A multimedia maritime exhibition, “Crafts of the Sea,” will open for the first time in Athens at the Goethe Institute Athens from July 4 to September 21.
A multimedia maritime exhibition, “Crafts of the Sea,” will open for the first time in Athens at the Goethe Institute Athens from July 4 to September 21.
An exuberant yet haunting road movie, “Stray Bodies” uses the trope of travel to explore the boundaries that religion and politics place on women, especially when it comes to their bodies.
“The problem, like every problem in Cyprus, is political,” said Colin Stewart, special representative and head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), referring to the recent halt to the UN’s landmine neutralization efforts in the island’s buffer zone.
In post-civil war Greece of the 1950s and 1960s, poverty plagued the populace and migration seemed like the only path to a better life for many Greeks.
Police in Thessaloniki issued a ban on public gatherings on Tuesday amid concerns about a rally that was being planned to protest a screening at the northern port city’s annual documentary festival.
Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s “They Shot the Piano Player,” an animated documentary-style exploration into the history and legacy of Brazilian bossa nova, will kick off this year’s Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival.
There may be nothing connecting Dimitiris Papaionnou to cinema at first glance – it is not, after all, the art his name is associated with – yet the 26th edition of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival will be paying tribute to the celebrated Greek choreographer.
A group of high-school students in Soufli, northern Greece, have made a short documentary about last summer’s catastrophic fires in Dadia Forest, an important Natura-protected habit in the region of Evros, in northeastern Greece, examining its impact.
Rare Super 8 footage captured between 1950 and 1980 by Takis Tloupas and unearthed in the basement of his Larissa home by director Kalliopi Legaki inspired her to explore the life of the photographer who gained renown for his black-and-white images of life in the Thessalian city and countryside.
While browsing the special screenings program of this year’s Athens International Film Festival (AIFF), I stumbled upon “Periptero: je t’aime moi non plus,” a documentary by Pier Blattner. What could have left such an impression on a Swiss filmmaker that convinced him to make a documentary about Greek kiosks?
Laura Poitras’ award-winning documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” shines a light on the life and work of photographer and activist Nan Goldin.
“For all our family members that might not hear this announcement and the measures to be taken, please inform them by giving them a phone call. We must move to a safer place to protect ourselves from the potential rising waters during this cyclone.”
Established in 2016 by the Hellenic History Foundation, the Beyond Borders international documentary festival on the southeastern Aegean island of Kastellorizo has grown into one of the summer’s coolest island events.
In honor of World Refugee Day, the open-air Vox cinema in Exarchia will be hosting a free-entry screening of the multi-award-winning film “Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea.”
Celebrating Athens Pride, the Hellenic American Union is screening “Cured,” an award-winning documentary by Bennett Singer and Patrick Sammon.
Dedicated to music documentaries, the Barcelona-based In-Edit Festival is dropping anchor at Thessaloniki port’s warehouse complex from April 19 to 23, where, apart from screenings, it will also hold a vinyl market, live concerts and parties.