Wednesday 26/5

18.10-19.50 Science Fiction

MOON, Duncan Jones, USA, 2009, 97’

Sam Bell is an astronaut who has been living for the last few years in the moon, works on a project that aims to help planet Earth to minimize the energy issue that faces.

19.50-21.45 Special Screening

Plato’s Academy, Filippos Tsitos, 2009, 103’

Stavros, a 40 years old xenophobic chandler in Plato’s Academy area, discovers that he’s got a brother from Albania.

21.45-23.45 Queer/Political Fiction

Kiss of the Spider Woman, Hector Babenco, Brazil/USA, 1985, 120’

Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are detained in prison in Latin America for different reasons: the former, a homosexual, for inappropriate behavior and the later a political prisoner for being dissident.

Thursday 27/5

17.40-19.00 Animation/Science Fiction

9, Shane Acker, USA, 2009, 79’  (Produced by Tim Burton)

When “9” comes into life, human race has been under extinction and along with a peer group, with which it came across by accident, they revolt against the machines that rule the world.

19.00-20.30 The return of Performance by Georgia Sagri

The function and importance of performance from the viewer’s perspective and its relationship with social clashes. A one hour lecture along with screenings that constitute several examples and functions of the social body, starting up from the art of dance in ancient drama until nowadays.

20.30-22.30 Special Screening

Life on the Rocks, Alinda Dimitriou, 2009, 98’ (presented by the director)

Several women that had fought back with the Democratic Army during the Greek civil war, discuss about their life in the mountains, their capture and the years of exile spent in Trikeri of Chios and Makronisos.

22.30-23.45 Queer Documentary

She is a boy I knew, Gwen Haworth, Canada, 2007, 70’

An ethnographic documentary that describes the filmmaker’s transition from being a man to a woman and the reactions she received from her close social circle.

Friday 28/5

18.30-20.15 Animation

Chicago 10, Brett Morgen, USA, 2007, 97’

Footage from archive, relevant animation and music, showing the trial of Chicago conspiracy. The story of 8 Americans that dare to raise their voice against an oppressive and armed government.

20.15-22.00 Special Screening

The dogtooth, Giorgos Lanthimos, 2009, 96’ (presented by the director)

A family of five, lives in an isolated house outside Athens. The three children have never gone outside home and they have been raised without any external stimulation.

22.00-23.30 Queer

Itty Bitty Titty Committee, Jamie Babbit, USA, 2007, 87’

Anna is a young lesbian girl living a conventional life in USA until she catches up with a radical feminist group and everything changes.

Saturday 29/5

12.15-13.30 Political Documentary

Autonomia Zapatista, Arte-Musica-Video group, Mexico, 2008, 70’

The documentary focuses on the process that has been followed for autonomy on all levels of everyday life, as well as on the hostile environment in which the implementation of this different way of government and resistance takes place.

13.30-15.00 Political Documentary

500 autonomous, violent, psycho-pathetic people who throw stones, from hell, Anders Hornstrup, David B. Sørensen, Morten Revsgaard Frederiksen & Toke Gade Crone Kristiansen, Denmark, 2007, 81’

Documentary regarding the seizure Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen

15.00-16.45 Cinephile

Soul Kitchen, Fatin Akin, Germany, 2009, 99’

For Zino Kazantzaki, the Greek-German owner of a cheesy restaurant in Hamburg, everything goes wrong. His girlfriend finds a job in Shanghai, the menu of his new chef does not attract his few customers while he is forced to recruit his –under probation- brother as the restaurant’s manager.

16.45-18.15 Political Documentary

Guerrilla: The taking of Patty Hearst, Robert Stone, USA, 2004, 89’

The history of “Symbiotic Liberation Army”, a journey into a new world regarding the 70’s that seems to be manipulated by the media

18.15 – 20.10 Science Fiction

Cargo, Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter, Switzerland, 2009, 112’

By 2267 the earth has become non habitable due to environmental destruction. Human beings live into space stations in orbit hoping to earn enough money to relocate to the distant planet Rea.

20.10-22.00 Special Screening

In a rush, Yiannis Economides, 2005, 111’ (presented by the director)

Nobody leaves Takis, the film’s hero, in peace…his wife, employer, money lender relatives, friends.

22.00-24.00 Workshop

The adventure of a movie

Yiannis Economidis’ workshop which is held simultaneously with “In a rush” screening.

Sunday 30/5

10.30 -12.10 After Trance Film

Berlin Calling, Hannes Stöhr, Germany, 2008, 100’

A DJ travels around with his manager and girlfriend, playing music at the clubs. The day before his album gets released; he gets into a psychiatric clinic from an overdose.

12.10-13.30 Political Documentary

Antifascist Attitude, “Bakunin’s children” collective, Russia, 2008, 76’

The Russian anti-fascist movement presented with interviews taken from radical activists , NGOs and anarchists from three cities, Moscow, St Petersburg and Irkutsk.

13.30 – 14.40 Documentary
Cyclown Circus, Dimitris Sfiris, 2008, 67’

They are talented musicians and acrobats travelling around only by bicycle. Although they could have made a brilliant career in showbiz, they chose to travel from continent to continent, from country to country and from town to town giving outdoor performances.

14.40-16.00 Political Documentary

Megara 1974- the struggle of the people for land and freedom, Giorgos Tsemperopoulos, Sakis Maniatis, 1974, 69’

The uprising of Megara inhabitants, against the decision imposed by the military coop, to expropriate a large rural area for the installation of an industrial unit, led to one of the first large-scale protests against dictatorship.

16.00-17:30 Cinephile

Lebanon, Samuel Maoz, Israel 2009, 90’

In June 1982 when the Israeli invasion took place in Lebanon, a group of soldiers arrive to a hostile city in order to investigate it. A seemingly simple task ends up to be a nightmare.

17.30-18.15 Political Documentary

The Siege, Kostas Kolimenos, 2010, 45’

One year after December’s uprising

18.15-20.00 Guerillas Film: Short films from independent collectives

Lots with death – Underworld films, Office Work – Informal Film Gang tiiinewzfilms

28 Days before – Une Frape Productions, Lupe of suicide – tiiinewzfilms, Crimson Forest – Yerwolves Team, Coffe on Benaki St. – tiiinewzfilms, Frisbee loving – Otinanai Productions, It ends up here – Fantom Pictures, Control 2011 – tiiinewzfilms, Air Co – Nostalgeek, Melancholy Disorder – tiiinewzfilms, Remnant – Underworld Films

20.00-22.0 Special Screening/Queer

Strella, Panos Koutras, 2009, 111’ (presented by the director)

After 15 years in prison, George gets released and hooks up with Strella, a young transsexual with whom he falls in, while he is looking for his son’s traces, Leonidas, that hasn’t seen since he went to prison.

22.00-24.00 Cinephile

The battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy/Algeria, 1966, 121’

Algeria 1954, Chronicle of Algeria’s National Liberation Front (FLN) revolutionary struggle against the French invaders.

Many thanks to the artists, collectives, presenters and fellow contributors for their help with translations and the overall organization of the film screenings…as well as the torrent sites that allow us to share movies.