Fire of Love (2022)
Director: Sara Dosa Run Time: 97 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2022
Starring: Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft, Miranda July
Country: Canada, United States
Language: French, English
About the film:
Official Selection of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award.
Fire of Love (2022) was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 95th Academy Awards. Celebrate Awards Season at the Film Center! Learn more here.
Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things — each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and documenting their discoveries. Ultimately, they lost their lives in a 1991 volcanic explosion, leaving a legacy that forever enriched our knowledge of the natural world.
Director Sara Dosa and the filmmaking team fashion a lyrical celebration of the intrepid scientists’ spirit of adventure, drawing from the Kraffts’ spectacular archive. Fire of Love (2022) tells a story of primordial creation and destruction, following two bold explorers as they venture into the unknown, all for the sake of love.
“intrigue, danger, and adventure… Dosa’s “Fire of Love” doesn’t just celebrate them as volcanologists, or devoted lovers, but as extraordinary visual storytellers.”
—Nick Allen for Roger Ebert
About the filmmaker:
Sara Dosa is a Peabody Award-winning documentary director and producer who tells unexpected character-driven stories about the human relationship to non-human nature. She made her feature directorial debut with the Independent Spirit Award-nominated documentary The Last Season (2014) and followed up with Netflix’s Emmy-nominated ReMastered: Tricky Dick and the Man in Black (2018) and festival favorites The Seer and the Unseen (2019) and Fire of Love (2022), which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award. Dosa graduated from Wesleyan University and holds a master’s degree in anthropology from The London School of Economics and Political Science.
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