Orizzonti

Orizzonti
2025 winner: David Pablos
Country	Italy
Presented by	Venice Film Festival
First award	2004
Currently held by	David Pablos On the Road (2025)

Orizzonti (lit. 'Horizons') is a section of the Venice Film Festival's official selection. Inspired by Cannes sidebar Un Certain Regard, it features a competition of upcoming filmmakers, usually first or second works, with focus on global independent cinema.

Among the now well established filmmakers who have been part of section are: Luca Guadagnino, Josh Safdie and Ben Safdie, Hong Sang-soo, Karim Aïnouz, Frederick Wiseman, Catherine Breillat, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Quentin Dupieux, Lav Diaz, Wang Bing, Robin Campillo, Jia Zhangke, Gianfranco Rosi, Franco Maresco, Brady Corbet, Pietro Marcello, Kaouther Ben Hania, Saeed Roustayi, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Oliver Hermanus, Andrea Pallaoro, Gia Coppola, Ti West, Haifaa al-Mansour and Paul Morrissey.

The section usually features awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Jury Prizes and acting prizes. Alongside the Best Short Film prize for the parallel Orizzonti Short Films Competition.

Winners

Best Film

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
2004	The Grand Sons	Les petits fils	Ilan Duran Cohen	France
2005	First on the Moon	Первые на Луне	Aleksei Fedorchenko	Russia
2006	Courthouse on the Horseback	马背上的法庭	Liu Jie	China
2007	Autumn Ball	Sügisball	Veiko Õunpuu	Estonia
2008	Melancholia		Lav Diaz	Philippines
2009	Clash	Engkwentro	Pepe Diokno
2010	Summer of Goliath	Verano de Goliat	Nicolás Pereda	Canada, Mexico, Netherlands
2011	Kotoko		Shinya Tsukamoto	Japan
2012	Three Sisters	三姊妹	Wang Bing	China
2013	Eastern Boys		Robin Campillo	France
2014	Court		Chaitanya Tamhane	India
2015	Free in Deed		Jake Mahaffy	United States, New Zealand
2016	Libera Nos	Liberami	Federica Di Giacomo	Italy, France
2017	Nico, 1988		Susanna Nicchiarelli	Italy, Belgium
2018	Manta Ray	กระเบนราหู	Phuttiphong Aroonpheng	Thailand, France, China
2019	Atlantis	Атлантида	Valentyn Vasyanovych	Ukraine
2020	The Wasteland	دشت خاموش	Ahmad Bahrami	Iran
2021	Pilgrims	Piligrimai	Laurynas Bareiša	Lithuania
2022	World War III	جنگ جهانی سوم	Houman Seyyedi	Iran
2023	Explanation for Everything	Magyarázat mindenre	Gábor Reisz	Hungary, Slovakia
2024	The New Year That Never Came	Anul Nou care n-a fost	Bogdan Mureșanu	Romania
2025	On the Road	En el Camino	David Pablos	Mexico

Special Jury Prize

2025's Special Juy Prize winner: Akio Fujimoto for Lost Land

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Ref
2010	The Forgotten Space		Noël Burch and Allan Sekula
2011	Whores' Glory		Michael Glawogger
2012	Tango libre		Frédéric Fonteyne
2013	Ruin		Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Michael Cody
2014	Belluscone: A Sicilian Story	Belluscone, una storia siciliana	Franco Maresco
2015	Neon Bull	Boi neon	Gabriel Mascaro
2016	Big Big World	Koca Dünya	Reha Erdem
2017	Caniba		Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor	[1]
2018	The Announcement	Anons	Mahmut Fazil Coşkun	[2]
2019	Verdict		Raymund Ribay Gutierrez	[3]
2020	Listen		Ana Rocha de Sousa	[4]
2021	The Great Movement	El Gran Movimiento	Kiro Russo	[5]
2022	Bread and Salt	Chleb i sól	Damian Kocur	[6]
2023	An Endless Sunday	Una sterminata domenica	Alain Parroni	[7]
2024	One of Those Days When Hemme Dies	Hemme’nin öldüğü günlerden biri	Murat Fıratoğlu	[8]
2025	Lost Land	Hara Watan	Akio Fujimoto	[9]

Best Director

2025's Best Director winner: Anuparna Roy for Songs of Forgotten Trees

Year	Recipient(s)	English Title	Original Title	Ref
2013	Uberto Pasolini	Still Life
2014	Naji Abu Nowar	Theeb	ذيب
2015	Brady Corbet	The Childhood of a Leader
2016	Fien Troch	Home
2017	Vahid Jalilvand	No Date, No Signature	بدون تاریخ، بدون امضا	[1]
2018	Emir Baigazin	The River	Өзен	[2]
2019	Théo Court	White on White	Blanco en blanco	[3]
2020	Lav Diaz	Genus Pan	Lahi, Hayop	[4]
2021	Éric Gravel	Full Time	À plein temps	[5]
2022	Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel	Vera		[6]
2023	Mika Gustafson	Paradise Is Burning	Paradiset brinner	[7]
2024	Sarah Friedland	Familiar Touch		[8]
2025	Anuparna Roy	Songs of Forgotten Trees		[9]

Best Actress

2025's Best Actress winner: Benedetta Porcaroli for The Kidnapping of Arabella

Year	Recipient(s)	English Title	Original Title	Ref
2016	Ruth Díaz	The Fury of a Patient Man	Tarde para la ira
2017	Lyna Khoudri	The Blessed		[1]
2018	Natalia Kudryashova	The Man Who Surprised Everyone	Человек, который удивил всех	[2]
2019	Marta Nieto	Mother	Madre	[3]
2020	Khansa Batma	Zanka Contact		[4]
2021	Laure Calamy	Full Time	À plein temps	[5]
2022	Vera Gemma	Vera		[6]
2023	Margarita Rosa de Francisco	El paraíso		[7]
2024	Kathleen Chalfant	Familiar Touch		[8]
2025	Benedetta Porcaroli	The Kidnapping of Arabella	Il rapimento di Arabella	[9]

Best Actor

2025's Best Actor winner: Giacomo Covi for A Year of School

Year	Recipient(s)	English Title	Original Title	Ref
2014	Emir Hadžihafizbegović	These Are the Rules	Takva su pravila
2015	Dominique Leborne	Land Legs	Tempête
2016	Nuno Lopes	Saint George	São Jorge
2017	Navid Mohammadzadeh	No Date, No Signature	بدون تاریخ، بدون امضا	[1]
2018	Kais Nashef	Tel Aviv On Fire	תל אביב על האש	[2]
2019	Sami Bouajila	A Son	Bik Eneich: Un fils	[3]
2020	Yahya Mahayni	The Man Who Sold His Skin	الرجل الذي باع ظهره	[4]
2021	Piseth Chhun	White Building	ប៊ូឌីញស	[5]
2022	Mohsen Tanabandeh	World War III	جنگ جهانی سوم	[6]
2023	Tergel Bold-Erdene	City of Wind	Сэр сэр салхи	[7]
2024	Francesco Gheghi	Familia		[8]
2025	Giacomo Covi	A Year of School	Un anno di scuola	[9]

Best Screenplay

Year	Recipient(s)	English Title	Original Title	Ref
2016	Wang Bing	Bitter Money	苦钱
2017	Alireza Khatami	Oblivion Verses	Los Versos del Olvido	[1]
2018	Pema Tseden	Jinpa	ལག་དམར་	[2]
2019	Jessica Palud	Back Home	Revenir	[3]
2020	Pietro Castellitto	The Predators	I predatori	[4]
2021	Péter Kerekes and Ivan Ostrochovský	107 Mothers	Cenzorka	[5]
2022	Fernando Guzzoni	Blanquita		[6]
2023	Enrico Maria Artale	El paraíso		[7]
2024	Scandar Copti	Happy Holidays	ينعاد عليكو	[8]
2025	Ana Cristina Barragán	The Ivy	Hiedra	[9]

Best Short Film

2025's Best Short Film winner: Lovisa Sirén for Whithout Kelly

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Ref
2010	Coming Attractions		Peter Tscherkassky
2011	In attesa dell'avvento		Felice D'Agostino and Arturo Lavorato
2012	Invitation	초대	Yoo Min-young
2013	Kush		Shubhashish Bhutiani
2014	Maryam		Sidi Saleh
2015	Belladonna		Dubravka Turić
2016	La voz perdida		Marcelo Martinessi
2017	Gros Chagrin		Céline Devaux	[1]
2018	A Gift	Kado	Aditya Ahmad	[2]
2019	Darling		Saim Sadiq	[3]
2020	Entre tú y milagros		Mariana Saffon	[4]
2021	The Bones	Los Huesos	Cristobal León and Joaquín Cociña	[5]
2022	Snow in September	9-р Сарын Цас	Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir	[6]
2023	A Short Trip		Erenik Beqiri	[7]
2024	Who Loves the Sun		Arshia Shakiba	[8]
2025	Without Kelly		Lovisa Sirén

Retired Awards

Best Documentary

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Ref
2005	East of Paradise		Lech Kowalski
2006	When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts		Spike Lee
2007	Useless	無用	Jia Zhangke
2008	Below Sea Level		Gianfranco Rosi
2009	1428		Du Haibin

Special Awards

Year	Award	English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Ref
2013	Special Award for Innovative Content	Fish & Cat	ماهی و گربه	Shahram Mokri

Best Medium-Length Film

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Ref
2010	Out	צא	Roee Rosen
2011	Accidentes gloriosos		Mauro Andrizzi and Marcus Lindeen

References

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2. Nick Vivarelli, "Venice Film Festival: Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Roma’ Wins Golden Lion (Complete Winners List)". Variety , September 8, 2018.
3. Ryan Lattanzio, "‘Joker’ Wins Venice Film Festival Golden Lion, Roman Polanski Gets Grand Jury Prize". IndieWire , September 7, 2019.
4. Kaleem Aftab, "Chloé Zhao's Nomadland wins the Golden Lion at the 77th Venice Film Festival". Cineuropa, September 12, 2020.
5. Sheena Scott, "Venice Film Festival 2021: List Of Winners". Forbes , September 11, 2021.
6. Alison Foreman, "‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Wins Venice Film Festival Golden Lion: See All the Winners". IndieWire , September 10, 2022.
7. Gularte, Alejandra (9 September 2023). "Poor Thing, Yorgos Lanthimos Wins Golden Lion at the Venice". Vulture . Retrieved 9 September 2023.
8. Tartaglione, Andreas Wiseman,Nancy (2024-09-07). "Venice Winners: Pedro Almodóvar's 'The Room Next Door' Wins The Golden Lion; Also Wins For Nicole Kidman, Brady Corbet, 'I'm Still Here' & More". Deadline. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
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External links

• The Venice Film Festival at the IMDb