Berlin International Film Festival 2003

The 53rd Berlin International Film Festival 2003 took place from 6 February until 16th February 2003 instead.

The festival opened glamorously with the musical Chicago . However, the film ran out of competition in the competition. For the first time, the Berlinale promoted young international filmmakers. The newly established Berlinale Talent Campus became a permanent institution over the next few years. Panel discussions and workshops took place here. Campus talents presented their films in the official program of the Berlinale for the next few years.

Competition section

In the program of the official competition, the following films were judged by the international jury:

Movie title	Director	Country of production	Actor (selection)
25 hours	Spike Lee	United States	Edward Norton , Philip Seymour Hoffman
Adaptation.	Spike Jonze	United States	Nicolas Cage , Meryl Streep , Chris Cooper
Alexandra's Project	Rolf de Heer	Australia	Gary Sweet , Helen Buday
The old monkey scared	Oskar Roehler	Germany	André Hennicke , Marie Bäumer , Vadim Glowna
Blind shaft	Li Yang	PR China , Germany , Hong Kong
The flower of evil	Claude Chabrol	France	Benoît Magimel , Nathalie Baye
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	George Clooney	USA , Canada , Germany	Sam Rockwell , Drew Barrymore , George Clooney
spare Parts	Damjan Kozole	Slovenia
Good bye Lenin!	Wolfgang Becker	Germany	Daniel Brühl , Katrin Sass , Maria Simon
The Hours	Stephen Daldry	USA , UK	Nicole Kidman , Julianne Moore , Meryl Streep
Hero	Zhang Yimou	PR China , Hong Kong	Jet Li , Maggie Cheung , Zhang Ziyi
I'm not afraid	Gabriele Salvatores	Italy , Spain , Great Britain	Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
In This World	Michael Winterbottom	Great Britain
Yes sister, no sister	Pieter Kramer	Netherlands
Small wounds	Pascal Bonitzer	France , Great Britain	Daniel Auteuil , Kristin Scott Thomas
The life of David Gale	Alan Parker	USA , Germany	Kevin Spacey , Kate Winslet
Lights	Hans-Christian Schmid	Germany	August Diehl , Devid Striesow , Zbigniew Zamachowski
Madame Brouette	Moussa Sene Absa	Canada , Senegal , France
My life without me	Isabel Coixet	Spain , Canada	Sarah Polley , Amanda Plummer , Deborah Harry
Samurai of the twilight	Yōji Yamada	Japan	Hiroyuki Sanada
His brother	Patrice Chereau	France	Bruno Todeschini , Eric Caravaca
Solaris	Steven Soderbergh	United States	George Clooney , Natascha McElhone , Ulrich Tukur

International jury

Jury President Atom Egoyan

The jury president of this Berlinale was the Canadian director Atom Egoyan . Under his leadership, the following jury members selected the winners: Humbert Balsan ( France ), Kathryn Bigelow ( USA ), Anna Galiena ( Italy ), Martina Gedeck ( Germany ), Geoffrey Gilmore (USA), Abderrahmane Sissako ( Mauritania ).

Award winners

Golden Bear for Michael Winterbottom's film In This World
Silver bears in the following categories:
- Grand Jury Prize: Spike Jonze for the film adaptation.
- Best director: Patrice Chéreau for his brother
- Best Actress: To the three leading actresses in The Hours, Nicole Kidman , Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep
- Best Actor: Sam Rockwell in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
- For an outstanding artistic achievement: Li Yang as screenwriter and director of the film Blinder Schacht
- Best score: Majoly , Serge Fiori and Mamadou Diabaté for the Senegalese film Madame Brouette

Other prices:

The Blue Angel for the best European film in the competition went to Wolfgang Becker for Good Bye, Lenin!
Zhang Yimou received the Alfred Bauer Prize in memory of the founder of the festival for directing Hero .
FIPRESCI (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique) - the independent film award of the international film critics and film journalists association for the best film in the competition got lights .

Panorama section

The following outstanding films were shown in the program of the Panorama 2003 section:

Submissive - Director: Igor Zaritzk
Broken Wings - director: Nir Bergman - received the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Prize of the Association of International Art Cinemas as well as the Audience Prize
Yossi & Jagger - Director: Eytan Fox
Flower & Garnett - Director: Keith Behrman
Owning Mahowny - Director: Richard Kwietniowski (with Philip Seymour Hoffman in the lead role)
Wolfsburg - Director: Christian Petzold received the FIPRESCI Prize
Pure - Directed by Gillies MacKinnon
A thousand clouds of peace besiege the sky, love, you will never cease to be love - director: Julián Hernández - received the " Teddy Award ".

Honorary Golden Bear

The French actress Anouk Aimée received the Honorary Golden Bear for his life's work .

Children's film festival

The following films were awarded at the Children's Film Festival:

Glass bear - awarded by the children's jury: Elina - director: Klaus Härö

Retrospective

This year's retrospective was dedicated to the work of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau .