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Opening film | La grazia |
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Closing film | Dog 51 |
Location | Venice, Italy |
Founded | 1932 |
Awards | Golden Lion |
Hosted by | Emanuela Fanelli |
Artistic director | Alberto Barbera |
Festival date | 27 August – 6 September 2025 |
Website | www |
The 82nd annual Venice International Film Festival is taking place from 27 August to 6 September 2025, at Venice Lido in Italy.
American filmmaker Alexander Payne served as Jury President for the main competition, [1] while Italian actress and comedian Emanuela Fanelli hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. [2]
German filmmaker Werner Herzog and American actress Kim Novak were awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the festival. [3] [4]
Before and during the festival numerous Pro-Palestine demonstrations were held, supported by the festival organization or by stars attending, [5] [6] [7] [8] specially during the world premiere of Gaza-set docudrama The Voice of Hind Rajab , where further demonstrations took place demanding an end for the ongoing violence in Gaza during its 23-minutes long standing ovation. [9] [10] [11] Artistic director Alberto Barbera endorsed any demonstrations, but stated that the protests should not disrupt the festival's schedule. [12]
The festival opened with La grazia by Paolo Sorrentino, [13] and will close with Dog 51 by Cédric Jimenez.
The following twenty-one films were selected to the main competition for the Golden Lion: [20]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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At Work | À pied d'œuvre | Valérie Donzelli | France |
Below the Clouds | Sotto le nuvole | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy |
Bravo Bene! | Un film fatto per Bene | Franco Maresco | |
Bugonia | Yorgos Lanthimos | Ireland, South Korea, United States | |
Duse | Pietro Marcello | Italy, France | |
Elisa | Elisa — Io la volevo uccidere | Leonardo Di Costanzo | Italy, Switzerland |
Father Mother Sister Brother | Jim Jarmusch | United States, Ireland, France | |
Frankenstein | Guillermo del Toro | United States | |
Girl | 女孩 | Shu Qi | Taiwan, China |
La grazia (opening film) | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy | |
A House of Dynamite | Kathryn Bigelow | United States | |
Jay Kelly | Noah Baumbach | United Kingdom, United States | |
No Other Choice | 어쩔수가없다 | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
Orphan | Árva | László Nemes | Hungary, France, Germany, United Kingdom |
Silent Friend | Stille Freundin | Ildikó Enyedi | Germany, France, Hungary |
The Smashing Machine | Benny Safdie | United States, Canada, Japan | |
The Stranger | L'Étranger | François Ozon | France |
The Sun Rises on Us All | 日掛中天 | Cai Shangjun | China |
The Testament of Ann Lee | Mona Fastvold | United Kingdom, Sweden, Hungary | |
The Voice of Hind Rajab | صوت هند رجب | Kaouther Ben Hania | Tunisia, France |
The Wizard of the Kremlin | Le mage du Kremlin | Olivier Assayas | France, United Kingdom, United States |
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: [20]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Fiction | |||
After the Hunt | Luca Guadagnino | Italy, United States | |
Dog 51 (closing film) | Chien 51 | Cédric Jimenez | France, Belgium |
Dead Man's Wire | Gus Van Sant | United States | |
The Holy Boy | La Valle dei Sorrisi | Paolo Strippoli | Italy, Slovenia |
Hungry Bird | L'Isola di Andrea | Antonio Capuano | Italy |
In the Hand of Dante | Julian Schnabel | United Kingdom, Italy, Chile, United States | |
The Last Viking | Den Sidste Viking | Anders Thomas Jensen | Denmark, Sweden |
Orfeo | Vigilio Viloresi | Italy | |
My Tennis Maestro | Il Maestro | Andrea Di Stefano | |
Scarlet | 果てしなきスカーレット | Mamoru Hosoda | Japan |
Sermon to the Void | Boşluğa xütbə | Hilal Baydarov | Azerbaijan, Mexico, Turkey |
Non-fiction | |||
Back Home | 回家 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
Broken English | Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard | United Kingdom | |
Cover-Up | Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus | United States | |
Angela’s Diaries. Two Filmmakers. Chapter Three | Il Diari di Angela - Noi due Cineasti. Capitolo Terzo | Yervante Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi | Italy |
Director's Diary | Zapisnaya knizhka rezhissera | Alexander Sokurov | Russia, Italy |
Ferdinando Scianna - Il Fotografo dell'Ombra | Roberto Andò | Italy | |
Ghost Elephants | Werner Herzog | United States | |
Kabul, Between Prayers | Aboozar Amini | Netherlands, Belgium | |
Kim Novak's Vertigo | Alexandre O. Philippe | United States | |
Marc by Sofia | Sofia Coppola | ||
Dai nostri inviati.: La Rai racconta la Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 1990-2000 | Giuseppe Giannotti and Enrico Salvatori | Italy | |
My Father and Qaddafi | بابا و القذافي | Jihan K | Libya, United States |
Notes of a True Criminal | Записки настоящего преступника | Alexander Rodnyansky and Andriy Alferov | Ukraine, United States |
Landmarks | Nuestra tierra | Lucrecia Martel | Argentina, Mexico, France, United States, Netherlands, Denmark |
Remake | Ross McElwee | United States | |
The Tale of Silyan | Силјан | Tamara Kotevska | North Macedonia |
Film & Music | |||
Francesco de Gregori Nevergreen | Stefano Pistolini | Italy | |
Newport and the Great Folk Dream | Robert Gordon | United States | |
Nino: A Journey of 18 Days | Nino. 18 Giorni | Toni d'Angelo | Italy |
Piero Pelù | Piero Pelù Rumore Dentro | Francesco Fei | |
Series | |||
Etty(6 episodes) | Hagai Levi | France, Germany, Netherlands | |
The Monster of Florence (4 episodes) | Il Mostro | Stefano Sollima | Italy |
Portobello (episodes 1 and 2) | Marco Bellocchio | Italy, France | |
A Prophet(8 episodes) | Un Prophète | Enrico Maria Artale | France |
Short Films | |||
Boomerang Atomic | Rachid Bouchareb | France | |
Goffredo Felicissimo? | Franco Maresco | Italy | |
How to Shoot a Ghost | Charlie Kaufman | United States, Greece | |
Origin, the Venetian Lagoon | Yann Arthus-Bertrand | France, Italy | |
Rukeli | Alessandro Rak | Italy, Sweden |
The following films were selected to the Orizzonti main competition: [20]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Barrio Triste | Stillz | Colombia, United States | |
Divine Comedy | Komedie Elahi | Ali Asgari | Iran, Italy, France, Germany, Turkey |
Father | Otec | Tereza Nvotová | Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland |
Funeral Casino Blues | Roderick Warich | Germany | |
Human Resource | Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit | Thailand | |
The Ivy | Hiedra | Ana Cristina Barragan | Ecuador, Mexico, France, Spain |
The Kidnapping of Arabella | Il Rapimento di Arabella | Carolina Cavalli | Italy |
Late Fame | Kent Jones | United States | |
Lost Land | Hara Watan | Akio Fujimoto | Japan, France, Malaysia, Germany |
Milk Teeth | Dinți de lapte | Mihai Mincan | Romania, France, Denmark, Greece, Bulgaria |
Mother | Мајка | Teona Strugar Mitevska | North Macedonia, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
On the Road | En el Camino | David Pablos | Mexico, France |
Pin de Fartie | Alejo Moguillansky | Argentina | |
Rose of Nevada | Mark Jenkin | United Kingdom | |
The Site | Grand Ciel | Akihiro Hata | France, Luxembourg |
Songs of Forgotten Trees | Anuparna Roy | India | |
The Souffleur | Gastón Solnicki | Austria, Argentina | |
Strange River | Estrany Riu | Jaume Claret Muxart | Spain, Germany |
A Year of School | Un Anno di Scuola | Laura Samani | Italy, France |
The following films were selected to compete for the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film, assigned by the Jury of the Orizzonti section: [21] [22]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Coyotes | Said Zagha | Palestine, France, Jordan, United Kingdom | |
The Curfew | Shehrezad Maher | United States | |
I Hear It Still | Je crois entendre encore | Constance Bonnot | France |
Kushta Mayn, My Constantinople | Kushta Mayn, la mia Costantinopoli | Nicolò Folin | Italy |
The Lifeline | La ligne de vie | Hugo Becker | France |
Lion Rock | Nick Mayow and Prisca Bouchet | New Zealand | |
Merrimundi | Niles Atallah | Chile | |
Norheimsund | Ana Alpizar | Cuba, United States | |
The Origin of the World | El Origen del Mundo | Jazmin Lopez | Argentina |
Praying Mantis | 螳螂 | Joe Hsieh and Yonfan | Taiwan, Hong Kong |
Saint Simeon | Olubunmi Ogunsola | Nigeria | |
A Soil, A Culture, A River, A People | 又见炊烟 | Viv Li | China, Germany, Belgium |
Unavailable | Nedostupni | Kyrylo Zemlyanyi | Ukraine, France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Netherlands |
Without Kelly | Lovisa Sirén | Sweden | |
Out of Competition - Homage to the New Zealand's Film School “A Wave in the Ocean” (AWITO) | |||
The Brightness | Freya Silas Finch | New Zealand | |
The Girl Next Door | Mingjian Cui | ||
Girl Time | Eleanor Bishop | ||
In Conversation with Jack Maurer | Hash | ||
Kurī | Ana Chaya Scotney | ||
Socks | Todd Karehana | ||
A Very Good Boy | Samuel Te Kani |
The following films were selected to the Venice Spotlight section: [20]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Calle Málaga | Maryam Touzani | Morocco, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium | |
Hijra | هجری | Shahad Ameen | Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, United Kingdom |
It Would Be Night in Caracas | Aún es de noche en Caracas | Mariana Rondón and Marite Ugas | Mexico, Venezuela |
A Loose End | Un Cabo Suelto | Daniel Hendler | Uruguay, Argentina, Spain |
Made In EU | Stephan Komandarev | Bulgaria, Germany, Czech Republic | |
Motor City | Potsy Ponciroli | United States | |
Silent Rebellion | A Bras-le-Corps | Marie-Elsa Sgualdo | Switzerland, France, Belgium |
Tired of Killing: Autobiography of an Assassin | Ammazzare stanca | Daniele Vicari | Italy |
Filmmaker Tommaso Santambrogio will serve as Jury President over 24 students recommended by professors of film studies from various Italian universities, the group will award the prizes for Best Restored Film and for the Best Documentary About Cinema. The following films were selected to the Venice Classics section: [15] [23] [24]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | Restored by |
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Restored Prints | ||||
3:10 to Yuma (1957) | Delmer Daves | United States | Sony Pictures | |
Aniki-Bóbó (1942) | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal | Cinemateca Portuguesa, Melgaço Museum of Cinema | |
Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986) | باشو غریبه کوچک | Bahram Beizai | Iran | Roashana Studios, KANOON |
Blind Chance (1987) | Przypadek | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Poland | DI Factory |
The Delicate Delinquent (1957) | Don McGuire | United States | Paramount Pictures | |
Do Bigha Zamin (1953) | दो बीघा ज़मीन | Bimal Roy | India | Film Heritage Foundation, The Criterion Collection |
The Ghost (1963) | Lo Spettro | Riccardo Freda | Italy | Severin Films |
House of Strangers (1949) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States | Walt Disney Studios, The Film Foundation | |
I Married You for Fun (1967) | Ti ho sposato per allegria | Luciano Salce | Italy | Cinecittà |
Kwaidan (1964) | 怪談 | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan | Toho |
Lolita (1962) | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom, United States | The Criterion Collection, Warner Bros. | |
The Magnificent Cuckold (1964) | Il magnifico cornuto | Antonio Pietrangeli | Italy | Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Compass Film |
Mark of the Renegade (1951) | Hugo Fregonese | United States | Universal Pictures | |
Matador (1986) | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | Video Mercury Films | |
Odd Obsession (1959) | 鍵 | Kon Ichikawa | Japan | Kadokawa Corporation |
Queen Kelly (1929) | Erich von Stroheim | United States | Milestone Films | |
Port of Shadows (1938) | Le Quai des brumes | Marcel Carné | France | StudioCanal, Cinémathèque française |
Rome 11:00 (1952) | Roma, ore 11 | Giuseppe De Santis | Italy | Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Cineteca Nazionale |
Vive l'amour (1994) | 愛情萬歲 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan | Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute |
Documentaries About Cinema | ||||
Boorman and the Devil | David Kittredge | United States | ||
Elvira Notari: Oltre il Silenzio | Valerio Ciriaci | Italy, United States | ||
Holofiction | Michal Kosakowski | Germany, Austria | ||
Louis Malle, Le Révolté | Claire Duguet | France | ||
Mata Hari | Joe Beshenkovsky and James Smith | United States | ||
Memory of the Forgotten | Memoria de los Olvidados | Javier Espada | Spain, Mexico, United States | |
Megadoc | Mike Figgis | United States | ||
Sangre del Toro | Yves Montmayeur | France, United Kingdom | ||
The Ozu Diaries | Daniel Raim | United States |
The Venice Immersive is entirely devoted to immersive media and includes all XR means of creative expression, from 360° videos to XR works of any length, including installations and virtual worlds. The following projects were selected for the XR - Extended Reality section of La Biennale di Venezia: [16]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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1968 | Rose Bond | United States | |
8PM and the Cat | 저녁 8시와 고양이 | Minhyuk Che | South Korea |
Alien Perspective | Jung Ah Suh and Cristina Rambaldi | United States, Italy | |
Asteroid | Doug Liman | United States, Canada | |
The Big Cube | Menghui Huang | Finland, Belgium, China, Portugal | |
Black Cats & Chequered Flags | Elisabetta Rotolo and Siobhan Mcdonnell | ||
Blur | Craig Quintero and Phoebe Greenberg | Canada, Taiwan | |
The Clouds are Two Thousand Meters Up | 雲在兩千米 | Singing Chen | Taiwan, Germany |
Collective Body | Sarah Silverblatt-Buser | France, United States | |
Creation of the Worlds | Kristina Buozyté and Vitalijus Zukas | Lithuania | |
Dance Dance Dance – Matisse | Danse Danse Danse – Matisse | Agnès Molia and Gordon | France |
Dark Rooms | Mads Damsbo, Laurits Flensted Jensen and Anne Sofie Steen Sverdrup | Denmark, Germany, Taiwan | |
Eddie and I | Maya Shekel | Israel, Germany, France | |
Empathy Creatures | Mélodie Mousset | Switzerland | |
The Exploding Girl VR | La fille qui explose VR | Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel | France, Greece |
Face Jumping | Danny Cannizzaro and Samantha Gorman | United States | |
The Great Escape | Joren Vandenbroucke | Belgium, Luxembourg | |
The Great Orator | Daniel Ernst | Netherlands | |
Heartbeat – Son coeur a trouvé sa cadence dans le silence des rencontres | Fanny Fortage | France | |
If You See a Cat | Atsushi Wada | Japan | |
Less Than 5GR or Saffron | Négar Motevalymeidanshah | France | |
A Long Goodbye | Kate Voet and Victor Maes | Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands | |
La Magie Opéra | Jonathan Astruc | France | |
Mirage | Naima Karim and Aleena Hanif | Saudi Arabia, Netherlands | |
Mulan2125 | 木兰2125 | Mo Huang | China |
Reflections of Little Red Dot | Chloé Lee | Germany, United States | |
The Sad Story of the Little Mouse Who Wanted to Become Somebody | La Triste Histoire de la Petite Souris qui Voulait Absolument Devenir Quelqu'un | Nicolas Bourniquel | France, Germany, Belgium |
Sense of Nowhere | Hsin-Hsuan Yeh | Taiwan, Finland, Belgium, Portugal, France | |
The Shadow | L'Ombre | Blanca Li and Édith Canat de Chizy | France, Taiwan |
The Time Before | Leo Metcalf and Michael Golembewski | United Kingodom |
The following films were selected for the Biennale College - Cinema section: [25]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Becoming Human | Chiet Chea Manusa | Polen Ly | Cambodia, United States |
Lamb of God | Agnus Dei | Massimiliano Camaiti | Italy |
One Woman One Bra | Vincho Nchogu | Kenya, Nigeria | |
Secret of a Mountain Serpent | Nidhi Saxena | India, Italy, Sri Lanka |
The section is providing since 2013 support in the completion of films from African and Middle East countries. The following eight work-in-progress films have been selected for the 12th edition of Final Cut in Venice: [26]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Fiction | |||
House of the Wind | La maison du vent | Kouemo Yanghu Auguste Bernard | Cameroon, Benin, France, Belgium |
My Semba | Meu Semba | Hugo Salvaterra | Angola |
Standing at the Ruins | Al Woqoof ala el Atlal | Saeed Taji Farouky | Egypt, United Kingdom |
The Station | Al Mahattah | Sara Ishaq | Yemen, Jordan, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Qatar |
Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep | Rakan Mayasi | Belgium, Lebanon, Palestine | |
Documentary | |||
Legacy | Soleil, Lune, Étoiles | Mamadou Dia | Senegal, France |
Out of School | La cour des grands | Hind Bensari | Denmark, Morocco |
Untitled Project from Yemen | Mariam Al-Dhubhani | Yemen, Qatar, Norway, France |
The following films were selected to the International Critics’ Week sections: [27]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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In Competition | |||
Agon | Giulio Bertelli | Italy, United States, France | |
Cotton Queen | Suzannah Mirghani | Germany, France, Palestine, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia | |
Cora | Gorgonà | Evi Kalogiropoulou | Greece, France |
Ish | Imran Perretta | United Kingdom | |
Roqia | Yanis Koussim | Algeria, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia | |
Straight Circle | Oscar Hudson | United States, United Kingdom, South Africa | |
Waking Hours | Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini | Italy | |
Out of Competition | |||
Stereo Girls(opening film) | Les Immortelles | Caroline Deruas Peano | France, Canada |
100 Nights of Hero (closing film) | Julia Jackman | United Kingdom, United States |
The following films were selected to the Giornate degli Autori section: [28] [29]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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In Competition | |||
Bearcave | Arkoudotrypa | Stergios Dinopoulos and Krysianna B. Papadakis | Greece |
Gioia | La gioia | Nicolangelo Gelormini | Italy |
Inside Amir | Daroon-e Amir | Amir Azizi | Iran |
Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes | Anoche Conquisté Tebas | Gabriel Azorín | Spain, Portugal |
Memory(opening film) | Vladlena Sandu | France, Netherlands | |
Memory of Princess Mumbi | Damien Hauser | Kenya, Switzerland | |
Past Future Continuous | Gli Uccelli del Monte Qaf | Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani | Iran, Norway, Italy |
A Sad and Beautiful World | Cyril Aris | Lebanon, United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar | |
Short Summer | Nastia Korkia | Germany, France, Serbia | |
Vainilla | Mayra Hermosillo | Mexico | |
Special Events | |||
Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't(closing film) | Come ti muovi, sbagli | Gianni Di Gregorio | Italy |
Do You Love Me | Lana Daher | France, Lebanon, Germany, Qatar | |
I Want Her Dead | Il quieto vivere | Gianluca Matarrese | Italy, Switzerland |
Laguna | Šarūnas Bartas | Lithuania, France | |
Who is Still Alive | Qui vit encore | Nicolas Wadimoff | Switzerland |
Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students | Écrire la vie – Annie Ernaux racontée par des lycéennes et de lycéens | Claire Simon | France |
Miu Miu Women's Tales | |||
#29 Autobiografia di una borsetta | Joanna Hogg | Italy | |
#30 Fragments For Venus | Alice Diop | United States, France | |
Venetian Nights | |||
6:06 | Tekla Taidelli | Italy, Portugal | |
Be Loved | Amata | Elisa Amoruso | Italy |
Confession – How I Found Out I Wouldn't Make the Revolution | Confiteor – Come Scoprii Che Non Avrei Fatto la Rivoluzione | Bonifacio Angius | |
Dom | Massimiliano Battistella | Italy, Bosnia Herzegovina | |
Full Speed Backward! | Indietro Così! | Antonio Morabito | Italy |
Life Beyond the Pine Curtain – America the Invisible | Life Beyond the Pine Curtain – L’America degli Invisibli | Giovanni Troilo | |
A Near Thing | Una Cosa Vicina | Loris G. Nese | |
A State Film | Film di Stato | Roland Sejko | |
Toni, My Father | Toni mio Padre | Anna Negri |
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