61st Venice Film Festival

Italy, September 1 - September 11 2004

The jury

Michel Ciment (France), Jan Aghed (Sweden), György Báron (Hungary), Diego Batille (Argentina), Bojidar Manov (Bulgaria), Sebastian Feldmann (Germany), Atsuko Saito (Japan), Massimo Causo (Italy)

Awarded films

3-Iron by Kim Ki-duk
(South Korea / Japan, 2004, 88 mins)
Vento di terra by Vincenzo Marra
(Italy, 2004, 90 mins)

Reports

A Joint Celebration of Auteur Cinema and Movie Stars by Michel Ciment
Silence and Soul by Massimo Causo
Some Winter, Some Wind by Sebastian Feldmann
Tokyo Stories by György Báron
Asia Outshines the Rest on the Lido by Atsuko Saito
Five Argentinean Gazes at the Venice Festival by Diego Batille
A Memorable Documentary by Jan Aghed
61. Venice Digital by Bojidar Manov

At the 61st edition of the Mostra, our jury, chaired this year by FIPRESCI president Michel Ciment, awarded the International Critics’ Prize to a film in competition to the latest work by Korean director Kim Ki-duk, 3-Iron (Binjip); and to a film shown in a parallel section to the second feature by Italian director Vincenzo Marra, Land Wind (Vento di terra).

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