3 september 2025 - Festival del Cinema di Venezia

The second week at the Lido shows no signs of slowing down: star-studded casts, bold productions, and highly anticipated works dominate today’s lineup. Leading the way is In the Hand of Dante, Julian Schnabel’s latest effort, which will receive the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award. A constellation of stars shines on this adaptation of Nick Tosches’s novel about the discovery of the original manuscript of the Divine Comedy: Al Pacino, Martin Scorsese, John Malkovich, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Louis Cancelmi, Italians Franco Nero and Sabrina Impacciatore, plus the versatile Benjamin Clementine, apparently making a definitive break from music. Absent are Gal Gadot and Gerald Butler, criticized for ties to the Israeli government. The voice of Gaza is brought by Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania with The Voice of Hind Rajab, backed by Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jonathan Glazer...

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Soundtrack

Daily #5

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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Director's Cut

Reality in cinema

There is undoubtedly a return to what we might call cinema of reality. Even fiction and auteur films are increasingly engaging with real events, contemporary life, and the major issues we face every day: wars, climate change, social tensions, discrimination, populism, authoritarianism...

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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.

L’ÉTRANGER

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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE

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TUTTE LE VOTAZIONI | ALL RATINGS

COVER STORY

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB by Kaouther Ben Hania

ON SCREEN

Out of Competition

IN THE HAND OF DANTE

Orizzonti

HIEDRA

Orizzonti

HUMAN RESOURCE

Venice Classics

LOLITA

Venice Classics Doc

MEMORIA DE LOS OLVIDADOS

Venice Classics

AIQING WANSUI

INTERVIEWS

The shadow of the white lily

Ana Cristina Barragán and Ecuadorian cinema between intimacy, nature, and desire

South Tyrol on screen

Renate Ranzi leads IDM Film & Music Commission in promoting local talent, productions, and locations

On the right side

Motta on the Edipo Re Jury, where music meets vision

Highlights

Kubrick’s obsession

by Andrea Zennaro

The restored Lolita and the roots of an auteur

The version of...

Nick Tosches

by Loris Casadei

The book on which Julian Schnabel's film, "In the Hand of Dante," is based

Venice Immersive

Mirage

by Riccardo Triolo

Seeing, feeling, acting. More and more XR projects are...

Rear Window

The only role

by Andrea Zennaro

The legendary actress on screen in the unique experience of Cenere

Highlights

The sea beckons

by Massimo Bran

Blue Lounge, the Venice Film Festival’s new hub

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press conference

palazzo del casinò

11.30 KABUL, BETWEEN PRAYERS (Out of Competition – Non Fiction)
12.10 REMAKE (Out of Competition – Non Fiction)
12.50 THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB (Venezia 82)
13.30 DUSE (Venezia 82)
14.10 IN THE HAND OF DANTE (Out of Competition - Fiction)
14.50 ZAPISKI NASTOYASHEGO PRESTUPNIKA (NOTES OF A TRUE CRIMINAL) (Out of Competition – Non Fiction)

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

14:00

Sala Grande

REMAKE

Ross McElwee

(114')

14:00

Sala Corinto

LOLITA

Stanley Kubrick

(153')

14:00

Sala Perla

COTTON QUEEN

Suzannah Mirghani

(89')

14:15

Sala Darsena

HIEDRA

Ana Cristina Barragán

(98')

14:30

Sala Casinò

KABUL, BETWEEN PRAYERS

Aboozar Amini

(99')

16:30

Sala Grande

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB

Kaouther Ben Hania

(90')

16:45

Sala Casinò

NOTES OF A TRUE CRIMINAL

Alexander Rodnyansky, Andriy Alferov

(117')

17:00

Sala Darsena

HUMAN RESOURCE

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit

(122')

17:00

Sala Perla

VAINILLA

Mayra Hermosillo

(96')

17:15

Sala Corinto

MEMORIA DE LOS OLVIDADOS

Javier Espada

(102')

18:45

Sala Grande

DUSE

Pietro Marcello

(122')

21:00

Sala Giardino

UN CABO SUELTO

Daniel Hendler

(95')

21:00

Sala Laguna

INDIETRO COSÌ!

Antonio Morabito

(94')

21:30

Sala Grande

IN THE HAND OF DANTE

Julian Schnabel

(150')

BEST FROM THE PHOTOCALL

Highlights

The Juries of Venice 82

Festival' Stories

The version of...

Samuel Beckett

From words to movie

Director's Cut

Daring debuts

According to Barbera

Venice Immersive

Blur

Virtual Screens

past conference

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

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

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

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

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

Kathryn Bigelow

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

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

Julia Roberts

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jacob Elordi

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