POMPEI: BELOW THE CLOUDS
a film by Gianfranco Rosi
From award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi comes Pompei: Below the Clouds, a striking portrait of life in Naples, a city living in the shadow of Vesuvius. Beneath the quiet threat of eruption, people go about their days: archaeologists unearth the past, children learn as the earth hums, firefighters wait for the next call. The result is a portrait at once local and universal: a reflection on humanity’s capacity to live, love, and rebuild in the shadow of the unimaginable.
WINNER: Special Jury Prize, 2025 Venice Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION: 2025 New York Film Festival
” ★★★★★ An intensely disquieting, utterly distinctive film… superb”
–The Guardian
“Gianfranco Rosi makes documentaries like no one else.”
— The Hollywood Reporter
“A documentary fascinated by the fragility and suspension of life”
— RogerEbert.com