The Castellorizo International Documentary Festival “Beyond Borders”, travels to Komotini on 11-12 February 2022, at the invitation of the D.P.E.T.E. Komotini to screen the award-winning films of the competition program of the 6th edition of .
For more information D.P.E.T.E. Komotini-Tel: 25310 25970
Free entrance!
In this context, the following films will be screened:
“Midnight Traveler”, Hassan Fazili, USA, Qatar, Canada, UK, 2019, 87′- Best Historical Documentary Award
When the Taliban put a bounty on the head of Afghan filmmaker Hassan Fazili, he is forced to flee with his wife and 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.
Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTT-duEoRdc
“The Patriarch’s Room”, Danae Elon, Canada, 2017, 84′- Best Socio-Political Documentary Award.
“The Jaffa Gate is ours!” screamed the headlines in 2005. The Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irenaeus was accused of selling church property to Jewish settlers. He denied all charges. But for the first time in the 2000-year history of the church, its leader was ousted. For 11 long years, Irenaeus was imprisoned in his apartments. In this first-person narrative, filmmaker Danae Elon unravels what really happened to the former Patriarch. With unprecedented access to the inner workings of the church, a riveting, mysterious, disturbing and often humorous story of an unknown world within the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem is revealed.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pPIqCJ2Yq0
“Dafa Metti(Difficult)“,Tal Amiran, UK, 2019, 15′-Best Short Documentary Award
Under the glittering Eiffel Tower (Paris), undocumented Senegalese migrants sell tiny souvenirs of the monument to support their families back home. Far from their loved ones and hunted by the police, every day is a struggle in the darkness in the City of Light.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnfNzp4cFZw
“My Personal Lebanon”, Theodoros Panagopoulos, United Kingdom, 2020, 16′-Special “Odysseus” Award (courtesy of the General Secretariat for Hellenism Abroad & GREECE) (COURTESY OF THE GREEK MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS & PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION).
My Personal Lebanon follows a young Greek filmmaker as he tries to connect with his distant Lebanese ancestry by discovering his mother’s hidden stories from the war. The documentary explores the emotional tension between national and personal identity through a car conversation, two art installations in Athens, a book about Beirut and three languages.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJU6EU_zR_o
“Express Scopelitis”, Emilia Milos, Greece, 2020, 69′-Special Mediterranean Friendship Award (courtesy of the National Centre for Audiovisual and Communication)
For 40 years now, the legendary Greek yacht Express Scopelitis has been the soul of the Small Cyclades. We sail with her, following the life of sailors and winter life on the islands. The film is a praise for life between the sky and the sea. It balances on the edge between reality and transcendence, in the same way that the lives of sailors, with great effort, balance between land and sea. The sea gives space like a field of barley while dancing waves lead us to the festive ecstasy, a love song leads to the sea storm.
All is one, united with the power of nature and man’s struggle to tame it and live in harmony with it.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTe8W3i4CTo
