It was selected as Poland's submission for Best International Feature Film at the upcoming 97th Academy Awards.

[1] A Ukrainian family on vacation in Tenerife learns that they cannot return home due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Salaud Morisset acquired international sales rights to the film in August 2024.

"[7] David Katz of Cineuropa wrote, "From an immediately pressurised opening, Under the Volcano drifts into a pleasing and paradoxically hypnotic kind of stasis, shot with oft-deteriorated available light and in shallow focus with long lenses – not quite a 'hangout' movie, and more about biding time in urban loneliness...."[8] The film has received mixed reviews in Poland.

Filmweb assigned the film a score of 6.3 out of 10 based on 33 critic ratings.