The dramas and documentaries politically responsible for Ukraine in Iran, and Mexico in Kenya, will share the projectors of the side bar of Venice Days of the Film Festival of Venice, which announced its 2025 range today.
The diversified program goes from the evening opening film of the section, the autobiographical Memory Ukrainian artist and filmmaker Vladlena Sandu, a survivor of war in Chechnya, who studies her traumatic memories in order to transcend them and transform them via the art of cinema; to the Spanish director Gabriel Azorín Last night, I conquered the city of ThebesA story of friendship and loss involving two 21st century children and two 13th century Roman soldiers sharing the same space, a thermal source at night; has Memory of Princess Mumbiof the filmmaker Kenyan Damien Hauser who combines elements of science fiction, model and animation to tell a dystopian fable taking place in an imaginary Africa in 2093 after a catastrophe procured by AI.
‘Memory of Princess Mumbi’
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The programming of the 10 films competition made by the artistic director of Venice Days Gaia Furrer includes 2 Iranian films on exile. The documentary Continuous past past From Firouzeh Khosrovani and Morteza Ahmadvand, who follows an Iranian who fled after the Islamic revolution and can now observe only his parents via the security cameras installed in their house in Tehran, and Inside Amirof the director Amir Azizi, who explores his own fears and doubts during emigration.
The range of special events outside the competition from Venice Days includes several documentaries, including Who is still aliveSwiss filmmaker Nicolas Wadmoff, telling the experiences of nine Palestinian refugees from Gaza; And With writing lifeFrom the French documentaryist Claire Simon, who uses the words of the Nobel novelist winner of the Annie Ernaux Prize, through readings of her books by French high school, to form a portrait of the young generation. The sidebar also includes the off -competition section at 9 Venetian Nights films, which highlights the titles of the main Italian producers.
Italian director Gianni di Gregorio, whose sleep has struck Lunch in mid-August Won Venice Critics’s Week’s Lion of the Future Prize in 2008, returns to Lido with comedy Damned if you do it, damn if you don’t do itIn which he also plays as retired teachers whose placid and monotonous existence is shaken by the arrival of his daughter and his rowdy grandchildren. The film will close Venice Daysshort of competition.
The president of the Jury of Venice Days this year is the Norwegian writer and director Dag Johan Haugerud, whose story of Quer DreamsThe last film of his Sex,, Love,, Dreams Trilogy won the Golden Bear for the Best Berlinale film in February. HAUGERUD shine film, Barn The first in the days of Venice in 2019. Joining him on the jury is the Italian producer Francesca Andreoli (Vermilion), The Franco-Palestinian filmmaker Lina Soualem (Bye bye Tiberias), Tunisian filmmaker Sofian El Fani (Timbuktu), and the Curator of the MoMA from New York, Josh Siegel.
Discover the full range of Venice days below.
Official competition
MemoryDir. Vladlena Sandu (France, Netherlands) (opening film)
JoyDir. Nicolangelo Gelormini (Italy)
To carryDir. Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna Papadakis (Greece, United Kingdom)
Short summerDir. Nastia Cork (Germany, France, Serbia)
A sad and beautiful worldDir. Cyril Aris (Lebanon, United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar)
Continuous past pastDir. Firouzeh Khosrovani, Morteza Ahmadvand (Iran, Norway, Italy)
Memory of Princess MumbiDir. Damien Hauser (Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland)
Disappearancesay. Mayra Hermosillo (Mexico)
Last night, I conquered the city of Thebessay. Gabriel Azorín (Spain, Portugal)
Inside AmirDir. Amir Azizi (Iran) Damned if you do it, damn if you don’t do itDir. Gianni di Gregorio (Italy, France) (closing film, out of competition)
Special events
LagunaDir. Sharun Bart (Lithuania, France)
Writing life – Annie Ernaux through the eyes of secondary studentsdir. Claire Simon (France)
Peaceful life – a tragic comedy on hatred, family and other quiet thingsDir. Gianluca Matarrese (Italy)
Who is still aliveDir. Nicolas Wadmoff (Switzerland, France)
Do you love meYou. Lana therefore (France)
Venetian nights (Venetian nights)
6:06Dir. Tekla Taidelli (Italy)
BeganDir. Elisa Amoruso (Italy)
ConfessDir. Bonifacio Angius (Italy, Poland)
A thingDir. Loris Nese (Italy)
DomDir. Massimiliano Batternella (Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
State filmDir. Roland Sejko (Italy)
Back like thatDir. Antonio Morabito (Italy)
Life beyond the pine curtainDir. Giovanni Troilo (Italy)
Toni, my fatherDir. Anna Negri (Italy)
