# 2
30 October 2020 - 6.30 pm and 9.30 pm, Cine Alexandra, Str. Kremou 141, Kallthea 177675, Greece
The two films selected for the third screening session (a fiction and documentary respectively) approach the notion of home and the loss of one’s homeland. In both cases, unable or forbidden to integrate, the lead characters haunt the spaces where they live and work, almost merging with the setting; whether cleaning the beautiful sea-side villa as is the case with Nadja in "At Home", or for the workers who are building a luxurious skyscraper in a "Taste of Cement". Using visually stunning images, sensitive and poetic narratives, the filmmakers approach the uncomfortable topic of contemporary slavery through two polar opposite settings.
"At Home" by Athanasios Karanikolas (2014, 103’, Germany/Greece)
VO Greek with English subtitles
With Maria Kallimani, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Alexandros Logothetis
In a spacious house on the hills of marathon, with a beautiful view of the sea, Nadja lives alongside Stefanos, Evi and their daughter Iris. Nadja has been the family’s housekeeper for years, the four of them are close: they are family. One day, in the wake of the Greece’s financial crisis everything is turned upside down and a fatal diagnosis will dramatically change their relationships testing the true nature of their mutual affection.
"Taste of Cement" by Ziad Kalthoum (2017, 85’, Germany/Lebanon/Syria/United Arab Emirates/Qatar)
VO Arabic with English and Greek subtitles
In this poetic essay documentary, Ziad Kalthoum transports us into the lives of Syrian construction workers rebuilding post-war Beirut while their own houses are being bombed in Syria. The Lebanese government has imposed night-time curfews on the refugees and the workers are locked inside the building site. Mute and imprisoned in the cement underground, the only contact with the outside world is when they climb out of their sleeping holes in the morning to begin a new day of work. Tormented by anguish and anxiety, they keep hoping for a different life.
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The two films selected for the third screening session (a fiction and documentary respectively) approach the notion of home and the loss of one’s homeland. In both cases, unable or forbidden to integrate, the lead characters haunt the spaces where they live and work, almost merging with the setting; whether cleaning the beautiful sea-side villa as is the case with Nadja in "At Home", or for the workers who are building a luxurious skyscraper in a "Taste of Cement". Using visually stunning images, sensitive and poetic narratives, the filmmakers approach the uncomfortable topic of contemporary slavery through two polar opposite settings.
"At Home" by Athanasios Karanikolas (2014, 103’, Germany/Greece)
VO Greek with English subtitles
With Maria Kallimani, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Alexandros Logothetis
In a spacious house on the hills of marathon, with a beautiful view of the sea, Nadja lives alongside Stefanos, Evi and their daughter Iris. Nadja has been the family’s housekeeper for years, the four of them are close: they are family. One day, in the wake of the Greece’s financial crisis everything is turned upside down and a fatal diagnosis will dramatically change their relationships testing the true nature of their mutual affection.
"Taste of Cement" by Ziad Kalthoum (2017, 85’, Germany/Lebanon/Syria/United Arab Emirates/Qatar)
VO Arabic with English and Greek subtitles
In this poetic essay documentary, Ziad Kalthoum transports us into the lives of Syrian construction workers rebuilding post-war Beirut while their own houses are being bombed in Syria. The Lebanese government has imposed night-time curfews on the refugees and the workers are locked inside the building site. Mute and imprisoned in the cement underground, the only contact with the outside world is when they climb out of their sleeping holes in the morning to begin a new day of work. Tormented by anguish and anxiety, they keep hoping for a different life.
More info:
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