Venice Film Festival 2025: from Fernanda Torres to Maura Delpero, here are all the jurors

The Venice International Film Festival is now on the starting tapes. Pending the announcement of the qualifications that will be presented in competition and out of competition during the new edition, scheduled from 27 August to 6 Septemberthe artistic director Alberto Barbera announces the components of the juries that will select the best securities. To preside over the main one, as we already knew, the American director and screenwriter Alexander Paynealready behind the success of a delicious film like The Holdovers of 2023. To escort it in the international jury of the Venice 82 competition, however, there will also be: the French director and screenwriter Stéphane Brizé; the Italian director and screenwriter Maura Delpero; the Romanian screenwriter, screenwriter and producer Cristian Mungiu; the Iranian director and writer Mohammad Rasoulof; The actress, Brazilian writer and screenwriter Fernanda Torres And the Chinese actress Zhao Tao.

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The Venice 82 jury will award to the feature films in competition – without the possibility of ex -aequo – the following official prizes: Golden lion for the best film, Silver lion – Jury Grand Prix, silver lion – Prize for the best direction, Volpi Cup for the best female interpretation, Volpi Cup for the best male interpretationPrize for the best screenplay, special jury prize, Marcello Mastroianni prize to an emerging young actor or actress. To lead, however, the International Jury Orizzonti will be The French director and screenwriter Julia Ducournauwinner of the Golden Palma in Cannes 2021 thanks to the controversial Titan. Together with her: the Italian director and video artist Yuri Ancarani, the Argentine film critic Fernando Enrique Juan Lima, the Australian director Shannon Murphy and the American artist and director Ramell Ross.

Silvio Soldini.
Silvio Soldini.Vincenzo Landi / IPa-Agecy.net

The Orizzonti jury will award, however: the Orizzonti Prize for the best film, Orizzonti Prize for the best direction, special prize of the Orizzonti jury, Orizzonti Prize for the best female interpretation, Orizzonti Prize for the best men’s interpretation, Orizzonti Prize for the best screenplay, Orizzonti Prize for the best short film. To close the circle is The International Jury Venice Opera first Luigi De Laurentiischaired by the Scottish director Charlotte Wells and composed of: The director, producer and former Franco-Tunisina journalist Erige Sehiri, andThe Italian director and screenwriter Silvio Soldini. This jury will assign, among all the first works of feature film present in the various competitive sections of the exhibition (official selection and autonomous and parallel sections), The lion of the future – Venice Award Opera first Luigi De Laurentiis, and a prize of 100 thousand dollars made available by Filmauro, divided into equal parts between the director and the manufacturer.

Source: Vanity Fair

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