PAOLO SORRENTINO’S LA GRAZIA TO WORLD PREMIERE IN COMPETITION AT 82ND VENICE FILM FESTIVAL, OPENING THE FESTIVAL ON AUGUST 27
STARRING TONI SERVILLO AND ANNA FERZETTI
A FREMANTLE FILM PRODUCED BY THE APARTMENT, A FREMANTLE COMPANY, NUMERO 10, AND PIPERFILM
Monday 7 July, 2025 - MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service and production company, is pleased to announce that Oscar®-winning writer and director Paolo Sorrentino’s (The Great Beauty, The Hand of God) latest feature La Grazia, starring Toni Servillo (The Hand of God, The Great Beauty) and Anna Ferzetti (Diamanti, Tomorrow's a New Day) will World Premiere in competition of the 82nd Venice Film Festival as the opening film.
MUBI acquired worldwide rights (excluding Italy) earlier this year, retaining all rights in North America, Latin America, UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Benelux, Spain, Turkey, India, Australia and New Zealand. Theatrical release plans will be announced in the coming months. The Match Factory will sell all remaining territories. The film will be distributed in Italy by PiperFilm.
La Grazia, written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, is a Fremantle film produced by The Apartment, a Fremantle Company, by Numero 10, and by PiperFilm that will distribute it in Italy.
Paolo Sorrentino – Director Biography
Paolo Sorrentino, film director and screenwriter, was born in Naples in 1970. His first full-length feature film, One ManUp, dates back to 2001 and was selected for the Venice Film Festival. In 2004 he directed The Consequences of Love and in 2006 The Family Friend, both in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2008, with Il Divo, he returned to Cannes winning the Jury Prize. He returned in competition at the Cannes Festival in 2011 with This Must be the Place and two years later with The Great Beauty, which won the Academy Award®, the Golden Globe and the BAFTA Award for best Foreign Language Film, as well as three EFA Awards. He was selected once again in competition at Cannes in 2016 with Youth, garnering three EFA Awards, an Academy Award® nomination and two Golden Globe nominations. In 2016 he created and directed the TV series The Young Pope, nominated at the Golden Globes for Best Actor and at the Emmy Awards for Outstanding Production Design and Outstanding Cinematography. In 2018 he directed the movie Loro starring Toni Servillo and in 2019 Sorrentino directed the second series set in the world of modern papacy, The New Pope, starring Jude Law and John Malkovich.
In 2021 he wrote and directed the The Hand of God, nominated at the 2022 Academy Award® for Best Foreign Film, winner of the Leone d'Argento Grand Jury Prize and the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the 78th edition of the Venice International Film Festival, also winner of 5 David di Donatello 2022 including Best Film and Best Director and 4 Nastri d'argento 2022 including Best Film. In 2024 he wrote and directed Parthenope, presented in competition at Cannes Film Festival.
