Venice Film Fest 2025: Lineup
Venice Film Fest artistic director Alberto Barbera unveils the lineup for the event’s upcoming 82nd edition, packed with buzzy Oscar awards hopefuls.
Last year’s Venice Silver Lion winner, “The Brutalist” by Brady Corbet, scored 3 Oscars while Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here,” which had scooped Venice’s best screenplay prize, won for best international feature film.
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La Grazia
Expanding specialty streamer and distributor Mubi will be flying its flag, having acquired “La Grazia” ahead of its launch. Mubi boss Efe Cakarel asserted last month that another high-profile title he acquired, Jim Jarmusch’s triptych picture “Father Mother Sister Brother,” starring Cate Blanchett had Adam Driver, had also landed a Lido competition slot.
This year’s Golden Lion career achievement honorees are iconoclastic German director Werner Herzog — whose body of work comprises “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” “Fitzcarraldo” and Nosferatu the Vampyre” — and legendary “Vertigo” star Kim Novak.
See the full lineup below.
COMPETITION
“La Grazia,” Paolo Sorrentino (opening film)
“The Wizard of the Kremlin,” Olivier Assayas
“The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Kaouther Ben Hania
“A House of Dynamite,” Kathryn Bigelow
“Ri Gua Zhong Tian” (“The Sun Rises on Us All”), Cai Shangjun
“Frankenstein,” Guillermo del Toro
“Elisa,” Leonardo di Costanzo
OUT OF COMPETITION — FICTION
“Chien 51,” Cédric Jimenez (closing film)
“Boşluğa Xütbə” (“Sermon to the Void”), Hilal Baydarov
“L’Isola di Andrea,” Antonio Capuano
“Il Maestro,” Andrea di Stefano
“After the Hunt,” Luca Guadagnino
“Den Sidste Viking” (“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 — SERIES
“Portobello” (Ep. 1-2), Marco Bellocchio
“Un Prophète” (Ep. 1-8), Enrico Maria Artale
“Etty” (Ep. 1-6), Hagai Levi
“Il Mostro” (Ep. 1-4), Stefano Sollima
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 Cineasti. 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
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 and Joe Lauro
“Francesco de Gregori Nevergreen,” Stefano Pistolini
OUT OF COMPETITION — SHORTS
“Origin,” Yann Arthus-Bertrand
“Boomerang Atomic,” Rachid Bouchareb
“How to Shoot a Ghost,” Charlie Kaufman
HORIZONS
“Mother,” Teona Strugar Mitevska
“Komedie Elahi” (“Divine Comedy”), Ali Asgari
“Hiedra,” Ana Cristina Barragan
“Il Rapimento di Arabella,” Carolina Cavalli
“Estrany Riu” (“Strange River”), Jaume Claret Muxart
“Hara 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 Moguillansky
“Otec” (“Father”), Tereza Nvotova
“En El Camino,” David Pablos
“Songs of Forgotten Trees,” Anuparna Roy
“Un Anno di Scuola,” Laura Samani
“The Souffleur,” Gastón Solnicki
“Barrio Triste,” Stillz
“Human Resource,” Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
“Funeral Casino Blues,” Roderick Warich
VENICE SPOTLIGHT
“Hijra,” Shahad Ameen
“Un Cabo Suelto,” Daniel Hendler
“Made in EU,” Stephan Komandarev
“Motor City,” Potsy Ponciroli
“La Hija de la Española,” Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás
“À Bras-Le-Corps,” Marie-Elsa Sgualdo
“Calle Malaga,” Maryam Touzani
“Ammazzare Stanca,” Daniele Vicari
