Pompei: Below the Clouds(2026)

Name: Pompei: Below the Clouds
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Genre: Documentary
Released: Mar 6, 2026

1h 55m
- Documentary

Release Date: Mar 6, 2026

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.

Release Details

Original Release | Mar 6, 2026 | Limited

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$20,329
Total US & Canada:
$99,662
Total International
$131,676
Total Worldwide:
$231,338

Current Showtimes

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Director & Top Cast

Gianfranco Rosi
Director

Other Details

Country of Origin: Italy

Language: Italian,Arabic,Japanese,Neapolitan,English

Summaries

Storyline

Pompeii Under the Clouds is a contemplative documentary that paints a poetic and atmospheric portrait of the area surrounding Mount Vesuvius - Naples, Pompeii, and the nearby coast. Filmed over three years, it observes the everyday lives of the region's inhabitants: firefighters, archaeologists, sailors, port workers, street educators, refugees, and many others. The film has no narration and no traditional storyline. Instead, it relies on quiet observation: gestures, faces, ruins, landscapes, and fragments of daily life. Rosi blends the ancient and the modern, showing how people live their ordinary routines beneath the symbolic "cloud" of the volcano. Through this mosaic of scenes, the documentary explores the layers of time: the buried past of Pompeii and the living present of Naples coexist in a space suspended between memory and contemporary reality. The effect is meditative, sometimes somber, and deeply visual - a portrait of a region where history and daily life constantly overlap. — R. Muss