Her cooperation Alpha bank With cultural bodies and organizations, in the context of the “Culture for All” initiative, it creates the conditions that pave the way for universal accessibility to the country’s cultural events. With over 144,000 beneficiaries, the “cinema for all” program, which is one of the partnerships included in the Bank’s initiative, has been high on its corporate responsibility agenda.

The need to enhance equal access to culture and more widely in economic and social life was recently raised by Alpha Bank’s Communications and Corporate Affairs Director, organized by Tsomokos and Lifo.

Mr. Terzis in his speech noted: “In Alpha Bank we place a great emphasis on everyone’s right to participate in the cultural life as much as possible. Otherwise, even cultural goods become a privilege for a few. “

Referring to the bank’s initiatives, he spoke of partnership with leading cultural bodies in the country to enhance the accessibility of art and culture events and, ultimately, “The concept of accessibility to become an organic part of a cultural production and not a mere attendance.” “We started in 2019 from the cinema, as a accessibility sponsor to the Thessaloniki Film Festival, supporting accessibility to both content, with universally accessible screenings and in the premises,” Mr. Terzis ended. In the same panel, gold Paralympic Nassos Gavelas praised the bank’s initiatives, as he himself has attended accessible screenings and performances supported by Alpha Bank.

The Documentary Lopping in Schools and Festivals in Greece

The initiative ‘Cinema for all’, As one of the Bank’s many actions on accessibility in culture, it recently presented the universally accessible version of the documentary. The documentary was awarded in 2024 with the Alpha Bank Accessibility Award to Thessaloniki Documentary Festival And this year, he participated with screenings in school events and festivals in Greece, on the occasion of World Down Syndrome Day. The projections were accessible to people with visual disability, and were supported by subtitles for K/Deaf and Hearing. The film was screened in Attica and northern Greece and was watched by a total of 683 spectators, including students, and are scheduled for future screenings.

The film tells the story of Loxandra Lazu, an actress with Down Syndrome, who is called upon to transcend personal and social obstacles in order to participate in a performance in the Central Stage of the National Theater. The film by Dimitris Zachos and Thanassis Kafetzis aptly highlights the issue of the accessibility of actors with disabilities in the country’s artistic events.

For the third year at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

It is worth noting that Alpha Bank is working with the Thessaloniki Film Festival Since 2019, contributing to the organization of universally accessible film screenings.

At the same time, in 2022, he adopted the Accessibility Award, awarded both to the Film Festival of every November and at the documentary festival every March, and awards films or personalities, which raise the issue of accessibility in the arts, while accompanied by a monetary. This year, the award was awarded to the documentary “Viktor” by the renowned French artist and war filmmaker Olivier Sarbil, starring a Kharkov young deaf young man who watches anxious in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

As part of the great tribute to the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival entitled “Look Geography: Outside Greece (1950 -2000)”Two films by Takis Hatzopoulos were screened in Cinema in Cinema in Cinema, as cinema is now accessible to people with motor disabilities, after funding a study by the bank.

This is the documentary “Gazoros of Serres” (1974), which was awarded the best production award at the 15th Thessaloniki Film Festival and presents the authentic figure of the Greek countryside and the short documentary of the 19th Documentary Documentary (1966). length.