TOncora a few hours e The Venice Film Festival 2025 will be officially inaugurated at the Palazzo del Cinema del Lido (large room). To support the artistic director Alberto Barbera, The presenter of this edition: the Roman actress and comic Emanuela Fanelli which will return to September 6 to conduct the closing ceremony in which all the prizes of the various sections will be awarded. Guest of tonight Francis Ford Coppola who will deliver The career lion in Werner Herzog.
Venice 2025, where to see the opening ceremony of the Festival
The opening ceremony of the Festival is scheduled at 7 pm but will be broadcast starting from 18.45 on Rai Movie And on Raiplay, the official network of the exhibition. During the evening, Emanuela Fanelli will illustrate the program of the exhibition with its verve and irony before introduce the various juries starting from that of Venice operates first “Luigi De Laurentiis” To then move on to that Horizons. Chaired by Julia Ducournau, director of Titan And Alphafilms that will be released in Italian theaters on September 18th.
In the end, The presenter will present the jury of the competition: President Alexander Paynethe French director and screenwriter Stéphane Brizéthe Italian director and screenwriter Maura Delperothe Romanian director, screenwriter and producer Cristian Mungiuthe Iranian director and writer Mohammad Rasoulofthe Brazilian actress, writer and screenwriter Fernanda Torres and the Chinese actress Zhao Tao.
Emanuela Fanelli at the Lido of Venice in the ritual of photos on the beach of the Hotel Excelsior. (Getty Images)
The career lion in Werner Herzog
The opening ceremony is also an opportunity for The delivery of the golden lion to Werner Herzogthe first of the edition 82. Legendary German directorHerzog was born in Bavaria in 1942 and was one of the animators of the 70s movement called New German cinema Wim Wenders and Rainer Werner Fassbinder were also part of.
Author of famous films such as Aguirre – Furore of God, Kaspar Hauser’s enigma And Nosferatu – The Prince of the nightHerzog He will present his latest film entitled to the Lido entitled Ghost Elephantsdocumentary on a pack of ghost elephants in the Angola mountainsa wooded plateau practically uninhabited but as large as England.
Werner Herzog at the Lido of Venice. (Getty Images)
Guest of the Venice opening ceremony 2025: Francis Ford Coppola
After hospitalization a few weeks ago at the Tor Vergata Polyclinic of Rome for a heart operation, the director Francis Ford Coppola is back in shape and tonight will deliver the lion to his career to Herzog. Coppola is also present at the Festival for another reason: tomorrow there will be the screening of MegadocMike Figgis documentary on the processing of Megalopolislatest film by Coppola presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024.
The opening film: Grace by Paolo Sorrentino
After the delivery of the lion to Herzog, the projection of Grace by Sorrentino, the opening film of the exhibition which is also one of the 5 Italian films in competition. The others are: Elisa by Leonardo di Costanzo, Duse by Pietro Marcello, A well made movie by Franco Maresco e Under the clouds by Gianfranco Rosi.
Film written and directed by the Oscar -winning director, Grace And played by Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti and the plot is still very little known But, according to the usual well -being, it would be A love story in the style of François Truffaut. It also seems to do it reference also to some political events and that The character played by Toni Servillo is a fictitious President of the Republic.