“The Undeniably Robust 82nd Edition of the Venice International Film Festival Has Come to A Triignt Finish. Heading Into Saturday Night’s Awards Ceremony On the Lido, Tunisian Director Kauther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab Was Widly Viewed As The Movie to Beat. The Powerful Gaza-Set Drama, Which Tells The Story of A 6-YEAR-ELD”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Heading Into Saturday Night’s Awards Ceremony On The Lido, Tunisian Director KaOUTOR Ben Hania’s The voice of hind rajab Was widly Viewed as the movie to beat. The Powerful Gaza-Set Drama, Which Tells of A 6-YEAR-ELD Palestinian Girl’s Desperate Pleas for Respert Resscue After Israeli Forces Kildelled. World Premiere, One of the Longest in the Venice Film Festival’s History. Hollywood Heavyweights Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, ALFONSO CUARón and Other Boosted The Movie’s Profile by Joering Its Team as Execulet Producers, While Critics and resounding “Indictment of Israel’s Genocidal Campaigns Against the palestinian population.
But Nothing Was Certain Until the Ceremony Was Underway on Saturday, Thanks to the Absurd Number of Must-See Movies that Festival Boss Alberto Barbera Had Secured. NETFLIX BROUGHT ITS STRONGEST Slate in Years to Italy, Including Noah Baumbach’s George Clooney Star Vehicle Jay kellyKathryn Biglow’s Gripping Geopolitical Thriller A House of Dynamite And Guillermo Del Toro’s Dark Reimagering of FrankensteinStarring Jacob Elordi As the Creature. And Scores of the World’s Top Auteurs Came to Compete with Strong New Titles – Many of Them Instant Oscar Contends of the Customary Standing Ovations Wown Each Night Intenders.
Venice’s Takeaway After Nearly Two Weeks of Peerless Moviegoing Was Resounding: The Business Model of Theatric Film May Be Under Releentless Assault, But The Art Form Relent.
Korean Maestro Park CHAN-WOOOK’s Wildly Inventactive Black Comedy No Other Choice Was Possibly the Festival Favorite with Critics, While Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bonkers Bugonia and Paelo Sorrentino’s Aching La grazia Were Also Celebrared As Exquisite Returns to Form. Show-Stopping PerformanCes Came in the Form of Julia Roberts in Luca Guadagnino’s Provocative #Metoo-Temed Thriller After the huntAmanda Seyfried As The Riveting Lead of Mona Fastvold’s Visionary Period Drama Ann Lee and DWAYNE JOHNSON IN HIS DRIMATIC LEAD IN BENNY SAFDIE’S MMA BIOPIC The smashing machine. Jim Jarmusch’s Delicate Triptych FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER -Featuring An all-Star Ensemble of Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Indya Moore, Vicky Krieps, Tom Waits, Luka Sabbat and Charlotte Rampling-Was Also Cheired For ITS.
And there was Much More: Jude Law As vladimir Putin in Olivier Assayas’ The wizard of the kremlinFrance’s François Ozon Back in Fine Form with Albert Camus Adptation The StrangerWillem Dafoe Pulling Double-Duty with Characteristic Excellence in Late Fame an The Soufleur, Julian Schnabel’s Must-See, Megalopolis-like Misfire In the hand of dante . from none less than fellow uber-auteur francis Ford Coppola.
Two-Time Oscar-Winning Director Alexander Payne (The Holdovers, Sideways) Chaired the Panel of Global Film Figures Tasked with the Dificult Duty of Selecting This Year’s Winners. Payne’s Jury Included Brazilian Actress Fernanda Torres, Iranian Auteur Mohamad Rasoulof, French Director Strophane Brizé, Italian Filmmaker Maura Delpero (Vermiglio), Chinese Actress Zhao Tao and Palme d’Or Winning Romanian Director Cristian Mungiu.
“This Film ComES FROM A VERY PERSONAL PLACE – from the guts – and is beautify to see that it consonets with of posseple,“ Said Pablos in his broef acceptance speech.
Italy’s Benedetta Porcaroli Took Horizons’ BEST ACTRESS FOR The Kidnaping of Arabella and giacomo Covi Nabbed Best Actor for His Turn in A year of school. Indian Filmmaker Anuparna Roy Won Best Director For Songs of the Forgotten TreesA Moving Drama Set in Mumbai About An Unlikely Bond that Forms Between A Part-Time Sex Worker and A Corporate Employee. And the orizonti jury prize was handed to japanese director akio fujimoto for his drama LOST LANDThe Story of Two Romingya Child Refugees on a Perilous Journy to Reach Malaysia.
The 2025 Venice Film Festival Ran Aug. 27-Sept. 6. Winners Will Be Noted Below As They’re Announced Live. Refresh for the Latest.
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Main Competition
Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize
Silver Lion – Best Director
Special Jury Prize
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTRESS
Best Screenplay
Orizzonti (Aka Horizons Section)
En el camino by David Pablos (mexico)
Special Jury Prize
LOST LAND by akio fujimoto (Japan, France, Malaysia, Germany)
Best Director
Anuparna roy for Songs of the Forgotten Trees (India)
Best Screenplay
Ana cristina barragan for The Ivy (Ecuador, Mexico, France, Spain)
BEST ACTRESS
Benedetta porcaroli for The Kidnaping of Arabella (Italy)
BEST ACTOR
Giacomo covi for A year of school (Italy, France)
Best Short Film
Without kelly, Lovisa sirén (sweden)
Venice Classics Section
Mata HariJoe beshenkovsky, James A. Smith (USA)
Best Restored Film
Bashu The Little StrangerBahram Beyzaie (Iran)
Vennice Immersive Section
Venice immersive Achievement Prize
The Long Goodbyeby victor Maes and Kate Voet (Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands)
LESS THAN 5GR OF SAFFRONby négar motevalyMeidanshah (France)
Grand Prize
The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Upby Singing Chen and Shuping Lee (Taiwan)