Opening film | Anything Else |
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Location | Venice, Italy |
Founded | 1932 |
Awards | Golden Lion: The Return |
Festival date | 27 August – 6 September 2003 |
Website | Website |
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.
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]
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]
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 |
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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 |
The following films were screened as Out of Competition: [9]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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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 |
The following films, whose length does not exceed 30 minutes, were selected for the short film competition: [10]
Title | Director(s) | Production country |
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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 |
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 |
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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 | 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 |
The following films were selected for the New Territories (Nuovi Territori) section: [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
Feature films - Fiction | |||
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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 |
The following feature films were selected to be screened In Competition for this section: [19]
The following Official Awards were conferred at the 60th edition: [7]
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection: [23]
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