Venice Film Festival 2025 – Complete Lineup

The 82nd Venice International Film Festival runs August 27 - September 6, 2025. This year's competition jury is led by two-time Oscar winner Alexander Payne, with Golden Lion career achievement honors going to Werner Herzog and Kim Novak. Here's the complete lineup:

Opening & Closing Films

• Opening Film: La Grazia - Paolo Sorrentino (Italy) [In Competition]

• Closing Film: Dog 51 - Cedric Jimenez (France)

Competition

• The Wizard of the Kremlin - Olivier Assayas (France)

• Jay Kelly - Noah Baumbach (USA, UK, Italy)

• The Voice of Hind Rajab - Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia, France)

• A House of Dynamite - Kathryn Bigelow (USA)

• Sun Rises on Us All - Cai Shangjun (China)

• Frankenstein - Guillermo Del Toro (USA)

• Elisa - Leonardo Di Costanzo (Italy, Switzerland)

• À pied d'œuvre - Valérie Donzelli (France)

• Silent Friend - Ildikó Enyedi (Germany, France, Hungary)

• The Testament of Ann Lee - Mona Fastvold (UK)

• Father Mother Sister Brother - Jim Jarmusch (USA, Ireland, France)

• Bugonia - Yorgos Lanthimos (United Kingdom)

• Duse - Pietro Marcello (Italy)

• Un film fatto per Bene - Franco Maresco (Italy)

• Orphan - László Nemes (Hungary, United Kingdom, Germany, France)

• The Stranger - François Ozon (France)

• No Other Choice - Park Chan-wook (South Korea)

• Sotto le nuvole - Gianfranco Rosi (Italy)

• The Smashing Machine - Benny Safdie (Canada, USA, Japan)

• Girl - Shu Qi (Taipei)

• La Grazia - Paolo Sorrentino (Italy)

Out of Competition (Fiction)

• Boşluğa xütbə (Sermon to the Void) - Hilal Baydarov (Azerbaijan, Mexico, Turkey)

• L'isola di Andrea - Antonio Capuano (Italy)

• Il Maestro - Andrea Di Stefano (Italy)

• After the Hunt - Luca Guadagnino (USA)

• Hateshinaki Scarlet - Mamoru Hosoda (Japan)

• The Last Viking - Anders Thomas Jensen (Denmark, Sweden)

• Chien 51 - Cédric Jimenez (France)

• In the Hand of Dante - Julian Schnabel (USA, Italy)

• La valle dei sorrisi - Paolo Strippoli (Italy, Slovenia)

• Dead Man's Wire - Gus Van Sant (USA)

• Orfeo - Virgilio Villoresi (Italy)

Out of Competition (Documentaries)

• Kabul, Between Prayers - Aboozar Amini (The Netherlands, Belgium)

• Ferdinando Scianna – Il fotografo dell'ombra - Roberto Andò (Italy)

• Marc by Sofia - Sofia Coppola (USA)

• I diari di Angela – Noi due cineasti. Capitolo terzo - Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi (Italy)

• Ghost Elephants - Werner Herzog (USA)

• My Father and Qaddafi - Jihan K (USA, Libya)

• The Tale of Sylian - Tamara Kotevska (North Macedonia)

• Nuestra Tierra - Lucrecia Martel (Argentina, USA, Mexico, France, The Netherlands, Denmark)

• Remake - Ross McElwee (USA)

• Kim Novak's Vertigo - Alexandre Philippe (USA)

• Cover-up - Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus (USA)

• Broken English - Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth (United Kingdom)

• Notes of a True Criminal - Alexander Rodnyansky, Andriy Alferov (Ukraine, USA)

• Director's Diary - Alexandr Sokurov (Russia, Italy)

• Back Home - Tsai Ming-liang (Taipei)

Out of Competition (Series)

• Un prophète – La série - Enrico Maria Artale (France)

• Portobello - Marco Bellocchio (Italy, France)

• Etty - Hagai Levi (France, Germany, The Netherlands)

• Il mostro - Stefano Sollima (Italy)

Out of Competition (Film & Music)

• Nino. 18 giorni - Toni D'Angelo (Italy)

• Piero Pelù. Rumore dentro - Francesco Fei (Italy)

• Newport and The Great Folk Dream - Robert Gordon (USA)

• Francesco De Gregori Nevergreen - Stefano Pistolini (Italy)

Out of Competition (Short Films)

• Origin - Yann Arthus-Bertrand

• Boomerang Atomic - Rachid Bouchareb

• How to Shoot a Ghost - Charlie Kaufman

Venice Spotlight

• Hijra - Shahad Ameen (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, United Kingdom)

• Un cabo suelto (A Loose End) - Daniel Hendler (Uruguay, Argentina, Spain)

• Made in EU - Stephan Komandarev (Bulgaria, Germany, Czech Republic)

• Motor City - Potsy Ponciroli (USA)

• It Would Be Night in Caracas - Mariana Rondón, Marité Ugás (Mexico, Venezuela)

• Silent Rebellion - Marie-Elsa Sgualdo (Switzerland, France, Belgium)

• Calle Malaga - Maryam Touzani (Morocco, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium)

• Ammazzare stanca - Daniele Vicari (Italy)

Horizons Competition

• Divine Comedy - Ali Asgari (Iran, Italy, France, Germany, Turkey)

• Hiedra - Ana Cristina Barragan (Ecuador, Mexico, France, Spain)

• Il rapimento di Arabella - Carolina Cavalli (Italy)

• Strange River - Jaume Claret Muxart (Spain, Germany)

• Lost Land - Akio Fujimoto (Japan, France, Malaysia, Germany)

• Grand Ciel - Akihiro Hata (France, Luxembourg)

• Rose of Nevada - Mark Jenkin (United Kingdom)

• Late Fame - Kent Jones (USA)

• Milk Teeth - Mihai Mincan (Romania, France, Denmark, Greece, Bulgaria)

• Pin de Fartie - Alejo Moguillansky (Argentina)

• Father - Tereza Nvotová (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland)

• En el camino - David Pablos (Mexico, France)

• Songs of Forgotten Trees - Anuparna Roy (India)

• Un anno di scuola - Laura Samani (Italy, France)

• The Souffleur - Gastón Solnicki (Austria, Argentina)

• Barrio triste - Stillz (Colombia, USA)

• Mother - Teona Strugar Mitevska (Belgium, North Macedonia, Sweden, Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• Human Resource - Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (Thailand)

• Funeral Casino Blues - Roderick Warich (Germany)