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60th Venice International Film Festival

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
Venice Film Festival chronology
61st 59th

The 60th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 27 August to 6 September 2003.

Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli was the Jury President of the main competition. The festival opened with Woody Allen's Anything Else.

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 the short films of the official selection:

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, Spanish 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:

• Laure Adler, French Journalist - Jury President
• Vito Amoruso, Italian literary critic
• Samir Farid, Egyptian film critic
• Rene Liu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter, actress, director and writer
• Ulrich Tukur, German actor

Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Feature

• Lia van Leer, Israeli founder of the Haifa Cinematheque, the Jerusalem Cinematheque's Israel Film Archive, and the Jerusalem Film Festival - Jury President
• Jannike Ahlund, Swedish film critic
• Pierre-Henri Deleau, French film producer and actor
• Stefan Kitanov, Bulgarian film producer
• Peter Scarlet, executive director of Tribeca Festival

Official Sections

In Competition

The following films were nominated to compete for the Golden Lion of the 60th edition of the festival:

Highlighted title indicates the Golden Lion winner.

Out of Competition

The following films were screened as Out of Competition:

Short Film Competition

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

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"

Highlighted title indicates the San Marco Prize winner.

New Territories

The following films were selected for the New Territories (Nuovi Territori) section:

Independent Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened In Competition for this section:

• Ana and the Others (Ana y los otros) by Celina Murga (Argentina)
• Three-Step Dance (Ballo a tre passi) by Salvatore Mereu (Italy)
• Matrubhoomi (en. Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women) by Manish Jha (India)
• Mr. Butterfly (Nabi) by Kim Hyeon-Seong (South Korea)
• Twist by Jacob Daniel Tierney (Canada)
• Variété Française by Frédéric Videau (France)
• 15 by Royston Tan (Singapore)

Official Awards

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

• 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

• Dino De Laurentiis
• Omar Sharif

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:

FIPRESCI Award

• Venezia 60: Goodbye Dragon Inn by Tsai Ming-liang
• Parallel Section: Matrubhoomi by Manish Jha

References

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15. "60th Mostra - New Territories, Feature Films (Non-Fiction)". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2003. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
16. "60th Mostra - New Territories - Medium-length films". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 26 December 2003. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
17. "60th Mostra - New Territories - Short Films". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2003. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
18. "60th Mostra - New Territories - Special Events". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2003. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
19. "18th International Film Critics' Week". sicvenezia.it. Archived from the original on 5 April 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
20. Salvatore Mereu on IMDb
21. Marc Kim on IMDb
22. Frédéric Videau on IMDb
23. "Collateral prizes of the 60th Mostra". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 4 August 2004. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
24. "2003 Awards: Venice (Italy, August 27 – September 6, 2003)". FIPRESCI. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011.

External links

• Official website
• Venice Film Festival 2003 Awards on IMDb
• New Territories - 60th Venice Film Festival 2003

• 2003 film festivals
• 2003 festivals in Europe
• 2003 in Italian cinema
• Venice Film Festival
• 2000s in Venice
• August 2003 events in Italy
• September 2003 events in Italy