Gianfranco Rosi

Naples faces dual volcanic threats from Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei. Amid increasing tremors, archaeologists work as residents live anxiously, haunted by Pompeii's fate while emergency services strain.

A decade-long chronicling of the travels of the head of the Catholic church across all corners of the world. Composed entirely of archival footage, the film grants rare access to the public life of the pontifical, not only from the elevated security of a pulpit but from the more democratic grounds of unpaved streets and vast public avenues.

Gianfranco Rosi's new documentary is an immersive portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East. - IMDb

Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis. (imdb)

Documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi brings us Sacro GRA, about life on the highway. (mubi.com)

El Sicario, Room 164 is an 80-minute documentary about a hit man. He has killed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture and kidnapping, and for many years was a commander of the state police in Chihuahua. At the moment, there is a contract on his life of $250,000. (imdb)

About 200 miles southeast of Los Angeles and 120 feet below sea level, a commune of outcasts lives in the middle of the desert. They are not some hippie colony, just a group of people who have turned their backs on society and want to be left alone. On this bare, arid plain, we see a mobile home here and there, a car or an impromptu house. The people who live here answer to imaginative names like Bulletproof, Insane Wayne and Bus Kenny...

Set entirely at Benares on the Ganges, the sacred river of the Hindu, Boatman captures the unique nature of this bizarre place, which is visited by Indians as well as tourists from all over the world. Using Benares as a microcosm, Boatman chronicles the people who live and conduct business there, observes the various rituals and ceremonies, and the tourists who flock there year after year. Every day, numerous bodies are cremated by the river's banks, or just sunk into its waters. And there are a