Venice Film Festival 2025

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Lost Land and Milk Teeth
Barrio Triste (Country: Colombia, US; Year: 2025; Director: Stillz; Writer: Stillz; Stars: Juan Pablo Baena, Samuel Velázquez, Tomás Tinoco Higuita, Samuel Andrés Celis, Brahian Acevedo, Estiven Salazar,Brayan Erlín García, José Arley Marín González, Samuel Ruiz)
Teenagers steal a camera to record their lives.
Divine Comedy (Komedie elahi) (Country: Iran, Italy, France, Germany, Turkey; Year: 2025; Director: Ali Asgari; Writer: Alireza Khatami, Bahram Ark, Bahman Ark, Ali Asgari; Stars: Hossein Soleimani, Mohammad Soori, Amirreza Ranjbaran, Faezeh Rad)
A filmmaker embarks on an underground mission to showcase his film to an Iranian audience — dodging government censors, absurd bureaucracy and his own self-doubts.
Father (Otec) (Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland; Year: 2025; Director: Tereza Nvotová; Writer: Tereza Nvotová, Dušan Budzak; Stars: Milan Ondrík, Dominika Morávková, Dominika Zajcz, Martina Sľúková, Aňa Geislerová, Peter Ondrejička, Peter Bebjak, Ingrid Timková, Roman Polák)
A tragic mistake destroys a man’s life, isolating him in guilt and shaking his marriage. Now facing prison, can he find a path to forgiveness?
Funeral Casino Blues (Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Roderick Warich; Writer: Roderick Warich; Stars: Jutamat Lamoon, Wason Dokkathum, Jutarat Burinok)
When a woman disappears, her roomate an a barman go on her trail.
Human Resource (Country: Thailand; Year: 2025; Director: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; Writer: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; Stars: Prapamonton Eiamchan, Paopetch Charoensook, Chanakan Rattana-Udom, Pimmada Chaisaksoen)
Working in HR, Fren closely observes people’s lives through interviews with numerous young new hires at her unjust company. No one knows she’s one month pregnant — and quietly grappling with whether to bring a child into this difficult world.
Mother Mother
Mother and Father
The Ivy (Hiedra) (Country: Ecuador, Mexico, France, Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Ana Cristina Barragan; Writer: Ana Cristina Barragán; Stars: Simone Bucio, Francis Eddú Llumiquinga)
Azucena, a 30-year-old woman, spies on the teenagers of a group home. In their games and sense of brotherhood, she searches for fragments of her own past.
The Kidnapping Of Arabella (Il rapimento di Arabella) (Country: Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Carolina Cavalli; Writer: Carolina Cavalli; Stars: Benedetta Porcaroli, Lucrezia Guglielmino, Chris Pine, Marco Bonadei, Eva Robins)
A young woman's life is changed when she meets an even younger wannabe runaway.
Late Fame (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kent Jones; Writer: Samy Burch, based on the novel by Arthur Schnitzler; Stars: Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, Edmund Donovan)
Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius.
Lost Land (Harà Watan) (Country: Japan, France, Malaysia, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Akio Fujimoto; Stars: Shomira Rias Uddin Muhammad, Shofik Rias Uddin)
In the hope of reuniting with their scattered family, four-year-old Shafi and his nine-year-old sister Somira leave a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh on a perilous journey to reach Malaysia.
Milk Teeth (Dinți de lapte) (Country: Romania; Year: 2025; Director: Mihai Mincan; Writer: Mihai Mincan; Stars: Emma Ioana Mogos, Marina Palii, Igor Babiac, Istvan Teglas)
During the last days of Nicolae Ceausescu’s reign, a 10-year-old girl witnesses her sister’s disappearance.
Mother (Country: Belgium, North Macedonia; Year: 2025; Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska; Writer: Goce Smilevski, Teona Strugar Mitevska, Elma Tataragić; Stars: Noomi Rapace, Sylvia Hoeks, Nikola Ristanovski)
Mother Teresa biopic.
One Year Of School (Un anno di scuola) (Country: Italy, France; Year: 2025; Director: Laura Samani; Writer: Elisa Dondi, Laura Samani; Stars: Stella Wendick, Giacomo Covi, Pietro Giustolisi, Samuel Volturno)
A Swedish migrant to Triest finds herself the only girl in an all-male class.
On The Road (En El Camino) (Country: Mexico; Year: 2025; Director: David Pablos; Writer: David Pablos; Stars: Victor Prieto, Osvaldo Sanchez)
A drifter forges a relationship with a long-distance trucker.
Pin de fartie (Country: Argentina; Year: 2025; Director: Alejo Moguillansky; Writer: Luciana Acuña, Alejo Moguillansky, Mariano Llinás; Stars: Santiago Gobernori, Cleo Moguillansky, Laura Paredes, Marcos Ferrante, Luciana Acuña, Maxi Prietto, Laura López Moyano, Fernando Tur, Margarita Fernández, Alejo Moguillansky)
Drama revolving around a little girl and a blind man staring at a lake.
Rose Of Nevada (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Mark Jenkin; Writer: Mark Jenkin; Stars: George MacKay, Callum Turner, Rosalind Eleazar, Francis Magee, Mary Woodvine)
A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
Sacrifice (Country: UK, Greece, US; Year: 2025; Director: Romain Gavras; Writer: Will Arbery, Romain Gavras; Stars: Chris Evans, Anya Taylor-Joy, Salma Hayek, John Malkovich, Vincent Cassel, Sam Richardson, Charli XCX)
A star-studded charity event turns chaotic when a radical group crashes it, seeking a mystical artifact tied to an ancient prophecy.
The Site (Grand Ciel) (Country: France, Luxembourg; Year: 2025; Director: Akihiro Hata; Writer: Akihiro Hata, Jérémie Dubois; Stars: Damien Bonnard, Samir Guesmi, Mouna Soualem, Tudor-Aaron Istodor, Ahmed Abdel-Laoui, Denis Eyriey Issaka Sawadogo, Mounir Margoum, Zacharia Mezouar)
Vincent works the night shift on the construction site of a futuristic district. When a worker goes missing, Vincent and his colleagues begin to suspect that their superiors are covering up an accident. But soon, another worker disappears.
Songs Of Forgotten Trees (Country: India; Year: 2025; Director: Anuparna Roy; Writer: Anuparna Roy; Stars: Naaz Shaikh, Sumi Baghel, Bhushan Shimpi, Ravi Maan, Pritam Pilania, Lovely Singh)
An actress and part-time sex worker forges an unexpected bond with a migrant call centre employee.
The Souffleur (Country: Austria, Argentina; Year: 2025; Director: Gastón Solnicki; Writer: Julia Niemann, Gastón Solnicki; Stars: Willem Dafoe, Lilly Lindner, Stephanie Argerich, Gastón Solnicki, Imona Mirrakhimova, Claus Philipp, Camille Clair)
A hotelier whose establishment is scheduled for redevelopment tries to cling to the past.
Strange River (Estrany riu) (Country: Spain, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Jaume Claret Muxart; Writer: Jaume Claret Muxart, Meritxell Colell; Stars: Jan Monter, Nausicaa Bonnín, Francesco Wenz, Jordi Oriol, Bernat Solé, Roc Colell)
Sixteen-year-old Dídac and his family are spending the summer holidays on a cycling trip along the Danube. An unexpected encounter with another boy changes the course of the journey.
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