Director

Victor Kossakovsky

United Kingdom, Germany | 2018 | 89 min | English, Russian, Spanish

• Producer Aimara Reques, Heino Deckert, Sigrid Dyekjaer
• Production Company Actonite Productions, Danish Documentary Productions, Ma.Ja.De Filmproduktion
• Screenplay
• Cinematography Victor Kossakovsky, Ben Bernhard
• Editing Victor Kossakovsky, Molly Malene, stensgaard, Ainara Vera
• Sound Alexander Dudarev
• Cast
• Contacts

  Italia Film

  hyam.saliby@italiafilm.com.lb

About the Film

Aquarela takes audiences on a deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. Filmed at a rare 96 frames-per-second, the film is a visceral wake-up call that humans are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth’s most precious element. From the precarious frozen waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal to Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela’s mighty Angels Falls, water is Aquarela’s main character, with director Victor Kossakovsky capturing her many personalities in startling visual detail.

In Victor Kossakovsky’s own words: “through the natural lens of water you can see, experience and feel the ebb and flow of all known human emotions – anger, aggression, peacefulness, nobility, loneliness, jealousy… everything! (…) I want to film every possible emotion that can be experienced whilst interacting with water: beautiful emotions along with horrible ones. Ecstasy and inspiration, destruction and human devastation.”

Aquarela, screened at the recently concluded Venice Film Festival, is a work of sheer art that expresses the adventurous and risk-taking spirit of its maker. Kossakovsky travelled across continents and used the best and most modern techniques to bring out minute details in the spectacular images that we experience through the film. Those images illustrate the finite power of mankind and the infinite potential of nature, more specifically of water, and its capacity to destroy when in fury, over and above its importance to our sustenance and survival.

The film shows us our small standing in the larger scheme of the universe, a feeling perhaps of awe and fear that could propel us to be more compassionate, concerned and respectful to our fellow beings and nature itself.

Raman Chawla