22-07-2025
‘Below The Clouds' Trailer: Gianfranco Rosi's Naples Documentary To Debut In Competition in Venice
EXCLUSIVE: Venice Golden Lion director Gianfranco Rosi returns to the festival in Competition this year with black-and-white documentary Below The Clouds, and Deadline can unveil the first trailer.
After his exploration of life on the island of Lampedusa in Oscar-nominated and Berlin Golden Bear winning work Fire at Sea, and the outskirts of Rome in Venice winner Sacro GRA, Rosi trains his eye on Naples and life in the area between Mount Vesuvius and the Gulf of Naples, where the threat of seismic activity is ever present.
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The synopsis reads: 'The ground shakes periodically and the fumaroles of the Phlegraean Fields taint the air. From the traces of history, memories of the subterranean world, and the concerns of the present, in black and white, a lesser-known Naples emerges and fills with voices, with lives.
'Below the clouds lies a territory crisscrossed by locals, worshippers, tourists, and archaeologists excavating a past that in museums will give new life and meaning to statues, fragments, and ruins. The train that rings Vesuvius makes its rounds as racehorses train along the shore. A teacher runs a makeshift afterschool for children and adolescents. Firemen in their command center calm the fears of the locals who call in, law enforcement tracks down tomb robbers, while in the port of Torre Annunziata, Syrian tankers unload Ukrainian grain. The land that skirts the gulf is a vast time machine.'
The documentary is by Rosi's Rome-based company 21Uno Film and Stemal Entertainment with Rai Cinema. International sales are handled by The Match Factory.
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