Paolo Sorrentino's La Grazia Will Open the 2025 Venice Film Festival
'I like to recall that one of the most important and internationally acclaimed Italian auteurs made his debut right here at the Biennale di Venezia in 2001 with his first film, One Man Up, in my early years as the artistic director.'
The director will thus return to the lagoon for the 82nd edition of the festival, which will take place from August 27 to September 6, 2025.
Perhaps best known for 2014's Oscar-winning The Great Beauty, Sorrentino quickly established himself in the world of cinema. The son of a banker and a homemaker, he premiered his debut film at Italy's most prestigious film festival and was selected for the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival with only his second feature, The Consequences of Love (2005).
For his latest project, titled La Grazia, Sorrentino reunites with actor Toni Servillo, a longtime collaborator. Servillo will star opposite Italian actress Anna Ferzetti. No synopsis has been revealed yet; all we know so far is that it will be a love story.
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