31 august 2025 - Festival del Cinema di Venezia

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Jim Jarmusch

Focus on the American director, at Venice 82 with "Father Mother Sister Brother"

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The unstoppable innovator

MyMovies Celebrates 25 Years at the Festival with the Inaugural Blue Lounge

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The Scapegoat

Stephan Komandarev and Europe’s Fractures in Made in EU

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Fred’s Gang

Laura Samani makes A Year of School her own: adolescence, friendship, desire, and unwritten rules

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Sunday, 31 august 2025

Black mirrors

Among the many “monsters” and transformations that enliven this Festival, Jude Law’s turn as a young and ambitious Vladimir Putin in Olivier Assayas’s The Wizard of the Kremlin is certainly one of the boldest and most anticipated. Equally awaited is Jim Jarmusch’s family triptych Father Mother Sister Brother, featuring a stellar cast: Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Cate Blanchett, and Charlotte Rampling. Andrea Di Stefano weaves in My Tennis Maestro a coming-of-age comedy about a young aspiring tennis player and his unlikely coach (Pierfrancesco Favino)...

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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

The nature of power

Paul Dano’s portrayal is remarkable. He delivers an interpretation of such nuance and precision that, at times, we almost feel sympathy for a character capable of horrifying actions...

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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.

SOTTO LE NUVOLE

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FRANKEN-
STEIN

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TUTTE LE VOTAZIONI | ALL RATINGS

COVER STORY

THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN by Olivier Assayas

ON SCREEN

Concorso Venezia 82

FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER

Orizzonti

UN ANNO DI SCUOLA

Orizzonti

THE SOUFFLEUR

Out of Competition

IL MAESTRO

Venezia Spotlight

MADE IN EU

Venice Days

I WANT HER DEAD

Venice Classics

3:10 TO YUMA

Venice Classics

IL MAGNIFICO CORNUTO

Biennale College Cinema

AGNUS DEI

INTERVIEWS

The unstoppable innovator

MyMovies Celebrates 25 Years at the Festival with the Inaugural Blue Lounge

Fred’s Gang

Laura Samani makes A Year of School her own: adolescence, friendship, desire, and unwritten rules

The Scapegoat

Stephan Komandarev and Europe’s Fractures in Made in EU

Highlights

Truth and its shadows

by Nicola Davide Angerame

Cine-philo. Perspectives by Nicola Davide Angerame

Venice Immersive

The Big Cube

by Riccardo Triolo

Cubes as codified, repetitive behaviors. Essential, abstract...

Focus

Olivier Assayas

by Delphine Trouillard

Focus on the French director, in Venice with "The Wizard of the Kremlin"

The version of...

Giani Stuparich

by Loris Casadei

From Words to Screen for Laura Samani's Film

Highlights

The last train

by Giorgio Placereani

Redemption and waiting in Delmer Daves’s western

The version of...

Giuliano da Empoli

by Loris Casadei

From Words to Screen for Olivier Assayas' Film

Highlights

The spark of creativity

by Adele Spinelli

Music, cinema, art and science in dialogue on the San Servolo stage

Highlights

Bourgeois Satire

by Andrea Zennaro

Antonio Pietrangeli and the grotesque of jealousy

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press conference

palazzo del casinò

11.30 BIENNALE COLLEGE CINEMA
12. 15 NUESTRA TIERRA (Out of Competition – Non Fiction)
13.00 THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN) (Venezia 82)
13.45 UN PROPHÈTE (Out of Competition - Series)
14.25 FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER (Venezia 82)
15.05 IL MAESTRO (Out of Competition - Fiction)

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

11:00

Sala Perla

I WANT HER DEAD

Gianluca Matarrese

(87')

13:30

Sala Perla

GORGONÀ

Evi Kalogiropoulou

(95')

14:00

Sala Grande

NUESTRA TIERRA

Lucrecia Martel

(119')

14:00

Sala Corinto

IL MAGNIFICO CORNUTO

Antonio Pietrangeli

(124')

14:15

Sala Darsena

UN ANNO DI SCUOLA

Laura Samani

(102')

16:30

Sala Grande

THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIM

Olivier Assayas

(150')

16:30

Sala Perla

A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD

Cyril Aris

(110')

17:00

Sala Darsena

THE SOUFFLEUR

Gastón Solnicki

(78')

17:00

Sala Corinto

ELVIRA NOTARI: OLTRE IL SILENZIO

Valerio Ciriaci

(90')

17:00

Sala Giardino

AGNUS DEI

Massimiliano Camaiti

(73')

19:30

Sala Grande

FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER

Jim Jarmusch

(110')

21:00

Sala Giardino

MADE IN EU

Stephan Komandarev

(102')

21:30

Sala Laguna

LIFE BEYOND THE PINE CURTAIN – L’AMERICA DEGLI INVISIBILI

Giovanni Troilo

(77')

22:00

Sala Grande

IL MAESTRO

Andrea Di Stefano

(125')

BEST FROM THE PHOTOCALL

Rear Window

Vertigo

Stories inside movies

Highlights

The last train

Festival' Stories

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Interviews

The Ghosts of Time

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