Werner Herzog

Focus on the 2025 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
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The woman behind the myth

Teona Strugar Mitevska on Mother and the human side of Mother Teresa
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The Juries of Venice 82

A global perspective on contemporary cinema at the Lido
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La Grazia

Concorso Venezia 82 (Opening film)
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mercoledì, 27 agosto 2025

Three years after winning the Grand Jury Prize with The Hand of God, Paolo Sorrentino returns to Venice, opening the Competition with the crepuscular, “presidential” love story La grazia. The film also marks his eighth collaboration with Toni Servillo, who by now can rightly be called Sorrentino’s alter ego. Starring alongside him is Roman actress Anna Ferzetti, recently seen in Ferzan Özpetek’s Diamonds...
  • Soundtrack

Daily #1

When it comes to the delicate art of composing film music, the Venice Film Festival is – perhaps more than other festivals – an excellent thermometer for measuring the state of the art. The 82nd edition will once again provide the opportunity to listen to the works of some of today’s leading figures in the field, as well as to discover new talents...  
  • Director's Cut
Cinema remains an extraordinary form of entertainment. It celebrates beauty and invites us to lose ourselves in a kind of ecstasy. But at the same time, it is also a powerful tool for understanding the world, for engaging with the present, and ultimately for exploring ourselves. In doing so it has a unique capacity that other art forms are missing...

ON SCREEN

  • Interviews
by Marisa Santin
Teona Strugar Mitevska on Mother and the human side of Mother Teresa
  • Highlights
by Redazione VeNews
A global perspective on contemporary cinema at the Lido
  • Highlights
by Redazione VeNews
Pietrangelo Buttafuoco opens the 82nd Venice Film Festival
  • Highlights
by Mariachiara Marzari
The official poster of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival is by illustrator Manuele Fior

HIGHLIGHTS

by Davide Carbone
At Riva di Corinto, free ideas in a free space
TODAY

press conference

palazzo del casinò

12.30 OPENING PRESS CONFERENCE of the 82nd VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, presentation of VENEZIA 82, ORIZZONTI, “LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS” VENICE AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT FILM and VENICE CLASSICS Juries
13.15 MOTHER (Orizzonti – Opening Film)
14.00 LA GRAZIA (Venezia 82)

Solo accreditati, prenotazione obbligatoria/ Press holders, only upon reservation

movies

16:00

Sala Darsena

Teona Strugar Mitevska

(103')

16:30

Sala Perla

Vladlena Sandu

(98')

19:00

Sala Grande

Paolo Sorrentino

(131')

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Aleksandr Sokurov
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Inadequacy as comedy
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Emma Stone

past conference

Festival
Playlist

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il meglio della programmazione culturale di Venezia / the best of Venice's cultural life

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