The Documentary and Short Film Festival will take place on 27-30 June at Cine Diana, on Poros, with free admission, as part of the Poros Arts Festival, the organization of which the Municipality of Poros has entrusted to Katheti for 2023. The program includes documentaries and short fiction films, most of which have won awards at Greek and international festivals.

Director Flora Prisimintzi has created an interesting artistic program, with films portraying artists who have left their mark on Greek culture. Films about political figures and social events, as well as films about how changes in the natural environment can drastically change current balance on a global scale.

The Documentary and Short Film Festival starts with the screening of  “Saving Poros”, a documentary addressing the issue of POAY on the island. The Festival continues with two documentaries, one about the current issue of the refugees and one about the last fisherman in Sikinos. The project is also indirectly linked to Poros’s problem with the industrial fish farms and the changes that the abandonment of traditional professions can bring to society.

At the same time, the selection of documentaries produced by the Greek Broadcasting Corporation, including films by director Flora Prisimintzi, aims to emphasize the educational character that public television should have.

The films’ creators will also attend the screenings, so that the audience can ask questions and share their impressions.

Film program:

Tuesday, June 27^th

• 21:00 Saving Poros (9’): A short documentary that outlines the severe threat posed by the plan for the creation of industrial fish farms at Poros island, through revelatory facts and interviews. A film by independent journalist and documentarist Francesco De Augustinis.
• 21:20 No Coming Back (63’): Syrian refugees brought back memories of the refugee crisis Hellenism suffered after the Asia Minor Disaster, when thousands of Greeks from Asia Minor found refuge in Syria. Europe finds itself for the first time facing a problem of this scale –a fact that creates dangerous fear syndromes among citizens of different countries. This documentary makes use of testimonies of refugees, volunteers, and local inhabitants, in an effort to understand the historic nature of events. Written and directed by Flora Prisimintzi.
• 22:40 The Last Fisherman (12′) (documentary): A Day in the Life of Kostas Divolis, the only professional fisherman of Sikinos. Directed by Bastian Fisher and Vicky Markolefa.
• 23:20 From the Balcony (12′) (animation): An award-winning short story and a masterful animation about the microcosm of the popular neighborhood. A middle-aged lady, Lina, without ever leaving the balcony of her house, interferes with what happens in her… field of vision. Passers-by from her street, and her neighbors in the apartments across the street, all find that whatever they do, Lina watches them. Directed by Aris Kaplanidis.
• 23:35 Eleni Boukouri Altamura – The First Greek Woman Artist (52′): The woman who in 1848, a time when the doors of universities remain hermetically closed to women, dresses as a man so that she can study painting at the Nazarene School in Rome. Written and directed by Cleoni Flessa.
• 00:55 A Picture a Thousand Thoughts – Mandalina Psoma (25′): Painter Mandalina Psoma reveals her art and artistic influences. Directed by Flora Prisimintzi.

Wednesday, June 28^th

• 21:00 Saving Poros (9’): A short documentary that outlines the severe threat posed by the plan for the creation of industrial fish farms at Poros island, through revelatory facts and interviews. A film by independent journalist and documentarist Francesco De Augustinis.
• 21:20 Lundlow – Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War (71′): An award-winning documentary at the Thessaloniki Film Festival about the Lundlow Massacre and the contribution of the Greeks to the American labor movement. Directed by Leonidas Vardaros.
• 22:30 The Man Who Fed His Shadow (17′:40”): A man intrudes into rich people’s dinners claiming that he can collect the food from their table and feed his shadow which, curiously enough, is a female figure. Directed by Marios Garefos.
• 23:20 Samothrace, the Silence of the Rocks (53′): Samothrace is an intensely mythological place where, for the first time in Greece, the Mother Goddess is worshipped. Directed by Flora Prisimintzi.
• 00:30 Lost in the Woods (50′): From 1984 to 1989, Constantinos Pittas took a solo journey across Europe and shot 30,000 black-and-white photographs with a Minox 35mm compact camera. His aim was to capture the human core of the people living on both sides of Europe’s Iron Curtain. Directed by Lefteris Fylactos.

Thursday, June 29^th 

• 21:00 Saving Poros (9′): A short documentary that outlines the severe threat posed by the plan for the creation of industrial fish farms at Poros island, through revelatory facts and interviews. A film by independent journalist and documentarist Francesco De Augustinis.
• 21:20 Andreas Lentakis – A Romantic Fighter (83′): The life, political actions and spiritual trajectory of Andreas And through them, the trajectory of the Greek Left and its political history throughout the second half of the 20th century. Direction Menos Deliotzakis.
• 23:10 A La Carte (12′): The Minister of Health in a well-staged radio interview. What could go wrong? Directed by Vassilis Tsiouvaras, Taxiarchis Deligiannis.
• 23:25 Mamangakis – The last word (63′): In this documentary, the international Greek music composer Nikos Mamangakis offers his confession for the last time a few months before he passed away in July 2013. Directed by Takis Sakellariou.

Friday, June 30^th

• 21:00 Saving Poros (9′): A short documentary that outlines the severe threat posed by the plan for the creation of industrial fish farms at Poros island, through revelatory facts and interviews. A film by independent journalist and documentarist Francesco De Augustinis.
• 21:20 Mighty Afrin. In the time of floods (90′): The mighty Brahmaputra swells again, ready to swallow everything in its path. On a slowly disappearing island of mud, Afrin, a twelve-year-old orphan girl, is about to leave the only world she has known. Directed by Angelos Rallis
• 23:20 Newstria (24’): Newstria is a utopian land. A ship named “Chimera” sails off looking for it. Directed by Kostas Stamatopoulos
• 00:05 The Weavers (53′): A chronicle that offers a bittersweet look, posing key questions about the development of the Greek countryside. The award-winning documentary about the weavers of Vlastis in Kozani. Directed by Dimitris Koutsiambasakos.

In all the events of this year’s Poros Arts Festival, money will be collected for the support of nine-year-old Valeria.

In the past, Katheti has organized photography and painting exhibitions, theater workshops and seminars, painting workshops, theatrical performances, book presentations, and events for children to support the local community’s cultural development. Some of our activities are those that we achieved in 2021 and 2022, giving us the experience and impetus to continue even more dynamically this year.

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