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Venice Film Festival
Wednesday, 27 August 2025 until Saturday, 06 September 2025
Oscar-Qualifier:
Corto Cortissimo Silver Lion - Best Short Film
Venice Film Festival is the world’s first and most exclusive film festivals. Specializing in world premieres, the festival has been ruled under the tight regime of Marco Müller since 2004, a time in which the festival has witnessed one of its most turbulent times since its incepting years. With the setting up of the Rome Film Festival in 2006, the Venezia has undergone some change, halted its development of the new cinema, and responded to the funding cuts by selling premiere tickets to the ubber rich – which has resulted in a festival even more difficult to attend (as a professional) and, sadly, increasingly catering for the Nikki Beach members (across from the Palace on the Lido) than its core audiences.
2025 films...
Competition
La Grazia (Paolo Sorrentino)
The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas)
Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)
The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania)
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)
The Sun Rises On Us All (Cai Shangjun)
Frankenstein (Guillermo Del Toro)
Elisa (Leonardo Di Constanzo)
À Pied d’Oeuvre (Valérie Donzelli)
Silent Friend (Ildikó Enyedi)
The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold)
Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Duse (Pietro Marcello)
Un Film Fatto Per Bene (Franco Maresco)
Orphan (Laszlo Nemes)
L’Étranger (The Stranger) (François Ozon)
Eojjeol Suga Eopda (No Other Choice) (Park Chan-wook)
Sotto Le Nuvole (Gianfranco Rosi)
The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie)
Nühai (Girl) (Shu Qi)
Out of Competition — Fiction
Boşluğa Xütbə (Sermon to the Void) (Hilal Baydarov)
L’Isola di Andrea (Antonio Capuano)
Il Maestro (Andrea Di Stefano)
After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino)
Hateshinaki Scarlet (Mamoro Hosoda)
Den Sidste Viking (The Last Viking) (Anders Thomas Jensen)
Chien 51 (Cédric Jimenez)
In the Hand of Dante (Julian Schnabel)
La Valle Dei Sorrisi (Paolo Strippoli)
Dead Man’s Wire (Gus Van Sant)
Orfeo (Virgilio Villoresi)
Out of Competition — Non Fiction
Kabul, Between Prayers (Aboozar Amini)
Ferdinando Scianna — Il Fotografo Dell’Ombra (Roberto Andò)
Marc by Sofia (Sofia Coppola)
I Diari di Angela — Noi Due Cineaste. Capitolo Terzo (Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi)
Ghost Elephants (Werner Herzog)
Baba Wa Al-Qadhafi (My Father and Qaddafi) (Jihan K)
The Tale of Sylian (Tamara Kotevska)
Nuestra Tierra (Lucrecia Martel)
Remake (Ross McElwee)
Kim Novak’s Vertigo, Alexandre Philippe
Cover-Up (Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus)
Broken English (Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth)
Zapiski Nastoyashego Prestupnika (Notes of a True Criminal) (Alexander Rodnyansky and Andriy Alferov)
Director’s Diary, Aleksander Sokurov
Hui Jia (Back Home) (Tsai Ming-liang)
Out of Competition — Film & Music
Nino. 18 Giorni (Toni D’Angelo
Piero Pelù. Rumore Dentro (Francesco Fei)
Newport and the Great Folk Dream (Robert Gordon)
Francesco de Gregori Nevergreen (Stefano Pistolini)
Out of Competition — Series
Un Prophète — La Série (Enrico Maria Artale)
Portobello (Marco Bellocchio)
Etty (Hagai Levi)
Il Mostro (Stefano Sollima)
Out of Competition — Short Films
Origin (Yann Arthus-Bertrand)
Boomerang Atomic (Rachid Bouchareb)
How to Shoot a Ghost (Charlie Kaufman)
Horizons
Komedie Alahi (Divine Comedy) (Ali Asgari)
Hiedra (Ana Cristina Barragan)
Il Rapimento di Arabella (Carolina Cavalli)
Estrany Riu (Strange River) (Jaume Claret Muxart)
Harà Watan (Lost Land) (Akio Fujimoto)
Grand Ciel (Akihiro Hata)
Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)
Late Fame (Kent Jones)
Milk Teeth (Mihai Mincan)
Pin de Fartie (Alejo Moguillanksy)
Otec (Father) (Tereza Nvotova)
En El Camino (David Pablos)
Songs of Forgotten Trees (Anuparna Roy)
Un Anno di Scuola (Laura Samani)
The Souffleur (Gaston Sólnicki)
Barrio Triste (Stillz)
Mother (Teona Strugar Mitevska)
Human Resource (Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit)
Funeral Casino Blues (Roderick Warich)
Venice Spotlight
Hijra (Shahad Ameen)
Un Cabo Suelto (A Loose End) (Daniel Hendler)
Made in EU (Stephan Komandarev)
Motor City (Potsy Ponciroli)
La Hija de la Española (It Would Be Night in Caracas) (Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás)
À Bras-Le-Corps (Silent Rebellion) (Marie-Elsa Sgualdo)
Calle Malaga (Maryam Touzani)
Ammazzare Stanca (Daniele Vicari)
Critic’s Week
Agon (Giulio Bertelli)
Cotton Queen (Suzannah Mirghani)
Gorgonà (Evi Kalogiropolou)
Ish (Imran Perretta)
Roqia (Yanis Koussim)
Straight Circle (Oscar Hudson)
Waking Hours (Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini)
Critic’s Week, Out of Competition
Stereo Girls (Caroline Deruas Peano)
100 Nights of Hero (Julia Jackman)