'La Grazia' (2025), dir. Paolo Sorrentino. Venice Film Festival Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment The Venice Film Festival is unveiling the lineup for its 2025 festival today. Festival director Alberto Barbera will announce the official lineup - including the titles in competition for the Golden Lion at the 82nd Venice festival - via a live stream on the festival's website. You can watch along here. Netflix, usually a major presence in Venice, sat out last year but is back in force for 2025, with Noah Baumbach's comedy‑drama Jay Kelly, co-written with wife Greta Gerwig, and headlined by George Clooney, premiering in competition, alongside Guillermo del Toro's dark reimagining of Frankenstein, featuring Jacob Elordi, Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth; and Kathryn Bigelow's ticking bomb geopolitical thriller A House of Dynamite, starring Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Greta Lee, Gabriel Basso and Jared Harris. Related Stories TV BBC Studios Unscripted Boss on Tom Hanks, Stanley Tucci Series and the Recipe for U.S. Success Movies Busan Film Festival to Honor Jafar Panahi as Asian Filmmaker of the Year Italian Oscar-winning Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) will open this year's festival with La Grazia (Grace), a love story starring his long-time collaborator Toni Servillo. La Grazia, co-starring Diamonds actor Anna Ferzetti, will premiere in competition on Aug. 27. Mubi picked up the film ahead of its Venice bow. Dog 51, a new action-packed French sci-fi thriller from Bac Nord director Cedric Jimenez will close the festival, out of competition. Luca Guadagnino's #MeToo-inspired thriller After the Hunt, for Amazon MGM Studios, starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri, will premiere out of competition in Venice. Gus Van Sant's return to feature films, Dead Man's Wire, starring Bill Skarsgard, will also screen out of competition. Other out of competition highlights include Anders Thomas Jensen's Danish dark comedy The Last Viking starring Mads Mikkelsen, and Julian Schnabel's long-awaited The Hand of Dante. Jim Jarmusch's triptych Father Mother Sister Brother, starring Cate Blanchett and Adam Driver, also looks like a lock after Mubi boss Efe Cakarel signaled that it will likely be in Venice competition this year. Among the hot awards titles tipped to be heading to the Lido are Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine, from A24, featuring Dwayne Johnson as two‑time UFC heavyweight champion Mark Kerr and Emily Blunt as his wife Dawn; Chloé Zhao's Shakespeare-era drama Hamnet starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson and Joe Alwyn, which Focus Features and Universal are releasing; and Bugonia, an adaptation of Jang Joon-Hwan's 2003 South Korean sci-fi film Save the Green Planet!, from Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos and his frequent collaborator Emma Stone, which Focus Features will release stateside, with Universal Pictures handling internationally outside of Korea, where CJ ENM will release. This year's Golden Lion career achievement honorees are legendary German director Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man) and Vertigo star Kim Novak. Venice's Classic sidebar, which includes a selection on documentaries about cinema, will this year include Mike Figgis' Megadoc, a behind-the-scene look at the making of Francis Ford Coppola's decades-in-the-making Megalopolis. Two-time Oscar-winner Alexander Payne heads up this year's competition jury as president, and together with international film talents including Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, French director Stéphane Brizé, Italian director Maura Delpero, Chinese actress Zhao Tao, and Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, will pick the 2025 Golden Lion winner. The 2025 Venice film festival runs Aug. 27 to Sept. 9. Opening Film La Grazia, dir. Paolo Sorrentino (in competition) Closing Film Dog 51, dir. Cedric Jimenez (France) In Competition The Wizard of the Kremlin, dir. Olivier Assayas (France, U.S., U.K.) Jay Kelly, dir. Noah Baumbach (U.S.) The Voice of Hind Rajab, Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia) A House of Dynamite, dir. Kathryn Bigelow (U.S.) The Sun Rises On Us All, dir. Cai Shangjun (China) Frankenstein, dir. Guillermo del Toro (U.S.) Elisa, dir. Leonardo di Costanzo (Italy) Out of Competition (Fiction) Sermon to the Void, dir. Hilal Baydarov (Azerbaijan) L'Isola di Andrea, dir. Antonio Capuano (Italy) Il Maestro, dir Andrea di Stefano (Italy) After the Hunt, dir. Luca Guadagino (U.S.) Hateshinaki Scarlet, dir. Mamoru Hosoda (Japan) The Last Viking, dir. Anders Thomas Jensen (Denmark) In the Hand of Dante, dir. Julian Schnabel (U.K., Italy, Chile, U.S.) La Valle dei Sorrisi, dir. Paolo Strippoli (Italy) Dead Man's Wire, dir. Gus Van Sant (U.S.) Orfeo, dir. Virgilio Villoresi (Italy) Out of Competition (Non-Fiction) Kabul, Between Prayer