Towards a greener future at Evia
EVIA FILM PROJECT: Back with its second edition, The Evia Film Project aims to help the Greek island’s recovery from the devastating wildfires and to be an international hub for sustainable film production.
Athens
The end – and beginning – of history
ALBANIA: The country’s transformation was fraught with difficulties. On the altar of freedom, factories went bankrupt, jobs disappeared, and thousands fled to Italy on overcrowded ships.
What tricks does the Catholic right have to define itself as the centre of Europe
THE WEST: European culture is «characterized by a melancholic feeling due to its alienation or inferiority towards a source that evokes a nostalgic feeling.» Really?
The three ecologies
CLIMATE: What connects the city of Siracusa with the UN and a French philosopher?
The depths of memory
MEMORY: This intriguing trip down memory lane, to the Basque country of idyllic summers, is an exercise in transcendence.
The «pact of denial» in Greece
Life on remote Greek islands can be less than idyllic when cold weather sets in and the tourists are gone.
Theo Angelopoulos, the filmmaker of migration
In Letter to Theo, French director Élodie Lélu revisits Angelopoulos’ unfinished film, reminiscing on their collaborative work on the project that was in some ways prophetic of the present-day Greece.