City symphony

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Observational documentary: People and daily life in the city of Corfu before covid 19.



Lying upon a Rock
Spyros Kavvadias
Lying upon a Rock
Fish in a box
Alexis Sidiropoulos
Fish in a box
The consequences of 2020 to an average man
Leonidas Lazelis
The consequences of 2020 to an average man
A Portrait of an old woman
Lydia Kasfiki
A Portrait of an old woman
The Red Dress
Evangelia Koumantsioti
The Red Dress
Aynadamar
Margarita Chalakatevaki
Aynadamar
Our garbage, the other's treasure
Thanos Tsigkas
Our garbage, the other's treasure
The reason I am cycling
Georgios Daios
The reason I am cycling
STOUA
Lydia Kolivinou
STOUA
Bread And A Blanket
Dimitris Gkrintzos
Bread And A Blanket
Lying upon a Rock
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A documentary about Lazaretto, the desert islet near the city of Corfu that functioned for centuries as a quarantine station as well as a place of execution for political prisoners during the Greek Civil War. The identity of the place is approached through fragmentary testimonies and original sources.

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Fish in a box
Views: 1524

Visual investigation and documentation of the production chain of a fish packing factory.

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The consequences of 2020 to an average man
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The narration of the basic changes in the life of an everyday man during 2020. The deprivations, the adjustments, but also the losses he suffered during such a strange period of time. All this through the perspective of his daily activities within a single day.

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The Red Dress
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The portrait of Dimitra Samara, a talented dress designer, who decided to pursue her dream only a few years ago. A great misfortune in her life brought her closer to her dreams. The only way to overcome her shock was to escape through her passion. So, through a voice-over narration and the creation of a dress, from scratch to its final form, we follow a parallel evolution: That of the red dress and of her own self.

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Aynadamar
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Aynadamar: An important place as far back as when the Arabs were in the area. The whole region of Andalusia was supplied with water through that spring, reaching as far as Madrid. Several years later, the poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca is taken there to be executed. His work in turn supplied the whole Spain and spread to the rest of the world. The documentary intertwines significant events of his life with dramatised excerpts from his work, aiming at achieving Duende (as Lorca used to say), the quintessence of all things.

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Our garbage, the other's treasure
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This documentary follows a young man who collects “useless” objects, like electronic devices that people throw away. To him, a broken hoover or a rusty stove is an opportunity to explore its “inner micro-world”, which is comprised of complex circuits, motors and other electronic systems. It is also a chance to alter those devices and give them a new life.

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The reason I am cycling
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A young bicycle rider explains why he wants to spend so much time with this sport: The hard and great times that bike gives him.

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STOUA
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The film refers to the pandemic crisis of covid-19 in the country, after the enforcement of the restriction measures. It observes the everyday life of the town centre of Corfu. It includes the randomness of recording the reality, the contradictions and the paradox of it. It attempts to render the suffocating atmosphere, that has a huge impact on the everyday life and the psychology of the people.

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Bread And A Blanket
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It’s Monday, the 13th of December 1943, the small town of Kalavryta is set on fire by the occupation army of Nazi Germany while the entire male population is being gathered on a nearby hill and shot dead. This war crime will go down in history, along with the massacre of Acqui Division, as the largest mass killing in Greece during WWII. Three men who witnessed these events as kids, locked up with the rest women, children and elderly people in Kalavryta’s primary school, recall this traumatic experience.

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