2 september 2025 - Festival del Cinema di Venezia

A perfect balance between classics and new entries today at the Lido, with a female presence behind the camera that is anything but taken for granted. Kathryn Bigelow returns – the queen of tense, rigorous cinema and the first woman to win an Academy Award, in 2008, with The Hurt Locker, which premiered right here in Venice. With A House of Dynamite (Venice 82), Bigelow once again treads the line of American and global fears, telling the story of a race against time to stop a missile launched against the United States. The cast includes Idris Elba, Jason Clarke (who worked with Bigelow in Zero Dark Thirty), and Rebecca Ferguson. Also competing is François Ozon, with L’Étranger, adapted from Camus...

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THE LAST VIKING_ The Nordic school of film composers (especially from Denmark and Iceland) is today among the most compelling. Fifty-eight-year-old Jeppe Kaas, elder brother of
FRANKENSTEIN_Alexandre Desplat is currently the most sought-after film composer on the international scene. His eclecticism and prolific output

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Rejecting the regime

We know Ali Asgari well from his previous works. After his last participation at Venice Festival, he is back with an astonishing film addressing the themes of rejecting the regime, censorship, and ideological oppression in Iran, his home country, a nation suffering under one of the most severe religious and political dictatorships of our time...

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L’ÉTRANGER by François Ozon

ON SCREEN

Concorso Venezia 82

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE

Out of Competition

DEAD MAN’S WIRE

Out of Competition

I DIARI DI ANGELA – NOI DUE CINEASTI. CAPITOLO TERZO

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BARRIO TRISTE

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DIVINE COMEDY

Venice Classics

ROMA ORE 11

Venice Classics Doc

THE OZU DIARIES

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HOUSE OF STRANGERS

Venezia Spotlight

AMMAZZARE STANCA

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Call for entry

by Mariachiara Marzari

Applications open for the 2025 Prada Film Fund, supporting independent cinema

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The human condition

by Nicola Davide Angerame

Cine-philo. Perspectives by Nicola Davide Angerame

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Creative Rhythms

by Redazione VeNews

Third episode of L’Atto Creativo at San Servolo with Tony Esposito

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Albert Camus

by Loris Casadei

From Camus' 1942 book, the film by François Ozon

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Chronicle of a tragedy

by Andrea Zennaro

The restoration of Roma ore 11 by Giuseppe De Santis between civic commitment and stylistic innovation

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François Ozon

by Delphine Trouillard

Focus on the French director, at Venice 82 with "L'étranger"

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The Unexpected Des Bains

by Massimo Bran

Des Bains 1900, glamour night&day alla Mostra

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Male/female gaze

by Riccardo Triolo

Coppola vs. Bigelow: the female gaze meets the male gaze

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Fathers and shadows

by Giorgio Placereani

ouse of Strangers, a Mankiewicz to be rediscovered among American masters

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Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi

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The filmmaking duo embarked on an experimental journey to rediscover...

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11.15 VENICE IMMERSIVE
12.00 MARC BY SOFIA (Out Competition – Non Fiction)
12.40 ETTY (Out Competition – Series)
13.20 L'ÉTRANGER (Venezia 82)
14.00 A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (Venezia 82)
14.40 DEAD MAN’S WIRE (Out Competition -Fiction)

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

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HOUSE OF STRANGERS

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STRAIGHT CIRCLE

Oscar Hudson

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MARC BY SOFIA

Sofia Coppola

(97')

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Giuseppe De Santis

(105')

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DIVINE COMEDY

Ali Asgari

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L’ÉTRANGER

François Ozon

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Daniel Raim

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Gabriel Azorín

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Stillz

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I DIARI DI ANGELA – NOI DUE CINEASTI. CAPITOLO TERZO

Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi

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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE

Kathryn Bigelow

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AMMAZZARE STANCA

Daniele Vicari

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TONI, MIO PADRE

Anna Negri

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DEAD MAN’S WIRE

Gus Van Sant

(105')

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On behalf of all of us actors and in the name of the entire team, we ask: isn't it enough? Enough of the mass killing, the starvation, the dehumanization, the destruction, the ongoing occupation?

The Voice of Hind Rajab – Film delegation

How do you know I’m not an alien?

Emma Stone

Pardon is not only a legal instrument available to the President of the Republic but a sort of attitude towards the world and life, which is also a loving attitude.

Paolo Sorrentino

Anytime, during those two decades, I would tell this story to the people around me and no matter where I told it, no matter what country or culture, they would all relate to the story

Park Chan-wook

Creating something is on the one hand an immense joy, on the other also a pain. You have to be persevering, consistent, you have to believe. You doubt, you are afraid. Even the work of creation is violent.

Valérie Donzelli

The film is not about the wins and the losses. It’s about what happens when winning becomes the enemy, and we can all correlate to that pressure

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

The Creature in this movie is the purest form of myself – it’s more me than I am.

Jacob Elordi

What the film says, if anything, is that this dystopia is happening now, humanity is facing a reckoning very soon, I don’t know how much time we have left

Yorgos Lanthimos

Soon I was seated next to Francis Coppola watching a restoration of a 1938 silent film, and I thought, I’m in heaven!

Alexander Payne

I was interested in the approach to criminology, this way of looking at the bearer of evil so as not to leave him nailed to the wall like a butterfly for life.

Leonardo di Costanzo

In the meantime, we are really living in a house of dynamite

Kathryn Bigelow

The director spent 15 years reconstructing the complexities of this emblematic figure through direct testimonies. Mother Teresa is a symbol of assistance to the poor, but her character is also complex, contradictory, and at times even ambiguous. This complexity is brought to life in full by Noomi Rapace’s extraordinary performance, which captures every nuance of this controversial figure

Alberto Barbera

I think that even the lies of people tell the truth, as we know very well in many places in the world right now.

Luca Guadagnino

I discovered a phrase by Cocteau that says that Vesuvius produces all the clouds in the world: a wonderful image of this silent but active volcano, which becomes an accomplice of the skies of the world

Gianfranco Rosi

I don’t really know where the hell the story came from

Jim Jarmush

Which of my films do represent me the most? You cannot ask a mother which of your children represents your best, all of them. I love them all, and they’re all wonderful, and they couldn’t get any better.

Werner Herzog

We are challenging people to have conversation, to be excited or to be infuriated by that. It’s up to you