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Venezia Classics 2025: The Official Selection of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival Announced Chiedi a ChatGPT

15 July 2025

The official selection for Venezia Classici at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival has been announced. This selection will present 18 world premieres of films restored over the past year. The selected titles come from film archives, cultural institutions, and production companies from around the world, representing true masterpieces of cinema history, restored to their renewed beauty.

Among the standout titles in this prestigious selection is Lo Spettro (1963), a gothic masterpiece directed by Riccardo Freda, which comes back to life in a spectacular 4K restored version. It will be presented in the Venezia Classici section of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.

The restoration, carried out by Minerva Pictures in collaboration with Severin Films, represents a high-value philological and technical intervention aimed at returning to the audience the original visual experience of the film. The movie will be screened as a world premiere from August 27 to September 6, 2025, as part of the Festival.

Director Tommaso Santambrogio (Taxibol, Gli oceani sono i veri continenti) will preside over the Cinema Students Jury, which, for the twelfth consecutive year, will award the Venezia Classici Prize for Best Restored Film. The Jury, composed of 24 students selected by professors from various Italian universities, DAMS, and the Venice Ca’ Foscari, will also have the opportunity to award the Best Documentary on Cinema presented in the Section.

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Minerva Pictures at the 81st Venice International Film Festival!

24 July 2024

This year, Minerva Pictures returns to the 81st Venice International Film Festival with three films and confirms The Film Club as the Official Partner of the 39th Settimana Internazionale della Critica!

The American Garden, a new Gothic genre film directed by Pupi Avati and based on his novel of the same name, will be featured as a closing event outside of competition! A production by Minerva Pictures and Duea Film with Rai Cinema. The cast includes Filippo Scotti, winner of the Mastroianni Award at the 2021 Venice Film Festival for Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God, alongside the multi-award-winning British actress Rita Tushingham.

Swept Away (1974), written and directed by Lina Wertmüller, will be presented in competition in a restored 4K version in the Venice Classics section. The restoration was done by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Minerva Pictures.

Cloud, the return to Venice for Kiyoshi Kurosawa following his 2020 Silver Lion for Best Director win for Wife of a Spy. The film will have its world premiere in Venice out of competition. Distributed by Minerva Pictures, which also brought the Japanese master’s previous work to Italy.

Additionally, for the third consecutive year, The Film Club returns to the Lido as the Official Partner of the 39th Settimana Internazionale della Critica and will present the audience award, The Film Club Audience Award, at the end of the event. Join us at the Casa della Critica from August 28 to September 7!

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