PREVIEW: Luzzu (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jesmark Scicluna (film debut), Michela Farrugia (film debut), David Scicluna (film debut), Frida Cauchi (Risen), Uday McLean (Thugs of Hindostan), Stephen Buhagiar (Agora)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Alex Camilleri (film debut), director, writer, producer, editor; Rebecca Anastasi (film debut), Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes) and Oliver Mallia (Torpedo), producers; Jon Natchez (Light from Light), composer; Léo Lefèvre (Tokyo Anyway), cinematographer

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Jesmark (Scicluna), a hard-working Maltese fisherman, is faced with a choice of either repairing his leaky “luzzu” fishing boat to provide a meagre living for his family, or decommissioning it in favour of an EU payout and casting out with a sinister black market fishing operation which is slowly decimating the Mediterranean fish population…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Filmmaker Alex Camilleri announces himself with this naturalistic Maltese drama, starring unknown actor and real-life fisherman Jesmark Scicluna in an award-winning lead role.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 27TH MAY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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