We are pleased to show a series of films, most of them in their first Greek screening. The latest film by the formidable Leos Carrax, It's not me, is a Godard-style cinematic essay on his oeuvre, the past and future of cinema and contemporary culture. The documentary Cinégraphies… by Céline Ruivo, a prominent expert in the restoration of archival collections, who has gone on the other side of the camera, is an essay on women’s experimental cinema of the 1970s, screened together with Maya Deren’s two iconic experimental films, Ritual in Transfigured Time and The Very Eye of Night. The latest film by award-winning Filipino director Lav Diaz, Phantosmia, deals with violence between people in an ominous penal colony, while Ehsan Khoshbakht’s Celluloid Underground tells cinephilia stories from Iran. Adieu Lacan, by American director and producer Richard Ledes, explores the trauma of a woman’s unfulfilled motherhood and its psychoanalytic therapy. Finally, the experimental film Austerity Measures by Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell (also contestants and guests of the festival), portrays the politicized Exarchia of Athens, with hand-processed film.

Film Selection: Maria Komninos, Nepheli Gambade, Jacob Skenderidis
Coordination: Jacob Skenderidis
Introduction: Ioulia Mermigka