29 august 2025 - Festival del Cinema di Venezia

The first appearance at the Festival of a star like Julia Roberts – playing a university professor faced with a traumatic choice – marks the return to Venice of Luca Guadagnino. In After the Hunt (Out of Competition), he tackles the theme of sexual harassment from his very personal perspective. The cast also features Andrew Garfield. With Cover-Up, Laura Poitras (All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Golden Lion 2022) and Mark Obenhaus bring to the Lido a political thriller about the career of investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh...

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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...

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Jerskin Fendrix

Composer and English musician, a Cambridge graduate in classical music...

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Director's Cut

Global horizons

The Orizzonti program includes films from all over the world, even from areas that are often completely unknown to us. This reinforces the idea that this line-up is able to present a truly open and inclusive picture of the current state of global cinema...

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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.

ORPHAN

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BUGONIA

Rated 4 out of 5

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JAY KELLY

Rated 3.5 out of 5

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TUTTE LE VOTAZIONI | ALL RATINGS

COVER STORY

No Other Choice
by Park Chan-Wook

ON SCREEN

Concorso Venezia 82

À PIED D’OEUVRE

Orizzonti

STRANGE RIVER

Orizzonti

MILK TEETH

Venice Classics

LE QUAI DES BRUMES

Venice Classics Doc

SANGRE DEL TORO

Biennale College Cinema

BECOMING HUMAN

Highlights

Italian Cinema Between Grace and Joy

by Nicola Davide Angerame

Cine-philo. Perspectives by Nicola Davide Angerame

Venice Immersive

Reflections of Little Red Dot

by Riccardo Triolo

The postcolonial age is not over...

Focus

Valérie Donzelli

by Delphine Trouillard

Focus on the French director who presents "À pied d'oeuvre" in Venice

Highlights

Light and Storytelling

by Redazione VeNews

Masterclass with Daria D’Antonio and Tommaso Lusena de Sarmiento

Highlights

Beyond the fog

by Andrea Zennaro

The restored masterpiece of Marcel Carné shines again among the Classics

Interviews

The secrets of the river

by Marisa Santin

Jaume Claret Muxart makes his feature debut with a coming-of-age story along the banks of the Danube

Interviews

The girl with her ear against the wall

by Marisa Santin

The Romanian director Mihai Mincan returns to Orizzonti with Milk Teeth

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press conference

palazzo del casinò

11.30 AFTER THE HUNT (Out of Competition - Fiction)
12.10 COVER-UP (Out of Competition – Non Fiction)
12.50 THE TALE OF SILYAN (Out of Competition – Non Fiction)
13.30 À PIED D'OEUVRE (Venezia 82)
14.10 EOJJEOL SUGA EOPDA (NO OTHER CHOICE) (Venezia 82)
14.50 MY FATHER AND QADDAFI (Out of Competition – Non Fiction)
15.30 ZAPISNAYA KNIZHKA REZHISSERA (DIRECTOR’S DIARY) (Out of Competition – Non Fiction)

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

11:00

Sala Corinto

MARK OF THE RENEGADE

Hugo Fregonese

(81')

13:45

Sala Perla

AGON

Giulio Bertelli

(100')

14:00

Sala Grande

COVER-UP

Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus

(117')

14:15

Sala Darsena

STRANGE RIVER

Jaume Claret Muxart

(103')

14:30

Sala Casinò

THE TALE OF SYLIAN

Tamara Kotevska

(80')

14:30

Sala Corinto

LE QUAI DES BRUMES

Marcel Carné

(92')

16:30

Sala Casinò

MY FATHER AND QADDAFI

Jihan K

(88')

16:45

Sala Grande

À PIED D’OEUVRE

Valérie Donzelli

(92')

16:45

Sala Perla

ARKOUDOTRYPA

Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B. Papadakis

(127')

17:00

Sala Darsena

MILK TEETH

Mihai Mincan

(104')

17:00

Sala Corinto

SANGRE DEL TORO

Yves Montmayeur

(85')

17:00

Sala Giardino

BECOMING HUMAN

Polen Ly

(101')

18:45

Sala Grande

AFTER THE HUNT

Luca Guadagnino

(139')

21:00

Sala Giardino

CALLE MALAGA

Maryam Touzani

(116')

21:30

Sala Laguna

UNA COSA VICINA

Loris G. Nese

(90')

21:45

Sala Grande

NO OTHER CHOICE

Park Chan-wook

(139')

BEST FROM THE PHOTOCALL

Highlights

Orizzonti: more short films

Festival' Stories

Director's Cut

Global horizons

According to Barbera

Highlights

A cloud stolen from Tiepolo

Festival' Stories

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