60th Venice International Film Festival
Festival Poster
Opening filmAnything Else
LocationVenice, Italy
Founded1932
AwardsGolden Lion: The Return
Festival date27 August – 6 September 2003
WebsiteWebsite

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)

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 Laurentis 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 title Original title Director(s) Production country
21 GramsAlejandro González IñárrituUnited States
AlilaAmos GitaiIsrael, France
Code 46Michael WinterbottomUnited Kingdom
FeelingsLes SentimentsNoémie LvovskyFrance
The Floating Landscape戀之風景Miu-suet LaiHong Kong
A Good Lawyer's Wife바람난 가족Im Sang-sooSouth Korea
Good Morning, NightBuongiorno, notteMarco BellocchioItaly
Goodbye, Dragon Inn不散Ming-liang TsaiTaiwan
Imagining ArgentinaChristopher HamptonSpain, United Kingdom, United States
The Kiteطيّارة من ورقRanda ChahalLebanon
Loving GlancesSjaj u očimaSrđan KaranovićSerbia and Montenegro, United Kingdom
The MiracleIl MiracoloEdoardo WinspeareItaly
PornografiaJan Jakub KolskiPoland, France
RajaJacques DoillonFrance, Morocco
The ReturnВозвращениеAndrey ZvyagintsevRussia
RosenstrasseMargarethe von TrottaGermany, Netherlands
Secret FileSegreti di StatoPaolo BenvenutiItaly
A Talking PictureUm Filme FaladoManoel de OliveiraPortugal
Twentynine PalmsBruno DumontFrance, Germany, United States
Zatôichi 座頭市Takeshi KitanoJapan
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 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 PiattaMarco PontecorvoItaly
RitterschlagSven MartinGermany
SolitaireThor BekkavikNorway
The Trumouse ShowJulio RobledoSpain
ZippoStefano SollimaItaly
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
AntennaAntenaKazuyoshi KumakiriJapan
Break FreeLiberiGianluca Maria TavarelliItaly
Casa de los BabysJohn SaylesUnited States, Mexico
The Chimera of HeroesLa quimera de los heroesDaniel RosenfeldArgentina, France, Denmark
The First LetterAbjadAbolfazl JaliliIran, France, Italy
The Five ObstructionsDe Fem BenspaendJørgen Leth, Lars Von TrierDenmark, Switzerland, Belgium, France
In the Forest... AgainAbar AranyeGoutam GhoseIndia
Last Life in the Universeเรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาลPen-ek RatanaruangThailand, Hong Kong, Netherlands, United States, Japan
Lost in TranslationSofia CoppolaUnited States, Japan
MudÇamurDerviş ZaimItaly, Cyprus
A Place Among the LivingUne place parmi les vivantsRaoul RuizFrance, Romania
The PythonPitonsLaila PakalninaLatvia
The Return of CagliostroIl ritorno di CagliostroDaniele Ciprì, Franco MarescoItaly
Schultze Gets the BluesMichael SchorrGermany
Silence Between Two ThoughtsSokoote beine do fekrBabak PayamiIran
The Sun AssassinatedLe soleil assassinéAbdelkrim BahloulFrance
Travellers and Magiciansཆང་ཧུབ་ཐེངས་གཅིག་གི་འཁྲུལ་སྣངKhyentse NorbuBhutan, United Kingdom
Vodka LemonHiner SaleemFrance, 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/APequeña paloma blancaChristian BarbeChile, United Kingdom
ThreadsKhahit errouhHakim BelabbesMorocco, United States
VibratorRyūichi HirokiJapan
N/AL'ultimo pianoPaolo ScarfòItaly
N/ALe dernier des immobilesNicola SornagaFrance
Chemical HungerFame chimicaAntonio Bocola, Paolo VariItaly, 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]

Official Awards

The following Official Awards were conferred at the 60th edition:[7]

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

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