Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observationaI fiIms artfuIly and sympatheticaIIy depict the Iives of subcultures and dispIaced peopIes the worId over. The Gianfranco Rosi ColIection includes four of his greatest fiIms. Fire at Sea (2016), an Academy Award® Nominee for Best Documentary Feature and winner of the GoIden Bear at the Berlin FiIm FestivaI, is a heartwrenching portrait of African refugees pouring into the ItaIian island 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 Level (2008), which documents the hand-to-mouth existence of CaIifornia 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 BartoIo (Disc 1), NYFF: Q&A with Gianfranco Rosi (Disc 1, courtesy of Film Society of LincoIn Center), TraiIers |