Une histoire en images : Focus sur la cinémathèque de Grèce

A STORY THROUGH IMAGES: THE GREEK FILM ARCHIVE IN FOCUS

An evocation of the history of the Greek Film Archive through a selection of key films made between 1924 and 2012. It mirrors the development of the Archive, from its creation by a small group of enthusiasts in the 1950s to its recognition as the official film heritage institution of Greece, despite the lack of a consistent State policy.

Toutes les séances du 23 au 28 mars seront présentées par Maria Komninos (directrice de la programmation de la Cinémathèque de Grèce)

#1 - JEWELS FROM THE ORIGINAL COLLECTION
samedi 21 mars, 18h45, au Forum des images
mercredi 25 mars, 15h15, en cinéma 2

OI PERIPETEIAI TOU VILLAR
THE ADVENTURES OF VILLAR
JOSEPH HEPP
23' 1924 Grèce VO STFR
The earliest Greek fiction film restored by the Greek Film Archive has great value as a portrait of Athens in the 1920s.

MONASTIRAKI
GAY ANGELIS
19' 1976 Grèce SD
A lyrical documentary on Monastiraki, a neighbourhood in Athens where Ancient monuments coexist with small workshops and many antique shops.

ATHINA I TRIS EPISKEPSIS STIN AKROPOLI
ATHENS OR THREE VISITS TO ACROPOLIS
THEO ANGELOPOULOS
43' 1983 Grèce VO STFR
The great auteur takes us on a personal itinerary through Athens, paying tribute to Antiquity but also to modern legendary figures such as the poet Seferis, the painter Tsarouhis and the composer Manos Chatzidakis.

OI EKATO ORES TOU MAI
100 HOURS OF MAY
FOTOS LAMBRINOS, DIMOS THEOS
28' 1964 Grèce VO STFR et EN
An investigation into the final hours of the assassinated Grigoris Lambrakis and into the social origin of fringe urban groups and their links with para-statal organisations

#2 - POLITICS
lundi 23 mars, 21h00, en cinéma 2
samedi 28 mars, 16h30, au Forum des images

TO GELEKAKI
THE VEST
IRIS ZACHMANIDI
7' 1976 Grèce VO STFR
An Athenian bookshop becomes a labyrinth where the heroine encounters old passions (cinema d’auteur) and new ones (the feminist movement and socialist politics).

BETTY
DIMITRIS STAVRAKAS
33' 1979 Grèce VO STFR
Without any cheap moralizing, this respectful portrait of Betty, a well-known Athenian transsexual, gives a much-needed voice to the gay community at a time when it was totally marginalized.

MEGARA
YORGOS TSEMBEROPOULOS,SAKIS MANIATIS
69' 1974 Grèce VO STFR
A chronicle of how farmers were violently expropriated from their land to make way for an oil refinery. They decided to join the students in the Polytechnic Uprising of November 1973.

#3 -INDUSTRY AND IMMIGRATION IN THE 1960s
mardi 24 mars, 17h00, au Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles
jeudi 26 mars, 13h15, en cinéma 2

ALOUMINION TIS ELLADOS
ALUMINIUM OF GREECE
ROUSSOS KOUNDOUROS
20' 1965 Grèce SD
One of the first Greek commercial documentaries. A kind of corporate video that stands out for its avant-garde editing and use of sound to underline the visual narration.

TO GRAMMA APO TO CHARLEROI
THE LETTER FROM CHARLEROI
LAMBROS LIAROPOULOS
12' 1965 Grèce VO STFR
The letter from a Greek immigrant, working in a Belgian coalmine, to his mother. An impassioned denunciation of the hardship in the mines, interspersed with a nostalgic yearning to return home.

PROTI ILI
MATIÈRE PREMIÈRE RAW MATERIAL
CHRISTOS KARAKEPELIS
79' 2011 Grèce VO STFR et EN
The search for scrap is crucial for the survival of Roma and immigrant people. A chronicle of how the scrap industry feeds off impoverished groups.

#4 - PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WAYS OF ARCHIVING
samedi 28 mars, 14h00, au Luminor
dimanche 29 mars, 16h30, au Forum des Images

IMEROLOGIA AMNISIAS
AMNESIA DIARIES
STELLA THEODORAKIS
103' 2012 Grèce VO STFR et EN
Between faces of the 1980s and images of modern-day Athens, the filmmaker becomes the historian of her own life, as well as of the end of an epoch in both Greece and Europe.

Lundi 23 mars, 18h45, en petite salle - séance spéciale BPI
En presence de Robert Manthoulis
mercredi 25 mars, 17h00, au Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles

LA GUERRE CIVILE GRECQUE
ROBERT MANTHOULIS
60' 1996 France, Grèce VO STFR
An investigation into the war that raged in Greece from 1944 to 1949 and into its local and international political context, using previously unseen interviews and footage.
En collaboration avec Phonie-graphie