30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

Italian premiere

He a geologist, she a chemist and physicist, Maurice and Katia Krafft  dedicated their entire lives to the study of volcanoes. This passion, shared from an early age, led them to visit and study volcanoes in every part of the planet, becoming well-known and beloved faces on French television. From their extraordinary work in the 1970s and 1980s, the two volcanologists collected hundreds of hours of 16mm footage, thousands of photographs, illustrations, artefacts, and books: an immense archive that the director and anthropologist Sara Dosa has mined to make a surprisingly effective portrait of the pair of scientists. The spectacular and dramatic images of the incandescent lava flows and the explosions of grey dust alternate with moments of intimacy, where one discovers their choice of not having children in order to devote themselves entirely to their passion, and where the omen of a search for death together, right on a volcano, shines through. It will happen on Mount Unzen, in Japan, on June 3, 1991. This is a film that involves, amuses, intrigues, touches, and moves the viewer.

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  Sara Dosa

  An American director and documentary producer, she has received Emmy and Independent Spirit Award nominations. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University and holds a master's degree in cultural anthropology from the London School of Economics & Political Science. Her first work is The Last Season (2014), a documentary about two war veterans. With Fire of Love she attended the Sundance Film Festival and won the Jonathan Oppenheimer Editing Award.