\n\tOscar season starts here. <\/p>\n
\n\tWith its 2025 line-up, announced Tuesday, the Venice Film Festival<\/a> has (again) taken the award season pole position, with a program packed with a frankly absurd number of must-see movies. <\/p>\n \n\tAmong the hot awards titles heading to the Lido are Benny Safdie\u2019s The Smashing Machine<\/a>, from A24, featuring Dwayne Johnson as two\u2011time UFC heavyweight champion Mark Kerr and Emily Blunt as his wife Dawn; Luca Guadagnino\u2019s #MeToo\u2013inspired thriller After the Hunt<\/a>, for Amazon MGM Studios, starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri, will premiere out of competition; and Guillermo del Toro\u2019s dark reimagining of Frankenstein<\/a>, featuring Jacob Elordi, Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth, a Netflix production. <\/p>\n \n\tThis will mark the Venice festival debut for both Roberts and Johnson. <\/p>\n \n\tNetflix, which sat out Vence last year, is back in force for 2025. Alongside Frankenstein, the streamer has Noah Baumbach\u2019s comedy\u2011drama Jay Kelly<\/a>, co-written with Emily Mortimer, and headlined by George Clooney, premiering in competition, and Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s ticking bomb geopolitical thriller A House of Dynamite<\/a>, starring Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Greta Lee, Gabriel Basso and Jared Harris.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Venice line-up is an embarrassment of riches, for award-watchers and regular film fans alike, with the competition selection including the latest from A-list auteurs Park Chan-wook (No Other Choice), Fran\u00e7ois Ozon (L\u2019Etranger), and Laszlo Nemes (Orphan). A year after Brady Corbet\u2019s The Brutalist launched in Venice, en route to three Oscar wins, the film\u2019s co-writer (and producer) Mona Fastvold arrives in competition with The Testament of Ann Lee, a historical drama musical film she co-wrote with Corbet.<\/p>\n \n\tYorgos Lanthimos, a Venice Golden Lion winner for Poor Things, returns in competition with Bugonia<\/a>, an adaptation of Jang Joon-Hwan\u2019s 2003 South Korean sci-fi film Save the Green Planet!, featuring his frequent collaborator Emma Stone. Focus Features will release the film stateside, with Universal Pictures handling internationally outside of Korea, where CJ ENM will release. <\/p>\n \n\tAnd iconic indie director Jim Jarmusch<\/a>, a Cannes regular, will make his Lido debut with Mubi\u2019s Father Mother Sister Brother<\/a>, a triptych starring Cate Blanchett and Adam Driver. <\/p>\n \n\tThe 82nd Venice competition line-up also includes the latest from A-list auteurs Park Chan-wook (No Other Choice), Fran\u00e7ois Ozon (L\u2019Etranger), and Laszlo Nemes (Orphan)<\/p>\n \n\tItalian Oscar-winning Paolo Sorrentino<\/a> (The Great Beauty) will open this year\u2019s festival<\/a> with La Grazia (Grace), a love story starring his long-time collaborator Toni Servillo. La Grazia, co-starring Diamonds actor Anna Ferzetti, will premiere in competition on Aug. 27. Mubi picked up the film ahead of its Venice bow.<\/p>\n \n\tDog 51, a new action-packed French sci-fi thriller from Bac Nord director Cedric Jimenez will close the festival, out of competition. <\/p>\n \n\tGus Van Sant\u2019s return to feature films, Dead Man\u2019s Wire, starring Bill Skarsgard, will also screen out of competition. Other out of competition highlights include Anders Thomas Jensen\u2019s Danish dark comedy The Last Viking starring Mads Mikkelsen, and Julian Schnabel\u2019s long-awaited The Hand of Dante. <\/p>\n \n\tThis year\u2019s Golden Lion career achievement honorees are legendary German director Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man) and Vertigo star Kim Novak.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tVenice\u2019s Classic sidebar, which includes a selection on documentaries about cinema, will this year include Mike Figgis\u2019 Megadoc, a behind-the-scene look at the making of Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s decades-in-the-making Megalopolis.<\/p>\n \n\tTwo-time Oscar-winner Alexander Payne heads up this year\u2019s competition jury as president<\/a>, and together with international film talents<\/a> including Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, French director St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9, Italian director Maura Delpero, Chinese actress Zhao Tao, and Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, will pick the 2025 Golden Lion winner.<\/p>\n \n\tThe 2025 Venice film festival runs Aug. 27 to Sept. 9. <\/p>\n \t\tOpening Film<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n \n\tLa Grazia, dir. Paolo Sorrentino (Italy) (In competition)<\/p>\n \t\tClosing Film<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n \n\tDog 51, dir. Cedric Jimenez (France) <\/p>\n \t\tCompetition<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n \n\tThe Wizard of the Kremlin, dir. Olivier Assayas (France) \t\tOut of Competition (Fiction)<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n \n\tBo\u015flu\u011fa x\u00fctb\u0259 (Sermon to the Void), dir. Hilal Baydarov (Azerbaijan, Mexico, Turkey) \t\tOut of Competition (Non-Fiction)<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n \n\tKabul, Between Prayers, dir. Aboozar Amini (The Netherlands, Belgium) \t\tOut of Competition (Series)<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n \n\tUn proph\u00e8te \u2013 La s\u00e9rie, dir. Enrico Maria Artale (France) \t\tOut of Competition \u2013 Film & Music\t<\/p>\n \n\tNino. 18 giorni, dir. Toni D\u2019Angelo (Italy) \t\tVenice Spotlight \t<\/p>\n \n\tHijra, dir. Shahad Ameen (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, United Kingdom) \t\tHorizons Competition<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n \n\tDivine Comedy, dir. Ali Asgari (Iran, Italy, France, Germany, Turkey)
Jay Kelly, dir. Noah Baumbach (USA, UK, Italy)
The Voice of Hind Rajab, dir. Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia, France)
A House of Dynamite, dir. Kathryn Bigelow (USA)
Sun Rises on Us All, dir. Cai Shangjun (China)
Frankenstein, dir. Guillermo Del Toro (USA)
Elisa, dir. Leonardo Di Costanzo (Italy, Switzerland)
\u00c0 pied d\u2019\u0153uvre, dir. Val\u00e9rie Donzelli (France)
Silent Friend, dir. Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi (Germany, France, Hungary)
The Testament of Ann Lee, dir. Mona Fastvold (UK)
Father Mother Sister Brother, dir. Jim Jarmusch (USA, Ireland, France)
Bugonia, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos (United Kingdom)
Duse, dir. Pietro Marcello (Italy)
Un film fatto per Bene, dir. Franco Maresco (Italy)
Orphan, dir. L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Nemes (Hungary, United Kingdom, Germany, France)
The Stranger, dir. Fran\u00e7ois Ozon (France)
No Other Choice, dir. Park Chan-wook (South Korea)
Sotto le nuvole, dir. Gianfranco Rosi (Italy)
The Smashing Machine, dir. Benny Safdie (Canada, USA, Japan)
Girl, dir. Shu Qi (Taipei)
La Grazia, dir. Paolo Sorrentino (Italy)<\/p>\n
L\u2019isola di Andrea, dir. Antonio Capuano (Italy)
Il Maestro, dir. Andrea Di Stefano (Italy)
After the Hunt, dir. Luca Guadagnino (USA)
Hateshinaki Scarlet, dir. Mamoru Hosoda (Japan)
The Last Viking, dir. Anders Thomas Jensen (Denmark, Sweden)
Chien 51, dir. C\u00e9dric Jimenez (France)
In the Hand of Dante, dir. Julian Schnabel (USA, Italy)
La valle dei sorrisi, dir. Paolo Strippoli (Italy, Slovenia)
Dead Man\u2019s Wire, dir. Gus Van Sant (USA)
Orfeo, dir. Virgilio Villoresi (Italy)<\/p>\n
Ferdinando Scianna \u2013 Il fotografo dell\u2019ombra, dir. Roberto And\u00f2 (Italy)
Marc by Sofia, dir. Sofia Coppola (USA)
I diari di Angela \u2013 Noi due cineasti. Capitolo terzo, dir. Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi (Italy)
Ghost Elephants, dir. Werner Herzog (USA)
My Father and Qaddafi, dir. Jihan K (USA, Libya)
The Tale of Sylian, dir. Tamara Kotevska (North Macedonia)
Nuestra Tierra, dir. Lucrecia Martel (Argentina, USA, Mexico, France, The Netherlands, Denmark)
Remake, dir. Ross McElwee (USA)
Kim Novak\u2019s Vertigo, dir. Alexandre Philippe (USA)
Cover-up, dir. Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus (USA)
Broken English, dir. Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth (United Kingdom)
Notes of a True Criminal, dir. Alexander Rodnyansky, Andriy Alferov (Ukraine, USA)
Director\u2019s Diary, dir. Alexandr Sokurov (Russia, Italy)
Back Home, dir. Tsai Ming-liang (Taipei)<\/p>\n
Portobello, dir. Marco Bellocchio (Italy, France)
Etty, dir. Hagai Levi (France, Germany, The Netherlands)
Il mostro, dir. Stefano Sollima (Italy)<\/p>\n
Piero Pel\u00f9. Rumore dentro, dir. Francesco Fei (Italy)
Newport and The Great Folk Dream, dir. Robert Gordon (USA)
Francesco De Gregori Nevergreen, dir. Stefano Pistolini (Italy)<\/p>\n
Un cabo suelto (A Loose End), dir. Daniel Hendler (Uruguay, Argentina, Spain)
Made in EU, dir. Stephan Komandarev (Bulgaria, Germany, Czech Republic)
Motor City, dir. Potsy Ponciroli (USA)
It Would Be Night in Caracas, dir. Mariana Rond\u00f3n, Marit\u00e9 Ug\u00e1s (Mexico, Venezuela)
Silent Rebellion, dir. Marie-Elsa Sgualdo (Switzerland, France, Belgium)
Calle Malaga, dir. Maryam Touzani (Morocco, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium)
Ammazzare stanca, dir. Daniele Vicari (Italy)<\/p>\n
Hiedra, dir. Ana Cristina Barragan (Ecuador, Mexico, France, Spain)
Il rapimento di Arabella, dir. Carolina Cavalli (Italy)
Strange River, dir. Jaume Claret Muxart (Spain, Germany)
Lost Land, dir. Akio Fujimoto (Japan, France, Malaysia, Germany)
Grand Ciel, dir. Akihiro Hata (France, Luxembourg)
Rose of Nevada, dir. Mark Jenkin (United Kingdom)
Late Fame, dir. Kent Jones (USA)
Milk Teeth, dir. Mihai Mincan (Romania, France, Denmark, Greece, Bulgaria)
Pin de Fartie, dir. Alejo Moguillansky (Argentina)
Father, dir. Tereza Nvotov\u00e1 (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland)
En el camino, dir. David Pablos (Mexico, France)
Songs of Forgotten Trees, dir. Anuparna Roy (India)
Un anno di scuola, dir. Laura Samani (Italy, France)
The Souffleur, dir. Gast\u00f3n Solnicki (Austria, Argentina)
Barrio triste, dir. Stillz (Colombia, USA)
Mother, dir. Teona Strugar Mitevska (Belgium, North Macedonia, Sweden, Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Human Resource, dir. Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (Thailand)
Funeral Casino Blues, dir. Roderick Warich (Germany)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar season starts here. With its 2025 line-up, announced Tuesday, the Venice Film Festival has (again) taken the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,1801,56553,30988,67,132,68,30989,31074],"class_list":{"0":"post-83051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-international","10":"tag-jim-jarmusch","11":"tag-paolo-sorrentino","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-venice-film-festival","16":"tag-venice-film-festival-2025"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114896653855720500","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}