VENICE: FNE has teamed up with critics attending the Venice Film Festival to rate the films in the Main Competition, Orizzonti and Critics Week, giving the films 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars. 5 is the best and 1 is the worst. The ratings give an overview of critics’ opinions from a large number of countries and provide insights to what critics in many different countries think about the programme.

FNE spoke to Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska, whose film Mother opened the Orizzonti Competition in Venice this year.

FNE asked Pascal Diot how the Venice Production Bridge has evolved since it started 14 years ago.

BUCHAREST: Romanian director Mihai Mincan’s sophomore feature Milk Teeth / Dinți de lapte has been acquired by Cercamon before its world premiere in the Orizzonti competition of the 82nd Venice Film Festival (27 August – 6 September 2025).The film is a coproduction between Romania, France, Denmark, Greece and Bulgaria.

VENICE: The German/French/Serbian coproduction Short Summer by Nastia Korkia has been selected for the Official Competition of Venice Days, while Sharunas Bartas’ Lithuanian/French coproduction Laguna will screen in Venice Days Special Events. Below are the films selected for Venice Critics’ Week and Venice Days 2025.

VENICE: Films by Hungarian directors Ildikó Enyedi and László Nemes are in the Competition of the 82nd Venice Film Festival (27 August - 9 September 2025). The Orizzonti competition will open with Teona Strugar Mitevska’s Mother.

VALLETTA: The Mediterrane Film Festival is rapidly carving out a place for itself on the international festival calendar as one the the top places where industry professionals have to be in June.

KARLOVY VARY: Slovak/Czech documentary Better Go Mad in the Wild / Raději zešílet v divočině by Miro Remo won the Grand Prix - Crystal Globe in the main competition of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (4 – 12 July 2025).

KARLOVY VARY: KVIFF Eastern Promises, the festival's Industry section and film market, has the rewarding mission of bridging the gap between talented filmmakers and their potential co-production partners, festivals and audiences.

This year for the tenth time FNE together with FIPRESCI is organising the ratings of all feature films in the main Crystal Globe competition, and the Proxima competition of the official Karlovy Vary International Film Festival programme by international critics attending the Festival.