Having already won a long list of awards during its festival run, including the Visions du Réel Audience Award, The International Wildlife Film Festival’s Best Feature Award, The Independent Film Festival Boston’s Documentary Grand Jury Prize, SIFF’s Special Jury Prize, and numerous others, the scorching documentary “Fire Of Love” looks poised to be one of the documentary frontrunners of 2022 that could be chasing down Oscar gold later this year.
From National Geographic Documentary Films and NEON, “Fire Of Love” tells the extraordinary love story of intrepid French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, whose passion for volcanoes was as passionate as their love for each other. Tragically, these collective passions didn’t end well, but it does make for a deeply engaging documentary.
From award-winning feature documentary director Sara Dosa (“The Seer and the Unseen”), the Miranda July-narrated film premiered to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and won the festival’s Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award (read our review).
Here’s the official synopsis:
The film tells the extraordinary love story of intrepid French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died just as explosively as they lived — capturing the most spectacular imagery ever recorded of their greatest passion: volcanoes. Following its Sundance premiere, the film was hailed by Variety as “a spellbinding experience” and The Hollywood Reporter as “a gorgeously photographed, dreamily constructed portrait.”
“Fire Of Love” will be released in theaters in select cities on Wednesday, July 6, and will continue to roll out nationwide throughout the summer. Watch the first trailer below.
