Venice Mostra 2025: the great names of cinema invite themselves to the Lido

From August 27 to September 6, 2025, the 82nd Venice Film Festival will bring together Paolo Sorrentino, Luca Guadagnino, François Ozon and Guillermo del Toro for a highly anticipated edition.

Filmmaker Alexander Payne will preside over this latest edition of the prestigious Italian festival. He succeeds Isabelle Huppert, embodying a transatlantic opening, flanked by actresses Maura Delpero (Italy) and Fernanda Torres (Brazil). The tone is set: an edition marked by the diversity of stories and viewpoints.

The opening film, Paolo Sorrentino‘s La Grazia, promises to be a festival highlight. In keeping with his baroque, melancholy aesthetic, the Neapolitan filmmaker returns with a highly personal work. Cédric Jimenez closes the festival with Chien 51, a high-octane drama that revisits the social tensions already explored in Bac Nord.

A dense and cosmopolitan official selection

French filmmakers are well represented in the competition: Olivier Assayas adapts Le Mage du Kremlin, François Ozon tackles Camus’ L’Étranger, and Valérie Donzelli presents À pied d’œuvre. These are films rooted in contemporary literature and society. The selection also welcomes Jim Jarmusch with Father Mother Sister Brother and Guillermo del Toro with a retelling of Frankenstein.

Another eagerly-awaited return: Yórgos Lánthimos, winner of the Golden Lion in 2023 for Poor Things, presents Bugonia with Emma Stone. A new, offbeat universe for the already cult duo.

Documentaries in the spotlight out of competition

Alongside the fiction, Sofia Coppola will present Marc by Sofia, an intimate documentary about Marc Jacobs, their creative relationship and their circle of shared muses. The film has a particular resonance in Paris, where the two artists have often collaborated – notably on Louis Vuitton shows.

The Mostra, a mirror of Parisian artistic issues

What this edition shows is the extent to which Venice and Paris are in dialogue. Many of the filmmakers mentioned live or shoot in France. And the 2025 edition is already eagerly awaited in Parisian cinephile circles, from the Forum des Images to the Cinémathèque française.

Films in competition :

La Grazia, Paolo Sorrentino (opening film)

Le Mage du Kremlin, Olivier Assayas

Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach

The Voice of Hind Rajab, Kaouther Ben Hania

A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow

The Sun Rises on Us All, Cai Shangjun

Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro

Elisa, Leonardo Di Costanzo

At work, Valérie Donzelli

Silent Friend, Ildikó Enyedi

The Testament of Ann Lee, Mona Fastvold

Father Mother Sister Brother, Jim Jarmusch

Bugonia, Yórgos Lánthimos

Duse, Pietro Marcello

Un film fatto per bene, Franco Maresco

Orphan, László Nemes

The Stranger, François Ozon

No Other Choice, Park Chan-wook

Sotto le nuvole, Gianfranco Rosi

The Smashing Machine, Benny Safdie

Girl, Shu Qi

Out of competition – Fiction :

Sermon to the Void, Hilal Baydarov

L’isola di Andrea, Antonio Capuano

Il maestro, Andrea Di Stefano

After the Hunt, Luca Guadagnino

Scarlet, Mamoru Hosoda

The Last Viking, Anders Thomas Jensen

In the Hand of Dante, Julian Schnabel

La valle dei sorrisi, Paolo Strippoli

Dead Man’s Wire, Gus Van Sant

Orfeo, Virgilio Villoresi

Chien 51, Cédric Jimenez (closing film)

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