{"id":795,"date":"2019-02-08T16:09:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smallplanet.gr\/agora\/?p=795"},"modified":"2019-02-08T16:09:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:09:26","slug":"costa-gavras-i-was-impressed-by-agora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/costa-gavras-i-was-impressed-by-agora\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa-Gavras: \u201cI was impressed by AGORA\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cCinema is valuable when it is national, when it comes from the soul of a country\u201d<\/i>. This was the key-phrase used by prominent Greek-French filmmaker Costa-Gavras<\/strong> when asked about his views on Greek cinema in an interview at VIMAgazino<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecently I was not impressed by a film, but rather by the documentary film Agora\u201d<\/i>, said the director of Academy-awarded \u201cZ\u201d (Interview in Greek here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

This is not the first time that Costa-Gavras has referred to the documentary film AGOR\u0391 by Yorgos Avgeropoulos. He was actually one of the first to support it by acknowledging its contribution to collective memory and to the documentation of one of the most difficult periods in modern Greece\u2019s post-war history: \u201cI watched your film with great interest and often with intense emotion. It is a serious and important film, which depicts the terrible times that the Greek people are going through. Your film is a historical fact. I hope that change will come soon.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

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PARTICIPATION AT THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

After a rather successful national theatrical release and while screening events and broadcasts continue both in Greece and abroad, AGOR\u0391, the documentary film-arc of the Greek crisis by Yorgos Avgeropoulos, will participate in Greece\u2019s most important documentary film event, the 17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival<\/a><\/strong> (13-22 March 2015). The film will screen at the Greek Panorama<\/strong> section twice, on Friday 20 and Saturday 21 March. Both screenings will be followed by Q&A sessions with director Yorgos Avgeropoulos.<\/p>\n

AGORA will also screen at the Thessaloniki Film Museum<\/strong> (Takis Kanellopoulos theater) on Wednesday 1 April and Wednesday 8 April.<\/p>\n

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FIRST TV BROADCAST IN SWITZERLAND<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following broadcasts in Germany (WDR), the Arab world (Al Jazeera Arabic), Finland (YLE), Spain (TVC) and Belgium (RTBF), Switzerland comes next. AGOR\u0391 will have its first Swiss TV broadcast by RSI<\/strong> on Monday 30 March<\/strong> at 22:20<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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UPCOMING TV BROADCASTS IN GERMANY<\/strong><\/p>\n

AGOR\u0391 is also scheduled to be broadcasted by the German documentary channel PHOENIX<\/a> on Saturday 21 March<\/strong> at 22:30<\/strong> as well as EINSFESTIVAL<\/a>, the digital channel of Germany’s biggest public broadcaster ARD on Tuesday 24 March<\/strong> (15:20), Wednesday 25 March<\/strong> (05:30 & 09:00) and Saturday 28 March<\/strong> (08:50).<\/p>\n

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SCREENINGS AT FILM SOCIETIES IN GREECE AND CYPRUS<\/strong><\/p>\n

More and more screenings are organized by film societies, thus giving AGOR\u0391 the chance to meet audiences in many Greek cities. The film is scheduled to screen by Katerini Film Society<\/strong> (18 March), Preveza Film Society<\/strong> (19 March), Kos Film Society<\/strong> (27 March), Samothraki Film Society<\/strong> (4 April), Trenotechneion<\/strong> arts venue at Kyparissia (28 March), Lefkada Film Society<\/strong> (1 April), Karystos Film Society<\/strong> (1 April), Nisyros Cultural Club<\/strong> (1 April) while its tour in Cyprus continues with upcoming screenings in Paphos<\/strong> (23 March), Deryneia<\/strong> (30 March) and Larnaca<\/strong> (2 April).<\/p>\n

More information about upcoming screenings of AGOR\u0391 by film societies and cultural clubs in Greece and the rest of the world will follow soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cCinema is valuable when it is national, when it comes from the soul of a country\u201d. This was the key-phrase used by prominent Greek-French filmmaker Costa-Gavras when asked about his views on Greek cinema in an interview at VIMAgazino. \u201cRecently I was not impressed by a film, but rather by the documentary film Agora\u201d, said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agorathedoc.com\/agora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}