIran, France, Afghanistan
*Vanity Fair*Mira NairUnited Kingdom, United States
***Vera Drake*****Mike Leigh****United Kingdom**
*Working Slowly (Radio Alice)**Lavorare con lentezza*Guido ChiesaItaly
*The World*世界Jia ZhangkeChina

:† indicates films that competed for the Lion of the Future.

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countrySpecial Event
*The Bridesmaid**La demoiselle d'honneur*Claude ChabrolFrance, Italy, Germany
*Collateral*Michael MannUnited States
*Eros*Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh and Wong Kar-waiFrance, Hong Kong, Italy, United States
*The Fifth Empire**O quinto imperio*Manoel de OliveiraPortugal, France
*Finding Neverland*Marc ForsterUnited States
*How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio**Come inguaiammo il cinema italiano*Daniele Ciprì and Franco MarescoItaly
*An Italian Romance**L'amore ritrovato*Carlo Mazzacurati
*The Manchurian Candidate*Jonathan DemmeUnited States
*The Merchant of Venice*Michael RadfordUnited Kingdom, Italy
*The Remains of Nothing**Il resto di niente*Antonietta De LilloItaly
*She Hate Me*Spike LeeUnited States
*Steamboy* (closing film)スチームボーイKatsuhiro OtomoJapan
*The Terminal* (opening film)Steven SpielbergUnited States
*Throw Down*柔道龍虎榜Johnnie ToHong Kong
*The Tuner*НастройщикKira MuratovaRussia, Ukraine
*Shark Tale*Victoria Jenson and Bibo BergeronUnited States

''[[Orizzonti]]''

The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countryIn CompetitionSpecial Events
*The 3 Rooms of Melancholia**Melancholian 3 huonetta*Pirjo HonkasaloFinland, Sweden, Denmark
*Agnes and His Brothers**Agnes und seine Brüder*Oskar RoehlerGermany
*Ambasadori, cautam patrie*Mircea DaneliucRomania
*Criminal* †Gregory JacobsUnited States
*Gilles' Wife**La femme de Gilles*Frédéric FonteyneBelgium, France, Luxembourg
***The Grand Sons******Les petits fils*****Ilan Duran Cohen****France**
*I Can See It in Your Eyes* †*Te lo leggo negli occhi*Valia SantellaItaly
*Izo*Takashi MiikeJapan
*A Less Bad World**Un mundo menos peor*Alejandro AgrestiArgentina
*A Love Song for Bobby Long* †Shainee GabelUnited States
*Mysterious Skin*Gregg ArakiUnited States, Netherlands
*Rolling Family**Familia rodante*Pablo TraperoArgentina, Spain
*Saimir* †Francesco MunziItaly
*The Sleeping Child* †*L'enfant endormi*Yasmine KassariMorocco, Belgium
*Stryker*Noam GonickCanada
*They Came Back* †*Les revenants*Robin CampilloFrance
*Vento di terra*Vincenzo MarraItaly
*Vital*ヴィタールShinya TsukamotoJapan
*Yesterday*Darrell RoodtSouth Africa
*Zulu Love Letter**Lettre d'amour zoulou*Ramadan SulemanSouth Africa, France, Germany
*L’ami y’a bon*Rachid BoucharebFrance, Algeria, Germany
*Come Back, Africa* (1959)Lionel RogosinUnited States
*The Hamburg Cell*Antonia BirdUnited Kingdom
*Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginning* (6 episodes)*Heimat 3 - Chronik einer Zeitenwende*Edgar ReitzGermany
*Música cubana*German Kral
*Tell Them Who You Are*Mark S. WexlerUnited States
*Tide Table*William KentridgeSouth Africa

:† indicates films that competed for the Lion of the Future.

Short Films Competition (''Corto Cortissimo'')

The following films were selected for the Short Films Competition (Corto Cortissimo):

TitleDirector(sProduction countryIn competitionOut of CompetitionSpecial Events 1 - Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia: Scuola Nazionale di CinemaSpecial Events - Ipotesi Cinema: BolognaSpecial Events 2 - Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia: Scuola Nazionale di CinemaSpecial Events 3 - Corto d'autore: Italia
*A occhi aperti*Lorenza IndovinaItaly
*Agna niata*Ektoras LyghizosGreece
*Aïsha*Newton I. AduakaNigeria, Senegal
*The Arsonist*Myles SorensenUnited States
*The Carpenter and his Clumsy Wife*Peter FoottIreland
*Chamaco*Tim ParsaMexico
*Close*Tom HopkinsIreland
*La culpa del alpinista*Daniel Sánchez ArévaloSpain
*Dim*Ann-Kristin WeckerGermany
*Il dio della pioggia*Angelo Amoroso D'AragonaItaly
*Goodbye*Steve HudsonGermany
*Határontúl*Árpád SchillingHungary
*Last Night*Sean MewshawUnited States
*Moustache*Vicki SugarsAustralia
*Passatempo*Francesco LagiItaly
*A piscina*Iana Joao VianaPortugal
*Rain Is Falling*Holger ErnstGermany, Morocco
*Resurrection*Mitchell LichtensteinUnited States
*Shengri*Bertrand LeeSingapore
***Signe d'appartenance*****Kamel Cherif****Belgium, Tunisia**
*Silent Companion*Elham HosseinzadeIran
*Sous le bleu*David OelhoffenFrance
*Srce je kos Mesa* (aka *The Heart Is a Piece of Meat*)Jan CvitkovicSlovenia
*Streets*Jon HoweUnited Kingdom
*Trofast*Trond Fausa AurvaagNorway
*White on Blue*Ramunas GreiciusLithuania
*Coleridge's Couch*Angeles WooUnited States
*Il potere sottile*Diego RonsisvalleItaly
*Postazioni della memoria*Ermanno Olmi and the students of Ipotesi CinemaItaly
*I gabbiani - studio su "Il gabbiano" di Anton Cecov*Francesca ArchibugiItaly
*Too Short for Sky*Pappi CorsicatoItaly
*Body & Soul*Theo Eshetu
*Corpo/Immagine*Marco Puccioni

Venetian Nights

The following films were screened for the Venetian Nights section (Venezia Mezzanotte):

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countryTitanus's one hundredth year
*The Art of Losing**Perder es cuestión de método*Sergio CabreraColombia, Spain
*Enduring Love*Roger MichellUnited Kingdom
*Eyes of Crystal**Occhi di cristallo*Eros PuglielliItaly
*A Home at the End of the World* †Michael MayerUnited States
*Howrah Bridge* / *The Youth of the Land**Yuva*Mani RatnamIndia
*Man on Fire*Tony ScottUnited States
*Puteri Gunung Ledang*Saw Teong HinMalaysia
*Three... Extremes*三更2 / 쓰리, 몬스터 / 美しい夜、残酷な朝Park Chan-Wook, Takashi Miike and Fruit ChanHong Kong, South Korea, Japan
*To Sleep Next To Her* †*Volevo solo dormirle addosso*Eugenio CappuccioItaly
*The Demon**Il demonio* (1963)Brunello RondiItaly

: † indicates films that competed for the Lion of the Future.

Venice Digital Cinema

A section intended to provide an overview of the new expressive possibilities granted by digital technologies.

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countrySpecial EventsDigital Africa
*[20 Fingers](20-fingers-film)* †*20 angosht*Mania AkbariIran, United Kingdom
*Impermanence*Goutam GhoseIndia
*The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish*Peter GreenawayUnited Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Netherlands, Luxembourg
*Cuoco contadino*Luca GuadagninoItaly
*Homecoming*Jon JostUnited States
*Letters to Ali*Clara LawAustralia
*La vita è breve ma la giornata è lunghissima*Lucio Pellegrini, Gianni ZanasiItaly
*Pin Boy**Parapalos*Ana PoliakArgentina
*Un silenzio particolare*Stefano RulliItaly
*Marebito*稀人Takashi ShimizuJapan
*L'ora della lucertola*Mimmo CaloprestiItaly
*Bellissime*Giovanna Gagliardo
*Killer Shrimps* †Piero GoliaSwitzerland
*The Take*Avi LewisCanada
*Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children*ファイナルファンタジーVII アドベントチルドレン,Tetsuya NomuraJapan
*Embedded*Tim RobbinsUnited States
*Colpi di Luce*Matteo Spinola, Stefano della Casa, Francesca CalvelliItaly
*Yizo Yizo*Angus Gibson, Andrew Dosunmu, Teboho MahlatsiSouth Africa

: † indicates films that competed for the Lion of the Future.

Retrospective - The Secret History of Italian Cinema 1

A new retrospective section on Italian Cinema aiming to restore and systematically rediscover sides of the Italian cinema That Have Been "Forgotten, Invisible, Unknown Or Misunderstood". This first edition of the retrospective is titled Italian Kings of the B's.

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countryItalian Kings of the B'sUnderground Italia - Shards of utopia
*[100 Horsemen](100-horsemen)* (1961)*I cento cavalieri*Vittorio CottafaviItaly, Spain, West Germany
*The Beyond* (1981)*...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà*Lucio FulciItaly
*The Big Gundown* (1966)*La resa dei conti*Sergio SollimaItaly, Spain
*Blindman* (1972)*Il pistolero cieco*Ferdinando BaldiItaly, United States
*The Boss* (1973)*Il Boss*Fernando Di LeoItaly
*A Bullet for the General* (1967)*Quien sabe?*Damiano Damiani
*Caliber 9* (1972)*Milano calibro 9*Fernando Di Leo
*Cannibal Holocaust* (1979)Ruggero Deodato
*Castle of Blood* (1964)*Danza macabra*Antonio MargheritiItaly, France
*Coup D'État* (1969)*Colpo di stato*Luciano SalceItaly
*Don't Torture a Duckling* (1972)*Non si sevizia un paperino*Lucio Fulci
*The Dynamite Brothers* (1949)*I fratelli Dinamite*Nino and Toni Pagot
*The God Snake* (1970)*Il dio serpente*Piero VivarelliItaly, Venezuela
*Goliath and the Dragon* (1960)*La vendetta di Ercole*Vittorio CottafaviItaly, France
*Col cuore in gola* (1967)Tinto Brass
*The Inglorious Bastards* (1977)*Quel maledetto treno blindato*Enzo G. CastellariItaly
*The Italian Connection* (1972)*La mala ordina*Fernando Di LeoItaly, West Germany
*Mister Scarface* (1976)*I padroni della citta*
*Naked Violence* (1969)*I ragazzi del massacro*Italy
*Orgasm* (1969)*Orgasmo*Umberto LenziItaly, France
*The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh* (1970)*Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh*Sergio MartinoItaly, Spain, Austria
*The Syndicate: A Death in the Family* (1969)*Colpo rovente*Piero ZuffiItaly
*Tragic Ceremony* (1972)*Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea*Riccardo FredaItaly, Spain
*The Trojan Horse* (1961)*La guerra di Troia*Giorgio FerroniItaly, France, Yugoslavia
*W la foca* (1982)Nando CiceroItaly
*La verifica incerta* (1964)Gianfranco Baruchello, Alberto GrifiItaly
*Transfert per kamera verso Virulentia* (1975)Alberto Grifi
*The Blind Fly* (1966)*A mosca cieca*Romano Scavolini
*Portrait of Gianfranco Barucchello**Ritratto di Gianfranco Barucchello*Paolo Brunatto
*Portrait of Alberto Grifi**Ritratto di Alberto Grifi*
*Portrait of Romano Scovolini**Ritratto di Romano Scovolini*

Independent Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

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

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countryIn CompetitionOut of Competition
*From Land of Silence**Sakenine Sarzamine Sokoot*Saman SalurIran
*The Great Journey**Le Grand Voyage*Ismaël FerroukhiFrance
*Les liens*Aymeric Mesa-JuanFrance
*One or the Other**Una de dos*Alejo Hernán TaubeArgentina
*Otakus in Love*恋の門Suzuki MatsuoJapan
*To Take a Wife**Ve Lakachta Lecha Isha*Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi ElkabetzIsrael, France
*Uninhibited**Kuang Fang*Leste ChenTaiwan
*P.S.* (opening film)Dylan KiddUnited States
*Butterfly**Hu die*Yan Yan MakChina
*The Love (Part One)**El Amor (Primera Parte)*Alejandro Fadel, Martin Mauregui, Santiago Mitre, Juan SchnitmanArgentina

Venice Days

The following films were selected for the 1st edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country
*[4](4-2004-film)*Ilya KhrzhanovskyRussia, Netherlands
*Caro Vittorio*Marco RisiItaly
*Changing Destiny**Nemmeno il destino*Daniele Gaglianone
*Darwin's Nightmare*Hubert SauperAustria, Belgium, France, Germany
*Dead Man's Shoes*Shane MeadowsUnited Kingdom
*Il giorno del falco*Rodolfo BisattiItaly
*L'imperatore di Roma*Nico D'AlessandriaItaly
*In Kurdistan e' difficile*Giuliana GambaItaly
*Morasseix*Damien OdoulFrance
*Murmuring Coast**A costa dos murmúrios*Margarida CardosoPortugal
*Now and Then**L'oeil de l'autre*John LvoffFrance
*Strings*Anders Rønnow KlarlundDenmark, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom
*Suburbs**Predmestje*Vinko MöderndorferSlovenia
*Sweet Jam**Confituur*Lieven DebrauwerBelgium, Switzerland
*Tartarughe sul dorso*Stefano PasettoItaly

Official Awards

In Competition (''Venezia 61'')

  • Golden Lion: Vera Drake by Mike Leigh
  • Silver Lion for Best Director: 3-Iron by Kim Ki-duk
  • Grand Jury Prize: The Sea Inside by Alejandro Amenábar
  • Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Javier Bardem for The Sea Inside
  • Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Imelda Staunton for Vera Drake
  • Marcello Mastroianni Award: Tommaso Ramenghi and Marco Luisi for Working Slowly (Radio Alice)
  • Golden Osella: Studio Ghibli for Howl's Moving Castle

[[Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement|Golden Lion for lifetime achievement]]

  • Manoel de Oliveira and Stanley Donen

''[[Orizzonti]]''

  • Best Film: The Grand Sons by Ilan Duran Cohen
    • Special mention: Vento di terra by Vincenzo Marra

Digital Cinema Award

  • 20 Fingers by Mania Akbari
    • Special Mention: La vita è breve ma la giornata è lunghissima by Gianni Zanasi and Lucio Pellegrini

Short Film Competition (''Corto Cortissimo'')

  • Citroen Short Super-Short Lion for Best Short Film: Signe d'appartenence by Kamel Cherif
    • Special mention: The Carpenter and His Clumsy Wife by Peter Foot
  • UIP Prize for Best European Short Film: Goodbye by Steve Hudson

"''Luigi de Laurentiis''" Award For A Debut Film (Lion of the Future)

  • The Great Journey by Ismaël Ferroukhi and Humbert Balsan
    • Special Mention: Saimir by Francesco Munzi

Independents Awards

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

Venice International Film Critics' Week

  • Audience Award:To Take a Wife by Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz

FIPRESCI Prize

  • Competition: 3-Iron by Kim Ki-duk
  • Parallel Sections: Vento di terra by Vincenzo Marra

SIGNS Award

  • One Long Winter Without Fire by Greg Zglinski
  • Honorable Mention: 3-Iron by Kim Ki-duk

C.I.C.A.E. Award

  • Gilles' Wife by Frédéric Fonteyne

UNICEF Award

  • House of Fools by Andrei Konchalovsky

UNESCO Award

  • Land of Plenty by Wim Wenders

Pasinetti Award

  • Best Film: The Keys to the House by Gianni Amelio
  • Best Actor: Kim Rossi Stuart for The Keys to the House
  • Best Actress: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi for 5x2

Isvema Award

  • To Take a Wife by Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz

FEDIC Award

  • To Sleep Next To Her by Eugenio Cappuccio

Little Golden Lion

Venice Days - Label Europa Cinemas

  • Darwin's Nightmare by Hubert Sauper

Young Cinema Award

  • Best Italian Film: Nemmeno il destino by Daniele Gaglianone
  • Best Digital Film: Un silenzio particolare by Stefano Rulli
  • Best International Film: The Sea Inside by Alejandro Amenábar

"Lino Miccichè" First Feature Award

  • Nemmeno il destino by Daniele Gaglianone

Open Prize

  • Strays Dogs by Marzieh Makhmalbaf

Lina Mangiacapre Award

  • The 3 Rooms of Melancholia by Pirjo Honkasalo

Future Film Festival Digital Award

  • Collateral by Michael Mann

Laterna Magica Prize

  • Finding Neverland by Marc Forster

Sergio Trasatti Award

  • The Keys to the House by Gianni Amelio

CinemAvvenire Award

  • Best Film: The Keys to the House by Gianni Amelio
  • Best First Film: One Long Winter Without Fire by Greg Zglinski
  • Cinema for Peace Award: Promised Land by Amos Gitai

Award of the City of Rome

  • Best Film: A Less Bad World by Alejandro Agresti

International Peace Award

  • Best Film: Jeruzalemski sindrom by Jakov Sedlar

Human Rights Film Network Award

  • The 3 Rooms of Melancholia by Pirjo Honkasalo

EIUC Award

  • Yesterday by Darrell Roodt
    • Special Mention: The 3 Rooms of Melancholia by Pirjo Honkasalo

Special Director's Award

Special Pasinetti Award

  • Vento di terra by Vincenzo Marra (For an innovative film)

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