Awards of Final Cut in Venice 2025

For the ninth year, La Biennale di Venezia gives La Biennale di Venezia Prize (€ 5,000) to support the Best Film in post-production.

The jury, composed of Fatih Abay (European Film Academy), Nathalie Jeung (Kinology), Claudio Rapino (Maestro Distribution) has awarded the film in post-production:

THE STATION (AL MAHATTAH) by Sara Ishaq (Yemen, Jordan, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, and Qatar).

“This film demonstrates authentic gender empowerment, showing women as complex, capable individuals navigating their realities with agency and dignity. It challenges the typical Western gaze toward regions often reduced to simplistic narratives, instead revealing the full spectrum of human experience—the ingenuity, humor, strength, and hope that flourish even in challenging circumstances”

The supporters’ jury of the 13^th edition of Final Cut in Venice has decided to give their awards to the following films in post-production:

MY SEMBA (MEU SEMBA) by Hugo Salvaterra (Angola) has been supported by:

Laser Film (Rome) is offering € 15,000 for the color correction of a feature-length film for up to 50 hours of work (technician included);

Studio A Fabrica (Ajaccio) is offering € 15,000 offered by for the sound mixing of a feature length film (up to 12 days of work, sound mixer not included)

The Cinémathèque Afrique of the Institut Français (Paris) is offering the Prize “Coup de cœur de la Cinémathèque Afrique”, consisting of the acquisition of the non-commercial and non-exclusive broadcasting rights for 7 years with a value of € 4,000 – 6,000 depending on the genre, length and available territories of the film.

Festival International du Film de Fribourg is offering its participation in the production costs of a DCP (€ 2,500). 

THE STATION (AL MAHATTAH) by Sara Ishaq (Yemen, Jordan, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, and Qatar) has been supported by:

Titra Film (Paris) is offering up to € 5,000 for color-grading; up to € 3,000 for the production of a DCP master, or the creation of i-Tunes, Google or Netflix files; up to € 2.000 for French or English subtitles (translation not included).

Rai Cinema is offering € 5,000 for a first negotiation right for the acquisition of Free TV exploitation rights in the Italian territory and obligation to mention “in collaboration with Rai Cinema S.p.a.” in the credits of the work.

Sub-Ti Ltd.(London) is offering up to € 7,500 for the creation of the DCP master with Italian or English subtitles.

Sub-Ti Access Srl (Turin) is offering up to € 7,500 for the accessible contents of the film for audiences with sensory disabilities: subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired and audio description for the blind and visually impaired, including audio subtitles in voiceover, in Italian or English (the subtitles and the audio-described soundtrack for the DCP will be provided)

HOUSE OF THE WIND (LA MAISON DU VENT) by  Auguste Kouemo Yanghu (Cameroon, Benin, France, Belgium) has been supported by:

M74 srl (Rome) is offering up to € 10,000 for digital visual effects “2D Comp” 

Mnemonica will offer its cloud platform to safely store, share and distribute the winning movie for a value of € 10,000.

LET’S PLAY SOLDIERS (working title) by Mariam Al-Dhubhani (Yemen, Qatar, Norway, France) has been supported by MAD Solutions:

for a feature-length fiction film a minimum of $ 10,000 MG or for a feature-length documentary a minimum of $ 3,000 MG for marketing, publicity and distribution in the Arab World or internationally, offered by MAD Solutions for one Arab project (except for projects already funded by MAD Solutions);

$ 5,000 awarded to an Arab project offered by the El Gouna Film Festival and an invitation to participate in the industry platform CineGouna;

OUT OF SCHOOL (LA COUR DES GRANDS) by Hind Bensari (Morocco, Denmark ) – Focus on Morocco has been supported by:

Red Sea Fund (Red Sea  Film Foundation) is offering € 5,000.

Festival International du Film d’Amiens is offering its participation in the production costs of a DCP (€ 2,500).

YESTERDAY THE EYE DIDN’T SLEEP by Rakan Mayasi (Belgium, Lebanon, Palestine) has been supported by:

Oticons will offer tailored film music services to one of the films, in the form of either music consulting, and/or music supervision and/or the production of an original score by one of our represented film composers. These services, valued at up to € 10,000, will encompass all relevant processes, such as spotting sessions, composition, mock-ups and final production (for original score), or expert support in music licensing and supervision (if applicable).  

STANDING AT THE RUINS (AL WOQOOF ALA EL ATLAL) by Saeed Taji Farouky (Egypt, United Kingdom)  – Focus on the United Kingdom has been supported by:

196-MEDIA (Rome) is offering up to € 10,000 for the sound mixing of a feature length film (up to 7 days of work, auditorium and technician included).

LEGACY (SOLEIL, LUNE, ÉTOILES) by Mamadou Dia (Senegal, France) has been supported by:

Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)/ACP/EU is offering € 5,000  as a refund for post-production services – delivered by societies based in one of the EU or OACPS countries (except South Africa) – of a feature-length film realised by a director from one of the ACP countries and produced or co-produced by a society based in one of the ACP countries.