Opening Ceremony
Thursday, 28 July 2022
7th Castellorizo International Documentary Festival 2022 “Beyond Borders”
“Where documentary meets History and Culture”
(21- 28 August 2022)
With an inspiring Opening Ceremony on the 21st of August, the 7th International Documentary Festival “Beyond Borders” will open its curtain, which will take place in Castellorizo during the last week of August, 21/08-28/08.
The opening film of this year’s event will be “Radiograph of A Family“ (IDFA Awards 2020), the acclaimed director Firouzeh Khosrovani. A film of experimental cinematic form and fluid audiovisual representations, which deals with the universal core of human lives: love stories are dissected when personal paths and individual desires no longer converge. All this against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution in the late 1970s.
The opening of the renewed, especially for the needs of the Festival, photographic exhibition “The Attica land welcomes the refugees of ’22”, organized by the Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament on Parliamentarism and Democracy, will be held on the same day by the His Eminence Bishop of Symi, Tilos, Halki and Castellorizo, Mr. Chrysostomos, who will represent the The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Castellorizo International Documentary Festival.
The opening ceremony will close with a musical performance by H. Saias, dedicated to the Hellenism of the East. Smyrna, Rebecca and Pontian songs, will 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 mainly memories, feelings, memories and experiences of a whole people who for many centuries have been making their joy and pain into music, wherever they are.
Finally, a large number of dignitaries will be present from the world of Arts and Letters, the media, various embassies (of U.P., Australia, etc.) and government officials. For those unable to attend, this year for the first time in the history of the event, the Opening Ceremony will be presented in live streaming broadcast from the APE-MPA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18NSCbgle6Y)
The Festival is under the auspices of A.E. of thePresidentof theRepublic Katerina Sakellaropoulou. The organization belongs to the The Hellenic Foundation for Historical Studies (IDISME), in collaboration with Ecrans des Mondes (Paris), the Region of South Aegean and has the support and/or sponsorship of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs / General Secretariat for Hellenes Abroad and Public Diplomacy, Ministry of National Defence, Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Ministry of Interior, the Hellenic Parliament, the Municipality of Megisti, the Australian Embassy in Athens, the US Embassy in Athens, the Embassy of Spain in Athens, the Czech Centre of Athens, the National Centre for Audiovisual Media and Communication (EKOME), the Greek Film Centre and the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT).
Watch the official promotional video of the 7th “Beyond Borders” 2022 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcdAEGRVVp0 and a short film with highlights from last year’s event at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSXDVuRnCmM
For more information you can visit www.beyondborders.gr or contact the Festival at info@beyondborders.gr
