Both an activist and a documentarian, Valentina Pedicini also brings her background in anthropology to this impressively captured, claustrophobic nonfiction feature. Venturing beneath sea level, From the Depths profiles the lone woman at work in the last coal mine in Sardinia, Italy.

• La Sarraz Pictures
• Patrizia Saias
• Rodolfo Cabiddu
• Stefano Meletti
• Marco Milia
• Antonello Congia
• Fausto Zucca
• Sergio Garau