Gianfranco Rosi – MRQE

Below the Clouds

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Naples faces dual volcanic threats from Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei. Amid increasing tremors, archaeologists work as residents live anxiously, haunted by Pompeii’s fate while emergency services strain.

In viaggio

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A chronicle of the first nine years of Pope Francis’ pontificate, including trips to 53 countries, focusing on his most important issues – poverty, migration, environment, solidarity, and war – while also giving rare access to the public life of the pontifical.

Sacro GRA

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After the India of Varanasis boatmen, the American desert of the dropouts, and the Mexico of the killers of drugtrade, Gianfranco Rosi has decided to tell the tale of a part of his own country, roaming and filming for over two years in a minivan on Romes giant ring roadthe Grande Raccordo Anulare, or GRAto discover the invisible worlds and possible futures harbored in this area of constant turmoil. Elusive characters and fleeting apparitions emerge from the background of the winding zone: a nobleman from the Piemonte region and his college student daughter sharing a one-room efficiency in a modern apartment building along the GRA.

Sicario, Room 164, El

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of a hitman for the drug cartels in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Below Sea Level

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

During a five year period an Italian filmmaker documents the world of down-on-their-luck individuals who live in a Californian desert trying to get by one day at a time. None of them has more than a vehicle, a dog and some clothes.

Boatman

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In a series of small portraits, Gianfranco Rosi depicts life on and along the banks of the Ganges River. The directors first film documents the boat trip he took along Indias sacred river with his helmsman, Gopal. They pass tourists and locals, witnessing them bathe, work, or meditate. The film captures the imagination of the endless circle of life and death, which is rooted in the lives of the Indian people, and is convincingly manifested in the way they bid farewell to the dead.

Notturno

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East.