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UN FILM FATTO PER BENE by Franco Maresco

Concorso Venezia 82
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THE SUN RISES ON US ALL by Cai Shangjun

Concorso Venezia 82
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Silent witness

Silent Friend by Ildikó Enyedi: nature, memory, and human destinies
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FUNERAL CASINO BLUES by J. Lamoon, W. Dokkathum, J. Burinok

Orizzonti
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Friday, 5 september 2025
Saturday, 6 september 2025

Extra time

It all comes down to time – the decisive, extra time – in the selection of films screening today and tomorrow. In Competition, the highly anticipated Silent Friend by Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi is a meditation on deep time: a Ginkgo Biloba, witness to lives and centuries, provides the backdrop for a story that intertwines science, soul, nature, and the waiting of a neuroscientist (Tony Leung Chiu-wai). Tsai Ming-liang stops time itself, stretching it into long silent sequences. In Hui jia (Back Home), his lens turns to memory and return, to a cyclical time revealed through his unmistakable contemplative gaze...
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Francesco De Gregori

Francesco De Gregori is much more than a singer-songwriter: he is a narrator of the Italian soul...
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Newport Folk Festival, 1959

Newsport's Six Folk Songs...
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Piero Pelù

Piero Pelù is one of the most iconic figures in Italian rock...
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  • Director's Cut

Next-Gen audience

From 2012 onwards, we've witnessed a complete generational shift in the audience. Today, 70% of our passionate spectators are very young, ranging in age from 16 to 30, a truly impressive figure. To nurture this fresh, vibrant energy, we have implemented various promotional initiatives, such as low-cost accreditations for university students. Although it's often challenging, some of them even manage to find an accommodation in the city's hostels or student residences...
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COVER STORY

Silent Friend by Ildikó Enyedi

ON SCREEN

INTERVIEWS

25 Years of cinema in Friuli

25 Years of cinema in Friuli

Chiara Valenti Omero on the FVG Film Commission’s journey from its founding to supporting international productions
Pupi’s Cinema

Pupi’s Cinema

Tomaso Pessina on his documentary about Pupi Avati and Milan’s historic Cinema Odeon
Without Borders

Without Borders

A conversation with Roberto Stabile, Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual at the Italian Ministry of Culture – DGCA MiC
Silent witness

Silent witness

Silent Friend by Ildikó Enyedi: nature, memory, and human destinies
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MERRIMUNDI Niles Atallah

Orizzonti: more short films

by Redazione VeNews
Second day dedicated to short films at the Festival
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A Ridge Called Newport

by Massimo Bran
As with any art form, and especially with rock, there’s a temptation to pinpoint...
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Blur

by Riccardo Triolo
  • Rear Window
Salome1972

Carmelo Bene

by Andrea Zennaro
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Screenshot

Love at first sight

by Andrea Zennaro
Salce and Ginzburg between lightness and social contrasts
TODAY
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press conference

palazzo del casinò

FRIDAY 5 SEPTEMBER
12.00 NINO. 18 GIORNI (Out of Competition – Non Fiction – Cinema & Music)
12.40 PIERO PELÙ. RUMORE DENTRO (Out of Competition – Non Fiction – Cinema & Music)
13.20 SILENT FRIEND (Venezia 82)
14.00 NEWPORT AND THE GREAT FOLK DREAM (Out of Competition – Non Fiction – Cinema & Music)
14.35 RI GUA ZHONG TIAN (THE SUN RISES ON US ALL) (Venezia 82)
15.15 FRANCESCO DE GREGORI NEVERGREEN (Out of Competition – Non Fiction – Cinema & Music)

SATURDAY 6 SEPTEMBER
13.00 CHIEN 51 (Out of Competition – Fiction – Closing film)
Following the Closing Ceremony
21.15 The Juries of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival
22.00 Award Winners of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival

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

movies

5 Settembre

11:30

Sala Corinto

ANIKI-BÓBÓ

Manoel De Oliveira

(72')

13:30

Sala Perla

100 NIGHTS OF HERO

Julia Jackman

(90')

14:00

Sala Grande

BACK HOME

Tsai Ming-Liang

(67')

14:15

Sala Darsena

GRAND CIEL

Akihiro Hata

(91')

14:30

Sala Corinto

TI HO SPOSATO PER ALLEGRIA

Luciano Salce

(102')

15:00

Sala Casinò

NINO. 18 GIORNI

Toni D’Angelo

(90')

15:30

Sala Grande

UN FILM FATTO PER BENE

Franco Maresco

(100')

16:30

Sala Perla

DAMNED IF YOU DO, DAMNED IF YOU DON’T

Gianni Di Gregorio

(97')

16:45

Sala Darsena

FUNERAL CASINO BLUES

Roderick Warich

(153')

17:00

sala Casinò

PIERO PELÙ. RUMORE DENTRO

Francesco Fei

(82')

17:00

Sala Corinto

BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL

David Kittredge

(112')

18:00

Sala Grande

THE SUN RISES ON US ALL

Cai Shangjun

(133')

19:00

Sala Casinò

SERMON TO THE VOID

Hilal Baydarov

(112')

20:15

Sala Darsena

NEWPORT AND THE GREAT FOLK DREAM

Robert Gordon

(99')

21:00

Sala Grande

SILENT FRIEND

Ildikó Enyedi

(145')

21:15

Sala Giardino

L’ISOLA DI ANDREA

Antonio Capuano

(105')

21:30

Sala Laguna

6:06

Tekla Taidelli

(90')

22:30

Sala Darsena

FRANCESCO DE GREGORI NEVERGREEN

Stefano Pistolini

(89')

6 Settembre

21:45

Sala Grande

CHIEN 51

Cédric Jimenez

(100')

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past conference

Leonardo di Costanzo

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

The Voice of Hind Rajab – Film delegation

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

Kathryn Bigelow

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

Kathryn Bigelow

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

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

Jim Jarmush

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

Jim Jarmush

Gianfranco Rosi
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

Werner Herzog

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

Yorgos Lanthimos
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

Jacob Elordi

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

Jacob Elordi

Alexander Payne

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

Park Chan-wook

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

Valérie Donzelli

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

Luca Guadagnino

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

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

Julia Roberts

Emma Stone

How do you know I’m not an alien?

Emma Stone

Paolo Sorrentino

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

Alberto Barbera
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

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