The film club cineHistories of the Chania Film Festival and the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival,
show in Chania
on Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 April 2019
(10:00-12:30pm)
In
CINEMA ATTIKON
the 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
The 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
10 and 11 April in Chania
For another year one a separate cinematic journey organized every year by the department Program of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in collaboration with local operators all over the country arrive in Chania. A journey that starts from the Northern Greece, Macedonia and Thrace and reaching as far as the Peloponnese and Crete.
These events are offering to viewers all over the country who have the passion for images, the love for cinema. Once again we become companions in this journey of culture and we put into practice the common belief that the cinema is an experience capable of uniting us.
Telltale and extremely human, documentaries who participated in the 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and they reconstruct contemporary reality in all its manifestations. Documentary from a wide thematic spectrum that forms a multiform kaleidoscope of our world will be screened during the two-day screenings in Chania. Political and social issues, images of the crisis, human rights, portraits of people with unique life stories, Art, traditions, but also memories from the past, invite the audience to a fascinating cinematic journey. A journey that takes place for the 11th year with the collaboration the Cultural Society of Crete, the Chania Film Festival and the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
THE PROGRAM OF SCREENINGS
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
22:00 – 00:30
Make the economy scream Duration 80 ́
Directed by Aris Hadjistefanou
A Greek journalist travels to Venezuela trying to understand why the His country’s politicians are concerned about whether there is toilet paper in Caracas. With continuous routes from the slums of the capital to the borders of Colombia and back to Europe discovers a different reality than the one that describes the Greek and the international media
The ships of Aunt Nelly Duration 13 ́
Direction Natassa Iatropoulou
Aunt Nelly. The sea. Her love for ships. For the trip. “But no matter what I studied, again something I would make with my hands. It’s in my nature.”
Raft Duration 47 ́
Director Lefteris Fylaktos
Do they live among us? Or
do we live among them? Are our worlds so distant?
In this episode of “Close Up” – the weekly creative series
ERT documentary – outlined the
portrait of our homeless fellow citizens through the social work of the magazine
street “Shedia”.
Thursday, April 11th, 2010
22:00 – 00:30
A Simple life Duration 17 ́
Directed by Myrto Papadogeorgou – Robert Harding Pittman
Yiula lives a simple life in its olive grove, on the Greek coast. When a golf resort for affluents strangers threatens to change her whole world, she resists. In time the pressure for growth is high. All that the Yula, it’s a simple life.
The Wheel, the roses (the blockade of Kalamaria) Duration 50 ́
Directed by Michalis Agrafiotis
On 13 August 1944, Greek collaborators of the Nazis invaded Kalamaria having a list proscriptions with prospective victims. By noon they had murdered 11 people. Then, the Mayor organized a feast in their honor. The invaders got drunk and walked away singing “The roses, the roses”, without completing the list
Balsam Duration 15 ́
Directed by Eliana Abravanel
What residents do one of the most cosmopolitan islands in the world when winter comes? The Club Mykonos Gastronomy, an unusual “family” of award-winning chefs, adventurous gourmets and housewives of the old school, penetrates into the sanctuaries of a public hospital and brings the upside down.
Journey in the world with an oud Duration 52 ́
Directed by Ioannis Remoundos
The film follows the thirty-year musical career of Kyriakos Kalaitzidis from Seattle to Sydney and from Shanghai to Mexico City, with a strong presence in the biggest festivals and the top music scenes in the world.
Kyriakos Kalaitzidis in this journey with the oud, will be lost in the images and sounds of his childhood, in his journey and in his work as a musician, composer and performer
