82nd Venice International Film Festival

82nd Venice International Film Festival

Official poster by Manuele Fior
Opening film	La grazia
Closing film	Dog 51
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion: Father Mother Sister Brother
Hosted by	Emanuela Fanelli
Artistic director	Alberto Barbera
Festival date	27 August – 6 September 2025
Website	www.labiennale.org/en/cinema
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The 82nd annual Venice International Film Festival was held 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]

The Golden Lion was awarded to Father Mother Sister Brother by Jim Jarmusch. ^{[3] [4]} German filmmaker Werner Herzog and American actress Kim Novak were awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the festival. ^{[5] [6]}

Before and during the festival numerous Pro-Palestine demonstrations were held, supported by the festival organization or by stars attending, ^{[7] [8] [9] [10] [11]} 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. ^{[12] [13] [14]} Artistic director Alberto Barbera endorsed any demonstrations, but stated that the protests should not disrupt the festival's schedule. ^{[15] [16]}

The festival opened with La grazia by Paolo Sorrentino, ^[17] and closed with Dog 51 by Cédric Jimenez.

Juries

Alexander Payne, main competition Jury President

Main Competition (Venezia 82)

• Alexander Payne, American filmmaker – Jury President ^[18]
• Stéphane Brizé, French filmmaker
• Maura Delpero, Italian filmmaker
• Cristian Mungiu, Romanian filmmaker and producer
• Mohammad Rasoulof, Iranian filmmaker and producer
• Fernanda Torres, Brazilian actress and writer
• Zhao Tao, Chinese actress

Orizzonti

• Julia Ducournau, French filmmaker – Jury President ^[18]
• Yuri Ancarani, Italian filmmaker and video artist
• Fernando Enrique Juan Lima, Argentine film critic
• Shannon Murphy, Australian filmmaker
• RaMell Ross, American filmmaker and visual artist

Luigi de Laurentiis Award for Debut Film

• Charlotte Wells, Scottish filmmaker – Jury President ^[18]
• Erige Sehiri, French-Tunisian filmmaker and producer
• Silvio Soldini, Italian filmmaker

Venice Classics

• Tommaso Santambrogio, Italian filmmaker – Jury President ^[19]

Venice Immersive

• Eliza McNitt, American filmmaker – Jury President ^[20]
• Gwenael François, French director and producer
• Boris Labbé, French visual artist

Giornate degli Autori

• Dag Johan Haugerud, Norwegian filmmaker – Jury President ^[21]
• Francesca Andreoli, Italian producer ^[22]
• Lina Soualem, Franco-Palestinian filmmaker
• Josh Siegel, MoMA film curator
• Sofian El Fani, Tunisian cinematographer

Golden Globe Impact Prize for Documentary

• Helen Hoehne, German journalist and Golden Globe president ^[23]
• Geralyn Dreyfous, American producer and Impact Partners co-founder
• Jharrel Jerome, American actor
• Regina K. Scully, American producer and Artemis Rising Foundation founder
• Edoardo Ponti, Italian filmmaker
• Misan Sagay, British-Nigerian screenwriter
• Danielle Turkov, Belgian producer and Think-Film Impact Production founder
• Teo Yoo, German-Korean actor

Official Selection

In Competition (Venezia 82)

The following twenty-one films were selected to the main competition for the Golden Lion: ^[24]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
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
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

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: ^[24]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
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

Orizzonti

The following films were selected to the Orizzonti main competition: ^[24]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
Barrio Triste		Stillz	Colombia, United States
Divine Comedy	کمدی الهی	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 Barragán	Ecuador, Mexico, France, Spain
The Kidnapping of Arabella	Il rapimento di Arabella	Carolina Cavalli	Italy
Late Fame		Kent Jones	United States
Lost Land	Harà Watan	Akio Fujimoto	Japan, France, Malaysia, Germany
Milk Teeth	Dinți de lapte	Mihai Mincan	Romania, France, Denmark, Greece, Bulgaria
Mother		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

Orizzonti Short Films Competition

The following films were selected to compete for the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film, assigned by the Jury of the Orizzonti section: ^{[25] [26]}

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
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

Venice Spotlight

Formerly called Orizzonti Extra, the section was officially renamed Venice Spotlight in this year edition. The collateral section programs independent films with commercial appeal from newcomers filmmakers or internationally established ones. The section winner is attributed by popular vote at the end of the festival, the following films were selected: ^[24]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
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

Venice Classics

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: ^{[19] [27] [28]}

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country	Restored by
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 Beyzai	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

Venice Immersive

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: ^[20]

In Competition

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
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

Biennale College - Cinema

The following films were selected for the Biennale College - Cinema section: ^[29]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
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

Final Cut

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: ^[30]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
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

Independent Sections

40. Settimana Internazionale della Critica

The following films were selected to the International Critics’ Week sections: ^[31]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
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

22nd Giornate degli Autori

The following films were selected to the Giornate degli Autori section: ^{[32] [33]}

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
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

Official Awards

Golden Lion winner: Jim Jarmusch

Grande Jury Prize winner: Kaouther Ben Hania

Silver Lion winner: Benny Safdie

Special Jury Prize winner: Gianfranco Rosi

Volpi Cup for Best Actor winner: Toni Servillo

Volpi Cup for Best Actress winner: Xin Zhilei

Best Screenplay winner: Valérie Donzelli

Marcello Mastroianni Award winner: Luna Wedler

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement winner: Werner Herzog

Orizzonti winner: David Pablos

Venice Spotlight Audience Award winner: Maryam Touzani

Lion of the Future winner: Nastia Korkia

Main Competition (Venezia 82)

• Golden Lion: Father Mother Sister Brother by Jim Jarmusch ^[3]
• Grand Jury Prize: The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania
• Special Jury Prize: Below the Clouds by Gianfranco Rosi
• Silver Lion: Benny Safdie for The Smashing Machine
• Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Xin Zhilei for The Sun Rises on Us All
• Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Toni Servillo for La grazia
• Best Screenplay: Valérie Donzelli and Gilles Marchand for At Work
• Marcello Mastroianni Award: Luna Wedler for Silent Friend

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

• Werner Herzog
• Kim Novak ^[34]

Orizzonti

• Best Film: On the Road by David Pablos ^[3]
• Best Director: Anuparna Roy for Songs of Forgotten Trees. ^[35]
• Special Jury Prize: Lost Land by Akio Fujimoto
• Best Actress: Benedetta Porcaroli for The Kidnapping of Arabella
• Best Actor: Giacomo Covi for A Year of School
• Best Screenplay: The Ivy by Ana Cristina Barragán
• Best Short Film: Without Kelly by Lovisa Sirén

Venice Spotlight

• Audience Award: Calle Málaga by Maryam Touzani ^[3]

Lion of the Future

• Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film: Short Summer by Nastia Korkia ^[3]

Venice Classics

• Best Documentary on Cinema: Mata Hari by Joe Beshenkovsky and James Smith ^[3]
• Best Restored Film: Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986) by Bahram Beyzai

Venice Immersive

• Grand Prize: The Clouds are Two Thousand Meters Up by Singing Chen ^[3]
• Special Jury Prize: Less Than 5GR or Saffron by Négar Motevalymeidanshah
• Achievement Prize: A Long Goodbye by Kate Voet and Victor Maes

Glory to the Filmmaker

• Julian Schnabel ^[36]

Independent Awards

Venice International Critics' Week

• IWONDERFULL Grand Prize: Straight Circle by Oscar Hudson
• People's Choice Award: Ish by Imran Perretta
• Luciano Sovena Award for Best Independent Producer: Agon by Giulio Bertelli
• Mario Serandrei - Hotel Saturnia Award for Best Technical Contribution: Waking Hours by Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini
• Best Short Film: Marina by Paoli de Luca
• Bes Director: Nadir Taji for Family Feast
• Best Technical Contribution – Fondazione Fare Cinema: Marina by Paoli de Luca

Giornate degli Autori

• GdA Director's Award: Inside Amir by Amir Azizi ^[37]
• Europa Cinemas Label Award: Bearcave by Stergios Dinopoulos and Krysianna B. Papadakis
• People's Award:
  • Memory by Vladlena Sandu
  • A Sad and Beautiful World by Cyril Aris
• SIAE Creative Talent Prize: 6:06 by Tekla Taidelli

Queer Lion

• On the Road by David Pablos

FIPRESCI Awards

• Best Film from Venezia 82: Silent Friend by Ildikó Enyedi
• Best Film from Orizzonti and parallel sections:Agon by Giulio Bertelli

Ambassador of Hope Award

• TBA

ARCA CinemaGiovani Award

• Best Film of Venezia 82: The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania
• Best Italian Film in Venice: La grazia by Paolo Sorrentino

Authors Under 40 Award

• Best Directing: Laura Samani for A Year of School
• Best Screenplay: Mayra Hermosillo for Vainilla

Bisato d'Oro Award

• Best Immersive: Reflections of Little Red Dot by Chloé Lee
  • Special Mention:
    • Ancestors by Steye Hallema
    • Constantinopoliad by Sister Sylvester and Nadah El Shazly
    • Less Than 5gr of Saffron by Négar Motevalymeidanshah

BookCiak Award

• The Stranger by François Ozon

Brian Award

• La grazia by Paolo Sorrentino

Casa Wabi - Mantarraya Award

• Inside Amir by Amir Azizi

CICT - UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award

• The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania

Cinema & Arts Award

• The Tale of Silyan by Tamara Kotevska
• Who is Still Alive by Nicolas Wadimoff
  • Special Mention Dedicated to a Multidisciplinary Artist: Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani

Premio CinemaSarà

• Silent Friend by Ildikó Enyedi

Croce Rossa Italiana Award

• The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania

Edipo Re Award

• The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania
• Silent Friend by Ildikó Enyedi
• Ca' Foscari Young Jury Award: Straight Circle by Oscar Hudson

Premio Fondazione Fai Persona Lavoro Ambiente

• Human Resource by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
  • Special Mention:
    • At Work by Valérie Donzelli (treatment of issues related to work)
    • Ghost Elephants by Werner Herzog (treatment of issues related to environment)
    • Below the Clouds by Gianfranco Rosi (treatment of issues related to social environment)

Fanheart3 Award

• Graffetta d'Oro for Best Film: Frankenstein by Guillermo del Toro
• Nave d'Argento for Best OTP: The character of Scarlet / Hijiri in Scarlet by Mamoru Hosoda
• XR Fan Experience: Happy Shadow by Pei-Ying Lin and Ting-Ruei Su

FEDIC Award

• Special Mention for Best Film: The Holy Boy by Paolo Strippoli
• Special Mention for Best Short Film: Arca by Lorenzo Quagliozzi

Francesco Pasinetti Award

• La grazia by Paolo Sorrentino
• Best Actor: Toni Servillo for La grazia
• Best Actress: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi for Duse
  • Special Mention: Anna Ferzetti for La grazia

Green Drop Award

• Bugonia by Yorgos Lanthimos
• Silent Friend by Ildikó Enyedi

ImpACT Award

• Remake by Ross McElwee

Interfilm Award

• Silent Friend by Ildikó Enyedi

Lanterna Magica Award

• A Year of School by Laura Samani

Leoncino d'Oro Award

• The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania
• Cinema for UNICEF: Silent Friend by Ildikó Enyedi

Lizzani Award

• Confession – How I Found Out I Wouldn't Make the Revolution by Bonifacio Angius

NETPAC Award

• The Ivy by Ana Cristina Barragan

NUOVOIMAIE Talent Awards

• Best New Young Actors: Giacomo Covi, Pietro Giustolisi and Samuel Volturno for A Year of School

La Pellicola d'Oro Award

• Best Production Manager: Elda Baldi for La grazia
• Best Prop Maker: Michael Ceracchini for Duse
• Best Chief Electrician: Diana Martia Hernandez Giralo for Elisa

Premio Speciale Film Impresa

• Ferdinando Scianna - Il Fotografo dell'Ombra by Roberto Andò

RB Casting Award

• Tiziano Menichelli for My Tennis Maestro

SIGNIS Award

• Elisa by Leonardo Di Costanzo

"Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award" XI Edition

• Best Italian Film: Elisa by Leonardo Di Costanzo
• Best Foreign Film: The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania

Premio Soundtrack Stars Award

• Best Soundtrack: Fabrizio Elvetico, Marco Messina and Sacha Ricci for Duse

UNIMED Award

• Prize for Cultural Diversity: The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania

Campari Passion for Film Award

• Gus Van Sant ^[38]

1964 Pop Art Award

• Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

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External links

• Official website