Ischia Global Fest 2026: SOTTO LE NUVOLE

Villa Arbusto

Free admission while seats are available.

9:30 PM – SOTTO LE NUVOLE by Gianfranco Rosi – 114 min

Synopsis
Sotto le Nuvole, the documentary directed by Gianfranco Rosi, is set in a landscape suspended between history and modernity, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, between Naples, Pompeii, and their surrounding areas. It is a timeless place where past and present merge in a profound and often dramatic interplay.
Rosi explores this unique region, inhabited by communities that have lived for nearly three thousand years alongside the ever-present threat of the volcano—sometimes with acceptance, sometimes with defiance. Here, every daily gesture, every building, and every fragment of life seems to carry the weight of a memory that refuses to disappear.
The film moves among archaeologists and scientists, artists and devotees, tourists and merchants, creating a continuous dialogue between ancient tragedies and contemporary vulnerabilities. Nothing truly separates what was from what is.
The present is permeated by the past, and the volcano becomes a symbol of a natural force that marks the passage of time and shapes human lives, even when it remains silent. In this suspended landscape, caught between beauty and danger, the film portrays a humanity that endures, adapts, and continues searching for meaning, balanced between fate and hope.