83rd Venice International Film Festival Lineup - In Progress

Yesterday, Friday July 10 La Mostra started to unveil their lineup with the Orizzonti Short Films Competition, with a selection of 15 short films, 13 in competition and 2 out of competition. So, the very long post has begun and will be In Progress until the festival uploads to their site info about each film, which usually happens one or two weeks before the opening of the festival.

Among the news already released we find that these year there will be two hosts as Greta Scarano and Nicolas Maupas will host the Opening and Closing Nights of Venezia 83. Then George Clooney will receive a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and Col Cuore in Gola (Deadly Sweet) by Tinto Brass from 1967 is the Pre-Opening Film of the current edition.

This year the festival will take place from September 2 to September 12, 2026 and the Press Conference with full lineup is scheduled for July 13.

The Poster

The Official Selection

#Venezia83 Competition

Competition Jury
President: Maggie Gullenhaal, director, actress, screenwriter and producer, USA
Kaouther Ben Hania, director and screenwriter, Tunisia
Shahrbanoo Sadat, filmmaker, Afghanistan and Germany
Johnnie To, director and producer, Hong Kong
Xavier Giannoli, director and screenwriter, France
Daniel Blumberg, composer and artist, UK
Francesco Casetti, Film and Media Studies professor, Italy and USA

Out of Competition

Fiction

Non-Fiction

TV Series

Short Films

Orizzonti

Feature Films

Competition

Orizzonti Corti
From 2,500 short films a selection of 15 with 13 shorts in competition and 2 out of competition.

Competition
Angelo Azzurro, Tommaso Acquarone, Italy 20'
Bleu Au Loin (Distant Blue), Amir Houshang Moein, France 10' (animation)
Head of a Camel, Shannon Lee, USA 14' (animation)
Los Poderes, Salim Jaller, Colombia and France 20'
Man Made Lake, Annie King, USA and China 17'
Mothmama, Jessica Di Costa, Australia 12'
Paper Plane, Saoirse Ronan, UK and Ireland 15'
Quelques instants de bonheur (A Few Moments of Hapiness), Shaden Safieddine Tazi, France and UK 18' (documentary)
Sasso, Carta, Forbici (Rock, Paper, Scissors), Virginia Mori, Italy and France 9' (animation)
Tesztpálya (Test Track), Lydia Cornett, Hungary, UK, and USA 15'
Тиша (Silence), Pavlo Shpegun, Ukraine 14'
Τροπικός του θρηνούτος γκέκο (Tropic of the Mourning Gecko), Stavros Markoulakis, Greece, France, and Netherlands 19'
Una Fortaleza (A Fortress), Alba Gaviraghi, Chile 14'

Out of Competition
Il senso della terra (The Sense of Earth), Alessandro Ingaria and Simone Massi, Italy 14'
Sounds From Home, Nathan Silver, France and USA 8' (documentary)

Orizzonti Jury
President:

Luigi de Laurentiis Award for Debut Film Jury
President:

Venezia Spotlight

Venezia Classics
The lineup for Venice Classics presents the world premiere screenings of 19 films restorations of masterpieces completed over the past year from film libraries, cultural institutions and productions around the world. The restored masterpieces by Buñuel, Cassavetes, Ciprì and Maresco, Corman, Hui, Kluge, Lubitsch, Polanski, Rossellini, Scola, Wajda and others.
Director Daniele Vicari will chair the Jury of Film Students which – for the thirteenth year – will award the Venice Classics prizes for the respective competitions for Best Restored Film. The Jury chaired will be composed of 24 students, each of them recommended by professors of film studies from various Italian universities, DAMS and from Ca' Foscari University in Venice.
To check the list of restored films go to official site here.

Venezia Immersive

Book Adaptation Rights Market
11th edition organized as part of the Venice Production Bridge with 30 international publishing houses and literary agencies which enable them to propose their entire catalogue for film adaptation rather than focusing on a single book. To check the list of 30 go official site here.

Venice Gap-Financing Market
From over 370 project applications a selection of 66 projects from around the world in the final stanges of developing and funding will be presented. In 2026 the VPB Focusess will be Greece and Switzerland. The selection is divided as follows:
38 feature-length Fiction and Documentary projects (including 9 VPB Focus projects)
14 Immersive projects (including 3 VPB Focus projects)
11 Biennale College Cinema - Immersive projects
3 Biennale College Cinema projects
To check the list of projects go official site here.

Final Cut in Venice

Biennale College Cinema

The Press Conference