Giornate degli Autori: Venice 2025 Awards

The independent Venice sidebar Giornate degli Autori was founded by Italian filmmakers in 2004 to promote quality cinema and support productive independence and expressive originality. Now in its 22nd edition, it screened 10 films in competition along with 5 special events, a closing film and 9 Italian titles in the Notti Veneziane section.

Giornate degli Autori is promoted by ANAC and 100autori, with the support of the Fondazione Biennale di Venezia and the Ministry of Culture.

Giornate degli Autori: Award Winners 2025

GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI DIRECTOR’S AWARD 

   Inside Amir by Amir Azizi

EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL  PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD

   Bearcave by Stergios Dinopoulos & Krysianna B. Papadakis

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD (ex aequo)

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