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Gianfranco Rosi Retrospective

Gianfranco Rosi Retrospective
Boatman

Seattle premiere!

Nov 25

(Gianfranco Rosi, Italy/US, 1993, DCP, 55 min)

Boatman is Gianfranco Rosi's account of a boat trip along the Ganges River, together with his helmsman Gopal. They pass tourists and Indians who are bathing, working or meditating. In a series of small portraits Rosi depicts life on and at the banks of India's sacred river.

Gianfranco Rosi Retrospective
Below Sea Level

Seattle premiere!

Nov 26

(Gianfranco Rosi, Italy/US, 2009, DCP, 119 min)

Winner of the 2013 Orizzonti and Doc/It awards at the Venice International Film Festival. Not far from Los Angeles, 35 meters below sea level, lies Slab City, an abandoned desert site of a former military base. A community of nonconformists lives there with no government, water or electricity, with the sole purpose of finding inner peace.

Gianfranco Rosi Retrospective
Sacro GRA

Seattle premiere!

Nov 27

(Gianfranco Rosi, Italy, 2013, DCP, 95 min)

Gianfranco Rosi turns his lense on a part of his own country, roaming and filming for over two years in a minivan on Romes giant ring roadthe Grande Raccordo Anulare, or GRAto discover the invisible worlds and possible futures harbored in this area of constant turmoil. The result is a beguiling, utterly uncliched love letter to Rome itself.

Gianfranco Rosi Retrospective
Fire at Sea

Seattle premiere!

Dec 08 - Dec 11

(Gianfranco Rosi, Italy/France, 2016, DCP, 108 min)

For residents of Lampedusa, life continues at a steady pace. Samuele, observant 12-year-old Lampedusan, likes playing on land, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and those who try to cross it to get to his island. Gianfranco Rosi simultaneously documents Samuele's life and a few of the many battered boats that wash ashore, as migrants finally reach land after a harrowing journey. Whats next?