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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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159 articles available in total starting from 28/04/2025. Last article published on 10/10/2025.

Nicolas Wadimoff • Director of Who Is Still Alive

Interview: Nicolas Wadimoff • Director of Who Is Still Alive

"I experienced for the first time what it is to be with someone who experience a genocide, which is different from a war"

VENICE 2025: The Swiss director talks about his moving film, in which nine Palestinian refugees share their stories in minimalistic surroundings that reproduce the map of Gaza  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Gianluca Matarrese • Director of I Want Her Dead

Interview: Gianluca Matarrese • Director of I Want Her Dead

"This film is like a cinematic reality show"

VENICE 2025: The director reconnects with his Calabrian roots with his mix of reality, fiction and theatre, which tells of the feud within a family: his own, to be precise  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Claire Simon • Director of Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students

Interview: Claire Simon • Director of Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students

"The advantage of this idea was being able to portray the youth of today and hear Annie Ernaux's text"

VENICE 2025: The French director tells us about her new documentary, in which she explores the impact of the work penned by the author, about a group of secondary-school students  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Ana Cristina Barragán • Director of The Ivy

Interview: Ana Cristina Barragán • Director of The Ivy

“Ivy is a plant that is beautiful but also toxic; that duality really interested me”

VENICE 2025: The Ecuadorian director discusses the sensory approach, working with actors and the formal decisions behind her film  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Roderick Warich • Director of Funeral Casino Blues

Interview: Roderick Warich • Director of Funeral Casino Blues

“I’m always in between: I want to make horror films and I want to make Tokyo Story

VENICE 2025: The German director unpicks his Bangkok-set movie, a noir-tinged thriller in which love is stronger than life  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Akihiro Hata • Director of Grand Ciel

Interview: Akihiro Hata • Director of Grand Ciel

“My political reflections have always been my primary creative drive”

VENICE 2025: The Paris-based Japanese director discusses his social drama which morphs into a thriller, starring Damien Bonnard in the lead  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Leonardo Di Costanzo • Director of Elisa

Interview: Leonardo Di Costanzo • Director of Elisa

"It’s the mystery of evil that resides in the ordinary that struck me in that story”

VENICE 2025: The Italian director tells us what pushed him to tell the story of a normal woman who has committed a horrible crime and looks for a road to redemption  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Ildikó Enyedi • Director of Silent Friend

Interview: Ildikó Enyedi • Director of Silent Friend

“I wanted to show how quickly our gaze changes”

VENICE 2025: The Hungarian director gives us the low-down on her new feature, which centres on a ginkgo tree in three different timelines  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Virgilio Villoresi • Director of Orfeo

Interview: Virgilio Villoresi • Director of Orfeo

“I chose to adapt Poem Strip because it offered the opportunity to bring together all of the techniques I have refined over the years”

VENICE 2025: The debuting Italian director talks to us about his love of cinema, and about the personal memories that influenced his film  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Andrea Di Stefano • Director of My Tennis Maestro

Interview: Andrea Di Stefano • Director of My Tennis Maestro

“I’ve always wondered why films about sports only ever talk about the winners”

VENICE 2025: We talked to the Italian director about his new film, starring Pierfrancesco Favino as a failed tennis player  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

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