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Francis Ford Coppola will be present at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival to honor German filmmaker Werner Herzog with a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for his valuable contribution to cinema.
Werner Herzog will receive the Laudatio on August 28 at Sala Corinto during the festival, which takes place from August 27 to September 6. He will also present his new documentary, Ghost Elephants, at the festival. It will be a part of the festival's Out of Competition category and revolves around a herd of mysterious elephants in Angola.
Herzog previously attended the festival in 2009 for his feature film, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which was nominated for a Golden Lion and was honored with the Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Award. The same year, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done was also part of the festival's official lineup.
In 2005, Herzog's sci-fi fantasy film The Wild Blue Yonder earned him a FIPRESCI Prize. His 1990 documentary, Echoes From a Somber Empire, received the Filmcritica "Bastone Bianco" Award - Special Mention.
In honor of Herzog's work, Alberto Barbera, the Venice Film Festival director, shares a few words. Here's what he said, as per The Hollywood Reporter,
“[Werner Herzog] has never ceased from testing the limits of film language, belying the traditional distinction between documentary and fiction. A brilliant narrator of unusual stories, Herzog is also the last heir of the great tradition of German romanticism, a visionary humanist, and a tireless explorer.”
Francis Ford Coppola will also present a documentary about Megalopolis in Venice
Francis Ford Coppola will also be present at the festival in connection with the documentary, Megadoc, which offers a behind-the-scenes look into his recently released passion project, Megalopolis. The film, starring Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Giancarlo Esposito, and more, premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and was theatrically released in September 2024.
The documentary about its process, directed by Mike Figgis, will be screened at the Classics - Documentaries About Cinema section. In a press statement, Francis Ford Coppola spoke about it, as per Indiewire,
“The great filmmaker Mike Figgis shot the making of ‘Megalopolis’ as he saw it. Interestingly, there are many interpretations of what really happened, and it’s all in the documentary, although the documentary doesn’t always say which is what. It is for the viewer to behold and interpret.”
It will mark Coppola's return to the festival after 1992, when he received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, the same honor Werner Herzog will receive this year.
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Francis Ford Coppola received this honor two years after the release of The Godfather: Part III, which concluded the classic saga of the Corleone family. It began with the 1972 film, The Godfather, and continued with a sequel, The Godfather: Part II.
The Godfather trilogy earned Francis Ford Coppola three Academy Awards and three nominations. His other acclaimed films include 1974's The Conversation and 1979's Apocalypse Now. Both earned him the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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