The INTERFILM jury in Venice 2025 awarded the INTERFILM Prize for the Promotion of Interreligious Dialogue to Ildikó Enyedi's “Silent Friend” (Germany, Hungary, France 2025). The film also received the Prize of the Jury of International Film Critics (Fipresci), the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actress (Luna Wedler), and three other prizes from independent juries (CinemaSará Award, Edipo Re Award, Green Drop Award).
The Golden Lion of the official festival jury, chaired by American director Alexander Payne, went to “Father Mother Sister Brother” by Jim Jarmusch (USA, Ireland, France 2025), the Grand Jury Prize to “The Voice of Hind Rajab” by Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia, France 2025) and the Special Jury Prize to “Sotto le nuvole” (Below the Clouds) by Gianfranco Rosi (Italy 2025). The SIGNIS jury of the Catholic World Organization for Communication honored “Elisa” (Italy, Switzerland 2025) by Leonardo di Costanzo.
The Venice Film Festival 2025 opened on August 27 with Paolo Sorrentino's “La grazia.” The film was part of the international competition, which also featured new works by Oliver Assayas, Noah Baumbach, Kathryn Bigelow, Guillermo del Toro, Ildiko Enyedi, Jim Jarmusch, Yorgos Lanthimos, François Ozon, and others. Since 2011 the INTERFILM jury awards a prize to a film for promoting interreligious dialogue. It honours films which empower understanding, respect, sympathy and peace between
people of different origins, histories and beliefs in place of conflict, violence, and suppression. The jury considers also films from the festival's second competition section, Orizzonti.
In addition, the festival presents films in the Out of Competition and Venice Classics sections. Newly created this year was the Venice Spotlight section, which presented ten films that stand out for their innovation and creativity.