EXCLUSIVE: Mubi has set a Q1 2026 launch for Gianfranco Rosi’s Venice Particular Jury Prize-winning documentary Beneath the Clouds in a number of territories, with a qualifying launch this fall.
The worldwide movie distributor, streaming service and manufacturing firm will launch the movie in North America, Latin America, UK, Eire, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, India and Australia and New Zealand, for which it holds rights.
The work captures life between Mount Vesuvius and the Gulf of Naples, the place the bottom shakes periodically and the fumaroles of the Phlegraean Fields taint the air.
As with earlier movies reminiscent of Hearth at Sea and Notturno, Gianfranco Rosi’s newest work is a masterful act of cinematic immersion.
The movie was shot in and round Naples over the course of three years with Rosi embedding himself within the communities in and round Vesuvius.
From the traces of historical past, recollections of the subterranean world, and the issues of the current, the black and white works reveals a lesser-known Naples, peopled by locals, worshippers, vacationers, and archaeologists excavating a previous that in museums will give new life and which means to statues, fragments, and ruins.
The practice that rings Vesuvius makes its rounds as racehorses practice alongside the shore. A trainer runs a makeshift afterschool for youngsters and adolescents. Firemen of their command heart calm the fears of the locals who name in, legislation enforcement tracks down tomb robbers, whereas within the port of Torre Annunziata, Syrian tankers unload Ukrainian grain. The land that skirts the gulf is an unlimited time machine.
Beneath the Clouds marks the primary black-and-white characteristic in over thirty years for Rosi, who made historical past in Venice in 2013, which his movie Sacro GRA, which was the primary ever documentary to be awarded the Golden Lion.
Beneath the Clouds is written and directed by Rosi, who can also be answerable for the cinematography and sound, with enhancing by Fabrizio Federico in collaboration with Joe Bini and Music by Academy Award winner Daniel Blumberg.
The movie is produced by Donatella Palermo, Rosi, Paolo Del Brocco, 21Uno Movie srl, Stemal Leisure srl, with Rai Cinema.
