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REPORT: Venice 2025

Cineuropa is covering the 82nd Venice Film Festival live with reviews, interviews, news...

REPORT: Venice 2025
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165 articles available in total starting from 28/04/2025. Last article published on 17/11/2025.

Loris G Nese • Director of A Near Thing

Interview: Loris G Nese • Director of A Near Thing

“I looked for alternative forms to express the impossibility of depicting the feelings and paths I’d experienced”

The Italian director discusses his documentary, in which he looks to reconstruct the memories he doesn’t have of his father, who was killed in a feud when the former was only 4 years old  

17/11 | /Italy

Marie-Elsa Sgualdo • Director of Silent Rebellion

Interview: Marie-Elsa Sgualdo • Director of Silent Rebellion

"We went back in time to explore just how complicated it was for women to assert their autonomy"

The Swiss filmmaker looks back on the making of her first feature, a period drama charting the courageous path to emancipation walked by a very young woman during the Second World War  

12/11 | Arras 2025

Review: A State Film

Review: A State Film

Roland Sejko’s documentary examines the propaganda machine employed by Enver Hoxha in Albania, which speaks to the current Trumpian approach of constant, aggressive communications  

30/10 | Jihlava 2025

Aboozar Amini  • Director of Kabul, Between Prayers

Interview: Aboozar Amini • Director of Kabul, Between Prayers

“What struck me most on this return to Kabul was exhaustion — people are tired, not just physically, but historically”

The filmmaker, who left Afghanistan in 2001, breaks down how he made the second part of his documentary trilogy about Kabul  

30/10 | Astra 2025

Review: Be Loved

Review: Be Loved

Elisa Amoruso’s new film charts two women’s paths toward motherhood – and their free choice – in a work that’s both intimate and socially minded  

15/10 | Films | Reviews | Italy

Review: Dog 51

Review: Dog 51

Cédric Jimenez’s meaty and frenetic adaptation of Laurent Gaudé's dystopian novel is a convincing action film whose pace sadly suffocates any nuance  

14/10 | Films | Reviews | France/Belgium

Review: Elvira Notari: Beyond Silence

Review: Elvira Notari: Beyond Silence

Valerio Ciriaci’s documentary breaks the silence around the first woman director in the history of Italian cinema, and explores her impact on the present  

10/10 | Films | Reviews | Italy/USA

Review: Andrea’s Island

Review: Andrea’s Island

In his new film, 85-year-old director Antonio Capuano once again looks at the world through the eyes of a child, tackling the traumatic separation of a couple with a son  

01/10 | Films | Reviews | Italy

Massimiliano Battistella • Director of Dom

Interview: Massimiliano Battistella • Director of Dom

"When you’re telling certain stories, it’s important to question your ethical motivations, to listen, and to try to stay one step behind"

VENICE 2025: The Italian director's film tells the story of Mirela Hodo, who was a child during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, travelling from Dom Bjelave orphanage to Romagna, and back again  

12/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Giovanni Troilo • Director of Life Beyond the Pine Curtain – America the Invisible

Interview: Giovanni Troilo • Director of Life Beyond the Pine Curtain – America the Invisible

“Beyond that curtain of trees there’s a Texas which defies clichés”

VENICE 2025: The Italian director chats about his documentary, revealing the undiscovered region of East Texas which voted for Trump  

12/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

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