 Festival Poster | |
| Opening film | Anything Else |
|---|---|
| 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.
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, 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, Spannish 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:[5][7]
- Laure Adler, French Journalist - Jury President
- Vito Amoruso
- Samir Farid, Egyptian film critic
- Rene Liu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter, actress, director and writer
- Ulrich Tukur, German actor
Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Feature
- Lia van Leer, Israeli founder of the Haifa Cinematheque, the Jerusalem Cinematheque, the Israel Film Archive and the Jerusalem Film Festival - Jury President[5][7]
- Jannike Ahlund
- Pierre-Henri Deleau
- Stefan Kitanov
- Peter Scarlet
Official Sections
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]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(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]
| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
- Highlighted title indicates the winner of the Silver Lion for Best Short Film.
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 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 | 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 | |
- Highlighted title indicates the San Marco Prize winner.
New Territories
The following films were selected for the New Territories (Nuovi Territori) section:[13][14][15][16][17][18]
| Feature films - Fiction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| N/A | Pequeña paloma blanca | Christian Barbe | Chile, United Kingdom |
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |
Independent 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 Kim Hyeon-seong (South Korea)[21]
- Twist by Jacob Daniel Tierney (Canada)
- Variété Française by Frédéric Videau (France)[22]
- 15 by Royston Tan (Singapore)
Official Awards
The following Official Awards were conferred at the 60th edition:[7]
- 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 Honorary Award
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:[23]
FIPRESCI Award
- Venezia 60: Goodbye Dragon Inn by Tsai Ming-liang
- Parallel Section: Matrubhoomi by Manish Jha[24]
References
- ↑ "The 60th Mostra pays homage to Katharine Hepburn". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 4 October 2003. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ↑ "VENICE – 2003 GOLDEN LIONS AND OTHER HOT STUFF". Retrieved 6 October 2013.
- ↑ "The 2000s". 19 April 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ↑ "Woody Allen to open 60th Mostra". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 20 August 2003. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- 1 2 3 "60th Mostra - Sections, Juries and Awards". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 28 August 2003. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ↑ "Juries for the 2000s". Archived from the original on 4 August 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
- 1 2 3 "Official Awards of the 60th Mostra". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 4 August 2004. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ↑ "Venice 60 - in competition". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 13 December 2003. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ↑ "60th Mostra - Out of Competition". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2003. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ↑ "60th Mostra - Upstream". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 27 August 2003. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- ↑ "60th Mostra - Upstream (films)". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2003. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ↑ "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. Archived from the original on 5 April 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
- ↑ Salvatore Mereu on IMDb
- ↑ Marc Kim on IMDb
- ↑ Frédéric Videau on IMDb
- ↑ "Collateral prizes of the 60th Mostra". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 4 August 2004. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ↑ "2003 Awards: Venice (Italy, August 27 – September 6, 2003)". FIPRESCI. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011.
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