13th AGON International Archaeological and Cultural Documentary Festival: Coming with 62 films from around the world

The 13th AGON International Archaeological and Cultural Documentary Festival promises audiences a fascinating cinematic experience, taking spot from May 25 to May 30 astatine the Greek Film Archive.

As portion of this year’s program, which was presented today, a full of 62 films from 27 antithetic countries volition beryllium screened, including productions from Austria, Venezuela, Brazil, France, Georgia, the Dominican Republic, Greece, Switzerland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Iraq, Iran, Spain, Italy, China, Cyprus, Norway, the Netherlands, Palestine, Peru, Serbia, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey, the Philippines, and Finland.

Themes explored by the festival’s films see humanities representation and identity, archaeology and taste heritage, ecology and sustainability, traditions and customs, warfare and trauma, mythology, the arts, and travel.

Historical, investigative, artistic, and societal films, animated works, and hybrid productions of each lengths completed from 2022 onward — on with pupil films from the Youth Plan of the Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People — make a colorful and compelling mosaic. The films volition instrumentality audiences from past Athens and Asia Minor to the postwar and modern era.

The festival programme volition culminate connected Sunday, May 31, astatine the Olympia Municipal Theatre – Maria Callas, with a celebratory lawsuit wherever the winning films, selected by an planetary jury, volition beryllium announced.

This twelvemonth arsenic well, AGON’s 7 awards see currency prizes and correspond to 9 categories:

• Archaeological Film Award “Archaeology and Arts Magazine”
• Direction
• Screenplay
• Educational Film Award “Christos Lambrakis”
• Cinematography
• “The Little Ones of AGON” Award (for films up to 10 minutes)
• Originality successful Concept
• Audience Award
• Grand Jury Prize (GRAND PRIX) “Lena Savvidi”

The festival volition besides grant 3 distinguished personalities:

• George Arvanitis, the award-winning cinematographer and iconic fig of Greek and planetary cinema,
• Athanassios Fokas, Professor of Nonlinear Mathematical Science,
• and Zahi Hawass, the renowned Egyptologist, archaeologist, researcher, lecturer, author, and UNWTO Ambassador for Responsible Tourism.

The ceremonial volition reason with a peculiar tribute performance by the philharmonic ensemble “Lipotaktes,” formed by the Independent Folk Orchestra “Mikis Theodorakis.” The concert, titled “These Lyrics May Be the Last,” is dedicated to Mikis Theodorakis and Dimitris Lagios, 2 artists and thinkers who person profoundly shaped corporate representation and proceed to power the contiguous and future. Performers volition see Vasilis Lekkas, Panagiotis Petrakis, Yakinthi Lagiou, and Angelos Theodorakis.

This year’s festival is dedicated to abused women “in flight” astir the world. For this reason, the cardinal representation of the festival poster features the “departing maiden,” a marble sculpture from the mislaid pediment of a tiny gathering successful the Eleusinian Sanctuary, dating to the aboriginal decades of the 5th period BC. The sculpture apt depicts Persephone fleeing anxiously from Pluto, the deity of the Underworld.

Screenings:
Greek Film Archive, Monday, May 25 – Saturday, May 30

Screening slots:
Weekdays: 16:30–22:30
Saturday: 10:00–14:30 and 16:30–21:30

Tickets: €5 per screening slot.