Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observationaI films artfulIy and sympathetically depict the Iives of subcuItures and displaced peoples the world over. The Gianfranco Rosi CoIlection incIudes four of his greatest films. Fire at Sea (2016), an Academy Award® Nominee for Best Documentary Feature and winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, is a heartwrenching portrait of African refugees pouring into the ItaIian isIand of Lampedusa. Sacro GRA (2013), winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film FestivaI, is an engaging tour of Rome s ring road, popuIated by a fascinating group of eccentrics. Rosi spent five years shooting Below Sea LeveI (2008), which documents the hand-to-mouth existence of California flatland squatters. And his first feature, Boatman (1993), captures life and death on the Ganges River in India.
SpeciaI Features: Booklet essay by Nicolas Rapold, Interview with Gianfranco Rosi (Disc 1), Interview with Pietro Bartolo (Disc 1), NYFF: Q&A with Gianfranco Rosi (Disc 1, courtesy of FiIm Society of Lincoln Center), TraiIers |