The 59th Venice International Film Festival took place from August 28 to September 7, 2002. The new festival director this year was the former director of the Berlinale Moritz de Hadeln .
The following jury was appointed for the competition: Gong Li (jury president), Jacques Audiard , Jewgeni Jewtuschenko , Ulrich Felsberg , László Kovács , Francesca Neri and Yeşim Ustaoğlu .
competition
The following films took part in the festival competition:
| Movie title
|
Director
|
Country of production
|
Actor (selection)
|
|
So far from heaven
|
Todd Haynes
|
USA , France
|
Julianne Moore , Dennis Quaid
|
|
Close to paradise
|
Tonie Marshall
|
France , Spain , Canada
|
Catherine Deneuve , William Hurt
|
|
Dolls
|
Takeshi Kitano
|
Japan
|
Miho Kanno , Hidetoshi Nishijima
|
|
La forza del passato
|
Piergiorgio Gay
|
Italy
|
Sergio Rubini , Bruno Ganz
|
|
Frida
|
Julie Taymor
|
USA , Canada , Mexico
|
Salma Hayek , Alfred Molina
|
|
Leader Ex
|
Winfried Bonengel
|
Germany , Italy
|
Aaron Hildebrand , Christian Blümel
|
|
The madhouse
|
Andrei Konchalovsky
|
Russia , France
|
Yulia Vysotskaya , Yevgeny Mironov
|
|
Julie's trip
|
Agnieszka Holland
|
Germany , Canada , Poland , USA
|
Miranda Otto , William Fichtner , Lothaire Bluteau
|
|
Little dirty tricks
|
Stephen Frears
|
Great Britain
|
Chiwetel Ejiofor
|
|
The bear's kiss
|
Sergei Bodrov
|
Russia , Germany , Sweden , Spain , France , Italy
|
Rebecka Liljeberg , Joachim Król , Sergei Bodrow Jr.
|
|
Mei li shi guang
|
Tso-chi Chang
|
Taiwan , Japan
|
Wing Fan , Meng-jie Gao
|
|
Un monde presque paisible
|
Michel Deville
|
France
|
Simon Abkarian , Zabou Breitman
|
|
Naked
|
Doris Dörrie
|
Germany
|
Heike Makatsch , Benno Fürmann , Alexandra Maria Lara
|
|
Nha fala
|
Flora Gomes
|
Portugal , France , Luxembourg
|
Fatou N'Diaye
|
|
Oasis
|
Lee Chang-dong
|
South Korea
|
Sol Kyung-gu , Moon So-ri
|
|
Road to Perdition
|
Sam Mendes
|
United States
|
Tom Hanks , Paul Newman , Jude Law
|
|
The tracker
|
Rolf de Heer
|
Australia
|
David Gulpilil , Gary Sweet
|
|
The Merciless Sisters *
|
Peter Mullan
|
Great Britain , Ireland
|
Geraldine McEwan , Anne-Marie Duff , Nora-Jane Noone
|
|
Velocità massima
|
Daniele Vicari
|
Italy
|
Valerio Mastandrea , Cristiano Morroni
|
|
Un viaggio chiamato amore
|
Michele Placido
|
Italy
|
Laura Morante , Stefano Accorsi
|
|
The second life of Monsieur Manesquier
|
Patrice Leconte
|
France , Germany , Great Britain , Switzerland
|
Jean Rochefort , Johnny Hallyday
|
* = Golden lion
Award winners
Julianne Moore received the Best Actress Award
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