Sparta program

In A Mirror Father Stamatis And Stamatis

Director: Lena Voudouri Country: Greece

The meeting of two people of the Image, completely different. One, Father Stamatis Skliris, priest, physician, theologian and well-known iconographer-painter who has painted many churches and many painting exhibitions with a very special work for modern iconography. The other is Stamatis Giannoulis, an important cinematographer of many important films in Greek cinema. The film follows the fr...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 29 November 2024 18:00
Duration: 73 MINUTES

Searching For Rodakis

Director: Saim Kerem Soyyilmaz Country: Turkey

As a Greek tombstone of unknown origin is discovered underneath the floorboards in an old village house in Turkey, an almost forgotten story from the country’s creation unravels; the forced population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923. The engraved Cyrillic letters tell of a woman, Chrysoula Rodaki, who died in 1887. And so the search for her descendants begins: It leads director Ke...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 29 November 2024 20:00
Duration: 57 MINUTES

Baghdad on Fire

Director: Karrar Al-Azzawi Country: Norway

This film is an intimate and dramatic journey following Tiba, an Iraqi young woman fighting for freedom and equality. Twenty years has passed since the US-led invasion of Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein. On October 1st 2022 young men and women gather in thousands at Tahrir square in the middle of Baghdad to celebrate the 3 years anniversary of the largest youth demonstrations in the hist...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Friday, 29 November 2024 21:30
Duration: 60 MINUTES

A Taste Of Life

Director: Alkis Sdougkos Country: Greece

A film dedicated to those who fought cancer and managed to “emerge victorious”. "A TASTE OF LIFE" through seven different people, from various places and lives, who join their forces to talk openly about their health adventure, the secrets for a strong fight but also about the importance of prevention. The movie focuses on family, human relationships, psychology, love, everyday life, reinteg...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 30 November 2024 18:00
Duration: 55 MINUTES

Ultimate Citizens (feature Film)

Director: Francine Strickwerda Country: United States

 Jamshid is an Iranian who came to study in 1970’s America, and due to the Revolution, never went “home.” As a guidance counselor in Seattle Public Schools, Jamshid’s best work takes place out of the building and on a playing field with “his kids,” the children of refugees and immigrants. Their parents are in the grips of their own struggles to make a living and a home in a strange land...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 30 November 2024 19:00
Duration: 52 MINUTES

Construction Workers, Our Heroic Comrades...

Director: Giannis Xydas Country: Greece

After the end of the Greek Civil War, thousands of persecuted men and women guerrillas fled to the socialist countries or were sent to exile. During that same period young people migrated from their villages to the cities –mainly to Athens where fear and terror had reared their ugly head– in order to look for a better and brighter future. One of the trades they practiced was manual labor, fo...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 30 November 2024 20:00
Duration: 56 MINUTES

The Land of Forgotten Songs

Director: Vladimir Nikolouzos Country: Greece

The Land of Forgotten Songs is a collective creative collaboration between The Deep Forest Foundation and indigenous amazon communities. It captures moments of the Kaxinawa Huni Kuin, Awa, Kayapo, Matis, Enawene Nawe and Shipibo, who all live alongside the forest. With an ancient myth as a recurring motif we connecting the past and their present. A transcendental journey into the life, ritua...

COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Saturday, 30 November 2024 21:00
Duration: 93 MINUTES