Gianfranco Rosi , who scooped the 2013 Venice Golden Lion with “Sacro GRA”, is back on the Lido with “ Below the Clouds .” It’s a passionate personal exploration of Naples and its suburbs that lie under the Mount Vesuvius volcano.

Shot in black-and-white, “Below the Clouds” criss-crosses between different characters and situations. These include a teacher who runs a makeshift afterschool, a fire department switchboard operator who calms the fears of locals as the ground shakes due to continuous “seismic swarms,” a law enforcement official who tries to track down ancient tomb robbers and sailors on a ship unloading Ukrainian grain near Naples just as the port of Odessa is being bombed.

“In all of the characters I chose, there is a spirit of civil resistance,” says Rosi, who spent three

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