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Greek-French Director Costa-Gavras: I Was Impressed by Avgeropoulos' Documentary 'Agora' [Video]

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Internationally acclaimed Greek-French film director Costa-Gavras expressed his admiration for Yorgos Avgeropoulos’ awarded documentary “Agora: From Democracy to the Market. In an interview with the Greek VIMAgazino, the director of academy who was awarded for “Z,” when asked about his view on Greek cinema highlighted that “recently I was not impressed by a film, but rather by the documentary film ”Agora”.”

This is not the first time that Costa-Gavras has referred to the documentary film “Agora.” He was actually one of the first to support it by acknowledging its contribution to collective memory and to the documentation of one of the most difficult periods in modern Greece’s post-war history: “I watched your film with great interest and often with intense emotion. It is a serious and important film, which depicts the terrible times that the Greek people are going through. Your film is a historical fact. I hope that change will come soon.”

Referring to the cinema’s role Mr. Gavras said it “is valuable when it is national, when it comes from the soul of a country.”

The Agora was a central area in Ancient Greece city states. It was a gathering place, an assembly of active citizens, and the City center for political, economic, athletic, artistic and spiritual life. It was the heart of Democracy. In Modern Greece, the word Agora has lost its initial sense and it has come to denote solely the place and act of commercial transactions. It is a dominant word in the reality experienced by Greeks today, as the country goes through an economical vortex that devours human lives in its path.

Greece, a symbol for the European civilization due to its Ancient heritage, is experiencing conditions in post-war history that no European thought would face again. Homeless people, soup kitchens, unemployment, poverty, an unsettled social situation, violent conflicts and the rise of the extreme right. The dream of prosperity has turned into a nightmare and the political scene of the last four decades is crumbling.

Participation at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

After a rather successful national theatrical release and while screening events and broadcasts continue both in Greece and abroad, “Agora,” the documentary film-arc of the Greek crisis by Yorgos Avgeropoulos, will participate in Greece’s most important documentary film event, the 17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, which is held from March 13 until March 22. The film will screen at the Greek Panorama section twice, on Friday March 20 and Saturday March 21. Both screenings will be followed by Question and Answer sessions with the film’s director.

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