# 6
25 June 2021 - 9pm, basketball court, Anaxagora 41, 177 78 Tavros, Greece
With an interval of ten years and a distance of a few thousand kilometers, the two films selected take place in countries that, like their two main characters, are at a moment of crucial transition. Brexit in England, Hirak Movement in Algeria, economic crisis in Greece.
Disoriented, under the pressure of the economic system and the increase of social tensions, Fahed and Stavros want to show to their respective societies that they will act as “men”.
Using tenderness and humor, the filmmakers examine masculinity in a contemporary context.
"Plato’s Academy" by Filippos Tsitos (2009, 103 min, Greece/Germany) / VO Greek with English and Arabic subtitles
With Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Anastas Kozdine, Titika Saringouli, Giorgos Souxes, Konstantinos Koronaios, Panayiotis Stamatakis, Maria Zorba
Stavros lives alone with his old mother in a small, quiet neighborhood in Plato’s Academy district in Athens. Every day, he opens the metal shutters of his cigarette store, puts out the newspapers in front and then sets out the chairs where he and his friends sit all day, drinking coffee and criticizing workers who, in contrast, are always on the move. Until one day his mother embraces an Albanian worker right in the middle of the streets and under the eyes of his stunned friends Stavros discovers something new about his family's past.
The film approaches the sensitive topic of xenophobia through the tragicomic story of an ultranationalist who suddenly discovers the true origins of his family.
"My English Cousin" by Karim Sayad (2019, 122 min, Switzerland/Qatar) / VO English and Arabic with English and Greek subtitles
A chronicle of exile, the film follows the daily life of Fahed, the director and cousin, who decided two decades ago to quit everything and try his luck far away from Algeria. Now that his legal status is normalized after years working as an illegal alien in England, he lives in a small town, the victim of deindustrialization and affected by multiple social issues. Fahed now dreams of returning home and getting married but, as so many exiles, he feels like a stranger in his own country.
Shot with a keen eye that observes the smallest of details, Karim Sayad captures the loneliness that affects his real-life cousin no matter where he goes.
More info:
TAVROS website
Correspondences # 6: podcast by curator, writer, researcher and performance artist Yasmina Reggad and a video by artist and architect Sofia Dona.
TAVROS website
With an interval of ten years and a distance of a few thousand kilometers, the two films selected take place in countries that, like their two main characters, are at a moment of crucial transition. Brexit in England, Hirak Movement in Algeria, economic crisis in Greece.
Disoriented, under the pressure of the economic system and the increase of social tensions, Fahed and Stavros want to show to their respective societies that they will act as “men”.
Using tenderness and humor, the filmmakers examine masculinity in a contemporary context.
"Plato’s Academy" by Filippos Tsitos (2009, 103 min, Greece/Germany) / VO Greek with English and Arabic subtitles
With Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Anastas Kozdine, Titika Saringouli, Giorgos Souxes, Konstantinos Koronaios, Panayiotis Stamatakis, Maria Zorba
Stavros lives alone with his old mother in a small, quiet neighborhood in Plato’s Academy district in Athens. Every day, he opens the metal shutters of his cigarette store, puts out the newspapers in front and then sets out the chairs where he and his friends sit all day, drinking coffee and criticizing workers who, in contrast, are always on the move. Until one day his mother embraces an Albanian worker right in the middle of the streets and under the eyes of his stunned friends Stavros discovers something new about his family's past.
The film approaches the sensitive topic of xenophobia through the tragicomic story of an ultranationalist who suddenly discovers the true origins of his family.
"My English Cousin" by Karim Sayad (2019, 122 min, Switzerland/Qatar) / VO English and Arabic with English and Greek subtitles
A chronicle of exile, the film follows the daily life of Fahed, the director and cousin, who decided two decades ago to quit everything and try his luck far away from Algeria. Now that his legal status is normalized after years working as an illegal alien in England, he lives in a small town, the victim of deindustrialization and affected by multiple social issues. Fahed now dreams of returning home and getting married but, as so many exiles, he feels like a stranger in his own country.
Shot with a keen eye that observes the smallest of details, Karim Sayad captures the loneliness that affects his real-life cousin no matter where he goes.
More info:
TAVROS website
Correspondences # 6: podcast by curator, writer, researcher and performance artist Yasmina Reggad and a video by artist and architect Sofia Dona.
TAVROS website
