| 61st Venice International Film Festival | |
| Opening: | The Terminal by Steven Spielberg |
| Closing: | Steamboy by Katsuhiro Otomo |
| Location: | Venice, Italy |
| Founded: | 1932 |
| Awards: | Golden Lion |
| Date: | 1–11 September 2004 |
| Website: | Website |
| Chronology: | Venice Film Festival |
| Preceded By: | 60th |
| Followed By: | 62nd |
The 61st annual Venice International Film Festival was the 2004 edition of the Venice International Film Festival, held between 1 and 11 September 2004. The festival opened with Steven Spielberg's The Terminal,[1] and closed with Katsuhiro Otomo's Steamboy.[2] The Golden Lion was awarded to Vera Drake, directed by Mike Leigh.[3] [4]
On this edition, a new independent section, Venice Days (Giornate degli autori), was created "for free cinema, new talents and new stories". This section is organized by the ANAC (National Association of Cinematographic Authors) and the API (Independent Authors & Producers).[5]
Also in this edition, The Secret History of Italian Cinema was launched, a new official retrospective section, with the aim of restoring and systematically rediscovering sides of the Italian cinema that have been "forgotten, invisible, unknown or misunderstood". The retrospective was planned for the following four editions (61st to 64th editions), later was extended with the These Phantoms: Italian Cinema Rediscovered (65th edition), and the Italian Comedy Retrospective (66th edition). The Fondazione Prada was the main sponsor/partner of this section.[6]
The following people comprised the 2004 juries:[7] [8]
The main competitive section of the official selection is an international competition of feature films running for the Golden Lion.[9]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Iron | 빈집 | data-sort-value="Ki-duk" | South Korea, Japan | |||
| 5x2 | Cinq fois deux | data-sort-value="Ozon" | France | |||
| Another Life | Ovunque sei | data-sort-value="Placido" | Italy | |||
| Birth | data-sort-value="Glazer" | United States | ||||
| Café Lumière | 珈琲時光 | data-sort-value="Hsiao-hsien" | Japan, Taiwan | |||
| Delivery | data-sort-value="Panayotopoulos" | Nikos Panayotopoulos | Greece | |||
| Howl's Moving Castle | ハウルの動く城 | data-sort-value="Miyazaki" | Japan | |||
| data-sort-value="Intruder" | The Intruder | data-sort-value="Intrus" | L'intrus | data-sort-value="Denis" | France | |
| data-sort-value="Keys" | The Keys to the House | data-sort-value="Chiavi" | Le chiavi di casa | data-sort-value="Amelio" | Italy, France, Germany | |
| Kings and Queen | French: Rois et reine | data-sort-value="Desplechin" | France | |||
| Land of Plenty | data-sort-value="Wenders" | United States | ||||
| Low Life | 하류인생 | South Korea | ||||
| One Long Winter Without Fire † | Tout un hiver sans feu | data-sort-value="Zglinski" | Greg Zglinski | Switzerland | ||
| Palindromes | data-sort-value="Solondz" | United States | ||||
| Promised Land | הארץ המובטחת | data-sort-value="Gitai" | Israel, France | |||
| Remote Access | Удалённый доступ | data-sort-value="Proskurina" | Svetlana Proskurina | Russia | ||
| data-sort-value="Sea" | The Sea Inside | Mar adentro | data-sort-value="Amenabar" | Spain, France, Italy | ||
| Stray Dogs | Sag-haye velgard | data-sort-value="Meshkini" | Iran, France, Afghanistan | |||
| Vanity Fair | data-sort-value="Nair" | United Kingdom, United States | ||||
| Vera Drake | data-sort-value="Leigh" | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom | |||
| Working Slowly (Radio Alice) | Lavorare con lentezza | data-sort-value="Chiesa" | Italy | |||
| data-sort-value="World" | The World | 世界 | China | |||
† indicates films that competed for the Lion of the Future.[10]
The following films of the official selection were screened as "out of competition":[11]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-value="Bridesmaid" | The Bridesmaid | data-sort-value="Demoiselle" | La demoiselle d'honneur | data-sort-value="Chabrol" | France, Italy, Germany | |
| Collateral | data-sort-value="Mann" | United States | ||||
| Eros | data-sort-value="Antonioni" | France, Hong Kong, Italy, United States | ||||
| data-sort-value="Fifth" | The Fifth Empire | data-sort-value="Quinto" | O quinto imperio | data-sort-value="Oliveira" | Portugal, France | |
| Finding Neverland | data-sort-value="Forster" | United States | ||||
| How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio | Come inguaiammo il cinema italiano | data-sort-value="Ciprì" | Italy | |||
| data-sort-value="Italian" | An Italian Romance | data-sort-value="Amore" | L'amore ritrovato | data-sort-value="Mazzacurati" | ||
| The Manchurian Candidate | data-sort-value="Demme" | United States | ||||
| The Merchant of Venice | data-sort-value="Radford" | United Kingdom, Italy | ||||
| data-sort-value="Remains" | The Remains of Nothing | data-sort-value="Resto" | Il resto di niente | data-sort-value="De Lillo" | Italy | |
| She Hate Me | data-sort-value="Lee" | United States | ||||
| Steamboy (closing film) | スチームボーイ | data-sort-value="Otomo" | Japan | |||
| The Terminal (opening film) | data-sort-value="Spielberg" | United States | ||||
| Throw Down | 柔道龍虎榜 | data-sort-value="To" | Hong Kong | |||
| data-sort-value="Tuner" | The Tuner | Настройщик | data-sort-value="Muratova" | Russia, Ukraine | ||
| Special Event | ||||||
| Shark Tale | Victoria Jenson, Bibo Bergeron | United States | ||||
A section aiming to provide a picture of the new trends in cinema.[12]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | ||||||
| data-sort-value="3" | The 3 Rooms of Melancholia | Melancholian 3 huonetta | data-sort-value="Honkasalo" | Finland, Sweden, Denmark | ||
| Agnes and His Brothers | Agnes und seine Brüder | data-sort-value="Roehler" | Germany | |||
| Ambasadori, cautam patrie | Mircea Daneliuc | Romania | ||||
| Criminal † | data-sort-value="Jacobs" | United States | ||||
| Gilles' Wife | data-sort-value="Femme" | La femme de Gilles | data-sort-value="Fonteyne" | Belgium, France, Luxembourg | ||
| data-sort-value="Grand" | The Grand Sons | data-sort-value="Petits" | Les petits fils | data-sort-value="Duran Cohen" | Ilan Duran Cohen | France |
| I Can See It in Your Eyes † | Te lo leggo negli occhi | data-sort-value="Santella" | Italy | |||
| Izo | data-sort-value="Miike" | Japan | ||||
| data-sort-value="Less" | A Less Bad World | data-sort-value="Menos" | Un mundo menos peor | data-sort-value="Agresti" | Argentina | |
| A Love Song for Bobby Long † | data-sort-value="Gabel" | Shainee Gabel | United States | |||
| Mysterious Skin | data-sort-value="Araki" | United States, Netherlands | ||||
| Rolling Family | Familia rodante | data-sort-value="Trapero" | Argentina, Spain | |||
| Saimir † | data-sort-value="Munzi" | Italy | ||||
| data-sort-value="Sleeping" | The Sleeping Child † | data-sort-value="Enfant" | L'enfant endormi | data-sort-value="Kassari" | Morocco, Belgium | |
| Stryker | data-sort-value="Gonick" | Canada | ||||
| They Came Back † | Les revenants | data-sort-value="Campillo" | France | |||
| Vento di terra | Vincenzo Marra | Italy | ||||
| Vital | ヴィタール | data-sort-value="Tsukamoto" | Japan | |||
| Yesterday | data-sort-value="Roodt" | South Africa | ||||
| Zulu Love Letter | Lettre d'amour zoulou | data-sort-value="Suleman" | Ramadan Suleman | South Africa, France, Germany | ||
| Special Events | ||||||
| L’ami y’a bon | Rachid Bouchareb | France, Algeria, Germany | ||||
| Come Back, Africa (1959) | Lionel Rogosin | United States | ||||
| The Hamburg Cell | Antonia Bird | United Kingdom | ||||
| Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginning (6 episodes) | Heimat 3 - Chronik einer Zeitenwende | Edgar Reitz | Germany | |||
| Música cubana | German Kral | |||||
| Tell Them Who You Are | Mark S. Wexler | United States | ||||
| Tide Table | William Kentridge | South Africa | ||||
† indicates films that competed for the Lion of the Future.
The following films, whose length does not exceed 30 minutes, were selected for the Short Film Competition (Corto Cortissimo):[13]
| Title | Director(s | Production country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | ||||
| A occhi aperti | data-sort-value="Indovina" | Italy | ||
| Agna niata | data-sort-value="Lyghizos" | Ektoras Lyghizos | Greece | |
| Aïsha | data-sort-value="Aduaka" | Nigeria, Senegal | ||
| data-sort-value="Arsonist" | The Arsonist | data-sort-value="Sorensen" | Myles Sorensen | United States |
| data-sort-value=" Carpenter" | The Carpenter and his Clumsy Wife | data-sort-value="Foott" | Ireland | |
| Chamaco | data-sort-value="Parsa" | Tim Parsa | Mexico | |
| Close | data-sort-value="Hopkins" | Tom Hopkins | Ireland | |
| data-sort-value="Culpa" | La culpa del alpinista | data-sort-value="Arevalo" | Spain | |
| Dim | data-sort-value="Wecker" | Ann-Kristin Wecker | Germany | |
| data-sort-value="Dio" | Il dio della pioggia | data-sort-value="D'Aragona" | Angelo Amoroso D'Aragona | Italy |
| Goodbye | data-sort-value="Hudson" | Steve Hudson | Germany | |
| Határontúl | data-sort-value="Schilling" | Árpád Schilling | Hungary | |
| Last Night | data-sort-value="Mewshaw" | Sean Mewshaw | United States | |
| Moustache | data-sort-value="Sugars" | Vicki Sugars | Australia | |
| Passatempo | data-sort-value="Lagi" | Francesco Lagi | Italy | |
| data-sort-value="Piscina" | A piscina | data-sort-value="Viana" | Iana Joao Viana | Portugal |
| Rain Is Falling | data-sort-value="Ernst" | Germany, Morocco | ||
| Resurrection | data-sort-value="Lichtenstein" | United States | ||
| Shengri | data-sort-value="Lee" | Bertrand Lee | Singapore | |
| Signe d'appartenance | data-sort-value="Cherif" | Kamel Cherif | Belgium, Tunisia | |
| Silent Companion | data-sort-value="Hosseinzade" | Elham Hosseinzade | Iran | |
| Sous le bleu | data-sort-value="Oelhoffen" | France | ||
| Srce je kos Mesa (aka The Heart Is a Piece of Meat) | data-sort-value="Cvitkovic" | Slovenia | ||
| Streets | data-sort-value="Howe" | Jon Howe | United Kingdom | |
| Trofast | data-sort-value="Aurvaag" | Norway | ||
| White on Blue | data-sort-value="Greicius" | Ramunas Greicius | Lithuania | |
| Out of Competition | ||||
| Coleridge's Couch | Angeles Woo | United States | ||
| Special Events 1 - Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia: Scuola Nazionale di Cinema | ||||
| Il potere sottile | Diego Ronsisvalle | Italy | ||
| Special Events - Ipotesi Cinema: Bologna | ||||
| Postazioni della memoria | Ermanno Olmi and the students of Ipotesi Cinema | Italy | ||
| Special Events 2 - Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia: Scuola Nazionale di Cinema | ||||
| I gabbiani - studio su "Il gabbiano" di Anton Cecov | Francesca Archibugi | Italy | ||
| Special Events 3 - Corto d'autore: Italia | ||||
| Too Short for Sky | Pappi Corsicato | Italy | ||
| Body & Soul | Theo Eshetu | |||
| Corpo/Immagine | Marco Puccioni | |||
The following films were screened for the Venetian Nights section (Venezia Mezzanotte):[14]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-value="Art" | The Art of Losing | Perder es cuestión de método | data-sort-value="Cabrera" | Colombia, Spain | |
| Enduring Love | data-sort-value="Michell" | United Kingdom | |||
| Eyes of Crystal | Occhi di cristallo | data-sort-value="Puglielli" | Eros Puglielli | Italy | |
| A Home at the End of the World † | data-sort-value="Mayer" | United States | |||
| Howrah Bridge / The Youth of the Land | Yuva | data-sort-value="Ratnam" | India | ||
| Man on Fire | data-sort-value="Scott" | United States | |||
| Puteri Gunung Ledang | Malaysia | ||||
| Three... Extremes | 三更2 / 쓰리, 몬스터 / 美しい夜、残酷な朝 | Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan | |||
| To Sleep Next To Her † | Volevo solo dormirle addosso | data-sort-value="Cappuccio" | Eugenio Cappuccio | Italy | |
| Titanus's one hundredth year | |||||
| The Demon | Il demonio (1963) | Brunello Rondi | Italy | ||
† indicates films that competed for the Lion of the Future.
A section intended to provide an overview of the new expressive possibilities granted by digital technologies.[15]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Fingers † | 20 angosht | data-sort-value="Akbari" | Iran, United Kingdom | |
| Impermanence | data-sort-value="Ghose" | India | ||
| The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish | data-sort-value="Greenaway" | United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Netherlands, Luxembourg | ||
| Cuoco contadino | Luca Guadagnino | Italy | ||
| Homecoming | data-sort-value="Jost" | United States | ||
| Letters to Ali | data-sort-value="Law" | Australia | ||
| La vita è breve ma la giornata è lunghissima | Lucio Pellegrini, Gianni Zanasi | Italy | ||
| Pin Boy | Parapalos | data-sort-value="Poliak" | Ana Poliak | Argentina |
| Un silenzio particolare | Stefano Rulli | Italy | ||
| Marebito | 稀人 | data-sort-value="Shimizu" | Japan | |
| Special Events | ||||
| L'ora della lucertola | Mimmo Calopresti | Italy | ||
| Bellissime | Giovanna Gagliardo | |||
| Killer Shrimps † | Piero Golia | Switzerland | ||
| The Take | Avi Lewis | Canada | ||
| ファイナルファンタジーVII アドベントチルドレン, | Tetsuya Nomura | Japan | ||
| Embedded | Tim Robbins | United States | ||
| Colpi di Luce | Matteo Spinola, Stefano della Casa, Francesca Calvelli | Italy | ||
| Digital Africa | ||||
| Yizo Yizo | Angus Gibson, Andrew Dosunmu, Teboho Mahlatsi | South Africa | ||
† indicates films that competed for the Lion of the Future.
A new retrospective section on Italian Cinema aiming to restore and systematically rediscover sides of the Italian cinema That Have Been "Forgotten, Invisible, Unknown Or Misunderstood". This first edition of the retrospective is titled Italian Kings of the B's.[16]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italian Kings of the B's | ||||||
| 100 Horsemen (1961) | data-sort-value="Cento" | I cento cavalieri | data-sort-value="Cottafavi" | Italy, Spain, West Germany | ||
| data-sort-value="Beyond" | The Beyond (1981) | ...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà | data-sort-value="Fulci" | Italy | ||
| data-sort-value="Big" | The Big Gundown (1966) | data-sort-value="Resa" | La resa dei conti | data-sort-value="Sollima" | Italy, Spain | |
| Blindman (1972) | data-sort-value="Pistolero" | Il pistolero cieco | data-sort-value="Baldi" | Italy, United States | ||
| data-sort-value="Boss" | The Boss (1973) | data-sort-value="Boss" | Il Boss | data-sort-value="Di Leo" | Italy | |
| data-sort-value="Bullet" | A Bullet for the General (1967) | Quien sabe? | data-sort-value="Damiani" | |||
| Caliber 9 (1972) | Milano calibro 9 | data-sort-value="Di Leo" | ||||
| Cannibal Holocaust (1979) | data-sort-value="Deodato" | |||||
| Castle of Blood (1964) | Danza macabra | data-sort-value="Margheriti" | Italy, France | |||
| Coup D'État (1969) | Colpo di stato | data-sort-value="Salce" | Italy | |||
| Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) | Non si sevizia un paperino | data-sort-value="Fulci" | ||||
| data-sort-value="Dynamite" | The Dynamite Brothers (1949) | data-sort-value="Fratelli" | I fratelli Dinamite | data-sort-value="Pagot" | ||
| data-sort-value="God" | The God Snake (1970) | data-sort-value="Dio" | Il dio serpente | data-sort-value="Vivarelli" | Italy, Venezuela | |
| Goliath and the Dragon (1960) | data-sort-value="Vendetta" | La vendetta di Ercole | data-sort-value="Cottafavi" | Italy, France | ||
| Col cuore in gola (1967) | data-sort-value="Brass" | |||||
| data-sort-value="Inglorious" | The Inglorious Bastards (1977) | Quel maledetto treno blindato | data-sort-value="Castellari" | Italy | ||
| data-sort-value="Italian" | The Italian Connection (1972) | data-sort-value="Mala" | La mala ordina | Fernando Di Leo | Italy, West Germany | |
| Mister Scarface (1976) | data-sort-value="Padroni" | I padroni della citta | ||||
| Naked Violence (1969) | data-sort-value="Ragazzi" | I ragazzi del massacro | Italy | |||
| Orgasm (1969) | Orgasmo | data-sort-value=" Lenzi" | Italy, France | |||
| data-sort-value="Strange" | The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1970) | data-sort-value="Strano" | Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh | data-sort-value="Martino" | Italy, Spain, Austria | |
| data-sort-value="Syndicate" | (1969) | Colpo rovente | data-sort-value="Zuffi" | Italy | ||
| Tragic Ceremony (1972) | Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea | data-sort-value="Freda" | Italy, Spain | |||
| data-sort-value="Trojan" | The Trojan Horse (1961) | data-sort-value="Guerra" | La guerra di Troia | data-sort-value="Ferroni" | Italy, France, Yugoslavia | |
| W la foca (1982) | Nando Cicero | Italy | ||||
| Underground Italia - Shards of utopia | ||||||
| La verifica incerta (1964) | Gianfranco Baruchello, Alberto Grifi | Italy | ||||
| Transfert per kamera verso Virulentia (1975) | Alberto Grifi | |||||
| The Blind Fly (1966) | A mosca cieca | Romano Scavolini | ||||
| Portrait of Gianfranco Barucchello | Ritratto di Gianfranco Barucchello | Paolo Brunatto | ||||
| Portrait of Alberto Grifi | Ritratto di Alberto Grifi | |||||
| Portrait of Romano Scovolini | Ritratto di Romano Scovolini | |||||
The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:[17]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | ||||||
| From Land of Silence | Sakenine Sarzamine Sokoot | data-sort-value="Salur" | Iran | |||
| data-sort-value="Great" | The Great Journey | data-sort-value="Grand" | Le Grand Voyage | data-sort-value="Ferroukhi" | France | |
| Les liens | Aymeric Mesa-Juan | France | ||||
| One or the Other | Una de dos | data-sort-value="Taube" | Alejo Hernán Taube | Argentina | ||
| Otakus in Love | 恋の門 | data-sort-value="Matsuo" | Japan | |||
| To Take a Wife | Ve Lakachta Lecha Isha | data-sort-value="Elkabetz" | Israel, France | |||
| Uninhibited | Kuang Fang | Taiwan | ||||
| Out of Competition | ||||||
| P.S. (opening film) | Dylan Kidd | United States | ||||
| Butterfly | Hu die | Yan Yan Mak | China | |||
| The Love (Part One) | El Amor (Primera Parte) | Alejandro Fadel, Martin Mauregui, Santiago Mitre, Juan Schnitman | Argentina | |||
The following films were selected for the 1st edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:[18]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | data-sort-value="Khrzhanovsky" | Russia, Netherlands | |||
| Caro Vittorio | data-sort-value="Risi" | Italy | |||
| Changing Destiny | Nemmeno il destino | data-sort-value="Gaglianone" | |||
| Darwin's Nightmare | data-sort-value="Sauper" | Austria, Belgium, France, Germany | |||
| Dead Man's Shoes | data-sort-value="Meadows" | United Kingdom | |||
| Il giorno del falco | Rodolfo Bisatti | Italy | |||
| L'imperatore di Roma | Nico D'Alessandria | Italy | |||
| In Kurdistan e' difficile | Giuliana Gamba | Italy | |||
| Morasseix | data-sort-value="Odoul" | Damien Odoul | France | ||
| Murmuring Coast | data-sort-value="Costa" | A costa dos murmúrios | data-sort-value="Cardoso" | Margarida Cardoso | Portugal |
| Now and Then | data-sort-value="Oeil" | L'oeil de l'autre | data-sort-value="Lvoff" | John Lvoff | France |
| Strings | data-sort-value="Ronnow" | Denmark, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom | |||
| Suburbs | Predmestje | data-sort-value="Moderndorfer" | Slovenia | ||
| Sweet Jam | Confituur | data-sort-value="Debrauwer" | Lieven Debrauwer | Belgium, Switzerland | |
| Tartarughe sul dorso | Stefano Pasetto | Italy | |||
The following Official Awards were conferred at the 61st edition:[19]
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[20]