22nd Giornate delgi Autori Lineup

Yesterday organizers announced the activities that will take place during the current edition of the Giornate degli Autori. The official selection this year has 10 titles in competition, 1 out of competition, 5 special events and 2 short films; and the Venetian Nights section has 9 titles with Italian major producers.

To refresh our memory, the Giornate degli Autori was born in 2004, as an independent sidebar of the Venice Film Festival, modeled on the prestigious ‘Directors’ Fortnight’ of the Cannes Festival and promoted by the associations of Italian film directors and authors (ANAC and 100autori). The aim of the event is to draw attention to high quality cinema, without any kind of restriction, with special care for innovation, research, originality and independence.

As organizers say: "All the films presented will be world premieres and together they form a window on the world that will transport audiences to 20 different Countries and cultures that can boast a remarkable variety, to our liking, of styles and film languages; a strong showing for narrative documentaries, and a special attention to such themes as memory, personal history, and cultural alienation – a reflex reaction for artists, in these dramatic times we live in."

The ten films in competition form a political and emotional atlas uniting Lebanon and Greece, Italy and Mexico, Iran and Spain, and a futuristic Kenya with a Russia in the minds of those who have left and never returned. Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud is the President of the Jury with Italian producer Francesca Andreoli, American Moma's Department of Film curator Josh Siegel and French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker, actress Lina Soualem, and Tunisian cinematographer Sofian El Pani.

2025 Giornate degli Autori will run from August 27 to September 6.

The Official Selection

Competition
Opening Film: Memory, Vladlena Sandu, France and Netherland
A Sad and Beautiful World, Cyril Aris, Lebanon, United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Anoche conquisté Tebas (Last Night I Conquered The City of Tebas), Gabriel Azorín, Spain and Portugal
Arkoudotrypa (Bearcave), Stergios Dinopoulos and Krysianna B. Papadakis, Greece
Daroo-e Amir (Inside Amir), Amir Arizi, Iran
La Gioia, Nicolangelo Gelormini, Italy
Memory of Princess Mumbi, Damien Hauser, Kenya and Switzerland
Past Future Continuos, Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani, Iran, Norway, Italy
Short Summer, Nastia Korkia, Germany, France, and Serbia
Vainilla, Mayra Hermosillo, Mexico

Out of Competition
Closing Film: Come ti muovi, sbagli (Dammed If You Do, Dammed If You Don't), Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy

Special Events
Do You Love Me, Lana Daher, France, Lebanon, Germany and Qatar
Écrire la vie: Annie Ernaux racontée par des lycéennes et des lycéens (Writing Life - Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students), Claire Simon, France
Il quieto vivere (I Want Her Dead), Gianluca Matarrese, Italy and Switzerland
Laguna, Sharunas Bartas, Lithuania and France
Qui vit enconre (Who Is Still Alive), Nicolas Wadimoff, Switzerland

Miu Miu Women's Tales - Short Films
#29 Autobiografia di una borsetta, Joanna Hogg, Italy
#30 Fragments for Venus, Alice Diop, USA and France

Venetian Nights
6:06, Tekla Taidelli, Italy and Portugal
Amata (Be Loved), Elisa Amoruso, Italy
Confiteor - Come scoprii che non avrei fatto la rivoluzione (Confession – How I found out I wouldn't make the revolution), Bonifacio Angius, Italy
Dom, Massimiliano Battistella, Italy and Bosnia Herzegovina
Film di Stato (A State Film), Roland Sejko, Italy
Indietro così! (Full Speed Backward), Antonio Morabito
Life Beyond the Pine Curtain L'America degli Invisibili (Life Beyond the Pine Curtain: America the Invisible), Giovanni Troilo, Italy
Toni mio padre (Toni, My Father), Anna Negri, Italy
Una Cosa Vicina (A Near Thing), Loris G. Nese, Italy

To check info about each film go official site here.