60th Venice International Film Festival
The 60th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 27 August to 6 September 2003.[1][2][3] The festival opened with Woody Allen's Out of Competition film Anything Else.[4]
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| Location | Venice, Italy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1932 |
| Festival date | 27 August – 6 September 2003 |
| Website | Website |
Juries
The following people comprised the 2003 jury for the feature films of the main competition and for the short films of the official selection:[5][6]
Main Competition (Venezia 60)
- Mario Monicelli (Italy), Jury President
- Stefano Accorsi (Italy)
- Michael Ballhaus (Germany)
- Ann Hui (Hong Kong, China)
- Pierre Jolivet (France)
- Monty Montgomery (USA)
- Assumpta Serna (Spain)
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, President
- Vito Amoruso
- Samir Farid
- Rene Liu
- Ulrich Tukur
"Luigi De Laurentiis" Award for a First Feature
The following people were selected to confer the Lion of the Future.[5][7]
- Lia van Leer, President
- Jannike Ahlund
- Pierre-Henri Deleau
- Stefan Kitanov
- Peter Scarlet
Official selection
In competition
The following films were nominated to compete for the Golden Lion of the 60th edition of the festival:[8]
- Highlighted title indicates the Golden Lion winner.
Out of competition
The following films were screened as Out of Competition:[9]
- Anything Else by Woody Allen (United States)
- Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch (United States)
- Intolerable Cruelty by Joel Coen (United States)
- Le Divorce by James Ivory (United Kingdom)
- Matchstick Men by Ridley Scott (United States)
- Monsieur Ibrahim (Monsieur Ibrahim et le fleurs du Coran) by François Dupeyron (France)
- Once Upon a Time in Mexico by Robert Rodriguez (United States)
- The Dreamers by Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy, UK, France)
- The Human Stain by Robert Benton (United States)
Special Event
- The Blues: Feel Like Going Home by Martin Scorsese (United States)
- The Blues: Godfathers and Sons by Marc Levin (United States)
- The Blues: Red, White and Blues by Mike Figgis (United Kingdom)
- The Blues: The Road To Memphis by Richard Pearce (United States)
Short film competition
The following films, whose length does not exceed 30 minutes, were selected for the short film competition:[10]
| In competition | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 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
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 | Ruang rak noi nid mahasan | 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 (aka) | Le soleil assassiné | Abdelkrim Bahloul | France |
| Travellers and Magicians | Chang hup the gi tril nung | Khyentse Norbu | Bhutan, United Kingdom |
| Vodka Lemon | Hiner Saleem | France, Italy, Switzerland, Armenia | |
| Special Event | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 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]
| Feature films - Fiction[14] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| N/A | Pequeña paloma blanca | Christian Barbe | Chile, UK |
| Threads | Khahit errouh | Hakim Belabbes | Morocco, United States |
| Vibrator | Ryūichi Hiroki | Japan | |
| N/A | L'ultimo piano | Paolo Scarfò | Italy |
| N/A | Le dernier des immobiles | Nicola Sornaga | France |
| Chemical Hunger | Fame chimica | Antonio Bocola, Paolo Vari | Italy, Switzerland |
| Feature films - Non-fiction[15] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| N/A | Mattatoio | Akab (Gabriele Di Benedetto) | Italy |
| N/A | L'uomo segreto | Nino Bizzarri | Italy |
| N/A | Retour à Kotelnitch | Emmanuel Carrère | France |
| Mists | Brumas | Ricardo Costa | Portugal |
| At School | A scuola | Leonardo Di Costanzo | France, Italy |
| War (aka) | Guerra | Pippo Delbono | Italy, Israel, Palestine |
| Italian sud est | Fluid Video Crew | Italy | |
| N/A | Materiali a confronto | Giuseppe M. Gaudino | Italy |
| N/A | 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 |
| N/A | On n'est pas des marques de vélo | Jean-Pierre Thorn | France |
| Barefoot to Herat | Paberahne Ta Harat | Majid Majidi | Iran |
| Feature films - Medium-length Films[16] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Duration | Director(s) | Production country |
| United We Stand | 41' | Matteo Barzini | Italy |
| Un fils | 58' | Amal Bedjaoui | France |
| Sorriso amaro | 56' | Matteo Bellizzi | Italy, Finland, Switzerland |
| Segni particolari - Appunti per un film sull'Emilia Romagna | 53' | Giuseppe Bertolucci | Italy |
| My Father's Garden | 30' | Matthew Brown | Italy, South Africa |
| Il senso del mistero | 30' | Paolo Brunatto | Italy |
| Picciridda | 32' | Alberto Castiglione | Italy |
| Stessa rabbia, stessa primavera | 65' | Stefano Incerti | Italy |
| Maledetta mia | 55' | Wilma Labate | Italy |
| La Maladie de la Mort / The Malady of Death | 39' | Asa Mader | France, United States |
| Paesaggio a Sud | 30' | Vincenzo Marra | Italy |
| Margherita. Ritratto Confidenziale | 48' | Giuseppe Piccioni | Italy |
| Senza tregua | 25' | Marco Pozzi | Italy |
| Short Films[17] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Duration | Director(s) | Production country |
| Poem | 03' | Carlos Armella | UK |
| Chaplin Aujourd'hui - The Kid | 26' | 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 | 15' | Tommaso Cammarano | Italy, United States |
| Lo stuoino di pietra | 06' | Gina Carducci | Italy, United States |
| Pequeñas voces | 19' | Eduardo Carrillo | Colombia, UK, Spain |
| Ssst | 05' | Pietro Durante, Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli | Italy |
| Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution 1 | 04' | Siegfried A. Fruhauf | Austria |
| La recherche de ma mère | 04' | Paola Gandolfi, Francesca Ravello | Italy |
| Ne dites pas à ma mère | 27' | Sarah Moon Howe | Belgium, France |
| Libberato | 08' | Davide Lombardi | Italy |
| La spia che era in me | 15' | Mario Materia | Italy |
| Prises de vues | 11' | Sebastian Meise | Austria |
| Relojes de arena | 04' | José Francisco Ortuno, Laura Alvea | Spain |
| The Affirmation of Jimmy Brown | 06' | Robert Pasternak | Canada |
| My McQueen | 17' | Lourdes Portillo | United States |
| Racconti per l'isola | 25' | Costanza Quatriglio | |
| Grande anarca | 18' | Alvise Renzini | Italy |
| Fantasmi di voce - Antonio Stagnoli | 28' | Elisabetta Sgarbi | Italy |
| You Are Evil | 05' | Louis Taylor | Canada |
| Shen-Zi | 11' | Nell Yen-ni Wang, Jin-yi Liu | Taiwan |
| Special Events[18] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Agronomist | Jonathan Demme | United States | |
| The Saddest Music in the World | Guy Maddin | Canada | |
| Persona non grata | Oliver Stone | United States, France, Spain | |
Autonomous sections
Venice International Film Critics' Week
The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:[19]
- Ana and the Others (Ana y los otros) by Celina Murga (Argentina)
- Three-Step Dance (Ballo a tre passi) by Salvatore Mereu (Italy)[20]
- Matrubhoomi (en. Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women) by Manish Jha (India)
- Mr. Butterfly (Nabi) by Marc Kim (Kim Hyeon-seong) (South Korea)[21]
- Twist by Jacob Daniel Tierney (Canada)
- Variété Française by Frédéric Videau (France)[22]
- 15 by Royston Tan (Singapore)
Awards
Official selection
The following Official Awards were conferred at the 60th edition:[7]
- Golden Lion:The Return (Vozvrashcheniye) by Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Silver Lion for Best Director: Takeshi Kitano for Zatōichi
- 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 (for the best emerging actor or actress): Najat Benssallem for Raja
Special Awards
Short Film awards
- 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
Other collateral awards
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[23]
- FIPRESCI Award:
- Venezia 60: Goodbye Dragon Inn (Bu san) by Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan 2003)
- Parallel Section: Matrubhoomi by Manish Jha (India 2003)[24]
References
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- "VENICE – 2003 GOLDEN LIONS AND OTHER HOT STUFF". Retrieved 6 October 2013.
- "The 2000s". Retrieved 8 October 2013.
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- "Official Awards of the 60th Mostra". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 4 August 2004. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
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- "60th Mostra - Upstream". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 27 August 2003. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
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- "60th Mostra - Upstream (about)". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 7 October 2003. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- "60th Mostra - New Territories (about)". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 26 December 2003. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- "60th Mostra - New Territories, Feature Films (Fiction)". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 26 December 2003. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
- "60th Mostra - New Territories, Feature Films (Non-Fiction)". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2003. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
- "60th Mostra - New Territories - Medium-length films". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 26 December 2003. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- "60th Mostra - New Territories - Short Films". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2003. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- "60th Mostra - New Territories - Special Events". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2003. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- "18th International Film Critics' Week". sicvenezia.it. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
- Salvatore Mereu on IMDb
- Marc Kim on IMDb
- Frédéric Videau on IMDb
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- "2003 Awards: Venice (Italy, August 27 – September 6, 2003)". FIPRESCI. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011.
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