Sorrentino, Ozon and Sokurov: Venice Film Festival – Program 2025

Opening the competition this year will be cult Italian director Paolo Sorrentino with his film La grazia – with Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”) and Anna Ferzetti in the lead roles.

Further down the list is an equally impressive one. Together with Sorrentino for supremacy in the main screening will compete avant-garde Yorgos Lanthimos, who will show his new creation – a fantastic comedy “Bugonia” with Emma Stone; Guillermo del Toro and his “Frankenstein”; Olivier Assayas with the political thriller “The Kremlin Wizard” – with Jude Law as Putin; a new film by French director François Ozon “L’entranger”; the film László Nemesz “Orphan”, co-produced by Alexander Rodnyansky; and other films.

Luca Guadagnino will present his new thriller “After the Hunt” in the out-of-competition program. The main roles in the tape performed by Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield. The plot of the picture was inspired by the famous social movement to combat sexual violence and harassment #MeToo. In the same section, cult director Gus Van Sant will show the film Dead Man’s Wire, and Alexander Sokurov will present his documentary Diary of a Director.

Also during the festival plan to present a joint project of Ukrainian-Russian producer Alexander Rodnyansky and Ukrainian film critic Andrei Alferov – “Notes of a true criminal”.

“The title reflects my current life circumstances: a Russian court sentenced me in absentia to 8.5 years in prison. But that’s not what the movie is about, it includes most of my personal experience and turns out to be a lifetime long. And mine, and that of my family.
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It contains a lot of things – the mass shooting of Jews in Babi Yar, and the Soviet attempt to destroy the memory of this tragedy, and Chernobyl, and the collapse of the USSR, and the referendum on Ukrainian independence, and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Germany, and, of course, the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022…”, – writes Alexander Rodnyansky in his Instagram.

Main competition

• La grazia, Paolo Sorrentino;
• The Wizard of Kremlin, Olivier Assayas;
• Father Mother Sister Brother, Jim Jarmusch;
• Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos;
• Jay Kelly, Noah Baumback;
• The voice of Hind Rajab, Kauter Ben Hania;
• A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow;
• The sun rises on us all, Kai Shangjun;
• Frankenstein, Guillermo Del Toro;
• Elisa, Leonardo Di Costanza;
• A pied d’oeuvre, Valerie Donzelli;
• Silent Friend, Ildiko Enyedi;
• The Testament of Ann Lee, Mona Fastvold;
• Duse, Pietro Marcello;
• Un Film fatto per benne, Franco Maresco;
• Orphan, Laszlo Nemes;
• L’entranger, François Ozon;
• No other choice, Park Chan-wook;
• Sotto le Nuvole, Gianfranco Rosi;
• The Smashing Machine, Benny Safdie;
• Girl, Shu Qi.

Non-competitive program

• Director’s Diary, Alexander Sokurov;
• Notes of a True Criminal, Alexander Rodnyansky and Andrei Alferov;
• Dead Man’s Wire, Gus Van Sant;
• After the Hunt, Luca Guadagnino;
• How to shoot a ghost, Charlie Kaufman;
• Back Home, Tsai Mingliang;
• In the Hand of Date, Julian Schnabel;
• Hateshinaki Scarlet, Mamoru Hosoda;
• Sermon to the Void, Hilal Uzeyi Baidarov;
• Chien 51, Cedric Gimenez;
• Il Maestro, Andrea di Stefano;
• The Last Viking, Anders Thomas Jensen;
• L’Isola di Andrea, Antonio Capuano;
• La Valle Dei Sorrisi, Paolo Strippoli;
• Orfeo, Virgilio Villoresi.

Horizons Section

• Il Rapinento di Arabella, Carolina Cavali;
• Strange river, Jaume Claire Muksar;
• Lost Land, Akio Fujimoto;
• Grand Ciel, Akihiro Hata;
• Mother, Teona Strugar Mitevska;
• Divine comedy, Ali Asghari;
• Hiedra, Ana Cristina Barragan;
• Un Ano di Scuola, Laura Samani;
• The Souffleur, Gaston Solnicki;
• Barrio Triste, Stills;
• Human Resourse, Navapul Thamrongrattanarit;
• Funeral casino blues, Roderick Varich.
• Rose of Nevada, Mark Jenkin;
• Late Fame, Kent Jones;
• Milk Teeth, Mihai Minchan;
• Pin de Fartie, Alejo Mogilansky;
• Father, Teresa Nwotowa;
• En el Camino, David Pablos;
• Songs of forgotten trees, Anuparna Roy;