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 |
| Venice Film Festival chronology | |
83rd | |
The82nd annualVenice International Film Festival was held from 27 August to 6 September 2025, atVenice Lido inItaly. American filmmakerAlexander Payne served as Jury President for the main competition,[1] while Italian actress and comedianEmanuela Fanelli hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.[2]
TheGolden Lion was awarded toFather Mother Sister Brother byJim Jarmusch.[3][4] German filmmakerWerner Herzog and American actressKim Novak were awarded theGolden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the festival.[5][6]
Before and during the festival numerousPro-Palestine demonstrations were held, supported by the festival organization or by stars attending,[7][8][9][10][11] specially during the world premiere ofGaza-set docudramaThe Voice of Hind Rajab, where further demonstrations took place demanding an end for theongoing violence in Gaza during its 23-minutes long standing ovation.[12][13][14] Artistic directorAlberto Barbera endorsed any demonstrations, but stated that the protests should not disrupt the festival's schedule.[15][16]
The festival opened withLa grazia byPaolo Sorrentino,[17] and closed withDog 51 byCédric Jimenez.

The following twenty-one films were selected to the main competition for theGolden Lion:[24]
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 | Virgilio Villoresi | 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 | |||
| Angela’s Diaries. Two Filmmakers. Chapter Three | Il Diari di Angela - Noi due Cineasti. Capitolo Terzo | Yervante Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi | Italy |
| 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 | |
| Director's Diary | Записная книжка режиссёра | 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 theOrizzonti 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 |
The following films were selected to compete for theOrizzonti 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 andYonfan | 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 | ||
Formerly calledOrizzonti Extra, the section was officially renamedVenice 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 |
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 forBest Restored Film and for theBest Documentary About Cinema. The following films were selected to theVenice Classics section:[19][27][28]
TheVenice 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 ofLa Biennale di Venezia:[20]
| 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 andPhoebe 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 andÉdith Canat de Chizy | France, Taiwan |
| The Time Before | Leo Metcalf and Michael Golembewski | United Kingdom | |
The following films were selected for the Biennale College - Cinema section:[29]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Becoming Human | ជាតិជាមនុស្សា | Polen Ly | Cambodia |
| 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 ofFinal 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 | |
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 | ملكة القطن | 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 | Ore di veglia | 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 theGiornate degli Autori section:[32][33]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | |||
| Bearcave | Αρκουδότρυπα | Stergios Dinopoulos and Krysianna B. Papadakis | Greece |
| Gioia | La gioia | Nicolangelo Gelormini | Italy |
| Inside Amir | درون امیر | 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 | گذشته آینده استمراری | Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani | Iran, Norway, Italy |
| A Sad and Beautiful World | نجوم الأمل و الألم | Cyril Aris | Lebanon, United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar |
| Short Summer | Nastia Korkia | Germany, France, Serbia | |
| Vanilla | 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 MiuWomen's Tales | |||
| #29Autobiografia di una borsetta | Joanna Hogg | Italy | |
| #30Fragments 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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