Screening of Up to the Last Drop - The Secret Water War in Europe (2017, Dir. Yorgos Avgeropoulos, 60’)
This public screening, hosted in collaboration with Cine-Doc Volos and supported by the Thessalian Regional Government, will take place on day 2 of the 3-day symposium Strange Weather: Ecologies of Resistance and Repair.”
The screening will take place between 9 -10 p.m in Makrinitsa at the former primary school.
In this documentary, Greek journalist and documentary filmmaker Yorgos Avgeropoulos follows the money and the corporate interests involved in attempts - and resistances - to the privatization of water in six EU countries over a period of four years. The EU has still to recognize water as a human right, as the UN did in 2010. Although Berlin and Paris have recently taken back public control over their water services, the financial and political European elites have repeatedly demanded that Greece, Portugal and Ireland privatize their public water systems as common stipulation provided in every bailout agreement signed between the debt-ridden countries and their lenders. The struggle over water depicted in the film has much to tell us about contemporary European values and the quality of the current European democracy.
More details about the film and trailer here: https://www.smallplanet.gr/en/films/up-to-the-last-drop/
This public screening, hosted in collaboration with Cine-Doc Volos and supported by the Thessalian Regional Government, will take place on day 2 of the 3-day symposium Strange Weather: Ecologies of Resistance and Repair.”
The screening will take place between 9 -10 p.m in Makrinitsa at the former primary school.
In this documentary, Greek journalist and documentary filmmaker Yorgos Avgeropoulos follows the money and the corporate interests involved in attempts - and resistances - to the privatization of water in six EU countries over a period of four years. The EU has still to recognize water as a human right, as the UN did in 2010. Although Berlin and Paris have recently taken back public control over their water services, the financial and political European elites have repeatedly demanded that Greece, Portugal and Ireland privatize their public water systems as common stipulation provided in every bailout agreement signed between the debt-ridden countries and their lenders. The struggle over water depicted in the film has much to tell us about contemporary European values and the quality of the current European democracy.
More details about the film and trailer here: https://www.smallplanet.gr/en/films/up-to-the-last-drop/
