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Venice Film Festival · 2025

Venice Film Festival 2025

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20 films · 6 reviews

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Barrio Triste

Teenagers steal a camera to record their lives.

(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)

Divine Comedy (Komedie elahi)

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.

(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)

Father (Otec)

Review preview for Father

Nvotová doesn’t shy away from torturing her protagonists while the camera lingers on Michal’s and Zuzka's bodies and minds collapsing inward.

Ilo Tuule Rajand · 4 out of 5
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?

(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)

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Funeral Casino Blues

When a woman disappears, her roomate an a barman go on her trail.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Roderick Warich; Writer: Roderick Warich; Stars: Jutamat Lamoon, Wason Dokkathum, Jutarat Burinok)

Human Resource

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.

(Country: Thailand; Year: 2025; Director: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; Writer: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; Stars: Prapamonton Eiamchan, Paopetch Charoensook, Chanakan Rattana-Udom, Pimmada Chaisaksoen)

The Ivy (Hiedra)

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.

(Country: Ecuador, Mexico, France, Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Ana Cristina Barragan; Writer: Ana Cristina Barragán; Stars: Simone Bucio, Francis Eddú Llumiquinga)

The Kidnapping Of Arabella (Il rapimento di Arabella)

A young woman's life is changed when she meets an even younger wannabe runaway.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Carolina Cavalli; Writer: Carolina Cavalli; Stars: Benedetta Porcaroli, Lucrezia Guglielmino, Chris Pine, Marco Bonadei, Eva Robins)

Late Fame

Review preview for Late Fame

Burch and Jones clearly enjoy updating rich kid Myers and his literary salon pals to the present without ever falling into clownish cliché.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
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.

(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kent Jones; Writer: Samy Burch, based on the novel by Arthur Schnitzler; Stars: Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, Edmund Donovan)

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Lost Land (Harà Watan)

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The choice of child protagonists not only adds to Lost Land’s emotional heft but also brings home the extra level of uncertainty and confusion felt by youngsters across the globe forced to make these sorts of dangerous odysseys in hope of safe haven.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
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.

(Country: Japan, France, Malaysia, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Akio Fujimoto; Stars: Shomira Rias Uddin Muhammad, Shofik Rias Uddin)

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Milk Teeth (Dinți de lapte)

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Mincan – who grew up in the period depicted himself – doesn’t need to make the politics or shifting social structures overt, they are just baked in.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
During the last days of Nicolae Ceausescu’s reign, a 10-year-old girl witnesses her sister’s disappearance.

(Country: Romania; Year: 2025; Director: Mihai Mincan; Writer: Mihai Mincan; Stars: Emma Ioana Mogos, Marina Palii, Igor Babiac, Istvan Teglas)

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Mother

Review preview for Mother

This is such a buttoned up character study that it feels more like a riff than an exploration.

Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
Mother Teresa biopic.

(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)

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One Year Of School (Un anno di scuola)

A Swedish migrant to Triest finds herself the only girl in an all-male class.

(Country: Italy, France; Year: 2025; Director: Laura Samani; Writer: Elisa Dondi, Laura Samani; Stars: Stella Wendick, Giacomo Covi, Pietro Giustolisi, Samuel Volturno)

On The Road (En El Camino)

A drifter forges a relationship with a long-distance trucker.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2025; Director: David Pablos; Writer: David Pablos; Stars: Victor Prieto, Osvaldo Sanchez)

Pin de fartie

Drama revolving around a little girl and a blind man staring at a lake.

(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)

Rose Of Nevada

Review preview for Rose Of Nevada

Jenkin’s style, impressionistic when it comes to places, is particular in regard to objects, the real anchors of our lives.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
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.

(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Mark Jenkin; Writer: Mark Jenkin; Stars: George MacKay, Callum Turner, Rosalind Eleazar, Francis Magee, Mary Woodvine)

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Sacrifice

A star-studded charity event turns chaotic when a radical group crashes it, seeking a mystical artifact tied to an ancient prophecy.

(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)

The Site (Grand Ciel)

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.

(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)

Songs Of Forgotten Trees

An actress and part-time sex worker forges an unexpected bond with a migrant call centre employee.

(Country: India; Year: 2025; Director: Anuparna Roy; Writer: Anuparna Roy; Stars: Naaz Shaikh, Sumi Baghel, Bhushan Shimpi, Ravi Maan, Pritam Pilania, Lovely Singh)

The Souffleur

A hotelier whose establishment is scheduled for redevelopment tries to cling to the past.

(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)

Strange River (Estrany riu)

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.

(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)