Aquarela

A stunningly beautiful and often witty documentary looking at the power of water and our relationship to it.

  • Director

    Victor Kossakovsky

  • UK-Germany-Denmark-USA 2018. 89min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    12A

  • English subtitles

No film by Victor Kossakovsky is short of memorable images. However, Aquarela offers an embarrassment of riches as the filmmaker travels the world, presenting us with footage that showcases the awe-inspiring and terrifying power of our planet’s life force: water. The film’s technical virtuosity is matched by Kossakovsky’s curiosity about the way water moves, creates and destroys. What he captures – in the most minute detail thanks to his decision to employ high-frame-rate shooting (96 frames per second) – and the way he captures it moves the film away from any conventional nature documentary and closer to art.

See our IMAX release of Aquarela.