Luzzu

A young Maltese fisherman goes out to sea every day in his traditional fishing boat, struggling to make enough to feed himself, his wife, and their new baby. But working conditions are worsening as overfishing and black marketeering now set the rules in the island’s limited, highly competitive fishing trade. A real, urgent environmental issue – overfishing and illegal fishing – meets social realist cinema, with Mal- tese-American debut director Alex Camilleri finding in the rough figure of local fisherman Jesmark Scicluna a revelational lead, who won the Special Jury Award for acting at the Sundance Film Festival in 2021.