28 august 2025 - Festival del Cinema di Venezia

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The Architecture of the Mind

Tereza Nvotová and the intense portrait of a father overwhelmed by guilt by Marisa Santin

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Mirrored lives

Carolina Cavalli returns with Il rapimento di Arabella, a story of dreams, desires, and identity on the run

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JAY KELLY

Concorso Venezia 82

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Emma Stones

Focus on the actress, competing at Venice Film Festival with Bugonia

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giovedì, 28 agosto 2025

Shadows & Stars

A star-studded red carpet today. In Competition, Emma Stone reunites for the fourth time with Yorgos Lanthimos in Bugonia, a sci-fi dark comedy about very contemporary conspiracy paranoias, while George Clooney (joined by Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig, Jim Broadbent and Alba Rohrwacher) plays an actor at a crossroads in Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach’s third time at Venice...

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Soundtrack

Jerskin Fendrix

Composer and English musician, a Cambridge graduate in classical music, Jerskin Fendrix has developed a highly recognizable style that merges classical and pop music, creating an experimental and surreal sound experience. In 2020 he released his first album Winterreise (“winter journey”), a project that blends...

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Director's Cut

A higher form of truth

I believe we can confidently say that Werner Herzog is the greatest living documentary filmmaker. Beyond that, he is the one who has definitively shattered all the boundaries between documentary and fictional cinema. He is a director who has seamlessly blended forms, languages, and aesthetics...

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STAMPA INTERNAZIONALE | INTERNATIONAL CRITICS

INTERNATIONAL CRITICS

SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

THE HOLLYWOOD

REPORTER

THE FILM VERDICT

Boris Bastide

Le Monde

BEN CROLL

INDIEWIRE

JONATHAN ROMNEY

THE OBSERVER

TOMMASO KOCH

EL PAIS

J.H. Leitao Ramos

EXPRESSO

BARBARA HOLLENDER

rzeczpospolita

Daniel Kothenschulte

FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU

SCREEN INTERNAT.

HOLLYWOOD R.

FILM VERDICT

Le Monde

INDIEWIRE

THE OBSERVER

EL PAIS

THE TIMES

rzeczpospolita

FRANKFURTER R.

LA GRAZIA

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TUTTE LE VOTAZIONI | ALL RATINGS

COVER STORY

BUGONIA by Yorgos Lanthimos

ON SCREEN

Concorso Venezia 82

ORPHAN

Out of Competition

GHOST ELEPHANTS

Orizzonti

FATHER

Orizzonti

IL RAPIMENTO DI ARABELLA

Biennale College Cinema

SECRET OF A MOUNTAIN SERPENT

Venice Classics Doc

MEGADOC

Venice Classics

BASHÚ, GHARIBEH KOUCHAK

Venice Classics

THE DELICATE DELINQUENT

Venezia Spotlight

HIJRA

Highlights

25×4

by Mariachiara Marzari

Four projects at Venice to mark 25 years of the Torino Piemonte Film Commission

Focus

Aleksandr Sokurov

by Andrea Zennaro

Focus on the Russian Director presenting "Director's Diary" in Venice

Highlights

Wings to Unfold

by Adele Spinelli

A documentary on the female inmates of Giudecca, between work, art, and redemption

Highlights

Inadequacy as comedy

by Giorgio Placereani

The Delicate Delinquent, Jerry Lewis between humor and pathos in his first solo film

Interviews

Mirrored lives

by Marisa Santin

Carolina Cavalli returns with Il rapimento di Arabella, a story of dreams, desires, and identity on the run

Interviews

The Architecture of the Mind

by Marisa Santin

Tereza Nvotová and the intense portrait of a father overwhelmed by guilt

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press conference

palazzo del casinò

12.00 GHOST ELEPHANTS (Out of Competion) and GOLDEN LION FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT 2025 to WERNER HERZOG 12.45 ORPHAN (Venezia 82) 13.30 BUGONIA (Venezia 82) 14.30 JAY KELLY (Venezia 82)

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

11:00

Sala Perla

LAGŪNA

Sharunas Bartas

(102')

11:15

Sala Corinto

BASHÚ, GHARIBEH KOUCHAK

Bahram Beyzai

(120')

13:30

PalaBiennale

DIRECTOR’S DIARY

Aleksandr Sokurov

(305')

13:45

Sala Perla

STEREO GIRLS

Caroline Deruas Peano

(80')

14:00

Sala Grande

GHOST ELEPHANTS

Werner Herzog

(98')

14:15

Sala Darsena

FATHER

Tereza Nvotová

(102')

14:30

Sala Corinto

THE DELICATE DELINQUENT

Don Mcguire

(101')

16:15

Sala Grande

ORPHAN

László Nemes

16:45

Sala Perla

GIOIA

Nicolangelo Gelormini

(108')

17:00

Sala Darsena

IL RAPIMENTO DI ARABELLA

Carolina Cavalli

(107')

17:00

Sala Corinto

MEGADOC

Mike Figgis

(107')

17:00

Sala Giardino

SECRET OF A MOUNTAIN SERPENT

Nidhi Saxena

(103')

19:00

Sala Grande

BUGONIA

Yorgos Lanthimos

(117')

21:00

Sala Giardino

HIJRA

Shahad Ameen

(115')

21:00

Sala Laguna

DOM

Massimiliano Battistella

(83')

21:45

Sala Grande

JAY KELLY

Noah Baumbach

(132')

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Male/female gaze

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Truth and its shadows

Festival' Stories

Director's Cut

Mirror of the World

According to Barbera

Venice Immersive

Blur

Virtual Screens

past conference

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

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

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

Kathryn Bigelow

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

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

Jim Jarmush

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

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

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

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

Jacob Elordi

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

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

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

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

Julia Roberts

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

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