The teams behind the four projects chosen to access feature film production support in the 14th edition (2025 - 2026) of Biennale College - Cinema hail from China, Italy, Mexico and the USA. Following on from the screenplay workshop which ended on 5 December, Friday 9 January will see the online pre-production workshop unspooling, which is then due to wrap on 16 January.

At the end of the pre-production workshop, production on these four micro-budget feature films will truly kick off, with a 200,000-euro contribution from the Biennale going to each of them. The four films will then be presented in the 83rd Venice International Film Festival (running 2 – 12 September 2026). Biennale College Cinema is supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture’s Film Department, with additional backing from Chanel and academic collaboration from the Gotham Film & Media Institute and TorinoFilmLab. Training activities within the initiative are funded by the Creative Europe - Media programme. Alberto Barbera is the festival director while Savina Neirotti is programme head.

Biennale College Cinema – Immersive - organised by the Venice Biennale with the aim of exploring immersive media as a new artistic form, and now in its 10th year (2025-2026) - will also be continuing its activities. 12 selected projects took part in the international workshop held in Venice between 2 December and 9 December. Biennale College Cinema - Immersive also enjoys backing from the Italian Ministry of Culture’s Film Department, whilst its training activities are similarly funded by the Creative Europe – Media programme.

The full list of projects is as follows:

Biennale College Cinema

Demeter in Exile - Maria Giovanna Cicciari (Italy, first work)
Producer: Raffaella Pontarelli (Italy)

Tijuana Todavía - Gabriel Gutierrez Morales (Mexico, first work)
Producer: Humberto Busto Marín (Mexico)

Gu Shi - Yinan Song (China, first work)
Producer: Yueyi Xing (China)

Moonfish - Daniel Zvereff (USA, first work)
Producer: Mireia Villanova (Spain)

Biennale College Cinema - Immersive

Ten Ghosts Walk With You: Immersive Memories of a War that Never Ends - Alejandro Angel (Colombia)
Producer: Juan José Jaramillo (Colombia)

Visitor - Spyridon Boukas (Greece)
Producers: Vicky Miha, Paul Typaldos (Greece)

Mystis - Tatiana Collet Apraxine (France)
Producer: Tom Higham (UK)

Pelle - Stefano Conca Bonizzoni (Italy)
Producers: Filippo Ticozzi, Virginia Valesio (Italy)

Isabella Andreini - The Revolution on Stage - Giulia Falciani (Italy)
Producer: Christoph Mohr (Germany)

Oubliette - Wen Yee Hsieh (Taiwan)
Producer: Wu Hung (Taiwan)

Primer Plano - Giulia Jiménez Tani (Venezuela)
Producer: Stefania Chehade (Venezuela)

Sāmoa Ocean Odyssey - Yuki Kihara (Samoa)
Producer: Keiran McGee (Australia)

Unstill Stillness - Bang-Yao Liu (Taiwan)
Producer: Shih-An Chen (Taiwan)

The Mother Tree - Vernante Pallotti (Italy)
Producer: Barbara Do Carmo Matsusaki (Brazil)

Desert Palms - Tristan Seniul (USA)
Producer: John Gerard (USA)

Damned - Nataliya Velykanova (France)
Producer: Raphaëlle Sleurs (France)