The 2025 Venice Movie Pageant concludes this weekend, with the juries handing out awards Saturday night (CET) within the competitors, Orizzonti, and extra sections. Who will win the Golden Lion? We discover out as we speak.
Alexander Payne heads up the competitors jury with a panel together with filmmakers Cristian Mungiu, Mohammad Rasoulof, Stéphane Brizé, and Maura Delpero, and actors Fernanda Torres and Zhao Tao. They’ve new movies to select from directed by the likes of Park Chan-wook, Kathryn Bigelow, Mona Fastvold, Benny Safdie, Guillermo del Toro, Noah Baumbach, Jim Jarmusch, Yorgos Lanthimos, and extra. Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s Gaza drama “The Voice of Hind Rajab” is already tipped as a favourite to win.
Seen again in Venice for the pre-ceremony pink carpet have been Toni Servillo (star of Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grazia”), Jarmusch (director of “Father Mom Sister Brother”), Kaouther Ben Hania, and Safdie (director of “The Smashing Machine”), that means they need to all count on to win one thing.
The jury within the Orizzonti part, devoted to options on the chopping fringe of the artwork kind, is led by director Julia Ducournau together with Italian director Yuri Ancarani, Argentine movie critic Fernando Enrique Juan Lima, Australian director Shannon Murphy, and American filmmaker RaMell Ross. Acclaimed movies in that part included “Rose of Nevada” by Mark Jenkin and starring Callum Turner and George MacKay, Kent Jones’ “Late Fame” with Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee, Stillz’s “Barrio Triste” from Edglrd, Ali Asgari’s “Divine Comedy,” Ana Cristina Barragan’s “Hiedra,” and extra.
The ceremony is happening on the Sala Grande; you possibly can watch a stay stream under. Comply with alongside for stay updates because the winners are revealed.
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Lion of the Future Award for a Debut Movie: