HYDROSOCIALITY

ZOETROPE Kimolou 17, Kipseli | 23.11.2022, 20:00 – 22: 00 | Admission Free

Myrto Tapeinou, alumna of Film and Cultural studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, will preface the screening.

Water and culture are inseparable elements of human life. The aesthetic, cultural, spiritual, and ecological values that local societies ascribe to water constitutes an integral part of a society’s cultural identity. Water encompasses lifestyles, value systems, traditions and beliefs. Water has a presence in our daily lives but is treated mainly as a ‘resource’ for irrigation, water supply and sanitation. A hydrosocial cycle is a socio-natural process by which water and society make and remake each other over space and time and it promotes a critical analysis of water-society relationships, positioning humans within the hydrologic cycle, where humans and water co-construct themselves based upon complex interactions of social, political, historical, economic, and hydrological factors. These films are interconnected through water. They use it as a location, background, source of life or symbol, a drop, a tear or rain. Diverse and unique stories unfold and reveal the process of decolonising relations between humans and between humans and nature.

INDIGENIUS LOCI

Vicky Markolefa | Greece | Documentary | 2022 | 11’ 41’’

The film explores the interface of man and nature. Vasilis Fourkiotis, deep ecologist, shepherd and sociologist strides across his ancestral lands immersed in spiritual reflections of a postmodern world.

Lying River

Almendra Otta | Peru | Experimental | 2022 | 16’ 58”

Lying River is a personal journey through the river to the sea. Yuyapichis*, a village in the Peruvian Amazon, is the starting point from which memories and family stories of migration, misunderstandings and estrangement come together, while images of daily life wonder about the future of women who were born in a territory where the extractive economy shapes the social and political structures of the community.

The Headhunter’s Daughter

Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan | Philippines | Fiction | 2021 | 15’ 00”

Leaving her family behind, Lynn traverses the harrowing roads of the Cordilleran highlands to try her luck in the city as a country singer.

Is the city dead?

Dimitra Mitsaki | Greece | Documentary | 2022 | 11’ 08’’

“Is the city dead?”, asked the mermaid, instead of seeking for her brother. Alexander was long lost, definitely dead but not forgotten. None remembers of the mermaid, although the city bears her name, Thessaloniki.

In this hybrid documentary, Titika (42) and Thodoris (36), both permanent residents, share their thoughts about the current state of the city. Will Thessaloniki exist in a hundred years from now?

ENOMENA

Phaidra Vokali | Greece | Fiction | 2022 | 18’ 45”

Anna is a gifted but insecure 17-year-old girl who is desperate to belong. During an aquarium school trip, her jockey boyfriend pressures Anna into entrapping his go-to target, tough Albanian classmate Jo, so that they can bully them later on. Anna accepts the mission only to find herself perplexed by her own feelings for Jo. Now Anna needs to decide if she’s brave enough to follow her inner voice or succumb to the need to be accepted.

9th of Autumn

Marina Xarri | France | Fiction | 2022 | 12’ 00’’

A fish in a Parisian canal interlaces the fates of two urban loners; Seyba, a part-time delivery man, and Ana, a young fisherwoman. This film is a meditation on loss and longing where lost souls reach out for a human connection amidst the concrete metropolis.

Here lies being itself

Pari Antoniou | Greece| Documentary | 2020 | 23’ 14’’

The enclosed atmosphere of 1989 Albania is interwoven with the parallel monologues of three people who crossed the border reaching Greece, either legally or illegally.