Fire of Love

Fire of Love is a documentary about Katia and Maurice Krafft, two French volcanologists who shared a life and a career built around volcanoes. Over roughly two decades they travelled the world together, chasing eruptions and documenting what they saw in photographs and film, and sharing the results through lectures and media appearances. Their story ended in 1991 on Mount Unzen in Japan, where they were killed during an eruption. The film is built around the footage they left behind and is narrated by Miranda July.

Sara Dosa directs and wrote the screenplay with Shane Boris and Erin Casper; Boris, Dosa and Ina Fichman produced. Shot largely from the Kraffts' own archive material, it gives voice to the couple through Alka Balbir and Guillaume Tremblay, while Katia and Maurice Krafft also appear as themselves. It is Dosa's first feature, followed by Time and Water in 2026, and it was made by National Geographic and Sandbox Films with Canadian and American backing. Against a modest worldwide gross of about 2 million dollars, it drew a substantial audience on IMDb, where it holds 7.6 from 17,000 votes, and on TMDB, where it holds 7.5 from 265 votes. A critics' score of 8.3 from 182 reviews places it higher with reviewers than with the general public.