Venice International Film Festival 2004

The 61st Venice International Film Festival took place from September 1st to 11th, 2004.

The following jury was appointed for the festival's feature film competition: John Boorman (Jury President), Wolfgang Becker , Mimmo Calopresti , Scarlett Johansson , Spike Lee , Dušan Makavejev , Helen Mirren , Pietro Scalia and Hsu Feng .

competition

The following films took part in the festival competition:

Movie title	Director	Country of production	Actor (selection)
5 × 2 - five times two	François Ozon	France	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Bin-jip	Kim Ki-duk	South Korea	Lee Seung-yeon
Birth	Jonathan Glazer	USA , Germany	Nicole Kidman , Cameron Bright , Lauren Bacall
Delivery	Nikos Panayotopoulos	Greece	Thanos Samaras
The enemy in my heart	Claire Denis	France	Michel Subor
Haryu insaeng	In the Kwon-taek	South Korea	Cho Seung-woo
The house keys	Gianni Amelio	Italy , France , Germany	Kim Rossi Stuart , Charlotte Rampling
No fire in winter	Greg Zglinski	Switzerland , Belgium , Poland	Aurélien Recoing , Marie Matheron
Kōhi Jikō	Hou Hsiao-Hsien	Japan , Taiwan
Land of Plenty	Wim Wenders	USA , Germany	Michelle Williams , John Diehl
Lavorare con lentezza	Guido Chiesa	Italy
The sea in me	Alejandro Amenábar	Spain , France , Italy	Javier Bardem , Belén Rueda , Lola Dueñas
Ovunque was	Michele Placido	Italy	Stefano Accorsi
Palindromes	Todd Solondz	United States	Jennifer Jason Leigh , Ellen Barkin
Promised Land	Amos Gitai	Israel , France , UK	Rosamund Pike , Hanna Schygulla , Anne Parillaud
Rois et pure	Arnaud Desplechin	France	Emmanuelle Devos , Mathieu Amalric , Catherine Deneuve
Say-haye velgard	March Makhmalbaf	Iran , France
Shijie	Jia Zhangke	China , Japan , France	Zhao Tao
Udalyonny dostup	Svetlana Proskurina	Russia
Vanity Fair	Mira Nair	UK , USA	Gabriel Byrne , Angelica Mandy , Reese Witherspoon
Vera Drake *	Mike Leigh	UK , France , New Zealand	Imelda Staunton
Howl's Moving Castle	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan	Cartoon

* = Golden lion

Javier Bardem won the Acting Award for the second time. In 2000 he won with the film Before Night Falls

price	Movie	Award winners
Golden Lion (best film)	Vera Drake	Mike Leigh
Special prize from the jury	The sea in me	Alejandro Amenábar
Coppa Volpi (best actor)	The sea in me	Javier Bardem
Coppa Volpi (best actress)	Vera Drake	Imelda Staunton
Marcello Mastroianni Prize (best young actor)	Lavorare con lentezza	Marco Luisi , Tommaso Ramenghi
Osella (technically best contribution)	Howl's Moving Castle	Studio Ghibli
Leone Speciale for her life's work		Manoel de Oliveira , Stanley Donen

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