The Kastellorizo International Documentary Festival “Beyond the Borders”, which takes place on the beautiful island of the Dodecanese every year in the last week of August, opens on Sunday 21 August 2022 the “gates” of its 7th event. The Festival, which was instituted in 2016 by the Hellenic Foundation for Historical Studies (IDISME) with the aim of highlighting the rich cultural heritage of Kastellorizos as well as promoting the art of cinematography, begins this year with an inspiring ceremony which will be broadcast live streaming by APE -MPE at 19:30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18NSCbgle6Y).
“Radiograph of A Family” (IDFA Awards 2020), by the acclaimed Iranian director Firouzeh Khosrovani, is the film that opens the Cinematic Curtain of the Festival, as part of a special screening that will take place tomorrow at 20:30 (at Poseidon Hotel Square) . The film, with an experimental cinematic form and fluid audiovisual representations, deals – with the background of the Iranian Revolution in the late 1970s – with the universal core of human lives: love stories that are separated when personal paths and individual desires no longer converge.
Afterwards, the special performer Iro Saia, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Pontian Genocide, will present a musical performance with strong tones of the East. Smyrnaic, Rebetiko and Pontic song compose a musical feast full of melodies and rhythms, reminding us that the music we have today is not only combinations of sounds and rhythms, but is mainly memories, feelings, memories and experiences of an entire people who for many centuries make the joy and pain of music, wherever it is.
Tomorrow, the photo exhibition “The land of Attica welcomes the refugees of 1922”, renewed especially for the needs of the Festival, also opens in the Hall of Cultural Events of the Municipality of Megistis. The exhibition, an organization of the Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarianism and Democracy, was presented in 2006 in Athens and has since been transferred to many cities in Greece and abroad. This year, as part of the activities for the centenary of the Asia Minor Disaster, it is presented in a concise and renewed version in Kastellorizo, in the context of “Beyond the Borders”.
It is recalled that APE-MPE, as part of its collaboration with the 7th Kastellorizo International Documentary Festival, will screen five of the documentaries awarded during the 6th edition of the festival, in August 2021. This is the first public screening of the awarded documentaries, which will take place from the special micro site created by APE-MPE in collaboration with the 7th Kastellorizo International Documentary Festival “Beyond Borders”, at www.amna.gr/beyondbordersfestival2022
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Monday 22/08/2022 – Time 12:00
Best Historical Documentary | Best History Documentary
Midnight Traveler
USA, Qatar, Canada, UK/2019, 87′
Directed by: Hassan Fazili, Emelie Mahdavian
When the Taliban claim the head of Afghan director Hassan Fazili, he is forced to flee with his wife and their two young daughters. Capturing their uncertain journey, Fazili shows both the danger and desperation of their years-long odyssey and the immense love they share for each other.
Tuesday 23/08/2022 – Time 12:00
Best Sociopolitical Documentary | Best Socio-political Documentary
The Patriarch’s Room
Canada, 2017, 84’/ Greek Premiere
Directed by: Danae Elon
“Jaffa Gate is ours!” screamed the headlines in 2005. Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irenaios 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 cast out. For 11 whole years, Irenaeus was imprisoned in his apartments. In this first-person account, filmmaker Danae Elon uncovers what really happened to the former patriarch.
Wednesday 24/08/2022 – Time: 12:00
Best Short Documentary | Best Short Length Documentary
Dafa Metti
United Kingdom, 2019, 15’/ Greek Premiere
Directed by: Tal Amiran
Beneath the glittering Eiffel Tower in Paris, undocumented Senegalese immigrants sell tiny souvenirs of the monument to support their families back home.
Thursday 25/08/2022 – Time: 12:00
Special Award “Odysseus” Special | Award Odysseas
My Personal Lebanon
United Kingdom, 2020, 16′
Directed by: Theo Panagopoulos
My Own Lebanon follows a young Greek filmmaker as he tries to connect with his distant Lebanese origins by discovering his mother’s hidden stories from the war.
Friday 26/08/2022 – Time: 12:00
Special Mediterranean Friendship Award | Special Award Mediterranean Friendship
Express Scopelitis
Greece, 2020, 69′
Directed by: Emilia Milos
For 40 years now, the legendary Greek boat Express Scopelitis has been the soul of the Small Cyclades. We sail with her, watching the life of sailors and winter life on the islands.
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