Venice Film Festival Reveals 2025 Program
This year marks the 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival, scheduled from August 27 to September 6. Prior to the event, President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and Director Alberto Barbera have revealed the lineup.
Highlights feature new works from filmmakers such as Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, Lucrecia Martel, Laura Poitras, Benny Safdie, Werner Herzog, Kathryn Bigelow, Luca Guadagnino, Olivier Assayas, Sofia Coppola, Kent Jones, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mark Jenkin, Tsai Ming-liang, Mamoru Hosoda, Gus Van Sant, Noah Baumbach, Mona Fastvold, Pietro Marcello, Guillermo del Toro, László Nemes, and others.
The lineup is as follows:
**Opening Film**
La Grazia (Paolo Sorrentino) (in competition)
**Closing Film**
Chien 51 (Cédric Jimenez) (out of competition)
**In Competition**
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 Costanzo)
À pied d’œuvre (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 (László Nemes)
L’Étranger (François Ozon)
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)
Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi)
The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie)
Girl (Shu Qi)
**Out of Competition (Fiction)**
Sermon to the Void (Hilal Baydarov)
L’isola di Andrea (Antonio Capuano)
Il Maestro (Andrea Di Stefano)
After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino)
Scarlet (Mamoru Hosoda)
The Last Viking (Anders Thomas Jensen)
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 Ando)
Marc by Sofia (Sofia Coppola)
I Diari di Angela – Noi Due Cineasti. Capitolo Terzo (Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi)
Ghost Elephants (Werner Herzog)
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, Mark Obenhaus)
Broken English (Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth)
Notes of a True Criminal (Alexander Rodnyansky, Andriy Alferov)
Director’s Diary (Aleksander Sokurov)
Back Home (Tsai Ming-liang)
**Out of Competition (Series)**
Portobello (Marco Bellocchio)
Un Prophete (Enrico Maria Artale)
Etty Hagai Levi)
Il Mostro (Stefano Sollima)
**Out of Competition (Special Screenings)**
Venice Spotlight
Calle Malaga (Maryam Touzani)
Hijra (Shahad Ameen)
Un Cabo Suelto (Daniel Hendler)
Ammazzare Stanca (Daniele Vicari)
Motor City (Potsy Ponciroli)
La Hija De la Espanola (Mariana Rondon, Marite Ugas)
A Bras-Le-Corps (Marie-Elsa Sgualdo)
**Out of Competition – Film & Music**
Out of Nino. 18 Giorni (Toni D’Angelo)
Piero Pulu. Rumore Dentro (Francesco Fei)
Newport and the Great Folk Dream (Robert Gordon)
Francesco de Gregori Nevergreen (Stefano Pistolini)
**Horizons Competition**
Mother (Teona Strugar Mietevska)
Divine Comedy (Ali Asgari)
Strange River (Jaume Claret Muxart)
Il Rapimento di Arabella (Carolina Cavallis)
Lost Land (Akio Fujimoto)
Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin
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Venice Film Festival Reveals 2025 Program
Marking its 82nd edition this year, the Venice Film Festival is scheduled to run from August 27 to September 6. In anticipation of the event, President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and Director Alberto Barbera have revealed the lineup. Notable films include works from Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, Lucrecia Martel, Laura Poitras, Benny Safdie, Werner Herzog, Kathryn Bigelow, and Luca Guadagnino.