The Venice Film Festival 2025 boasts a dream line-up for cinephiles and lovers of glamour. Here’s an in-depth look at this not-to-be-missed event in the 7th art.
When is the Venice Film Festival 2025?
This year’s Venice International Film Festival will be held from August 27 to September 6 on the island of Lido.
Who is the president of the jury?
American director Alexander Payne, whose films include Sideways and Nebraska, will head the jury for its 82nd edition, succeeding Isabelle Huppert. “Although I share a filmmaker’s ambivalence about comparing films against one another, I revere the Venice Film Festival’s nearly 100-year history of loudly celebrating film as an art form. I couldn’t be more excited,” he said in a statement. He will be joined by other 7th art figures from around the world: filmmakers Stéphane Brizé, Maura Delpero, Cristian Mungiu, and Mohammad Rasoulof, as well as actresses Fernanda Torres and Zhao Tao. French director Julia Ducournau will serve as president of the Orizzonti international jury.
What’s the opening film?
After presenting his latest film, Parthenope, at the Cannes 2024 Festival, where he is a regular, Italian director Paolo Sorrentino returns to Italy. He will have the honor of opening Mostra 2025 with La Grazia, a film that reunites actor Toni Servillo with Anna Ferzetti. No details of the plot have been released except that it is a love story. The director’s last visit to the Lido was a successful one: in 2021, he won the Silver Lion (Grand Prix du Jury) for The Hand of God.
Who will receive the Golden Lions?
German director Werner Herzog will receive an honorary award for his impressive career spanning fiction (Fitzcarraldo) and documentary (Grizzly Man). A second Honorary Lion will be awarded to Kim Novak, the American actress seen in films by Billy Wilder (Kiss Me, You Idiot) and Alfred Hitchcock (Cold Sweat), also highlighted at the Deauville 2025 Festival.
What are the most anticipated films?
The film festival will be packed with stars and prestigious directors this year. Event previews include Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein with Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia with Emma Stone, Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt with Julia Roberts, Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly with George Clooney, and Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother with Cate Blanchett.
The French will also be present, with François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ The Stranger, Valérie Donzelli’s À pied d’œuvre with Bastien Bouillon and Virginie Ledoyen, and Olivier Assayas’s latest feature, Le Mage du Kremlin. Out of competition, Jacques Audiard‘s series adaptation of Un prophète, due soon on Canal+, and Cédric Jimenez’s Chien51, starring Adèle Exarchopoulos and Gilles Lelouch, will close the festival.
Original story from Vanity Fair France.
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