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The Peloponnisos Documentary Film Festival, in collaboration with the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, welcomes audiences to Sparta on December 1st and 2nd, for a selection of films exploring profound aspects of the human experience. The program focuses on themes of memory, art, identity, and human resilience in the face of adversity. Narratives from Greece and abroad will be presented, encompassing personal journeys, the intersection of art and life, the challenges of everyday existence, and humanity's capacity to overcome obstacles. Screenings at the Olive and Greek Oil Museum promise a rich cinematic experience, stimulating reflection and fostering dialogue. Through these stories, we will explore the complexities of the human condition and the human spirit's ability to create meaning in the face of challenge.
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Director: Dimitris Mouzakitis Country: Greece
In the last years of their lives, the poet Nanos Valaoritis and the painter Marie Wilson lived together in an apartment in downtown Athens. Nanos Valaoritis, searches, discovers, retrieves, displays photographs, old drawings, publications. He is reflected in the cinematographic lens, weaving personal memory into space and time. A personal microcosm, containing multifaceted manifestations of ...
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 01 December 2024 11:00
Duration: 100 MINUTES -
Lenaki, The Curse of Fire
Director: Dimitris Indares Country: Greece
The forgotten case of the arson of an ancestral tower in Peloponnese, Greece, comes to light with the discovery of a manuscript. The interreligious romance between Eleni and Elmaz-aga, close to the 1821 uprising against the Ottomans, and a parental curse, haunt the history of the family and of the village alike. The folk song of Eleni drives to the awakening of a past that resembles a fairyt...
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 01 December 2024 12:45
Duration: 72 MINUTES -
Sami's Odysseys
Director: Robin Dimet
Fifty-year-old Sami lives in the Ethiopian capital Addis-Abeba in a small, cluttered room with mould lining the walls. An artistic soul and a man of complex personality, he has spent 19 years translating an anthology of Greek and Roman myths into the Ethiopian national language of Amharic to introduce his fellow Ethiopians to the ancient wisdom. A quixotic life’s work that at long last looks...
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Sunday, 01 December 2024 14:00
Duration: 68 MINUTES -
La Malavita (The Underworld)
Director: Paolo Colangeli Country: Italy
The film develops the story of an ex-baby gangster, Sasà Striano, who after so many years in prison and theatrical work, returns to Naples to stage a Macbeth in Neapolitan, and he begins a journey in the Naples of the alleys in search of a original cast of "real people". In this journey, Sasà clashes with a criminal city that has changed profoundly in recent years; by now the so-called Paran...
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 17:30
Duration: 79 MINUTES -
Loxy
Director: Thanasis Kafetzis, Dimitris Zahos Country: Greece
Loxandra, a girl with Down syndrome, is invited to participate in the new production at the main stage of the National Theatre of Greece. Her mother decides to accept the invitation for her daughter's own good. Loxandra will fight hard to meet the demands of the new reality. Will she make it?
COM_DOCUMENTARIES_TITLE_SCREENED: Monday, 02 December 2024 19:00
Duration: 87 MINUTES
