Giannis in the Cities
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1949, towards the end of the Greek Civil War. Yannis, the son of a rebel, is torn from his village and deported to the Childcare Cities where his ideas and desires are manipulated. Nightmares and dark feelings for his father slowly inhabit his heart. Only when he reaches adulthood does he redefine his existence, so he decides to go and meet the man. Based on the life story of Greek writer Yannis Atzakas.
Screenings
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Cast and crew
Feelgood Entertainment, (Irini Souganidou, [email protected])
Eleni Alexandrakis
She was born in 1957 in Athens. She studied Cinema at Sorbonne (Paris I, graduated in 1980) and at the National Film and TV School in the United Kingdom (and graduated in 1985). She writes, directs, and produces fiction and documentary films, guided by the belief there is no difference between the two. Her films have won several awards in Greece and abroad.
1990 The Children of Greece (TV)
1994 Tonia Marketaki (short doc)
1995 A Drop in the Ocean
1999 Easter is in the Air (doc)
2002 About the Holy and Mysterious Myhr (doc)
2018 Costis Papagiorgis, the Sweetest Misanthrope (doc)
2019 Angel and the Weightlifter
2022 Uprootings (doc)
2024 Giannis in the Cities
Online screenings: 5/11/2024 - 10/11/2024