Screening times:
Friday, November 5, 7:00 PM - Full capacity screening
Saturday, November 6, 7:00 PM - SOLD OUT - Half capacity socially-distanced screening
Alex Camilleri | Malta | 2021 | 95m | Maltese and English with English subtitles
with Jesmark Scicluna, Michela Farrugia
A hardworking Maltese fisherman, Jesmark is faced with an agonizing choice. He can repair his leaky luzzu, a traditional, multicolored wooden fishing boat in the hopes of eking out a meager living at sea for his wife and newborn son, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Or he can decommission it in exchange for an EU payout and cast his lot with a sinister black-market operation that is decimating the Mediterranean fish population and the livelihoods of the local families who depend on it. Luzzu won a Sundance Jury Prize for its nonprofessional lead actor Jesmark Scicluna, a real-life Maltese fisherman, and heralds the arrival of writer-director-editor Alex Camilleri. His gripping film operates in the neorealist tradition of Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rosselini, and the Dardenne brothers and calls to mind the socially engaged cinema of Ken Loach and the film’s producer Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart, The White Tiger).
"An affecting neorealist drama… indebted to the stripped-bare postwar Italian cinema of Visconti and Rosselini… but Luzzu’s brawny, sun-broiled shoulders can sustain the weight of its influences." -Guy Lodge, Variety
"A moving portrait of a world in flux, and one man attempting to survive the changes thrust upon him by a baffling outside world." -Sheila O'Malley, RogerEbert.com
"A moving tale of real-world strife... part observational drama, part social thriller." -Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Jesmark Scicluna - Sundance Film Festival
Tickets $8.75 online, $8 at the door (if available).
Full capacity
Half capacity SOLD OUT
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