60th Venice International Film Festival

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60th Venice International Film Festival
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Festival Poster
Opening film Anything Else
Location Venice, Italy
Founded1932
Awards Golden Lion:
The Return
Festival date27 August – 6 September 2003
Website Website
Venice Film Festival chronology

The 60th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 27 August to 6 September 2003, at Venice Lido in Italy. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

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. [4]

Juries

Main Competition (Venezia 60)

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]

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 titleOriginal titleDirector(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 LaiHong 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: [9]

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
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

Short Film Competition

The following films, whose length does not exceed 30 minutes, were selected for the short film competition: [10]

TitleDirector(s)Production country
In competition
El excusadoLorenza ManriqueMexico
From Where I'm StandingAnnalise PattersonNew Zealand
God's KitchenPaki SmithIreland
HochbetriebAndreas KreinGermany
MatchJef NassensteinNetherlands
Neft (The Oil)Murad IbragimbekovRussia, Azerbaijan
Neon EyesThomas Gerhold, Markus WambsganssGermany
Ore 2 Calma Piatta Marco Pontecorvo Italy
RitterschlagSven MartinGermany
SolitaireThor BekkavikNorway
The Trumouse ShowJulio RobledoSpain
Zippo Stefano Sollima Italy
Out of Competition
Destino Dominique Monféry France, United States
Le lion volatil Agnès Varda France

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 titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country
AntennaAntena Kazuyoshi Kumakiri Japan
Break Free Liberi Gianluca Maria Tavarelli Italy
Casa de los babys John Sayles United States, Mexico
The Chimera of HeroesLa quimera de los heroesDaniel RosenfeldArgentina, France, Denmark
The First LetterAbjad 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
MudÇamur Derviş Zaim Italy, Cyprus
A Place Among the Living Une place parmi les vivants Raoul Ruiz France, Romania
The PythonPitons 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 ThoughtsSokoote beine do fekr Babak Payami Iran
The Sun AssassinatedLe soleil assassinéAbdelkrim BahloulFrance
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

New Territories

The following films were selected for the New Territories (Nuovi Territori) section: [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

Feature films - Fiction
English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country
Pequeña paloma blancaChristian BarbeChile, United Kingdom
ThreadsKhahit errouh Hakim Belabbes Morocco, United States
Vibrator ヴァイブレータ Ryūichi Hiroki Japan
L'ultimo pianoPaolo ScarfòItaly
Le dernier des immobilesNicola SornagaFrance
Chemical Hunger Fame chimicaAntonio Bocola, Paolo VariItaly, Switzerland
Feature films - Non Fiction
MattatoioAkab (Gabriele Di Benedetto)Italy
L'uomo segretoNino Bizzarri
Retour à Kotelnitch Emmanuel Carrère France
MistsBrumas Ricardo Costa Portugal
At SchoolA scuola Leonardo Di Costanzo France, Italy
WarGuerra Pippo Delbono Italy, Israel, Palestine
Italian sud estFluid Video CrewItaly
Materiali a confronto Giuseppe M. Gaudino
Un instante en la vida ajenaJose Luis López-LinaresSpain
Counter SiteContr@siteFausta Quattrini, Daniele IncalcaterraArgentina, Switzerland
Prisoner of the Iron BarsO Prisioneiro da Grade de FerroPaulo SacramentoBrazil
On n'est pas des marques de véloJean-Pierre ThornFrance
Barefoot to Herat Paberahne Ta Harat Majid Majidi Iran
Medium-length Films
United We Stand Matteo Barzini Italy
Un fils Amal Bedjaoui France
Sorriso amaroMatteo BellizziItaly, Finland, Switzerland
Segni particolari - Appunti per un film sull'Emilia Romagna Giuseppe Bertolucci Italy
My Father's GardenMatthew BrownItaly, South Africa
Il senso del misteroPaolo BrunattoItaly
PicciriddaAlberto Castiglione
Stessa rabbia, stessa primavera Stefano Incerti
Maledetta mia Wilma Labate
The Malady of DeathLa Maladie de la Mort Asa Mader France, United States
Paesaggio a Sud Vincenzo Marra Italy
Margherita. Ritratto Confidenziale Giuseppe Piccioni
Senza treguaMarco Pozzi
Short Films
PoemCarlos ArmellaUnited 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-versiErmanno De BiagiItaly
The Time We LostTommaso CammaranoItaly, United States
Lo stuoino di pietraGina Carducci
Pequeñas vocesEduardo CarrilloColombia, United Kingdom, Spain
SsstPietro Durante, Lisa Ferlazzo NatoliItaly
Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution 1Siegfried A. FruhaufAustria
La recherche de ma mèrePaola Gandolfi, Francesca RavelloItaly
Ne dites pas à ma mèreSarah Moon HoweBelgium, France
LibberatoDavide LombardiItaly
La spia che era in meMario Materia
Prises de vuesSebastian MeiseAustria
Relojes de arenaJosé Francisco Ortuno, Laura AlveaSpain
The Affirmation of Jimmy BrownRobert PasternakCanada
My McQueen Lourdes Portillo United States
Racconti per l'isola Costanza Quatriglio Italy
Grande anarcaAlvise Renzini
Fantasmi di voce - Antonio Stagnoli Elisabetta Sgarbi
You Are EvilLouis TaylorCanada
Shen-ZiNell Yen-ni Wang, Jin-yi LiuTaiwan
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

Golden Lion Honorary Award

Short Film Competition

Independent Awards

The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection: [23]

FIPRESCI Award

References

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