Here are the winners of the 2025 Venice Film Festival

International Competition

Golden Lion for Best Film

 Father Mother Sister Brother by Jim Jarmusch 

Silver Lion (Grand Jury Award) : 

The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania 

Silver Lion for best director:

 The Smashing Machine by Benny Safdie

Special Jury Award:

 Below The Clouds by Gianfranco Rosi 

Best Script :

Valérie Donzelli for At Work

Volpi Cup for Best Actor:

Toni Servillo in La grazia 

Volpi Cup for Best Actress:

Xin Zhilei in The Sun Rises on Us All

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Most Promising Newcomer:

Luna Wedler in Silent Friend

Orizzonti

Grand Prize :

 En el camino by David Pablos

Best Director :

 Songs of Forgotten Trees d’Anuparna Roy 

Special Jury Prize

 Lost Land by Akio Fujimoto

Best Actress:

Benedetta Porcaroli in The Kidnapping of Arabella 

Best Actor :

Giacomo Covi in A Year of School

Best Script:

 The Ivy by Ana Cristina Barragán 

Best short film :

 Without Kelly by Lovisa Sirén

Lion of the Future – Luigi De Laurentiis Prize (first feature film):

 Short Summer by Nastia Korkia 

Orizzonti Extra

People’s Choice Award – Armani Beauty:

 Calle Malaga by Maryam Touzani

Venice Classics

Best Documentary about Cinema:

 Mata Hari by Joe Beshenkovsky

Best Restoration Award:

 Bashu, the little stranger by Bahram Beyzaie

Venise Immersive

Grand Prize :

 The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up by Singing Chen

Special Jury Prize: 

Less Than 5gr of Saffron by Négar Motevalymeidanshah

First Film!

 A Long Goodbye by Kate Voet, Victor Maes

Giornate Degli Autori

GDA DIRECTOR’S AWARD

Daroon-E Amir (Inside Amir) by Amir Azizi

THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD

Memory by Vladlena Sandu
and
A Sad and Beautiful World by Cyril Aris

EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL

Arkoudotrypa (Bearcave) by Stergios Dinopoulos et Krysianna B. Papadakis.

THE VALENTINA PEDICINI AWARD FOR WOMEN FILMMAKERS UNDER 40

Mayra Hermosillo in Vainilla

THE CINEMA & ARTS AWARD

Qui vit encore (Who is still alive) by Nicolas Wadimoff

THE CARLO LIZZANI AWARD FOR BEST ITALIAN FILM

Confiteor – come scoprii che non avrei fatto la rivoluzione by Bonifacio Angius

THE BOOKCIAK AWARD TO THE BEST FILM ADAPTATION OF A LITERARY WORK

Écrire la vie. Annie Ernaux racontée par des lycéennes et des lycéens by Claire Simon

THE BISATO D’ORO AWARD

Gabriel Azorín and Giuseppe Truppi for Anoche conquisté Tebas by Gabriel Azorín

Settimana della Critica

Grand Prize (Best Picture)

STRAIGHT CIRCLE by Oscar Hudson

Circolo del Cinema di Verona Award for best innovative film

STRAIGHT CIRCLE by Oscar Hudson

Audience Award

ISH by Imran Perretta

Luciano Sovena Award for best independant production

Agon by Giulio Bertelli

Mario Serandrei – Hotel Saturnia Award for best technical contrubution

Waking Hours by Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini,

, praised for its experimental cinematography that transforms visual matter into abstraction and new human geographies.

Best Short Film

Marina by Paoli De Luca

Best Director

Festa in Famiglia by Nadir Taji

The complete list of awards is avalaible here.