The 82nd Venice Film Festival is coming closer with an award ceremony on Saturday (September 6, 2025) which has repeatedly turned into a war in Gaza. The awards include nodes for acting, direction and best images, called Golden Lion.
Alexander Payne -led jury named the best actress of Chinese actor Shin Jhili for “The Sun Rise on as All” about a story about a love triangle in the world of sweets in Gwangzhou. Italian actor Tony Surillo won the best actor to play the role of a President at the end of his term in Paolo Sorantino’s “La Grazia”.
He also sang Swiss actor Luna Wesler with the Marcello Mastroonony Award, who goes to a young actor, for his turn in the film “Silent Friend”, a poetic three-part story about a ginkgo tree in a medieval university city in Germany.
Prior to the show, several directors and actor were on the red carpet, including Beni Safi, director of “The Smashing Machine”, “Father Mother Sister Brother” filmmaker Jim Jarmush and “The Voice of Hind Rajab”.
The winners for the Discovery section the Horizons Sidebar, led by French filmmaker Julia Dukoranu, were first declared. “NL Camino”, about the world of long-hall trucking in Mexico from filmmaker David Publos, won the best film. Anuparna Roy, who accepted the Best Director Award for his debut feature, “Songs of PRERGATIs” about two migrant women in Mumbai, was emotional.
Ms. Roy, who is Indian, is part of her comment for conflict in Gaza. “Every child deserves peace, freedom, liberation and Palestine, no exception,” said Ms. Roy. “I am standing next to Palestine. I can bother my country but it does not matter to me now.”
Armani Beauty’s audience award -winning filmmaker Maryam Tauzani (“Kale Malaga”) also used his comment to spot Gaza. “How many mothers have been made childless,” she said. “We refuse to lose our humanity until this scary is eliminated.”
“Afferusun” filmmaker Charlotte Wales gave the first film award to Nastia Corkia for “Short Summer”, who spoke about the ongoing war in Ukraine. His film Chechen has a relaxed autobiographical account of a child living with his grandparents during the war.
“I hope that we will keep our eyes open and we will get the strength to stop the war,” said Ms. Korkeia.
The ceremony also included a tribute to the late Georgio Armani, who died on Thursday (September 4, 2025) with a permanent ovation from the audience. Armani is a long sponsor of the beauty festival.
Italian architect Carlo Ratti said, “Thank you, Georgio Armani, to teach us that creativity lives in spaces where discipline is found – fashion, cinema, art, new materials, architecture – as every day in Venice Bienle.”
This year’s main competition lineup included several potential Oscars Heavyweight. Catherine Bigloo gave a warning about a warning shot about nuclear weapons and its immediate, and the reality, and the decision -making tools with the thriller “Dynamite home”.
Guillermo del Toro unveiled her “Frankstein”, a stunning gothic interpretation of Mary Shelly Classic, Victor Francustese with the Oscar Isaac as a romantic crazy and jacob -oloadry, naive and raw, demons.
Park Chan-Wook pleased with its dark comedies “no other options”, a satir of the frustration of white-collar workers who compete for jobs.
Dwayne Johnson took a serious twist in the MMA/UFC sports drama “The Smashing Machine” as a fighter dizziness with pain reliever and addict addiction, while Emma Stone and Jessie Playns kidnap in strange and fiercely kidnapping and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bagonia”.
George Clooney and Adam Sandler took the audience on a soul-khoj journey through Europe in “J. Kelly” as an aging film star and his dedicated manager, which in a brutal true love letter for Hollywood, all his ridiculousness and beauty.
Jude Law instigated her bark as Vladimir Putin as “The Wizard of the Kremlin” and Amanda Seffreed put a human, feminist, religious sect the shakers in the “The Testament of N Li”.
Julia Roberts also flashed her acting muscles as a professor of Yale Darshan on the charge of a misconduct against a colleague in “Hunt after”, but neither she nor her artists are eligible for Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri and director, Lukka Gwadagenino, Venice. The film started with the competition.
Away from Hollywood, Tunisian filmmaker Cauthar Ben Hania, had a late celebration with “The Voice of Hind Rajab” about the 6 -year -old girl killed in Gaza, who was reportedly received a 22 -minute ovation. The film is a scattering document of the Israeli-Hamas war, which is completely set inside the remittance center of Palestine Red Crisant Society Rescue Service. It uses the actual audio of Hind’s call, while the actors first depict the respondents.
“Nebraska” filmmaker Alexander Payne presided over the main competition jury, which included Brazilian actor Fernanda Torce, Iranian director Mohammad Rasolof, French director Stephen Breeze, Italian director Maur Delpero, Chinese actor Jhao Tao and Romanian director Christian Group.
Both Mr. Lantimos and Sri Dale Toro have won Golden Lion for “poor things” and “The Shape of Water” respectively. Those films also proceeded to win the top Oscars, including the best actress for Stone in “poor things”, and the best pictures and directors for Dell Toro’s “The Shape of Water”.
Since 2014, the Venice Film Festival has hosted four best painting winners, including “The Shape of Water,” “Birdman,” Spotlight “and” Nomadaland “. Last year, he had several last Oscar winning films in the lineup, including Brady Corbett’s “The Brutilist”, who won three including the best actor, Walter Salles’s best international feature winner “IM Sill Hear,” and Animated Short “The Shadow for the Sheds in the Ciors.
The English-language of the previous Golden Lion Winner, Pedro Almodwer’s English-language started “The Room Next Door”, a smash with an 18-minute standing ovation in Venice, no Oscar enrollment.