Setting Sun Festival Greek Program, will go ahead next month at the Delphi Bank Mezzanine of the Greek Centre on Lonsdale Street. The short films selected from the Athens Short Film Festival (Psarokokalo) will be screened on Sunday August 21 from 5pm to 8.30pm.
The films include dramas: Beauty, Just Like Water, Soul Food, Violetta, 1980, and Paradox; two documentaries: Vouta, and Every Sunday; Horror: Amygdala; and an animation: Elevation.
One of the films, Just like Water by Manos Triantafillakis’s opens with a quote by Heraclitus “For souls, it is death to become water, and for water death to become earth. Water comes into existence out of earth, and soul out of water”. His film evokes h the inevitability of death, and the anxiety of life running out. Water is both a metaphorical and physical presence in the film set on Crete island and is used to represent the cycles of the protagonist’s life from birth to old age. The film has won awards and commendations at a number of international short film festivals.
Soul Food by Nikos Tseberopoulos is an urban transgressive narrative about 15 year old Yannis and his mother who move into her boyfriend’s apartment. Yannis begins to hang out with the 40 year old Olga, a socially isolated woman who lives in the basement of the apartment building. This is as much about the anomy experienced in modern Athens, or any Greek city.
Tickets are $22 and booking is open through Try booking https://www.trybooking.com/events/928552/sessions/3276935/sections/1676734/tickets
