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The fifth edition will take place from September 10 to 14, 2025, with nearly 40 screenings organized indoors and outdoors at the Villa Medici!
Since its creation in 2021, the Villa Médicis Film Festival has explored the links between cinema and contemporary art. Artists’ films, essays, fictions, documentaries, shorts, medium-length and feature-length films: the festival welcomes a diversity of narratives that question our relationship with images.
Programme to come.
The Festival is divided into three sections: International Competition, Focus and Piazzale Evenings.
The International Competition
The International Competition presents twelve recent films of all genres and lengths. At the end of the festival week, two prizes are awarded by the jury at a ceremony attended by the public and artists: the Prix Villa Médicis for Best Film and the Prix du Jury.
Focus
Focus sessions include screenings of out-of-competition films, as well as encounters. Proposed by the members of the jury, the Cartes blanches screenings are an opportunity to share special moments around films linked to their activities as artists, filmmakers, authors or curators.
The Contrechamp screenings offer a dialogue between films, documentary or fictional, historical or contemporary, notably by Villa Medici artist-filmmakers.
Piazzale Evenings
Alongside the daytime screenings, festival-goers gather every evening on the Piazzale, in front of the historic façade of the Villa Medici, for exceptional open-air screenings of recent films, including previews and restored cinema classics.
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Alain Guiraudie
Filmmaker, photographer, and writer. Since 1990, he has directed seven feature films, and between 2014 and 2024, he published three novels with P.O.L. His first photography exhibition was presented in 2019 at Le Fresnoy, followed by showings in galleries and art centers in France and abroad.
Guslagie Malanda
Actress and independent contemporary art curator. She rose to public prominence in 2014 and was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2023. Her latest film was in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Alongside her acting carrer, she has curated exhibitions at DOC in 2021 and in Lima in 2024.
Anri Sala
Visual artist. In his work, image, sound, and architecture interact to transform our perception of time and space. Since 2000, his work has been the subject of solo exhibitions, he has taken part in major international events, and represented France at the 55th Venice Biennale.
The team
The selection committee
Each year, a committee selects the films in competition, adopting an approach that is as open as possible to the diversity of practices and authors, whether they be filmmakers, visual artists or visual performers. For the 2025 edition of the festival, the selection committee is made up of Lili Hinstin, Clément Postec, Nicolas Raffin and Valentine Umansky.
Lili Hinstin is a festival programmer and artistic director. In charge of cinema at Villa Médicis between 2005 and 2009, she was programmer for the Cinéma du Réel festival from 2010 to 2013, then artistic director of the Belfort Film Festival (2013-2018) and the Locarno International Film Festival (2018-2020). She is currently Program Director of the Biarritz Film Festival – Nouvelles Vagues. She has been a member of the selection and organization committee of the Villa Médicis Film Festival since 2021.
Clément Postec is artistic director, curator and filmmaker. A graduate of Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Institut d’Études Politiques de Strasbourg and Sciences Po (SPEAP), he has been involved for over ten years in the development of projects at the crossroads of cinema and contemporary art, and in the deployment of cultural venues and organizations.
Nicolas Raffin is a London-based cinema programmer and head of the cinema department at theInstitute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) since 2018. In recent years, he has launched major initiatives in response to the ever-changing landscape of film exhibition, notably redefining the ICA’s cinema programming around new series such as Off-Circuit, Long Takes and Celluloid Sunday. He recently supervised major retrospectives devoted to Marguerite Duras, Hong Sangsoo and Jacques Rivette.
Valentine Umansky is curator at Tate Modern in London, having previously worked for several institutions dedicated to the visual arts. Between 2015 and 2020, she held positions in the United States at the International Center of Photography, the Museum of Modern Art and the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. She is also a curator and author.
The organizing committee
Lili Hinstin, Programming Director, Biarritz Film Festival – Nouvelles Vagues
Mathilde Henrot, programmer and founder of the Scope Pro Festival
Laurent Perreau, writer and director
Sam Stourdzé, Director of the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici
With the Villa Medici team
Fulvia Gallo, coordinator of the Villa Medici 2025 Film Festival
Clotilde Parlos, in charge of cultural projects at the Académie de France in Rome – Villa Médicis
With the collaboration of Véronique Terrier-Hermann, art historian, for the programming of the Focus section.
Practical information
September 10 to 14, 2025
Session ticket: €5
Pass 3 sessions: €9 (full price) / €6 (reduced price)
Pass Festival Solo: €25 (full price) / €20 (reduced price)
Pass Festival Duo: €40
Tickets coming soon
Best practices
The historic garden of Villa Medici is a non-smoking area. Please respect this by using the smoking area and sorting your waste in the dedicated garbage cans.
Villa Medici does not have a checkroom on the premises.
Motorcycle helmets, bicycles, scooters, backpacks and pets are not allowed on the premises.
It is possible to attend the Villa Medici Film Festival with a small bag.
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