European Film Festival Presents EU Film Series: Luzzu From Malta

Official submission of Malta for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 94th Academy Awards in Protected content .
Join us for this Maltese film following a fisherman caught between a traditional way of life and the darker forces of modernity. He risks everything to provide for his wife and newborn son by entering Malta's black-market fishing industry.

FEATURED REVIEW
8/10
Decent
It's quite a good drama, which, although gripping, reveals the main character's severe internal conflict.

The protagonist is a man named Zhesmark, a fisherman in his generation. The favorite occupation does not bring a high income, and the funds are not even enough for basic needs. And there is also a family - a woman and a small son, in whom doctors suspect a disease. A difficult life situation leads to tectonic shifts in his worldview.

The central character steps over himself, his beliefs and moral principles in order to earn the money needed for the family. He takes on any job, leaves his comfort zone and ends up where he shouldn't have gone.

Everything here works very well. Yes, the lead actor, in my humble opinion, is not too emotional and could have played better. Others simply did their job well.
The creative team managed to reveal the plot, convey the atmosphere of a society with canons and an ancient craft, which cannot adapt to modern realities and is doomed to decline.
Conclusion. Of course, this is a festival movie that not everyone will like. But it is really worth watching it once.