Grad Film at 2025 Venice Film Festival

Congratulations to the Grad Film students, alumni, and faculty who premiered at the 2025 Venice Film Festival!

Father, Mother, Sister, Brother  is a feature film by Grad Film alum Jim Jarmusch, produced by Adjunct Faculty Joshua Astrachan, with cinematography by Adjunct Faculty Fred Elmes. The film received the Golden Lion award. 

Father Mother Sister Brother is a feature film, though carefully constructed in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents) and each other. Each of the three chapters takes place in the present, and each in a different country.

Father is set in the north-east US, Mother in Dublin, Ireland, and Sister Brother in Paris, France. The film is a series of character studies: quiet, observational and non-judgemental — a comedy, but interwoven with threads of melancholy.

Norheimsund is a short film by Grad Film MFA candidate Ana Alpizar, produced by Madeline Finkel, and with cinematography by Yuqian Zhang.

A girl’s long-distance romance with an older Norwegian man promises to pull her and her mother from their austere life in Cuba, but her dreams are shaken when she realizes he is not as idyllic as he seems.

Constantinopoliad is a collective reading and audio work produced by Grad Film Faculty Julia Solomonoff.

A response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy, the story is inspired by the blank and torn-out pages in Constantinopoliad, an Epic, the journal the teenage Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria; by lost and missing queer archives through time; and by the ghosts, both erotic and historical, that visit the older Cavafy in his poems.

Cover Up is a feature film with cinematography by Grad Film Faculty Mia Cioffi Henry. 

Cover-Up is a political thriller that traces the explosive career of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Urgent and deeply reported, Cover-Up is both a portrait of a relentless journalist and an indictment of institutional violence — revealing a cycle of impunity in the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. Drawing on exclusive access to Hersh’s notes, and interweaving primary documents and archival footage, Cover-Up captures the power and process of investigative journalism.

Read more at La Biennale.