The journey of the ethnographic documentary series FROM PLACE TO PLACE will conclude with two films. “Kehagias—Man of the Land” (2022) by Giorgos Komakis, an ethnographic documentary filmed on Lemnos, the lowmost of the Aegean islands, as well as “Memento” (2021) by Nikos Ziogas, a lyrical documentary, an elegy to Epirus that is lost, but also a hymn to Epirus that […]
“True To Our Inner Daemon” (2024), directed by Tassos Goletsos, continues the journey of the ethnographic documentary series FROM PLACE TO PLACE. The screening will take place on Friday, October 9, at 10:00 p.m. in the Kampos Hall. A journey through Macedonia and its customs and traditions, exploring pagan rituals, Dionysian customs, and archetypal processes. This event is organized in […]
A journey through distant Thrace and its music, traditions, and pastures, featuring the award-winning film “Gaides Laloun,” as well as through Naxos, where we are introduced to the entertainer “Tigris from Apeiranthos,” in a film depicting the life of a shepherd and a tsambouna (bagpipe) player, both directed by Dimitris Kitsikoudis. The screening will take place […]
“The Journey of Askavlos” (2020), directed by Giorgos Arvanitis, will be the first ethnographic film to be screened as part of the FROM PLACE TO PLACE programme. The screening will take place on Sunday, August 2, at 9:00 p.m. in the beautiful square of Akamatra, and we will have the honour and pleasure of welcoming the film’s director, Giorgos Arvanitis, […]
This year, the Ikaria Film Festival is touring the island and presenting the programme “ETHNOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARIES TRAVEL FROM PLACE TO PLACE,” a series of selected ethnographic films from different parts of Greece that will be screened at various locations across Ikaria. Stay tuned.
With less than a month to go, the countdown to the three-day screening program of the Ikaria Film Festival has begun, where selected short films for this year’s festival and their filmmakers will come to meet and interact with the people of Ikaria and visitors to our island at the REX Municipal Open Air Cinema. […]
