The Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA), as part of its collaboration with “Beyond Borders” – the 7th International Documentary Festival of Kastellorizo, is screening five of the award-winning documentaries from the festival’s 6th edition, in August 2021.
This is the first public screening of the award-winning documentaries, organized in collaboration with “BEYOND THE BORDERS” – the Kastellorizo International Documentary Festival. Screenings of the award-winning documentaries take place daily at 12 noon.
The Tuesday, August 23, 2022: It will be shown *The Patriarch’s Room* (Best Social and Political Documentary Award), Canada, 2017, 84’, Directed by Danae Elon
“The Jaffa Gate is ours!” screamed the headlines in 2005. Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos was accused of selling church property to Jewish settlers. He denied all the charges. But for the first time in the church’s 2,000-year history, its leader was ousted. For 11 full years, Irineos was confined to his apartments. In this first-person account, filmmaker Danae Elon unravels what really happened to the former Patriarch. With unprecedented access to the inner workings of the church, she reveals a gripping, mysterious, unsettling, and often humorous story about an unknown world within the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City.
Here is the schedule for the remaining days
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Best Short Documentary
Dafa Metti
United Kingdom, 2019, 15’
Greek Premiere
Directed by: Tal Amiran
Beneath the gleaming Eiffel Tower in Paris, undocumented immigrants from Senegal sell tiny souvenirs of the monument to support their families back home. Far from their loved ones and hounded by the police, every day is a struggle in the darkness of the City of Light.
Thursday, August 25, 2022
“Odysseus” Special Award”
My Own Personal Lebanon
United Kingdom, 2020, 16’
Directed by: Theo Panagopoulos
*My Personal Lebanon* follows a young Greek filmmaker as he attempts to reconnect with his distant Lebanese heritage by uncovering his mother’s hidden stories from the war. The documentary explores the emotional tension between national and personal identity through a conversation in a car, two art installations in Athens, a book about Beirut, and three languages.
Friday, August 26, 2022
Special Mediterranean Friendship Award
Express Scopelitis
Greece, 2020, 69’
Directed by: Emilia Milou
For 40 years now, the legendary Greek ship Express Scopelitis has been the heart and soul of the Small Cyclades. We sail along with her, observing the lives of the sailors and winter life on the islands. The film is a tribute to life between the sky and the sea. It balances on the edge between reality and transcendence, just as the sailors’ lives, through great effort, balance between land and sea. The sea offers space like a field of barley, while dancing waves lead us into festive ecstasy; a love song leads to a sea storm. All is one, united with the power of nature and humanity’s struggle to tame it and live in harmony with it.
