“I wonder, did I live well or did I waste the amount of time given to me” Important people, standing on the cusp of their life, bestow their precious essence of wisdom on us, while we follow the course of a child alongside a small wooden boat floating in the water: from the springs of a river to the mouth of the sea, corresponding to Man’s voyage from birth to death.
Not just a music film. Not just a ballet film. Not just a political film essay. Here, an antique Greek tragedy serves as an astute metaphor for the country's current tragedy. Medea kills her own children. Society has turned against its offspring and thus kills their future. The balletic retelling of a mother murdering her two kids, choreographed by Renato Zanello, is based on E...
The Greek political refugees from the civil war (1946-1949) in the village Beloiannisz, which they built on their own, close to Budapest in Hungary, in the early 1950s. Their lives under forced exile and their unending desire to return home.
Sergei Paradjanov, the great Soviet filmmaker of Armenian origin who was born and grew up in Tbilisi, Georgia, studied film in Moscow and worked for many years in Ukraine, talks on camera to Fotos Lamprinos about his life, his films, and events in the USSR under Gorbachev’s Perestroika, a few short months before he died and while the state of his health was already deterioratin...
A mother loses her daughter to femicide. In stead of reacting with rage against the world, she mourns in her own different way: by going out, speaking publicly, and fighting to trade love for patriarchy for the sake of our society. By interweaving every-day moments with the story of our protagonist, the film tries to describe the banality of this evil. Mothers of Daughters pus...