Venice Film Festival has unveiled a monster lineup for its 2025 edition, including world premieres of new features from Jim Jarmusch, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Noah Baumbach. The festival is set to open with Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia, before a slate that includes Jarmusch’s comedy-drama Father Mother Sister Brother, starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, and Tom Waits; Lanthimos’ sci-fi Bugonia, with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons; Baumbach’s Jay Kelly (George Clooney, Adam Sandler, and Laura Dern); Luca Guadagnino’s #MeToo-themed thriller After the Hunt (Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and Ayo Edebiri); and Benny Safdie’s Nala Sinephro–scored UFC movie The Smashing Machine (Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt). The festival takes place from August 27 to September 6 as part of Venice Biennale.
Other feature film premieres include Gus Van Sant’s first in seven years, the Bill Skarsgard–starring Dead Man’s Wire; Kathryn Bigelow’s first in eight, the geopolitical thriller A House of Dynamite, with Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson; Olivier Assayas’ The Wizard of the Kremlin, about the rise of a fictional Vladimir V. Putin spin doctor; Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave follow-up No Other Choice; François Ozon’s Albert Camus adaptation L’Étranger; and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.
Several notable documentaries will premiere, too, includingSofia Coppola’s Marc Jacobs doc Marc by Sofia, Werner Herzog’s Ghost Elephants, and Lucrecia Martel’s Nuestra Tierra, about colonialism in Latin America and the murder of Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar.
A Charlie Kaufman short, How to Shoot a Ghost, starring Jessie Buckley, will also premiere out-of-competition, as will Broken English, Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth’s documentary on the late Marianne Faithfull.
Closing Venice Critics’ Week will be 100 Nights of Hero, a movie from writer and director Julia Jackman that counts Charli XCX among its stars.
