22/07/2025 - The festival's film selection is unveiled

The film selection for the 82nd Venice Film Festival is unveiled in Rome (updated live).

Competition

La grazia - Paolo Sorrentino (opening film)
The Wizard of the Kremlin - Olivier Assayas
Jay Kelly - Noah Baumbach
The Voice of Hind Rajab - Kaouther Ben Hania
A House of Dynamite - Kathryn Bigelow
The Sun Rises on Us All - Cai Shangjun
Frankenstein - Guillermo del Toro
Elisa - Leonardo Di Costanzo
À pied d'oeuvre - Valérie Donzelli
Silent Friend - Ildikó Enyedi
The Testament of Ann Lee - Mona Fastvold
Father Mother Sister Brother - Jim Jarmusch
Bugonia - Yorgos Lanthimos
Duse - Pietro Marcello
Un film fatto per bene - Franco Maresco
Orphan - László Nemes
L'étranger - François Ozon
No Other Choice - Park Chan-wook
Sotto le nuvole - Gianfranco Rosi
The Smashing Machine - Benny Safdie
Girl - Shu Qi

Out of Competition - Fiction

Sermon to the Void - Hilal Baydarov
L'isola di Andrea - Antonio Capuano
Il maestro - Andrea Di Stefano
After the Hunt - Luca Guadagnino
Scarlet - Mamoru Hosoda
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
Chien 51 - Cédric Jimenez (closing film)

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, Angela Ricci Lucchi
Ghost Elephants - Werner Herzog
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, Mark Obenhaus
Broken English - Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth
Notes of a True Criminal - Alexander Rodnyansky, Andriy Alferov
Director's Diary - Aleksandr Sokurov
Back Home - Tsai Ming-liang

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
Francesco de Gregori Nevergreen - Stefano Pistolini

Out of Competition - Series

Portobello - Marco Bellocchio
Un prophète - Enrico Maria Artale
Etty - Hagai Levi
Il mostro - Stefano Sollima

Out of Competition - Short Films

Origin - Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Boomerang Atomic - Rachid Bouchareb
How to Shoot a Ghost - Charlie Kaufman

Orizzonti

Mother - Teona Strugar Mitevska (opening film)
Divine Comedy - Ali Asgari
Hiedra - Ana Cristina Barragán
Il rapimento di Arabella - Carolina Cavalli
Estrany riu - Jaume Claret Muxart
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
Father - Tereza Nvotová
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, Marité Ugas
À bras-le-corps - Marie-Elsa Sgualdo
Calle Málaga - Maryam Touzani
Ammazzare stanca - Daniele Vicari

Venice Classics

Mata Hari - Joe Beshenkovsky, James A Smith
Elvira Notari: Oltre il silenzio - Valerio Ciriaci
Louis Malle, le révolté - Claire Duguet
Memoria de los olvidados - Javier Espada
Megadoc - Mike Figgis
Boorman and the Devil - David Kittredge
Holofiction - Michal Kosakowski
Sangre del toro - Yves Montmayeur
The Ozu Diaries - Daniel Raim

Biennale College Cinema

Agnus Dei - Massimiliano Camaiti
One Woman One Bra - Vincho Nchogu
Becoming Human - Polen Ly
Secret of a Mountain Serpent - Nidhi Saxena